Glad to see they are appealing to the unmarried demographic

@SLIGEACH_EIRE

Yeah but roughly 5 people would buy it.

3DS userbase is a lot more active than Wii U.

Amazon had this(and Strange Journey Redux) up for preorder for mere 28$ several months back for whatever reason and I naturally pre ordered.

So I get them on launch day with free shipping for 28$. Awwww yeah.

Demo has me intiriguied. Story and OST are great. Still early so can’t comment too strongly on gameplay yet as I haven’t really done much actual gameplay...

It’s 360.50 lifetime software for 3DS actually,

I find it hard to care until treasurenaughts is released for both 3DS and Switch. I already own it on 3DS.

Not buying any Atooi games until treasurenaughts(which supposedly was being 100% focused on) is released.

This sort of thing is exactly why I keep telling people to not count 3ds out.

@Fooligan Because Wii U is dead and buried.

Just pray for a Port to 3DS or Switch and use that nice 20% Prime/GCU discount to get it on a system that doesn’t have a bulky awful controller and actually portability.

@Supadav03

3DS took about 4 and a half years(varies by region)

Wii U is somewhat meaningless to look at as it flopped pretty bad but pretty sure even Wii U took about 3 years to get Selects games.

Don’t expect Switch Selects until at least 2021

@ThatNyteDaez

Fire Emblem Switch
Yoshi
Online/VC details
3DS games/localizations/sushi Striker details

@ShadJV

Nah there have been several general mini directs.

I mean this is more similar to say...Ace Attorney than the RPG or action spinoffs.

@Kalmaro

This. They need to focus on Switch being a big hit after the flop of Wii U.

VR would’ve been a poor investment for Switch.

Kinda underwhelmed.

Dark Souls YS VIII and Tropical freeze is great but without a save transfer from 3DS no way am I grinding through everything again in Hyrule Warriors. No fire Emblem info is also sad :/

Complete lack of 3DS is sad. At the very least give us Yokai Watch 3 and Monster Hunter XX...

I am making a top 50 for my own purposes.

I am going to specifically mention that exact placing isn’t too important. #1 is gonna be better than #25 and #25 will be better than #50 but being say five places higher doesn’t necessarily mean I think the other game is much better.

Just a little thought.

Zelda 2 remake on 3DS.

Give us that while you work on another huge game like BOTW for Switch.

Anyways looks like they went all out on this. Lots of content for a Megaman esque 9.99$ 2D platformer.

@Kalmaro

What a silly attitude. It’s a simple game graphically and doesn’t really get any particularly benefit from Switch.

If you loved 3DS why does Switch have to immediately render it completely irrelevant? Why does a game have to be on Switch suddenly to be playable. The game has been in development since well before Switch dev kits were avaible to the developer anyways.

People with these views should stop posting about it. No one cares If you don’t care about a game and don’t have anything constructive to say outside of Switch port begging. People really need to realize people don’t want pointless negativity and we don’t want every 3DS article, topic, page etc. turned into Switch port begging and “3ds is dead” nonsense.

Meh.

Call me when handheld mode get a resolution boost and such.

I will play this almost exclusively in handheld mode as I do most Switch games.

How about Resident Evil 7, Omani, and Monster Hunter Double cross?

@GravyThief It’s a hope but a delusional one.

Switch is riding too high to get a price drop anytime soon. Holiday 2018 is the earliest chance for a temporary official drop and even that is fairly unlike I feel.

Wouldn’t expect a a permanent drop until 2019 at the earliest

@GC-161

I hate your profile pic lol.

I thought there was an actual bug on my screen and for a second I was like “WHY WON’T IT SQUISH?”

Pretty sad no 3DS version.

3DS never got an original Megaman...not even a multiplat.

Also for Sonic Forces I presume?

I mean they sold it at 39.99 instead of the usual 60 and it got blasted by critics...

Or were they smart enough to assume Sonic Forces would be decent at best in their forecast?

Details on when Megaman’s funeral is being held no doubt

@Agramonte

It was pretty odd to release all theee on the same day especially for such a relatively low selling series that had a new release on the system roughly a month ago.

I think it won't hurt Switch too much. After all a lot of the early games for PS5 and Xbox two will likely be designed with PS4-Xbox one versions and possibly Switch version in mind as well so as to get more sales overall while the user base for the new systems develops.

Plus 2+ years off gives Switch plenty of time to get itself a strong hold and we have seen many third third parties getting quite serious about Switch.

Meanwhile In America.

"Sorry filthy Gaijins. We only want money from PS4 and Xbone. It's not like the best selling MH in the west by a large margin was on a Nintendo handheld or anything."

@GC-161

Yeah. They sold

1.8 Million copies of XX
2.6 million copies of 3U
4.1 million copies of 4
4.1 million copies of 4U
4.3 million copies of Gen

on 3DS.

That's 16.9 million copies of MH on 3DS.

Ace Attorney series was also a consistent mid level performer and they sold 1.2 million copies of Street fighter IV on 3DS too. 3DS was good for Capcom.

Lol. If you feel like almost completely missing out on two plus years of what is becoming the most popular console...well that's your perogative EA.

https://m.imgur.com/8xa3GJI?r

Replace Capcom with EA in this.

@Spoony_Tech

Of course not.

The N2DSXL was intended as a cheaper to produce "middle" option. Some of the "premium" features of the N3DSXL but at lower price without 3D.

2DS is too valuable to Nintendo. That 79.99$ price tag is very attractive for parents who might cringe at the 200$ or even the 150$ price tag of the other models. Especially with a game being bundled it. Also generally makes it easier to get the more money constrained people in general to buy such a low cost system.

