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I'm OK with 360 and ps3 ports, both of which are plentiful on the other 'home console's'. So can we get Assassin's Creed ezio collection already and GTA 5's single player mode?

Doubt Honda used a character as iconic as Mario without Nintendo's Australia arms permission.

It could be stock video footage they'd were sent to run on the HDMI and a couple of left over prop controllers.

Deponia and unwritten tales are a double dip day 1 for me.

Just a rerelease, or HD upgrade, will do me plenty. Timrsplitters 1&2 would be amazing on the switch.

Super Metroid isn't just the best Metroid game but its the best game. Full stop! Also, Metroid should be number 2 on this list for the soundtrack alone. Both games stand up to replays.

Just want a real direct already addressing the online service and upcoming games.

Its difficult because in many ways we are at risk of losing some of the best classic games, but copyright holder's should be able to make fair money.

I don't know if video game licenses last forever? For books, music and films the copyright time frame is limited.

We're losing source code already the blade runner game for example can never be remastered because the codes missing. In those sorts of cases ROMs serve a preservation role. Generally though I'd fall on the side of the rights holders.

That guy who shorted Nintendo stock I wonder if he knew Nintendo would do something this stupid? Especially as investors demand new big retail titles that haven't been announced.

Aren't they releasing a new paid for online service in a month we only have bare bones info on? Smash could probably have waited until October for more. This certainly feels like the Nintendo of old where they hate money.

Love a 3d platformed, and really want a Ratchet and Clank/Jack and Daxter/Epic Mickey style game on switch. But, this looks like shovelware cashing in on Crash Bandicoots success.

Simple reality is there are ethical sources for these minerals, a number of countries in Latin America alongside Australia provide clean sources for the same materials.

Nintendo shouldn't be using unaccredited third party materials suppliers, it should be checking the supply chains of their suppliers so they aren't using smelters buying raw materials illegally. The purchase, export and use of conflict minerals in many cases is illegal, and slavery is internationally banned.

Nintendo has a duty to do the correct thing here, not just ethically, but in many nations it operates in also legally.

Still need a direct to know what I'm buying with my online account purchase at some point...

Can't wait for this to come out. It and Hyper Light Drifter are the next games I really want on my switch (barring something insane like super metroid coming to the system).

Nintendo should buy Panic Button, invest in it to ramp up the staffing and get good ports down stream faster.

@NewAdvent The problem with your assessment is that you can certainly buy someone who doesn't want to be bought, if a companies publicly traded the risk of hostile takeover is real.

Also turning up with a pile of money is a great strategy for acquiring something. Initial investors can talk of right timing and direction, but, money is the key.

Nintendo needs recognisable IP, and critically acclaimed IP, that can just be turfed onto the system.

@Arnold-Kage Polytron and Heartmachine would be 2 I'd start with.

Polytron would enable fez to be ported over, followed with the announcement of Fez 2 (its about grabbing the IP), and Heartmachine because their style would suit Nintendo's and they could do a classic top down Zelda which would contrast against BOTW.

Neither are huge but would be a good start in terms of Nintendo fit, and to go really wild someone producing a sports game like 'super mega baseball'. I think the problems that consolidation at the top end does make this harder and more costly.

Edit: meant to add who do you think they should grab?

Edit2: Hah, if they ever felt about going really big Bungie's deal with Activision ends in 2020.

@NewAdvent I disagree. There are lots of potential strategies to bringing studios in house, and what Microsoft and Sony classically do is straight up purchase studios and turn them effectively first party. Nintendo could do the same thing.

A studios future potential value will be priced into any acquisitions, a lot of these companies particularly on the smaller end are set up to be sold, and at the top end just grab enough stock and its hard to prevent a purchase.

I wouldn't advocate Nintendo go after a major publisher, but there's a host of mid sized companies that could be purchased as Microsoft have proved.

Nintendo could fix its current financial issues with an acquisition strategy. This is how Microsoft is staving off criticism related to the failure of the Xbox One, by turning up at e3 and announcing studio purchase's.

Nintendo clearly has an issue with keeping AAA franchises rolling onto the console and additional studios could fix this, it could also buy studios to turn existing franchises exclusive. It currently has the money but Nintendo been Nintendo they'd prefer to sell us cardboard.

I think this looks really ace, i'd prefer the addition of some exploration elements, but even if its full digital novel style I'm still tempted on the aesthetic alone.

Played Paladins for a bit earlier, was really uncomfortable with the way it constantly pushed its micro transactions. 'Purchase with a' even during game transitions, it also seemed heavily pay to win, will never touch it again. I don't mind micro transactions in a free to play game, they have to make money somehow, but it was obtuse.

Gah, they look ace, but why aren't they wireless?

This tells me a direct must be incoming shortly, so actually hyped!

I wish nintendo would do a wireless full feature version, gyro ect, included, I would pay pro controller money for one. I'll probably pick one of these up if there isn't a wireless alternative announce between now and smash.

I'd actually like to do most of my switch gaming with this layout, if they'd just give us alternative shaped joycon already!

