@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?
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
@gcunit
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
Some playlists: Top All Time Songs, Top Last Year
An opinion is only respectable if it can be defended. Respect people, not opinions
@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 🌟
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
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.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,540 games (as of January 28th, 2026)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
@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".
Switch Physical Collection - 1,540 games (as of January 28th, 2026)
Switch 2 Physical Collection - 4 games (as of December 8th, 2025)
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.
@Ninfan Last I heard, Timesplitters was being ported to current consoles. Although I can't remember if it was going to be 2 or Future Perfect? Either way, after no mention of Timesplitters in last week's THQ Presentation, I assume all Timesplitters-related projects are on hold. That failed two billion-dollar deal between Embracer Group and Savvy Group really put a damper on things.
The chances of getting current-gen ports of the Legacy of Kain games got substantially worse.
@IceClimbers how did I know they were going to drop it right in that time frame 😒. So that's what? A few days before SMB Wonder? And there's something else relapsing around then on switch. Xbox is going crazy in Sepetember/October too.
and everyone trough Switch was dying, for the suposedly final year of the console, it release patern didnt seen to indicate this, a brand new ambitous Legend of Zelda, a brand new 2D Mario, all this releasing this year, what a nice send-off for Switch, and with the possibilty of the console ending it lifecycle with MP4
Forums
Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread
Posts 67,881 to 67,900 of 69,809
Please login or sign up to reply to this topic