Tantalus Media is Developing Games for the Switch

You heard it here first, Twilight Princess is coming to the Switch for its fourth consecutive appearance.

Mario Sunshine HD lets make that happen

F-Zero GX HD needs to happen.

Honestly, they might be the guys doing the Splatoon and MarioKart games we saw in the reveal trailer.

@MitchVogel fourth? I have just two versions: Original Wii and Wii U remastered. Was it lauched for 3DS and I have missed?

Skyward Sword? It would be interesting to see how they change the controls.

@MitchVogel Twilight Princess 4D!

I'd bet they're the source of all those rumours around Wii U games being ported to Switch. My guess is Splatoon, Mario Kart, and Smash; any one or maybe even all of them.

@PtM of course! I completely forgot about the left-hand/right-hand discussion. My world is in balance again =]

@WillTheLion With both games seeming to have new content, like maps/tracks and characters etc with MK8 even have switchable weapons, I could see it being more likely done by Nintendo themselves.

But I can see Nintendo looking at more Wii/Gamecube games ported during the first year or two just to full out the library quickly while their internal studios are busy on new games.

I would love to see a Skyward Sword HD WITH the old motion controls.
If anything they should just add some sort of side quest

If there are some Gamecube ports for Switch, would like to see some third party games such as The Sims Bustin' Out, Harvest Moon Magical Melody, Kao the Kangaroo 2, etc. For first party, remake Paper Mario The Thousand Years Door because the prices on Ebay are Really Insane expensive, even second handed.

Super Mario sunshine

maybe working on those "director's cut" versions of the biggest wii u games.

Ocarina of Time HD Switch to make up for another delay to BOTW?While Wii U owners will get 300 Platinum Points for a 5% discount on Ocarina of Time HD Switch to make up for the delay?

@setezerocinco Twilight Princess was originally a GC game but got released on Wii as well due to the GC hardware not selling well.

Honestly I think this is for Skyward Sword HD as Aonuma has already teased it before.

Yeah I reckon they're porting mk8 & splatoon to the switch. With the minor updates we've seen of course.

They also did the excellent Mass Effect 3 port - I would die if they're doing an Andromeda port for Switch. Make it happen EA!

Maybe Metroid Prime Trilogy?
Could use it as a filler like they did with the WW and TP remakes until a new instalment is ready.

Given Tantalus' history, odds are it's likely a port or remaster. Now just will it be ready in time for the launch date? And fingers crossed they're not wasting their time on Skyward Sword.

I would genuinely buy Twilight Princess again. I feel its continued re-release are as important as the stability gifted to our consoles in every firmware update.

As people already said: They are probably used for porting a few games (Mariokart 8, Splatoon, etc). A bad way of filling the library in my opinion, and it won't attract many people. New games, that's what we need!!

Metroid prime trilogy HD please wii controls

I would love it if they put all the gamecube games on the switch store or made a mini gamecube 😀

HD remasters of older games? Yes please. That will definitely be something that could lure me to pick up the Switch.

If the Joy-Cons are motion controlled as rumoured then Skyward Sword HD is a real possibility.Could only work if they're not attached though obviously.

I hope its a remake of Mario 64 . I don't think it would take much to make that game look even better than it already does. I also hold out hope that square enix and Nintendo can partner up and do a remake of final fantasy 6. Please!

Most likely a gamecube port. Maybe Mario Sunshine HD?

Mario sunshine remaster? F-Zero remaster? Another Zelda remaster?
How about a Metroid Prime Remaster? I mean, why the heck not?

Will somebody, somewhere please give me skies of Arcadia HD!! Sega need to hire these guys!!

How about Last Story? Game was a little limited by the technology of the Wii so it could be a good one to do. It also hasn't seen an appearance on the Wiiu unlike a lot of Nintendo's other Wii ips like Pandora's Tower, Zangeki no Reginleiv, Xenoblade

Skyward sword remaster?

