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Reyn looks like a giga chad now, I love him

Was... was the original ME trilogy not already in HD? lol maybe in this case 'HD' stands for 'High-er Definition'.

Looks absolutely gorgeous... Seems like there's gonna be a whole bunch more content added than just the areas that didn't make the cut in the original XC! I hope we get to see some of the other main game party members in Future Connected.

...It's gonna be scary when they shut down the Wii U eShop globally. There are so many virtual console games that may never end up on Switch and it could be the last chance we have to play them by legitimate means.

@MrBlacky Of course it's not gonna be anywhere near as good as using an actual joycon with physical buttons, but most of the minigames in mario party for example only use a couple of buttons or even exclusively gyro controls. Using a phone as a substitute there would be perfectly playable enough if you're short on controllers.

@SwitchForce A thousand dollars is maybe hyperbole, but a pair of joycons still costs around $140 NZD. If you're buying 8 joycons, the price is really getting up there.

Very cool! This would be sweet for people wanting to play 8 player games with their mates without dropping a thousand dollars on controllers.

G O O D . Idk what I'll do if it randomly gets confirmed for December in the next direct... please rumors, don't let us down!

This is the only game coming out this year that I care about, and that's ok. Gib us new info please!

@Shambo that thing about the sidetracking is so true, I spent 60hrs trying to get from the Great Plateau to Kakariko Village lol

Looks cool, but I also wish you could change the environment art to the original pixel art. I love consistent resolutions for sprites and environments.

Lmao as a New Zealander I would've thought the long form of CV was p common knowledge

Huh yeah my mate was always talking about how she retweeted the Directs when there was Xenoblade news in them, seems like there was a p high correlation between her retweets and XC news. I loved the random speculation and theories we'd talk about, so it's a bit of a shame.

Online play invites sounds fairly big? Or convenient at least.

Depends on how well implemented it is, will it launch me directly into my mate's lobby or will it only prompt me to open the game they're playing? I'll give it a geeze tonight if they have any supported software up.

Please let me invite all of my mates into a game of Splatoon without having to wait for randoms to leave the lobby!

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I'm over the moon right now, it's literally a dream come true!

Lol why are people all up in arms about modding a switch to run android? It's not even pirating switch games???

Ain't nothin' like a funky beat!

Actually looks disgustingly comfortable! I kinda want it, but the sacrifice to portability is too great.

I look forward to reading about the new Just Dance for Wii every E3 lol. Props to Ubisoft for keeping this up.

@Quarth at least Rex had a lil line indicating one existed in front-on angles lol

@Almighty-Koz true, although I wouldn't go around praising the 3DS's graphical capabilities too much hahaha. Love the first one to death, and I was practically crying when Shulk and Fiora were introduced as DLC in XC2, they looked so good. I'm thinking about the whole game looking something like that, maybe with an art style closer to the original tho.

His lack of a nose is freaking me out a bit ever since that trailer aye

Xenoblade Chronicles is an awesome series, really looking forward to where they take the series next. I'm more of a main series guy than a XCX guy, so I'm hoping for a XC3, though I'd most certainly be hyped for a XCX2.

When the technology in Ninty's hardware makes everything look really, really sick I'd absolutely love a remake of the original, with a few tweaks here and there!

I agree with some of the people here that MKWii had better kart handling. Something just feels a bit off in MK8 for me. Still a good game tho

Long live the GameBoy aesthetic!

I'm p happy with the service in general, me and my mates split up a family account between 6 of us, so at the end of the day we're only paying like $10 NZD per year, which is cheap as chips. Tetris 99 is really fun and the NES games are a good distraction every now and then.

Still not seeing any of the special exclusive offers (besides tetris) they talked up awhile back tho?

@carlos82 Very true! It'd be nice if they could also improve the textures and perhaps the draw distance a bit too tho. I'm not too sure how much work this would take.

I hope if a Switch Pro does come out with better specs, they go back and patch all their big games to look prettier, I'm p sure xbox did just that when the X came out. Xenoblade 2 with a lil res bump and some improved textures (or just decent quality on handheld mode) would be fantastic.

@rex_rex Get in on that sweet, sweet Torna DLC my dude, it does wonders for fleshing out the overall story and has good character development for some of the peeps that also appear in the main game.

I'm still somewhat hopeful that the next Xenoblade will be out on Switch as XC2 launched early in its life cycle, but given its history of 1 game per system I'm doubtful. Though I suppose we did get an excellent and huge DLC game in the form of Torna, so I can't complain!

Waiting for a release on a newer, more powerful console so they can really push the visuals and create beautiful worlds isn't so bad either.

@Cathousemaster ya have a gander at the vid, around a min through they show usb keyboard support

Holy hell don't use FFVII remake as a thumbnail, my heart skipped a beat before I actually read the title haha

This is siiiiick. I'm super down to play this with my mates when it's ready.

If you haven't played Xenoblade yet you really should.

I hate how the mechs come to a grinding halt when you hit the ground, it kills the momentum and flow of the game for me. I think Xenoblade X had better movement in that regard, which is a shame cos the mech movement wasn't the focus of that game at all, unlike DxM.

Well, if they're going for fused joycons, might as well move the 'D pad' and the face buttons around so they're not directly above/below the sticks, it'd be tons more comfortable.

I was having a yarn with some random dude in the queue at JB HiFi who was also getting smash the moment the shop was open. Never happened to me before in NZ!

Aside from the motion controls I believe many hate on it for the linearity too. Might give it a shot, but might just pick it up from the Wii U eshop or 2nd hand for cheap instead.

Xenoblade 2 had phenomenal post launch support and great bang for your buck DLC. I do wish that the patches could be saved onto the cartridges somehow so that they're not hogging all of my system memory though.

Nice, soon I'll be able to satisfy my youtube addiction in bed with a decent sized screen.

Ha, the narrator sounds like he came straight out of a criminal investigations documentary. Game looks great!

XC3 please! Or a nice HD remake of the first game with a few touch ups to the mechanics here and there would be awesome, but personally I'd want them to hold off on that until the next ninty console so they can get it to look PERFECT.

Yeah a music player on Switch would be sick, along with the ability to play tunes while you have a game running.

I'm not sure if other consoles still do it, but I remember it being done by certain games on the og Xbox, and that was great.

Okay, this is epic.

I've never played either of the first 2 games, but I love alot of Monolith's more recent work, so bring it on!

Does anyone know if they actually have in-house character designers now so that they don't have to outsource all that work lol

I really really want them to bring the handling and weight back from MK Wii. MK8Dx just feels poor to control in comparison tbh!

Pokemon Sun and Moon actually has some of the best animation I've seen. I was thrown off by the stills, but in motion it's really beautiful and I love the wacky facial expressions.

Every time Shulk is re-released I will buy one. Rex & Pyra Smash Ultimate amiibo would be nice too

@Spike6958 Eh, at the very least the base game most definitely seems to have more content than Mario Tennis Ultra Smash... but then again, that's not saying much.

Art style and sprites look super clean!