Amazon Lists Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered For Nintendo Switch

One of my favourite all-time arcade racing games. Delighted it is coming to Switch. Criterion make such fun racing titles. Will be ideal for my Xmas list.

I can imagine myself playing need for speed on the highway

Not sure this is accurate. It's an EA game listed for £34.99 and not £44.99. Surely can't be real.

I bet this will be announced in a Partner Showcase soon

I would love to play this on switch! Also hoping EA brings Sims 4 to switch

@Rainbowjames Don't be fooled, they probably added micro transactions via a new petrol pump simulation mode where your car needs to be refilled in real time prices.

All I want from EA in NHL, Madden and Mass Effect Trilogy on Switch. Heck, give me the PSP version of NHL 07. I don't have PSP anymore and would love NHL on the go (not on some phone device).

EA, please remaster and release the Dead Space franchise and release all 3 as a collection. Never mind this Need for Speed stuff. Thank you.

P.S - I know my comment falls on deaf ears. 🤫

This is a fun game I have it on PS3. Might have to double dip and get the Switch version too.

I will buy this twice, phenomenal arcade racer!!

I'm having a lot of fun with Burnout Paradise (never played before) and having NFS available will be great to have in my collection.
Arcade racing games are lacking on the platform so more options are always welcome.

Why isn't Pikman out now during this drought. Instead were going to have to make decisions with our time in the fall as there are new systems coming out, rumoured Mario games coming out, and games like this. Yet at the moment I'm desperate for anything. Paper Mario's a 15 hour game. That lasts one long weekend. That's the problem with certain games. Yes Nintendo just released something. But not something that has countless hours you can throw at it.

As others have said - burnout found its home on switch. It just suits the switch so well.

I’ve preordered at this price as seems decent and if it turns out to be cheaper I can cancel.

Burnout was worth every penny.

I hope that offcial announcement come either later this month, or early next month. I stated playing it last month on PC, but I still have Burnout Paradise Remastered on the Nintendo Switch. Itll be amazing to add Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered to my racing game collection

@Rainbowjames agree if burnout was priced like that would be day one. but here in switzterland was 60 francs which was more than the borderlands collection bioshock and the outer worlds.

No listing for PS4 yet, only Xbox one and switch so far 😕

But happy about the announcement, love nfs hot persuit, gonna preorder as it's available on ps4

@redd214 I've played this game on vita, ps3, pc and now on ps4, I'm on a roll now!

@huyi Hot Pursuit wasn't on Vita, you may be thinking of Most Wanted

Lets hope it comes earlier. My most anticipated rumor for a long time.

Criterion good, EA bad.

@tourjeff And just in case you didn't already know, this entry in the NFS series was developed by the same guys behind the Burnout series, so considering you like Burnout Paradise, i don't think you, or me, will be disappointed haha! Personally i can't wait for it!

@Cevil Do people even want to play new games?

Sniff, sniff.

I smell a Direct cooking.

Yeah still on Amazon UK so reckon it’s legit and EA did say 7 games so this would be number 3 - burnout, FIFA 21 and now NFS. I hate EA but not a bad start to the 7 if you ignore Fifa of course

@Savino this wasn't on the Wii U, again you may be thinking of NFS Most Wanted. There was a Wii version of Hot Pursuit, but while it shares the name was very different (inferior) to the version this remaster would be based on.

Thought at first this was a remaster of the original Hot Pursuit. Mildly disappointed.

@huyi it never came out for vita. You are thinking of most wanted.

Day 1 for me!! Favorite selection from the NFS franchise!! And now on a Nintendo Switch?? Ohh baby! Lol

Day 1.

Best NFS game ever made!

Hot Pursuit Remake was fun. I think I enjoyed Rivals better, though. And I'd really just like Shepard on Switch, if for nothing else than to undock it, stare at someone, and say that I should go.

old games, again. thank god, i have other platforms where i can get the recent stuff. if i didn't have anything but the switch, i would be bored to death right now, third party wise.
my god, would it help nintendo get more third party games, if it had a little more power. When people say power doesn't matter i always cringe because without that power, you don't get the third party games from the current generation.

