Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Day two of TGS.

Koei Tecmo is currently presenting.

is F-Zero 99 enough to revive the franchise and check out the F-Zero 99 review

Square Enix at TGS was a bit of a soggy taco.

Just marketing for upcoming stuff we already know about, mostly the boosting of FFVII Rebirth.

@Magician I haven’t really seen much come out of TGS this year that’s been particularly interesting and I’m not sure if I’m missing the announcements but it’s been pretty on the Switch side too.

I am skeptical. I like F-Zero 99 but I've never played a 'real' F-zero game and didn't know anything about it. To me it feels like slightly simpler Mario Kart (simpler because of lack of items). That is obviously coming from a place of ignorance, but apparently total franchise sales of the F-zero series is only 6 million versus 176 million for the Mario Kart series so I suspect my level of F-Zero ignorance is pretty common.

@FishyS
F-Zero was already inside Mario Kart 8 so I don't even need new F-Zero games.

@FishyS
To be fair there have been more Mario Karts than F-zero.

@GameOtaku Tbh, there were a lot more F-Zero games than I realized; so fewer than Mario Kart but more than half. Seems like the series was popular for one game and then sales just went down and down and down.

@FishyS ideally they should have release F-Zero 99, followed by a remaster of a older F-Zero game(F-Zero GX anyone?), if this F-Zero meet or surpass Nintendo sales expectation, them develop a brand new F-Zero game for Switch or it sucessor

@FishyS
Unfortunately the sales for the consoles the sequels were on didn’t sell the big numbers either so you have to add that into consideration. While the N64 and GameCube were great machines they just sold far less than the competition ergo less sales of FZero sequels.

Yeah, unsurprisingly being the at best, 3rd most relevant first party racing game (and I'd probably argue 4th with Waverace around) on N64 and the 3rd most relevant (at least in hindsight) first party racing game released....in the 2nd half of 2003 on Gamecube is not the best way to have a massive fanbase. F-Zero VC releases probably did a lot more to get people to try an F-Zero than new releases other than the original.

Just saw the Stray Children trailer on the japanese channel of Youtube. When the characters started to talk, I knew this was for Love-de-Lic fans. Moon was an interesting experience, so I hope this will at least get an english translation. Great artdirection.

It's still rather surreal how Nintendo just suddenly decided to acknowledge the Gamecube's existence this year. Before that there was only Sunshine being a part of the limited time collection 3D All Stars and a bunch of content from Melee in Smash Ultimate. But now we have Metroid Prime, Pikmin 1+2, they allowed Bandai Namco to bring back the 2 Baten Kaitos GCN games and TTYD is coming next year. Also some Double Dash tracks and characters were added to MK8 Deluxe this year. We'll probably also get other GCN stuff in the near future like Prime 2 assuming Prime 4's story continues on from Prime 3's 100% ending.

In a sense it's a huge shame all signs are pointing towards Switch 2 next year as it means Nintendo may very well return back to ignoring the Gamecube's existence rather than going deeper into the system's library.

@Grumblevolcano Its likely because Nintendo realised they needed a continuation in first party games that can be developed fairly quickly either as a remaster or remake and the GameCube does have a fair few games they can bring from the vaults that fill that void. I dunno if Nintendo will necessarily forget about it once NG Switch launches. They may continue to remaster or remake some of the games to fill gaps between the big new releases. They’ve ran out of Wii U titles to do that so the logical conclusion is to make use of GameCube and Wii games.

The good news about GameCube games is it's the earliest generation of games that they can bump up to 1080p and still looks fine. With earlier games there's the jaggyness.

@Grumblevolcano Nintendo ported almost all Wii U games to Switch, now they are remastering/remaking Game Cube games, to fill the void Wii U games left.

It's now been confirmed that the absolute final MH Rise Sunbreak content (a final event quest) is coming September 25th:

Is it expected that a developer would be looking for concept artists this far into development of a game? Or could it be a separate team working on a different game at Retro?

https://x.com/jobsatnintendo/status/1706339772384563687?s=46&...

classid(brazilian rating board), rate Read Dead Redemption 2 for Nintendo Switch

@Giancarlothomaz Unless it’s referring to the Switch successor and it’s a year early in being rated which would be really weird, i somehow don’t think this is accurate.