@roboshort
I like the way you think.Last Story was a gem on the Wii. We were lucky it actually came out in the west.

@OorWullie
Maybe you can still use the Wii remotes

@roboshort Good suggestion! I think both Last Story and Xenoblade could do with HD remasters; equally amazing, character-driven games but are a little difficult to play now with murky, SD graphics.

I hope they are working on GameCube VC that goes live day 1. In particular Eternal Darkness, Waverace, F-Zero GX and 1080, and these are the preludes to full blown sequels coming later in the year. OR possibly I can imagine an extreme sports game collection in the 1080 waverace universe. Oh boy I just creamed my pants.

A re-worked Skyward Sword or Kid Icarus: Uprising would be great. they'd be more involved ports, so Tantalus Media could learn a lot from it.

I'm guessing they're just working on ports for Splatoon and SSB though.

As long as an outside company is doing the HD updates that leaves Nintendo to make new games. I say keep giving them remaster/remake projects and use them as much as possible

Mario 64 with inreal engine 4 lol.

Hey guys how do you put images in here?

They did an awesome job of both Mass Effect 3 and Deus Ex on Wii U.
Deus Ex Mankind Divided Director's Cut for Switch.

It won't be Splatoon, Mario Kart 8 or Smash Bros. ports, as those would have quite a bit of new content added (and they will, if the Switch trailer is anything to go by), and that's stuff Nintendo's development teams will definitely want/need to do themselves.

Something like this i hope

Well, the Switch does support this one sexy beast.

So yeah, hopeful times ahead.

Tantalus Media have always done a really decent job with the ports they have done over the years. It's good to hear they are developing for Switch. Here is hoping Tantalus & Nintendo have a close relationship for some time.

I need all the remasters on Switch.

@sandman89 I've played the Metroid Prime Trilogy a few times through now, but I'd still be buying an HD remaster if they saw fit to do it. Those games would scale very well, especially if the beautiful texture work done on TP HD was done for them.

Motion controls are a real issue though. Prime 1 and 2 could be great for pointing and then using the other control scheme when going portable, but 3 is made specifically for locking and aiming with a pointer. Would be tricky to make work in a portable way.

On the other side of the coin, the motion stuff could be greatly enhanced to take advantage of the gyro in Motion PLUS that Prime 3 couldn't take advantage of in the past.

Only if the rumors about the joy-con(s) being motion capable are true though... even so the rumors suggest that maybe only the right joy-con has the capability and that's still a problem.

We'll probably get an Other M remaster, instead. Which I'm fine with myself but might unleash a violent internet storm. lol.

@Mogster Yeah. Maybe a little bit of wishful thinking, but it would be cool. Anyway, I am excited to see what Nintendo has in store for us in January. Looks like it will be quite a lot.

Hopefully some good remasters in HD...but I think it's going to be Skyward Sword HD. Other than that, I'd love to see some Gamecube titles re-released in HD and some of the good Wii games in HD. Hopefully we get some really good games on the Switch, but I'm also hoping that their virtual library doesn't start all over again on it, with just one or two games coming per week (and it's the same ones coming throughout) with another chance to gain more money (seriously, how many times are they going to keep the old NES sports titles rolling out first, before the great ones start?). Guess we'll find out in January or March on what goes on, and hopefully this company is allowed to showcase their games that they've been working on (without a release dated for 2018 or beyond).

@aaronsullivan The controller scheme has to be motion controlled, if Just Dance is coming to it, as those series are always somehow motion controlled, even if by cameras (PS4 camera or Kinect)...not sure how they would do it without the motion controls.

@PtM Ehm, what else should that screenshot be?
@countzero They can't and shouldn't change the controls, it would ruin the whole game!
@Niinbendo No way! The motion controls were integral and made the game truly great. Without motion controls, it would be a lesser game.

Mario Sunshine HD? Yes Please!
Also, Wario World and Eternal Darkness!

