Luigi's Mansion 3 Will Officially Haunt Your Switch This October

Phew! I thought this was slipping into 2020.

That's an odd release date.. a Thursday

Glad this is not coming out October 4th like the Amazon Mexico listing suggested so the gap is more like between Fire Emblem and Astral Chain than between Daemon X Machina and Link's Awakening.

A fitting release date, at least here in the states it is.

Luigi and Brexit (maybe) on the same day. At least there's now something to look forward to.

That date was pretty obvious,
Waiting for the pre-order amazingness from Nintendo UK which will make everyone moan.

Candy and Luigis Mansion, going to be a fun Halloween this year! Never played one of these but am looking forward to checking this out!

Hahaha good play. Welp I know I’ll have a treat this year!

I was planning on getting this with game vouchers, so I hope that now the release date is solid, they'll add it to the list

Wow !
Luigi's Mansion 3 will be released 1 day after my birthday on 30 October 2019.

Let the spoopiness commence! 💀💀

Impressed they went with a Thursday.

All the Targets around me will either put it out early on Tuesday or late on Friday. 😂

Is Halloween even a thing in Japan? Maybe Bowser acyually had some say?

Halloween might be late enough to make this a Christmas gift if the kids can't find anything else for Santa. Probably either this or Pokémon for Day 1.

I'll give Nintendo the obvious win for this one.

Perfect release date, can't wait. The original is in my top 10 games of all time, absolutely love it

Hype train! I really hope this sells a lot of copies to make it a staple Nintendo franchise. My boy Luigi needs more attention.

It this the Christmas release from Nintendo that just happens to be released in October or will there be something releases in Nov/Dec?

@zool Pokemon is the November release.

@zool I think they just have that silly little indie game about catching monsters for November. Not sure what they are thinking.

@Indielink @ThomGee
never played it.🙄

Hee hee. Wasn't Dark Moon released on Halloween too? And I remember Majora's Mask 3D was released on Friday the 13th. I love it when they do little things like this.

Ooh Halloween release date! Now the question I need to answer for myself: physical or digital?

I feel like this is why they didn't announce the release date at first. Nintendo really wanted it out in October for Halloween but Next Level Games wasn't sure they could get it out in time. The 31st release seems to line up with that hypothesis.

Told ya, it's coming before Halloween. Same as last year.

So, What's coming in December, the biggest consumer's month? BotW 2.The only Nintendo game mentioned in the last Direct with no set date.

@peanutbuttercup Not when it's a spooky game and the Thursday is halloween! Makes sense to me

Ooh, perfect. Wouldn't say it's too too surprising, but unexpected. Like everyone else, was anticipating a week before or the week after. Wow, hard to believe it's been 18 years since the first one came out, though I didn't get my GameCube 'til mid-2002. So many good memories.

@Tempestryke Actually Dark Moon was released in March.

Perfect timing. This just made my Halloween for this year. I already have a few horror themed Switch games ready to play during that month. Luigi's mansion 3 will be saving the best for last.

Man, all these “so predictable comments” like no way!

It was so predictable it became the LEAST predictable. I really thought it would be earlier

I’ve never been big on Halloween even with the Americanisation of the whole thing over in the UK but Luigi’s Mansion’s suitably ‘scary’ for that time of year. The box alone of the original gave me nightmares back when I was younger.

@nintendolie Witcher 3?

I suspect that game will get a significant push from Nintendo.

Or Metroid Prime Trilogy!

I think the only reason it took so long for a release date, and the fact that it wasn't announced at E3 was because they needed to add all the finishing touches to the game. I think they were still not completed with the game at E3 time, and wanted to make sure it could release in October, and didn't want to give a early release date, just to have to delay it. Glad it's still coming in October though!

Fantastic. Just super wonderful amazing fantastic news

@Donutsavant I said Nintendo game, not 3rd party. All the 1st party game in that Direct has a set date except BotW 2. There's no game scheduled for December, the biggest month of the year. (Last December was Smash Bros Ultimate)

Jun - Mario Maker 2
Jul - Fire Emblem 3 houses
Aug - Astral Chain
Sep - Zelda - Link's Awakening
Oct - Luigi's Mansion 3
Nov - Pokemon sword and shield
Dec - ???

My son's birthday is one week later, maybe I'll get this one for him.

@nintendolie I LOVE HOW YOUR NAME SHAKE MY FEELINGS

@nintendolie yes, I read your comment correctly. But there have been times in the past where Nintendo has specifically pushed third party software to fill their own gaps. I could see Nintendo making a big deal about Witcher 3 like they did for Skyrim, and passing that as their big title for December.

Or maybe we will get another direct and they will announce something. That’s why I said Prime Trilogy. That’s something that would be small enough to announce and push out quickly for December

@peanutbuttercup Not too odd. Digital only games from Nintendo always release on Thursday. Physical games usually release on Friday, so it is only a day off.

Additionally November 1st is a holiday in a lot of countries so the regular Friday release would not be optimal.

@nintendolie if nintendo for whatever god insane disturbing freaking reason drop botw2 this christmas I shall die in peace

@nintendolie Luigi's Mansion 3 is releasing on Halloween, not before.

Just in time for Halloween. Perfect release date. I will be picking this up.

@Donutsavant You're right, I'll bet The Witcher III will be their Christmas special title, that would be great, since I plan to get it as my autopresent hahahaha

Finally Luigi's Mansion 3 is my most anticipated game this year no other game comes close

finally a release date! i'm happy

Too bad it's yet another choppy 30fps game... I wish Nintendo understood how important smooth graphics are to good gameplay and a pleasing game experience!

