Level-5 Is Releasing The Original Yo-Kai Watch Game On Nintendo Switch

Im ok with this.

Nice! I hope it runs at 60fps! It would totally be worth a purchase if they increase the frame rate like that. I like the Yokai Watch games, but mostly want to play one that runs perfectly smoothly.

Does it mean that we will only get YW4 after they released the original 3ds trilogy on the Switch? That means another year or two?

Wow, interesting development. I've always been curious about this series.

Not interested unless they change the combat system.

If Yokai Watch 3 Remaster also comes to Nintendo Switch.... 😀😀😀
Because seriously, Yokai Watch 3 English version in physical is already "extinct" from Ebay. 😩

It’s not the most ideal day to sandwich the release between Ni No Kuni and Link’s Awakening. Would have been better to target mid-August. Still cool. Hopefully the price is right.

I’d buy it! Love this franchise

I’m so excited!!!!!! I was just about to buy this on 3ds but now I’ll wait!

Might as well appeal to the Yokai version of Gen One-ers. XD

They're doing it right when the Switch Lite drops. Lots of Japanese kids are going to want it. Good move.

@Anti-Matter vgp.ca has it in stock still hard to find though

Not a bad idea. A lot of people who hadn't had a Nintendo product for a long time or others who the Switch is their first, wouldn't know the series.

On 20th September, everyone will be buying Zelda.

Seems like a good time to nab some of those Pokémon fans who are absolutely no way gonna buy the next Pokémon game. You know, like they weren’t gonna buy the last one or the one before that or the one before that...

Looks like Yo-Kai Watch is big on Generation I imperialism as well.

I enjoyed the quirky battle mechanics, but I never finished the game. I’m happy to double dip.

Ok, you know what, this is really cool, especially if they release this in the west. They could release the original, get new people into it, then release yo kai 4, then boom, they just made a whole new fanbase

I'm gonna stick with my 3DS versions of the trilogy - these games were designed for dual screen.

I hope it does well on Switch though - the couple of hours I've played tell me it's a nicely polished experience. But I kinda don't want them to port YW3 'cos it will hurt the value of my 3DS version

@NotTelevision yeah weird choice, everyone will prefer to buy Zelda that day

I guess they think that because the switch mini will probably sale tons of hardware (maybe even few millions world wide) in It’s first couple of weeks, and a lot of it in Japan, they think they will want to try the game as a cheaper 2nd game

I honestly cannot imagine bringing YW1 to the Switch, it's such a 3DS game all-around, actually using all of the system's features, the bottom screen alone probably to a greater extent than, let's say, all Pokemon games combined.
Maybe it's just a mistake.

more fun than pokemon. My 2c

@Xelha I really wish there was more people like you, by that I mean not liking something something because of simple things, like not liking a battle system, since most people just hate yo kai because it's like pokemon

Love the series, but I struggle to imagine how the 3DS entries would work on Switch.

I think if they can push the next 3 games out in a reasonable time then these will do well. I’ve never played them but my son did and seemed to enjoy it. I think we all wish Nintendo would do this with Luigis Manson 1 and 2 for Switch?

So can I get fantasy life on Switch then?

However this is a good move for Japan.

I'll probably be sitting this one out. I just finished the first Yokai Watch on 3DS. As in the credits are rolling as I type this. It was a fun game and now I am on to 2 and hopefully 3.

YES!
a perfect game for a perfect console

@Ryu_Niiyama I have a feeling that it will be coming soon! Level-5 has published five notable games/series on 3DS (the Layton games, Inazuma Eleven, Yo-Kai Watch, Fantasy Life, and Snack World); now, Snack World is already out on Switch in Japan, they have announced ports of Layton’s Mystery Journey and the first Yo-Kai Watch, and there’s new Inazuma Eleven games coming (plus the Ni No Kuni port coming out in September). Fantasy Life is LITERALLY the only major 3DS game in their library that they haven’t ported over or made a Switch sequel for. I really hope they do re-release it on Switch, it was my favourite game on 3DS and one of my top-5 overall!

It was very stylus-dependent, so I’m curious as to how they’ll revamp it.

What a great idea. I like it when companies chuck out ports of earlier games alongside newer ones, even if they’re not simultaneous. Bit like the two Bayonettas being rereleased on Switch alongside the Bayonetta 3 announcement.

Pokémon, Yo-kai Watch and Digimon. Some folk have much collecting to do in the near future.

yeah i might get it i missed it on 3ds

But why? The second game was kind of a remake, and was 99x better than the first game, too... :/

Something tells me this is a mistake. That they meant to say “Both NiNo Kuni and Yo-Kai Watch 4 will be on the system when LiteSwitch launches (in Japan)”

This seems too strange otherwise.

Did anyone ask Level-5 for comment? Or are we just gonna run with it regardless

my son played the HELL out of this. i may pick it up and give it a shot on switch

Why though? The second game was just a better version of the first!

...and oh boy, the graphics were bad on the 3ds. I cant imagine what itll be like blown up on the tv...

@Farts_Ahoy
Which is why it’ll probably look more like this:
https://youtu.be/WPOP5tJ8riQ

I'll double-dip this day one because Yo-Kai obsessed. My favorite weird Japan franchise, hands down.

I'm hoping this opens up the possibility for porting the other sequels. Knowing Level-5, they're bound to make some great improvements with this port.

Since I'm not buying pokemon I may buy this one.

Is there anything that DOESN'T come out on that day?

If it's physical and the controls aren't bad I might double dip. My team in the original was such a bad mess some postgame stuff was almost unplayable. I had no idea what I was doing at all.

Ι would love to see more 3ds games on Switch. Imagine Pokemon remasters of X/Y/US/UM on Switch running crispy without blur and on 1080/720p instead of 240p. Thats a huge difference

@Farts_Ahoy What?? The graphics of the Yo-kai Watch games blow all the 3DS Pokemon games out of the water!

If I was impressed with one thing, then it was the graphic quality if the Pokemon games with impressive performance.

So, this was a Wii U game then, right? It can't be a 3DS game, because it didn't fail, so no porting its games to Switch, right?

@dimi that's a 3DS game, not a Wii U game, and Switch doesn't get 3DS ports, only Wii U ports, because the 3DS wasn't a commercial failure needing to port its games to Switch- why people say Wii U games were ported.

@gamefreak77 ikr? but some 3ds games would benefit a big deal with 720p treatment like Kid Icarus uprising etc

My son loves these games and is really excited about them coming to the Nintendo switch and cannot wait it's his favorite game in the world