Madden, I still don't understand what you are supposed to do with that watermelon ball and why everyone punches everyone.

If you eliminate the ridiculously high average review scores for iOS games, I think this may well be the highest rated NFS game (by average, general review score). That's the non-remastered version.

I enjoyed this myself even though Most Wanted 2005 was the best of the NFS games i have played

I know it's unlikely, but I hope it has a performance mode! I can't think of a single Need for Speed game that runs at 60fps, so they probably just won't ever make one (well on PC there probably is one or more...).

If this is true I’m pumped. Burnout Paradise was an excellent port but I miss having real cars. And this IMO was my favorite new gen NFS

If it does release and sells well, here's hoping for more Need for Speed on the Switch.

Too bad that NFS series is at 30 fps and not at 60 fps as it should be. These are racing games after all. Speed is everything. Nintendo has acknowledge this and Mario Kart is at 60 fps. I know that NFS has more complex graphics but they should have an option for graphics and performance. I'm sure many people would select performance even though they would sacrifice graphics in a racing game.

How about giving us the original need for speed most wanted from the ps2 remastered? That was the best nfs game in my opinion. It should even be made into a movie.

@huyi So get it on Switch or Xbox One.

@nkarafo Great point. Every racing game should have this option.

@StefanN I didn't know it was made by the same team. That's great!
Hopefully it's true and November is not so far away so the wait won't be long.

I loved the PS2 version of Need for Speed 2: Hot Pursuit. A remake with modern visuals would be awesome, but somehow I doubt it will contain many (if any) of the same music tracks due to licensing and all that. Which is a shame because some of those tunes were catchy, and yes, different music can change the very feel of a game (just ask anyone who's played the newer versions of Crazy Taxi with the generic replacements for the Offspring stuff).

Spent way to much time in NFSHP3. hope that one will make it on the switch too.

I'm secretly hoping for a port of The Need For Speed on 3DO.

I wish this was Hot Pursuit 2 (2002) remastered as opposed to Hot Pursuit 2010 remastered. I remember Hot Pursuit 2010 being a big disappointment.

@60frames-please Yes! Being one of the best arcade racing games of all time but only being 30fps unlike the Burnout series was strange at the time. The single upgrade that would do this amazing game justice would be to release it at 60fps - here’s hoping... (but not optimistic).

Just want to say this is a great racing game . . . But I paid 6 pound for it about 7 years ago xx

Not generally interested in remasters when I still have the original games and consoles to play them on... so, no.

Can't wait to play this again.

and now its gone....

That's around the time it got released 10 years ago. That's cool their making us wait 3 months (if it even gets released) for it.

Edit: Oh its a remaster, gonna wait and see now.

Yay another EA game I will not be buying.

@Cevil why should they bother making something new if we have a whole community dying of anxiety waiting for a rumored collection of old Mario games?

Saddly it's all our fault...

(Awesome comment btw)

Underground I & II Remastered would be killers...

I feel a NEED to buy this fast with plenty of SPEED!
...
I'll go now.

@Cevil yeah sure. Nintendo's released...
Uh, don't know. I think you may be right.

@andykara2003 Since it is a remastered and also releasing on other systems, don't you think there is a big chance it will be? Especially looking at how much they put 60fps in the announcements for Burnout.

@Yanina It depends - there’s a higher likelihood Of 60fps on Xbox, but I think Switch has a fair likelihood of 30fps (Hopefully not). In that case, the Xbox version is a no brainer considering that 60fps is particularly suited to arcade racers..

give me most wanted for switch then will talk.

Good ^.^, more "probability" that NFS Hot Pursuit 2010 will come to Switch soon.