I think this looks really cool. I'm hoping that that's the battle mechanic and conversation system in the pictures, with more classic jrpg exploration not shown, that would be a day one purchase for me.

Crash is great, well deserved to succeed the way it has. Frustrating in all the best ways to play, impressively difficult, I forgot how hard games could be.

I so want this to be Assassin's Creed the ezio collection, I would sink 100's of hours playing to complete those games again. I can't think of anything better for extended sessions on the go.

Far Cry 4 co-op would also be ace, or the phantom pain. But Assassin's Creed why can't we have it already? Ow, and Kingdom Hearts 1.5, Nintendo can just make it so already

An expansion of the videos, with a regular slot for some classic Nintendo games like a 'let's play'/tournament once a week, would be good. An ongoing competitive GoldenEye or Timesplitters regular match would be fun to watch, as of course would some smash bros.

More video content is something I'd certainly watch.

I'd love to see a remaster of Heart of Darkness, loved that game, it felt like playing a Pixar movie at the time.

No cracks, but cloud saving can't come soon enough!

Edit: should of added launch console, almost exclusively used handheld.

He also announced they have a whole ton of additional games to announce for this year. I'm guessing that means financial year, but even then we only have 8 months left, Nintendo need to get their act together and actually tell us whats coming in the future.

8 Months lead in for hype and seems legitimate, I also sometimes like to see how a game develops allowing me to follow it and get excited. I just wish they'd bring gamers along with them, as we have become accustomed to other companies doing. Plus, I selfishly just want more games for my Switch

5g breaks the back of speed and latency issues in the next 4 years for true game streaming. This doesn't require fibre to the premisses, a slow and expensive process to roll out, just an increased mobile network.

I could see this happening exclusively for the Chinese market, otherwise they are just competing against themselves.

Switch remains the only major new handheld on the market, why would Nintendo damage their own sales? It makes no sense.

I think using the service to open up the back catalogue is a good way to introduce a proper gaming service by Nintendo. Especially, if with cloud saving, they can turn a mynintendo account into a full legacy account moving forward.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a tiered service with generations at different payment levels, that would make sense.

I'd pay more for additional access to Super Mario Galaxy and the other Wii games that Nintendo let Nvidia port to the Shield for example, or even GameCube and N64 titles. They need to provide access to the back catalogue and they need to outline how, it would also paper over E3 if we could have a decent direct explaining all this in the coming month.

@MoonKnight7 I agree, I think this drop is an indicator that they are also factoring in the risk of Nintendo missing that target.

But, I think it could get much worse for Nintendo if they both miss the 20 million target and suffer a software sales slump at the same time, which is very clearly what is happening.

At the start of this month Nintendo had a market cap of almost $60 billion, putting it in the top 700 largest companies in the world, it has the ability to raise/spend the money to fix this, as a Nintendo fan I just wish it would already.

Worth remembering Nintendo stated it believed it would sell 20 million consoles this financial year, to avoid significant issues next year it needs to at least come close to that number.

Without 3rd party support from AAA franchises, which can be leveraged into console bundles to bring in specific groups of gamers, that will be very difficult. This E3 was the opportunity to make the case for the Switch's mass market appeal.

Nintendo needs to announce games across a range of genres and keep more people happy, it has to hit its projections.

Nintendo will have to respond to this, and I think from what we've scene they must be planning to do so relatively soon. There's a reason Nintendo executives have spent the past 24hrs speaking to commercial orientated press like Bloomberg, they know they have to firefight.

But, the drop in share value and impact should have been entirely predictable by Nintendo, the lukewarm reception to their new online services should have been warning enough. If I was a shareholder i'd be demanding they correct course, they have seemingly coasted for the last six months.

These sorts of drops aren't good, big one day alterations make a stock look more risky and will put off institutional investors, and its no good blaming the people doing the analysis they have Nintendo bang to rights on this.

Nintendo needed to show it could deliver and capitalise on its growth by expanding its market appeal, this means; 3rd parties (even last gen ports), online services and a user interface/store that work correctly. Reggie instead is lauding 700 games on Switch, ignoring that the marker will be how many have sold a million copies (not how much shovel-ware is released), and that Nintendo is talking to companies about services which should already have been delivered.

The shareholders choose the board and it's time the current leadership at Nintendo took the need to change to heart. Personally, I think the issue is that Nintendo have been surprised by the level of the Switch's success, and instead expected to be catering to hardcore fans for the first 18 months to two years of its life, but they also now need to hit the markers for broad appeal.

I'd like to see Netflix, spotify and youtube as a minimum, some sports games and some military shooters, at this point they should be paying dev costs to get games like Assasin's Creed, GTA V and some variant of CoD on the Switch. Nintendo has had all these things on past generation consoles, and online services have been standard (on every device) since the days of the wii. Its also mind boggling that they haven't leveraged their own catalogue, analysts will know the potential value of this catalogue, and a Snes Mini collection for Switch shouldn't be a hard thing to do.

I just want to see Nintendo doing better by its fans at this point, it's not demanding to ask a product sold in part as a promise of a service to deliver.