@FishyS i was hoping Nintendo remade the Oracle games, but with Oracle of Age/Season now on NSO, Nintendo missed the oportunity to remade this games on Switch
Yeah, outside of potential WW/TP HD ports, the next Zelda will definitely be 2D.
It's probably going to be at least 4 years until the next new 3D title (maybe longer. I doubt they'd back away from the absolutely massive & open ended approach of the last 2 games given how popular they are, yet they'll probably have to make a completely new world from scratch as I can't see them reusing BotW's Hyrule a 3rd time).
In the meantime have whomever made Link's Awakening remake give the same treatment to Minish Cap, or let them make a new 2D game entirely (kinda mirroring how MercurySteam was allowed to make Dread after Samus Returns remake).
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@Link-Hero Next year seems like a gimme, in that regard. Especially if, as most of us suspect, 2024 is the year when Nintendo is going to release their next console.
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@RR529 That's Grezzo, who also made OOT 3D, Majora's Mask 3D, Four Swords Anniversary Edition and co-developed Tri-Force Heroes. Unfortunately, I suspect they might be the ones doing the Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon port, but maybe co-developing a new Zelda might be possible if that's true?
@link3710 Just checking Next Level Games website and they haven’t updated it with anything related to Luigi’s Mansion 2 so I can see it being handled by someone else. Though I thought Grezzo were working on a none Nintendo game? Maybe I’m thinking of another developer.
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@FragRed They did release an original one earlier this year, but most of their ports take about a year to develop. So that'd line up pretty well. Also, they did develop the Luigi's Mansion 1 3DS port.
It came to mind that Nintendo hasn't revealed their Gamescom lineup yet when the last few years they attended they'd reveal the lineup earlier in the month (August 1st for 2018 and 2019, August 8th for 2017):
A surprisingly open interview with a major figurehead at The Pokemon Company just came out there a bit ago and, in an extremely surprising turn of events, they actually discuss the current release schedule of Pokemon games (namely the 3 year gap between new generations and how there always seems to be something Pokemon every year for almost a decade now) and how they're looking into ways to maintain the cadence currently set while also allowing Game Freak to fine-tune the quality of each title before release.
The interview as a whole is a very fascinating read (though you'll definitely have to do a bit of reading in-between the lines since there's a bunch of corporate speak peppered throughout) so I'd highly recommend you give it glance in your own time if you're interested in the potential future of the series.
It came to mind that Nintendo hasn't revealed their Gamescom lineup yet when the last few years they attended they'd reveal the lineup earlier in the month (August 1st for 2018 and 2019, August 8th for 2017): https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/08/new_gameplay_for_lu...
@JaxonH Almost scared to ask you this (and sorry for being lazy and pulling on your expertise instead of doing my own reading-up), but here goes... micro SD cards on Switch, does the rating of the card make much difference?
Right now I can buy this 512gb card for £27, or I can pay significantly more for the same capacity. Is this card going to perform noticeably worse in Switch real world?
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Probably won't make much difference. SD card speed ratings are mostly about sequential write performance. Which matters if you're trying to write 4K video to it but not so much if you're reading executables
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@skywake Thanks, that's kinda what I figured, but knowing how much of a fiend our boy Jax is for testing Switch-related performance, felt I had to ask for the golden Jax validation 🌟
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So Nintendo have copyrighted mechanics from Tears of the Kingdom? Real **** move, Nintendo. Especially in an industry that's all about iterative interpretation. The Nemesis System from Shadow of Mordor is awesome, but since that mechanic was patented I can't think of another game to use it since.
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@gcunit On hardware? Sure. Nintendo can legally protect whatever they've developed.
Software though? Ehhh, things begin to get murky. Publishers who copyright game mechanics is akin to telling a painter, "sorry, you can't use blue, there's a patent".
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Playing Devils Advocate, you can copyright mechanics but you can’t copyright good design so it doesn’t stop games being good but it may stop those horrible cheap knock off titles like Taxi Chaos which popped up as soon as Sega’s patent of Crazy Taxi expired.
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