As I have repeated before, it is one of the most decent NFS in my opinion that there have been in this last decade.
And well, while, my "eternal" wish is that the NFS classics (1994-2002) have a remake or remastering, but yes, it's just a dream...

@priamXus
Yes, it could be a great success, however, for me, no thanks, they are not bad games, but thanks to them, for me, they ended the NFS that I know and like

@AtlanteanMan
Aww, if something I loved about the NFS classics, it was just that, its original and interesting soundtrack, from its inception, unique music and created by the composers who worked on the games, no licenses, well, even NFS High Stakes, but, still thus, the music was adequate for the game, in my opinion and there was still an original soundtrack.
Until the arrival of the Underground ...

@Casual_Gamer95 There's a thing called indies and other third party. I bought a lot of games this year which aren't from Nintendo.

Alert, Long text!! XD

@Casual_Gamer95
At one point, yes, the power would give more to make the games "run" properly and smoothly, however, really nowadays it has not been synonymous of excellent games (low frame rate, slow loading, too much use of space in the memory), simply, power isn't everything if you don't know how to program games correctly.

However, this is not my point, my point is that, yes, if a Nintendo console had a console with a lot of "power", it was supposed to have more support from the Third Parties, why? Because obviously they just wouldn't spend much and "very simple" would make the port of the main console where they develop the game.
""But"", if we remember in the Game Cube era, despite the fact that, is, the mini DVD was a detail, the console had more power than the PS2, and where there was more support, and it is assumed that the first Xbox it was already on the market, same power as the GameCube, more than the PS2, and we know what happened.

The problem are 2 points: Final Decision of the Developer and Publisher, even if Nintendo had a powerful console and yet to play the game efficiently, if the Third party does not want it, it will not happen; We have already seen Third parties that have invested with new developers to make complicated games on the Switch and they have achieved it and there has been success in many of them, and even so, many others still do not want to make games on the Switch, also, if one thinks At EA, it would be ironic that in the era of the Wii, EA developed too many exclusive games for that console, despite the low power of the Wii; what was their excuse on the Wii U, when at first we "saw" some support?
So, power is just a sad excuse to say they don't want to develop the game, why? Maybe one of those things is the best known, "business".
The other point is perhaps, something not given as a point but it influences, when a game is multi-console, it is almost always the case that on one console, it then works very well, on the other, we don't even ask, so that, even if the Switch had a lot of power, it is most likely that many games were badly made (EA style), but here, the same detail is up to the developer and publisher.

So, simple, power is not everything, it is the business and decision of companies why we do not see games on the Switch.

Will pick this up for sure! ... when it's on sale for $20, the price it should be selling at.

@citizenerased Why should this be $20 when things like Yoshis Crafted World, Links Awakening or Mario Kart is $60?
MK is also an old game and Yoshi and Link is only a fraction of the content from NFS

@CTmatic As an EA employee, I can positively say

no

Riiiiight. @batata

Still waiting for Fifa 20 remastered!!! (yea, fifa 20)

@Rainbowjames Not all the time it will be listed that price but l can tell it's Amazon and Amazon doesn't fake things.

Legend of Zelda skyward sword is also now listed for pre orders or £69.99 for Switch!!!! No smoke without fire

@CTmatic nO i Am sPeKinG tRueness

@KnightRider666 I agree, Hot Pursuit on the PS2 was a masterpiece and by far the best NFS game. Although this one is the 3rd best (after the PS2 Most Wanted)

@Yanina I can't speak for others but I didn't pick up Link's Awakening because it doesn't have enough content. Nintendo gets away with pricing their titles whatever they want because they're not available elsewhere. Not saying that's fair, but it's pretty clear EA is only releasing $60 Switch games so they can take full advantage of the sale-trick on the Eshop. You're welcome to buy it full-priced at launch, of course.

@redd214 yeah, a bit of confusion, i really do like nfs most wanted, it's one of my favs, it's a shame that it's not getting the same treatment as hot pursuit tho

@__jamiie i don't have a xbox one 🙄