Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Whitewatermoose One thing I noticed was the online for Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed pretty much died for Wii U as soon as MK8 came out so I doubt any racing games will stand a chance for decent sales on Switch after the MK8 port releases.

Get Shin'en to develop a new F-Zero if they don't want to do it themselves. Fast Racing NEO was good, it was by no means a perfect game, but if they can improve on their last game, then why not give them a shot?

@Octane With a bigger budget thanks to Nintendo, than they had for Fast Racing NEO, I would be hugely interested in what they could achieve. Considering I think Fast Racing NEO was pretty damn impressive for a download title, a full on F-Zero game could be amazing.

I think I'd be quite happy if they gave MK a break from a new entry for a few years if it meant we got something like Diddy/Donkey Kong Racing instead.Hopefully with riding on animals like the unreleased Donkey Kong Racing.I think both that and an MK8 port could coexist without affecting each others online mode too much.Same goes for Waverace and F-Zero,if all 4 were on the Switch,each would still have a large presence online I'd say.Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed,as good as it is, is a 3rd party game and was never going to stand a chance up against MK8.

This is the current Switch launch lineup from LKD.

@MumboJumbo That's a very weak lineup if true.

@Grumblevolcano well she does say from what she understands, so that probably isn't everything.

@Grumblevolcano

It's obviously incomplete because she doesn't have sources from everywhere. I'm sure there are some 3rd party games that she isn't aware of.

@MumboJumbo I was looking even from just a first party front. Using ports to fill game droughts is good but if Nintendo's only got 3 games which aren't ports in the first year (3D Mario, Mario Rabbids, Pikmin 4) then that's terrible.

@Grumblevolcano TBF, Zelda is still a new game when it launches on the Switch, and I'm pretty sure that Pokemon Stars is a lot more than ''just a port'' too. It's just that aside from the new games, they seem to rely heavily on ports if this rumour is true.

Still don't understand why Pikmin needs a reboot though..

@Grumblevolcano

While Zelda is a technically a port, it's not a title that anyone has already played on the Wii U. We may even see the Switch version launch first. I think it's fair to consider Zelda as a new title in this case.

Q4 2017 does look pretty barren with just Pokemon and Pikmin. It's going to be a disappointing holiday season, if there's nothing else to fill the gaps.

I don't understand what her intentions were when making this list. She hears rumblings that Skyrim might not make launch and due to her previously being adamant it would and now not wanting to look like a backpedaler (is that a word IDK) she hastily puts together a list of if, buts and maybes with several question marks that is consisted of lots of games she only has a single source on...

I like and respect her a lot but things like this aren't how she should be going about things. People will inevitably take that list to heart and questions will be asked of her now that she has gone full list-mode, regardless of how strong/weak the lineup is. She was insisting up till now to not post anything she only had a single source on and that being dropped now for no reason is strange.

@MumboJumbo Xenoblade? XENOBLADE? YEEEEEEEEEE

Here's how I would would've distributed things for the first year on the first party front:
March - BotW port, MK8 port and a smaller brand new game
April - Splatoon port
May - Big brand new game
June - Smash port
July - Smaller brand new game
August - Super Mario Maker port
September - Big brand new game
October - Smaller brand new game, GC remaster
November - 3D Mario, Pokemon port
December - Smaller brand new game
January - nothing (no point in releasing games in January)
February - Smaller brand new game, Pokken port

https://twitter.com/LaurakBuzz

She said a few more things after posting the list.

• BG&E could get a CGI trailer before E3 2017.
• Pikmin doesn't have 4 in the title because they want to be clear internally that it's not a sequel.
• Zelda could be a demo for the press rather than the public.

I think that's where the previous rumour about a 90% discount came from. To make sure that, if you have the game, you can upgrade to have it portable at a smaller price point.

Maybe the discount won't be that steep but I think this concept is what they'll be looking into.

@erv How would they do that? They got rid of Club Nintendo, pretty much their only way of tracking what games you own.

@Octane Wasn't the rumour regarding physical copies and so trade-in would work kind of like how things were done for CoD Ghosts 360/PS3 -> XB1/PS4.

@Grumblevolcano I don't recall, but good luck getting a system setup where that's possible. Probably will be limited to several stores and Ninty would loose money on it. So I can't see that happening.

All my purchases are downloads. Perhaps I'm going to be lucky in that regard if it only works for eshop.