Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Damn, my physical version of Persona 5 Royal came in and there was a steelbook but no standard case. Never experienced that before with releases for Nintendo systems, there'd always be both steelbook and standard case.

@Grumblevolcano It's weird... steelbooks seem totally non-sensical to me, particularly when they are packed in addition to a standard case...

...and yet, when I see a steelbook edition release without a standard case included, it turns me right off.

It comes with a cardboard slipcover over the steelbook.

There's a standard version also.

@JaxonH I was meaning in the sense of both are usually packaged together. You'd buy the steelbook version of a game and in addition to the steelbook you'd get the standard edition.

It became obvious to me recently that I've been too focused on older games on Switch. There's countless cool, bold indie games, some of which I've been meaning to play for ages (one of them I played a demo of BEFORE THE SWITCH EVEN CAME OUT) and quite a few larger games that I'd love to play but then they either do a remake of a thing I love or port a bunch of games I've always wanted to play and now I have two Grandia games and 6 Megaman Zero/ZX games, and 4 Castlevanias to play, none of which even include NSO.

I mean, you've been focused on them because you enjoy them, right?

Just play what you want. Not everyone needs to buy the latest thing.

You reminded me, though, that I really need to play a bit of that Grandia HD Collection next year.

Do we think we might get another Animal Crossing on the current Switch. I hope so.

There is Hokko Life for alternative Animal Crossing style game.

Why? What would we get out of a new release on the same platform? Honestly I feel this way about a bunch of Nintendo's biggest titles, these are once a generation sort of titles. Games where there's no major story and not really any "levels" in the usual sense. Games where you are given some game mechanic to mess with and at most some stages and characters in which to do it

Animal Crossing certainly fits that. I'd say the same about the Mario Sports games, titles like Mario Kart, Smash, Mario Maker and Splatoon I'd also put in that box. All games where I feel like the main value of each new release is almost purely "and it's now available on the new platform". That's not to say that people wouldn't buy it or it wouldn't be profitable. Splatoon 3 is proof enough that it can be. It's just I think making a sequel for those types of games just for the sake of having another title? Smells a bit of those pointless annualizations of franchises you see everywhere else in gaming

So yeah, I don't want a Mario Kart 9 or a second Animal Crossing on Switch and I think anyone who's begging for those titles really doesn't want that either. What I do want is Zelda Oracle of Seasons/Ages HD, Zelda Maker, F-Zero etc. I don't want Splatoon 4, I didn't really want Splatoon 3, what I want is the next Splatoon. Or like @DarthNocturnal said, maybe a new game style entirely with Animal Crossing Branding

@Kermit1
I hope there is another animal crossing on switch, but I doubt it. I wouldn’t be surprised if a new one comes out during the first year of Nintendo’s next console. Hopefully it gets rid of the post launch updates though. New Horizons felt half baked at launch. Kinda sad considering it still doesn’t have as much content now as new leaf did on day one.

What if we get a Animal Crossing rhythm/dance game

I would like to play that game and I really expect the hardest difficulty level until like Paranoia Revolution / Valkyrie Dimension / Endymion on DDR.

Maybe I'm misremembering how much content New Leaf had but I don't really get why people keep saying this. I don't really feel like New Horizons had less in it. I mean sure it was drip-fed and came over time but Animal Crossing is a game you play daily for a couple of years. A drip feed wasn't really a downside....

Also looking at the list of content in it to refresh my memory. I'm not sure you're even right to say New Leaf had more. I mean the main hook of New Leaf was the public works, New Horizons had full on terraforming and outdoor furniture. Infact if I go down the list I think the only thing really missing when all is said and done is Streetpass

I don't know, I kinda feel like with the free-update model people have made up their mind from the start. People just dislike it, are totally convinced it's worse and then just work backwards from there to justify their stance. And in this particular case also kinda forgetting that New Leaf also got DLC

@skywake
My problem with the free updates is how content from past games was kept out of the base game. For example, the roost was added in the final update for new horizons if I remember correctly. But it was in new leaf’s base game. My comparison between the two was how much content was in the game at launch. So the content added in welcome amibo wasn’t considered. But there are other things that are kept from new horizons, such as only one shop upgrade rather than three upgrades. Many of the past Special NPC’s were omitted from New Horizons to.

But at the end of the day it is just my opinion.

@blindsquarel
Why does it even matter what was in the "base game"? We didn't just get the base game, we got updates. It's an argument for the sake of wanting to complain about the methodology. It's not an argument about, you know, the actual content delivered. Which is all that should really matter

I mean I can kinda see the case to be made against the post-launch free update for some games. The kinds of games where you buy on day 1, get your fill for a couple of weekends and move on to the next thing. For those titles? Sure, post-launch updates have little value. I mean I loved Metroid Dread, one of the best games on the Switch, but did I have much interest in its free update? ... not really. I'd already beaten it

But Animal Crossing? I was playing it every day almost without fail from launch until maybe a week or so after the paid DLC. Really, my only complaint with the DLC was that by the time the vegetables came out I had already gone past the "money harvest" phase of Animal Crossing. But by that stage? We're talking almost 2 years playing it regularly, I'd already well and truly got my "value" out of it. It's just that sort of game. So no, I don't think anyone who was actually invested in it "missed out" on content with the way it was delivered

Also, frankly, the base game arguably had as much content as Lets Go to the City. Which I also played to death back in the day

Nabbed the steelbook edition of Persona 5 Royal at Target this morning. Couldn't resist!

Looks like Tactics Ogre Reborn is shaping up to be something really special.

@IceClimbers
It's gorgeous, isn't it?

The gameplay of Yum Yum Cookstar on Nintendo Switch.
Not bad, pretty much like Cooking Mama games as usual with a little bit of rhytmic button tapping.
The music is pretty good with some 80's neon vibes.

@blindsquarel @skywake I think a situation where 2.0.0 except the Happy Home Paradise DLC was the New Horizons base game and then post launch support happened with Happy Home Paradise DLC still being DLC at some point would've been the right balance.

As for @Kermit1's original question, I think the next Animal Crossing will be released around a year after the end of Splatoon 3 so like Fall/Holiday 2025. Maybe there'll be a New Horizons update before then if Pocket Camp is shutting down earlier. While the MK8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass isn't saving everything from Mario Kart Tour, it may be that there's a 2nd Booster Course Pass for 2024-2025.

@Kermit1 mainline Animal Crossing i think is unlikely, but a spin-off or a DLC could happen, the next mainline Animal Crossing game will problaby release in the first/second year of the Switch sucessor. @Grumblevolcano yes everything point for the next mainline Animal Crossing game to release on Switch sucessor on holiday 2024/2025 along with the next Mario Kart game.