Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Yeah I'm not expecting a release anytime soon, unless Nintendo doesn't have many other major titles in the near future, but an announcement would be nice. I wouldn't be too surprised if it wasn't announced at this E3, though.

Yeah, I'm hoping that the AC franchise is one that appears on the switch sooner rather than later! I presume a lot of the characters and elements have already been developed in HD for Amiibo Festival? So maybe it could be easier for some of the team to focus on Splatoon updates and the rest for AC?

Please, whatever AC gets may it not be another spin off!

I still read Assassin's Creed every time I see AC...

The next cross over series between Nintendo and Ubisoft... Assassin's Creed X Animal Crossing: Villager's Revenge.

I WANT THIS TOO MUCH NOW

Microsoft's E3 press conference is now on Sunday.

June 11th at 10pm UK time.

@Frosty_09 It's fit so well! I was always suspicious of the villager pretending to be a cute, awkward little boy, but rather he was a crazed assassin, hiding in plain sight, making "friends" with the animals only to invite them to his home to off his targets!

Also I knew Nook was an evil demon. He didn't become the powerful ruler he is today by simply being "nice and generous" . He just took out the competition with his "employees" cough Assassins cough

@Grumblevolcano Has any of the three main companies (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo) ever held a conference on a Sunday before? I know third party publishers have, just curious as to why this maybe. I assume the Scorpio reveal is going to be very big.

@FragRed Not that I'm aware of outside Nintendo doing the Smash invitational and NWC in 2014 and 2015 respectively.

Could be due to Scorpio or even E3 being open to the public for the first time in several years.

It's evident now that they want to focus on Scorpio since they got trash talked for Scalebound from...what, everybody? Frankly i'm really curious to see what they bring to the table and, eventually, how other houses will react because choosing Sunday, on that time...they HAVE to bring something other than Scorpio or it will be even worst than the Scalebound moment

@FGPackers They announced it won't have Halo or Gears of Warwick this year at E3 so that means Crackdown 3 and Forza whatever number will be the big showcase games. And that maybe good for Nintendo especially seeing how Microsoft no longer do console exclusives anymore.

@FragRed When did they announce that? I honestly thought Halo 3 Anniversary would've been at E3 though maybe 343 is doing things the consumer friendly way and adding it to Master Chief Collection either as an update or DLC.

@Grumblevolcano I read it on GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-e3-2017-briefing-date-confirmed-with-project-/1100-6447893/). Doesn't surprise me to be honest, both games only came out in recently and with a 3 to 4 year development cycle, this makes sense not to show anything yet.

When did this turn into the 'Microsoft's E3 2017' thread?

15 days...

When Microsoft realized they stood no chance against the Switch

So I've been seeing a few articles today about Unreal Engine 4.15 (latest version, I guess) being supported on the Switch. That's pretty awesome! Is this something we already knew about, though. Apologizes if so. But great news for third-party porting.

@TheLZdragon Given what we know about Switch so far I'm thinking Scorpio may drown out Switch at E3.

@Grumblevolcano Switch is too different for that to happen and besides, all Nintendo need is 1 game with the same hype as Zelda to cause a stampede. Hmmm....

@GrailUK I think the days are long over when you could sell a system based on one game. People want to see lots of games, all with that kind of hype before jumping on board.

@GrailUK But we're seeing gigantic backlash only a few weeks before BotW's launch just because Nintendo wanted to expand the game further with an expansion pass, all you need is for Super Mario Odyssey to have an expansion pass (which I think it will given the open nature of New Donk City) and all the hype will be gone in an instant.

@rallydefault Since the Switch supports Unreal Engine 4, I would expect all versions of UE4 that come out should work on the Switch unless there is some major change.