HD version I'd like to see, in this order: Skyward Sword, Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, Kirby's Epic Yarn.

@WiiLovePeace
I think this makes perfect sense and if so free's Nintendo to focus on new games whilst delivering key franchise games for launch that a lot of new buyers will not have experienced.

@Niinbendo big mistake! it's excellent

If Nintendo is bumping a bunch of their WiiU titles over to the Switch it would make sense to hand that work over to a company that has already done some ports for you.

i wish tphd looked as good as the screenshot

@Gingerone yeah! My thoughts exactly.

Star Wars Rogue Squadron I-III (yes including the unreleased one) Disney might allow it as they're trying to build hype for their movies.

Baten Kaitos

Mario Sunshine

Zelda Four Swords Adventures

Kirby's Air Ride

Fire Emblem Path of Radiance

Pokemon Snap

Ogre Battle 64

If only Nintendo owned the rights to Banjo Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing

Sunshine n Metroid trilogy would be awesome but i would like too see a Other M remake not remaster and Conduit or Red Steel would be really cool aswell.

I'm holding out for Cheggers' Party Quiz.

@Henmii exactly my thoughts. Considering Switch owners will largely consist of Wii U owners, asking us all to repurchase all these 1-2 year old games again at 60 a pop is ridiculous.

@PtM Oh you mean a texture mod like the one for Ocarina of Time. Now I get it.

Urban Fighter HD?

I would buy Skyward Sword remastered. I enjoyed the controls for it

@Nintenbomba64 Or maybe a sequel?

I'm not buying any ports of Wii U games. I may or may not buy a port of a Wii game. I wasn't thrilled with how Twilight Princess looked. I'm sure they did as well as one could with the material, I just think the source material was a bad choice to 'HD-ify'. I would accept some excellent ports of games Nintendo fanatics never had on their platform. I'd like to play the new Tomb Raiders, or the new Doom (package with the new Wolfenstein?). Or the Witcher 3. Just... don't even bother putting it out for sale if it can't hold 30 FPS.

@leo13 I like the choices you've made. Ogre battle 64 is one of my all time favorites.

No one even considering them NOT making a port of a Nintendo game? They are a third party, so only guns for hire, they're not connected or tied to Nintendo in any way other than having done some porting work for them before, but they have done so much more already in the almost 22 years that they now exist.

They also reworked Kemco's brilliant N64 racer Top Gear Rally into a brilliant Game Boy Advance game and there's a couple of other titles that they did that weren't straight ports, so besides the odd port that they might do (Nintendo will probably re-hire them because of the good work done on Twilight Princess) they might just as well also be making something entirely new or rework a franchise like they have done before.

Either way, here's hoping they are some good games. The Switch can't have enough of them if it wants to come out of the gates running come March and keep that momentum going all throughout the launch window and beyond...

@Jasonmd thanks. I'd buy most or maybe all of those games I listed. I still have Mario Sunshine and Zelda Four Swords Adventures so I might not be willing to buy those, but we'd have to wait and see if any of them even come. I fully expected Mario Sunshine on Wii U and we never got it

@gatorboi352,

You think that the Switch audience will mostly consist of Wii u owners, but its to early to tell. Judging from the reveal-video it is more aimed at older/more hardcore gamers. We'll see how it pans out!

@NintndoNik YES. PLEASE. ANDROMEDA.

I'm still confused, though, to why they only ported Mass Effect 3 over...

@Henmii but so was Wii U leading up to its release. Go back and check out the Nondescript Action Figure skit

Ohhhhh, I COMPLETELY forgot Zelda TPHD was on the Wii U. Man. I wasn't thinking I needed to get another Wii U, but now I'm thinking I'm starting to miss out on a bit too many exclusives.

@gatorboi352,

I know the skit, but didn't feel that was particularly "grown-up". However, the Switch reveal felt more "grown-up", like they want to reach all the people they have neglected for far to long. I hope they deliver on that promise!!