@rjejr

It's steadily getting more popular, though Japan doesn't really need a special day for dressing up.

@Donutsavant Why would Nintendo promote a 3rd party game during December, the biggest money making month of the year? They usually saved this month for their own major titles.

There will no doubt be a Direct that will revealed the December title.

Kind of surprised it's not a Friday! Well, this is going onto my list of countdowns on my phone!

I know what Im going to be doing all night on halloween

Catching ghosts..

Would have been better had it released a few days prior to Halloween rather than on the day itself... A little disappointed but the game is going to be great regardless..

@nintendolie if they did do it, it would be because they didn’t have a title. We won’t know until later, but it would be neat if they did have a great early December release. I guess we will have to wait for that sweet sweet August/September direct

Medievil and Luigi's Mansion 3 ok thats my Halloween gaming for this year

A fitting release date and also my nephew's birthday.

Great! Can't wait.

It would have been nice to have it out a bit earlier than that. Pokemon is just around the corner and I hope this game doesn't suffer because of proximity. I was hoping it would come out early October to get a full month of sales before the juggernaut arrives. Hopefully they market this game well.

Called it. So glad they've gone with a Halloween release date it just makes sense.

With this, and Re triple pack two days prior. October is pretty nice to me.

@peanutbuttercup Yeah, I know. Thursdays are the worst days, but Nintendo knows best (even when they don't).

Perfect date for what looks like a perfect game. Can't wait.

This is a day one for me, now to convince my wife this is how I should spend my anniversary.

@60frames-please You do realize that 30fps is not "choppy" as you call it and you, also, do realize that movies run at 24 fps, right?

ALL THE YES! So looking forward to that!

@peanutbuttercup it is the same day of Halloween, it makes sense

@nintendolie wow didn’t notice it.... that means there is at least another game in stored for us.... (unless it was meant for AC and they had no back up....)

This is amazing,
Getting it right away

If people preorder it with the right shop it'll be their Halloween morning – perfect.

Good job Nintendo.

Can't wait to have a spooky ol time. Day 1 for me

@nintendolie I'd guess if there's a 1st party Switch game in December, it'll be something like a Wii U port that's announced in a September Direct.

If I thought Nintendo read these comments I wouldn't say it. But honestly? They could charge 90 for this and I'd still buy it.

Same day as the current Brexit deadline. Least this should cheer us Brits up......oh and Halloween.

@zool pokemon, november 15th

That's a shame. I was hoping it would be earlier in October so I could play the game on the days leading up to Halloween rather than the days after.

@nintendolie The video game world would explode if that were to happen, lol.

@Franklin Sailor Moon, all day, every day.

But what about what's really important, the candy?

I know Day the of the Dead is November first in Mexico but I'm sure they're aware down there of how big Halloween is up here a day earlier so they'll probably be ok with getting the game a day earlier.

I'm half surprised Germany hasn't outlawed dressing up.

I'll just assume going door to door for a candy handout is frowned up by most of the world but everyone is up for a good scare.

Maybe I should put a big sign my the door - Sorry, no candy today, busy playing Luigi's Mansion 3. Though I suppose the portable nature of the Switch makes that a bit lame.

Great news day one then

@60frames-please
Sometimes... 60 fps is not suitable for everything.
Let's say movies.
Usually movies run on 24 - 30 fps.
If movies running on smooth 60 fps, it will looked like Telenovela / Soap opera.
60 fps will make the movies looked cheap as Telenovela / Soap opera.

Releasing on Halloween my favorite day of the year! Done deal!

@Cosats 30 fps looks choppy and crappy. Even if a game is high resolution it looks blurry when running at 30fps until you stop moving the camera, then it looks sharp. A 60fps game is smooth and has sharply defined characters, walls, corners, as they move by. I definitely agree that anything under 30fps is very choppy, but to me 30fps also looks at least somewhat choppy. Yes, I know the frame rate of film. I'm grateful to have a TV that bumps all movies and TV shows up to 60fps via dejudder!

@Anti-Matter Aw, that means you have to wait almost a full year to ask your parents for a copy

@Anti-Matter I know there are lots of people who like 24fps for film, but I'm not one of them. I love the dejudder function that is present on most TVs because it eliminates choppy movement for DVD and Blu Ray playback.

Look who's not going Trick-or-Treating this year...

@krvstkvlt Leave the man with some dignity...

I totally called it.

Cool so I can play this spooky game all November, the spookiest month of them all

@krvstkvlt
I will be 35 years old on 30 October 2019.
I'm a grown up man.

If they didn't release on Halloween, someone would have to have been fired.

@ArmoredGoomba That's what I couldn't help but think about. Unless you speed run through your first playthrough, this is basically going to be a Thanksgiving season game LOL

Don't really like Halloween but this should lighten it up for me

Happy it came out for Halloween and not earlier. Best time for it to be released! Especially with all the good games coming out.

@DTfeartheBEARD I stand corrected

Will pickup day one but was really hoping for an October 18th or 25th release.

@Morrow A Halloween release is great, but just one more thing for us to have to do in picking up amid costume parties, gatherings, etc. (personally I would have preferred a week or two sooner). Still happy to see it won't be any later.

@Nico07 Get a cheaper Halloween costume, or use an older one you already have. That will save some money. If hosting parties, buy off brand items to save even more money. If going to one, don't buy anything to bring. Not every single person has to bring something.

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