Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Therad I think you posted in the wrong thread.

Better 4am than 4pm while stuck at work for me, although 3am would really be taking it far!

I'm gonna happily miss the live broadcast and just catch up the news during the day while at work. 4 am is too early for me.

I only hope it's not one of those situations where Nintendo severely under produce launch consoles in order to create demand but ultimately leaves the majority frustrated and extremely unhappy. I can see pre-order surpassing the 2 million Nintendo are predicting.

We're large enough that Nintendo of Australia is technically on an equal level to NoA and NoE. They all follow Japan but they all have some freedom within that. But we're small enough that we usually just get bundled in with Europe. Especially when it comes to software release schedules.

The presentation is going to be at 1AM here in Chile. Yay!....Not.

Unless I manage to get Friday off, I think I'll have to skip. I've got to get up at 5.30 for work, and that hour cuts right in the middle. Why can't they make the presentation a Friday or Saturday?

7 AM is the time of where I live. I can get up at that time. I can't wait.

From the founder of an Australian Nintendo news site:

Yeah I'm busy in January and I ain't about to be awake for an hour at that time. I'll catch up on the meltdowns a few hours later, again though hoping against hope with people's unrealistic expectations that they end up happy.

Good luck to any fellow Europeans who are planning to switch (hahaha...eh) their schedule for this.

@Whitewatermoose I don't think Overwatch would come to the Nintendo Switch, nor do I see why people want it so badly. The game will very nearly a year old by the time the Switch launches so most people who want the game would likely have bought it on other platforms. Plus it's this kind of late third party ports that caused support to drop off so quickly, due to low sales.

@FragRed
I think Overwatch is in position where a lot of that doesn't really apply as much. Sure it won't be a new game by the time the Switch is out but it's not a game that people stop playing. So I don't think it's the same as it was with the Wii U versions of Batman, Deus Ex and Mass Effect. It also happens to be the sort of game that fits well with what Nintendo typically does.

Frankly if I was to make a shortlist of already existing games that would make sense on the Switch? Overwatch would be one of only a few games on it. I'd put it alongside Rocket League, a handful of late 2016 releases and some games from the Wii U's back catalogue

http://gematsu.com/2016/12/rime-rated-ps4-xbox-one-switch-pc-... rime coming to switch.

@skywake @Whitewatermoose Okay, Overwatch may well be the kind of game that the Nintendo audience would like, but the game is currently (on Amazon UK) £25 for the PS4 which I assume will only go down in price by the time the full price £50 port comes to the Switch. Thats not a good selling point for the console to have at launch - full price ports you can already get cheaper elsewhere. To me it just seems pointless in purchasing a full price port of something I can get on another system for half the price.

And yes I'm not totally convinced Nintendo has the third party support that they have been putting forward. And looking at that list, Blizzard are not even mentioned which being the size and importance of the publisher/developer, is something that should they be supporting the Switch, would have been a sure thing to boast about much like they are with Bethesda. And yet Blizzard are absent.

I'm a bit iffy about Overwatch as well. More 3rd party support is always great and I'd love it to come to the Switch, but I can't help but think that pretty much everyone who wants it already has it. The game is already widely available (and successful), and as @FragRed mentioned, will be cheaper on the established platforms. A Switch version would really need something extra to convince people to buy it, especially since it's an online game which will gain little benefit from being portable.

@MarcelRguez NeoGaf. It's supposedly a live presentation that investors will be at, meaning it would have to be during business hours in Tokyo, which would be why it's bad timing for the rest of the world.

@Whitewatermoose I'm not too worried about western 3rd party support, but I do expect a lot of those announcements to be after the presentation by the various publishers and NoA on Twitter rather than during the presentation.

A proper, big, epic monster hunter is what I want. The volume of other third party support is no use after that, if the quality isn't stellar.

@MarcelRguez It's also going to be a very Japanese event most likely. Probably meaning live translators (though hopefully not Sony TGS levels of cringe-worthiness).

Nintendo Members are receiving invites to try the Switch early.

usa only I guess? I'll look forward to hands on youtube videos then

Seasons of Heaven teaser trailer from Gameblog. Full reveal trailer coming on December 19th.