Super Mario Party On Switch Appears To Make Use Of Nintendo's Recent Multi-Screen Patent

I don't know if you guys noticed but on the trailer, the group there are checking the best position for the screen and then one of them slides her finger across both screens to lock it in the position they chose. Very nice.
I'm happy that this game will arrive this year in time for the holiday season.
It's perfect to play with the family and friends, I've always had fun with Mario Party (not 10).

Can we get a MP3 remaster? Or a VC release at the very least.

I bet they will use this mechanic for the new Animal Crossing. Put the Switches side by side and you can walk to your friend's town.

You got to love them for this creativity man. Nobody can do all this crazy stuff like Nintendo.

Now we just need to be able to buy a dockless Switch outside of Japan or this feature will barely ever be used. There's clearly a demand for such a thing and I know many who've never even use the dock plus others who are put off the Switch by the price point

It's a neat gimmick but the chances of me ever seeing two Switches, two copies of the game and three friends in the same room are pretty slim.

This is bound to be utilised in the new Pokemon Switch games. Tapping your two screens together to start battles with your Pokemon? It would be awesome to see.

When every Mario Party game is released there are enough negitives to make it an unattractive game for the single player, even though some of the mini games seem OK. Party games have a limited audience, although enough for Nintendo to keep making them, but they are not going to sell Switches.

Still obsessed with the multiple screens thing then... Reminds me of AR or something. Interesting hardware gimmick that loses its appeal after one go. Plus I treat my Switch like a newborn baby (especially after it got scratched from the slightest knock), I'm not sliding it around a table, haha.

@chardir 👍

@Richard_Atkinson
I would say that's highly unlikely. Why would anyone want to bang their Switches together to do that when we have wireless?

It looks great

This is really cool! I’m actually really excited for this game, it’ll be great to play when family is over or at work on extended lunch breaks haha

I’ll say this: this is the most interesting any Mario Party game has ever looked to me. Actually fun. No offense to others who enjoy the series already.

@zool By "limited audience" you mean "people who have friends and/or relatives in real life"? Sure, a very small, insular bunch those people!

@zool All this negativity about a beautiful game and a neatly presented idea. Go out, buy an orange juice and enjoy the sun.

@chardir

My bro has a Switch and lives nearby.

Awwww yeah.

I'm not a board game guy, and AC:aF on Wii U probably turned some other people off to them as well. But if they can market this like a Rabbids game - all the minigames all the time, board game optional - well I can get on board for that. Just let us play the fun stuff, first to 20 wins wins. Spin the Bottle on Wii U was kind of fun, so was Game & Wario. Wii Party U too. I know some people like the board game, but some of us don't. Why not offer both?

@Savino "download play"

I've been thinking about that a lot lately actually. Not just this game but others as well. Seems a great marketing tool for selling more copies of games to other Switch owners who get to try out their friends games that way. But it makes too much sense so Ntineod probably wont' do it.

I'm glad that Switch is getting a new Mario Party, but I could help but run the cost numbers on that double screen setup . . . .

@Savino "Nintendo, Every time."

Me thinks somebody is still bitter about no MP4 in the ND yesterday.

@Savino I know the feeling.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-14-miyamoto-pikmin-4-still-progressing

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/06/15/e3-2017-pikmin-4-progressing-says-shigeru-miyamoto

FYI those are from last years E3 2017, not 2018

@tourjeff Yeah. I feel like Nintendo is slowly, but subtly, preparing for the potential of all it could pull off when the console's popularity as a portable platform begins to catch on.

i.e.: part of their plans of "one console per person" that, really, is more about reaching a level of concentration(rather than dispersion) where there reach a points where households begins to own more than a single Switch at once rather than a matter of everybody in the whole world having a Switch.

Probably why Japan has that option to buy Switch consoles without docks but America doesn't yet; because it's reaching that level of concentration in Japan but America is large enough it still hasn't fully gotten there yet. Though I'm seeing discussions about buying "a second Switch for the household" are becoming more common than they used to be.

@bluedogrulez That cost number might become less of an hurdle when 2019 brings stuff like the core pokemon games.

"What, brother got Pokémon for his Switch? I want a Switch to play pokemon too and fight his teams of pokemons with my own team!"

That's their plan behind "a console per person" deal about the Switch. It wasn't a boast to get everyone to in the world to buy it. It was an intended goal to make this the new 3DS in a fashion; an handheld console which a single household could own multiple copies of.

Worrying about double-screen setup/etc is only a matter if you live alone and are the only person of your group of friends/etc to own a Switch. But Nintendo is still a family company and being a portable console... the Switch has the excuse there's a ton of games on it that could justify two kids of an household having their own console even if just for local multiplayers of those titles that can't handle splitscreen as easily(Pokémon is one because though the battles could be a splitscreen deal... story progression is very much a single player affair that is best handled by having your own console to play when someone is already playing on their own).

What's so exciting about this feature? I don't get it.

When the girl slid her finger across the two screens my eyes lit up. Really creative, Nintendo! I am impressed.

@shani it opens up a whole new world of possibilities in terms of table-top gaming, and it rewards friends for having multiple Switch consoles. Nowadays you're limited to just one screen and 4 Joycons, or two screens with mirrored content. This not only allows for different dimensions and sizes for gameplay, but it also transforms the tablets into a gameboard. You aren't limited to looking "forward" at a screen that's perpendicular to the floor, but now it's something you are looking down into. (I understand that many games already have a top-down view, like Bomberman, but this expands that concept.)

First MP game i played was actually Mario Party 1 on the N64.. i enjoyed it quite a lot even though i mostly played it by myself.

It would be a big missed opportunity if there's no online play. Still hoping.

This is what sold me Super Mario Party.

@Ludovsky I will own more than two consoles when there is a "family game library" feature. I regret buying two of them.

Man, I miss Mario Party 5. Still, this looks really awesome and I'm definitely super excited for it. I just bought Mario & Rabbids so I've got something to tide me over for a while at least.

Yeah...I don't see this feature gaining much traction until the Switch's install base grows significantly larger. It is cool that Mario Party uses it though.

I am surprised that smartphones don't have this feature, at least none that I am aware of.

@ryancraddock is 2 switches the maximum or could more switches be interconnected ? Because that would offer a lot of potential for tabletop type games. Combine it with nfc cards or figures and it would offer some interesting possibilities. I mean last year they announced (sorta) the Prodigy that used figures to interact with the switch. Whatever happened to that game ?

@Cosats that's a very odd comment from a man with a beard. Why not say what you disagree with from what I said? My comments are what most reviewers have said about previous Party games.

@AlternateButtons previous Party reviews suggest that the wait times between turns when playing with the AI is what puts single players off playing. You must have exceptionally good patience.

@SmaggTheSmug no that's not what I meant 🤔

@AlternateButtons fair enough. I have never played Party games, the reviews put me off. Although I was going to buy the 3ds 100 best Party games, but again the reviews were not that good. Maybe thing will change with the Switch.