@Dayton311

Dude. Stop hitting the horse. It's dead. Its already dead,

And yeah Nintendo doesn't make this game anyways sooooo.....yeah.

They probably weren't counting on minecraft actually coming to 3DS.

Whoops

Sad no classic boards...but still going to buy this unlike the last four Mario Party's(I almost bought star rush though)

@sillygostly

Metriod has had mediocre sales in Japan for pretty much every post super game.

Famitsu (First Week - LTD - Publisher - Release Date)

FC Metroid [Famicom Disk System] 1.040.000 Nintendo 8/6/1986
NDS Metroid Prime: Pinball 15.541 Nintendo 1/19/2006
WII New Play Control! Metroid Prime 2: Echoes 1.700 12.427 Nintendo 6/11/2009
3DS Metroid Prime: Federation Force 4.286 6.090 Nintendo 8/25/2016
WII New Play Control! Metroid Prime 5.200 20.607 Nintendo 2/19/2009
GBA Famicom Mini 23: Metroid 14.900 50.353 Nintendo 8/10/2004
NGC Metroid Prime 2: Echoes 17.680 40.355 Nintendo 5/26/2005
NDS Metroid Prime: Hunters 32.613 90.028 Nintendo 6/1/2006
WII Metroid Prime 3: Corruption 34.151 74.647 Nintendo 3/6/2008
GBA Metroid: Zero Mission 39.112 85.045 Nintendo 5/27/2004
NGC Metroid Prime 39.829 78.384 Nintendo 2/28/2003
WII Metroid: Other M 44.103 75.578 Nintendo 9/2/2010
GBA Metroid Fusion 49.680 155.528 Nintendo 2/14/2003

Leave some stability for the poor horses Nintendo :/

@LeRaposa

They said this about the E3 Switch presentation "focusing on games releasing this year"

We got four games for 2018 and beyond announced

I can vouch for this game being really good.

Disapointing sales for EMD2 but I wouldn't quite call it a bomb. After all the first game sold better than expected at a 65K debut. Given that a sequel that seems fairly expansion pack esque(kinda like what EO2 was to EO1) they will probably still make a small profit given this likely cost less to make than the first with the engine, and general gameplay already there and likely some models and textures refused.

How about a proper direct?

How on earth do we not have a American release date for Fire Emblem Warriors or LIterally anything on the Kirby 3DS game?

This reminds me....I wonder how much Pokémon RBY have sold on VC. They were at 1.5 million as of March 31st but considering at least 1 version(often multiple) have remained near constantly in the top 20(with yellow usually being in the top 5 except during big sales) worldwide....porbobaly a lot more now.

The Senran Kagura fan base will be very pleased with this

I hope Nintendo drives these losers out of buisness.

Cockroaches shouldn't be allowed to own companies.

@DarkmarkUnited

In America the price is still 9.99(just logged into eshop). Is that the Canadian price?

Regardless I did acknowledge that prices wouldn't necessarily be exactly the same between regions so that was more of a estimate than a exact number.

@DarkmarkUnited

Your math is uhhh....pretty interesting. It's a 9.99$ game and I do not believe it has been on sale yet.

Before Taxes and Nintendo's cut they would be at 999,000$(Assuming all countries pricing is equivalent to 9.99 USD) min revenue. Naturally taxes and Nintendo's cut would take a decent chunk out of that but still.

@FragRed

It's well above the average sales on console digital storefronts. It's a short, retro action game so I could see making a solid profit on sales like that.

Good lord Switch gets so many eshop games every week

@westman98

I don't think that's a fair way to look at it. Miitopia is more of a successor to tomodachi Life. Hey Pikminnis what it is because traditional Pikmin would be tough to make work on 3DS(Nintendo did actually prototype it earlier in the 3DS lifespan). Can you imagine playing the original on 2DS or N3DS? Maybe on the XL models it might work...And Monster Hunter already has three main series games outside Japan. A spinoff is hardly some insult to the hardcore fans

Sept 8th: Monster Hunter Stories
Sept 15th: Metroid Samus Returns
Sept 22nd: Pokemon Gold/Silver
Sept 29th: Yokai Watch 2 Psychic Specters
Oct 3rd: Culdcept Revolt
Oct 6th: Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga DX + Bowser's minions
TBA Oct: Lady Layton
TBA Fall: Fire Emblem Warriors
TBA Fall: Etrian Odyssey V
Nov 17th Pokémon Ultra Sun/Moon
TBA Holidays: River City Rival Showdown
TBA holidays. Kirby
Early 2018 Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology
Early 2018: Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey Redux
2018 Sushin Striker
2018 Dragon Quest XI
2018: Jake Hunter: Ghost of the dusk

Persona Q2, Yokai Watch 3, Snack World, Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2, Monster Hunter Double Cross are all likely localizations for 2018.

There are plenty of indies hitting too. Chicken Wiggle, Creeping Terror, Timespinners, Shakedown Hawaii, Treasurenaughts, Omori,

We got several mon games, dungeon crawlers, a hybrid RPG/Board game/card game, A metriodvania and a actual Metriod game, a visual novel, platformer, beat em ups, a mystery dungeon game, a couple more traditional RPGS, Kirby, a action hunting game, and a a puzzle adventure game.

That seems a likema varied and certainly like it has several options for a "core" gamer even outside Atlus games.

@IceClimbers Yeah. These numbers are only seen around holidays in recent years. Three consoles having that kind of numbers at once is crazy.

Nice.

@TheGreenMiner13 This is a great idea. The whole point of the 2DSXL was to provide a middle ground between 2DS and N3DSXL.

79.99$ is a big drop from 200$ after all.

This way there is a a budget option, a "Normal" option and a premium option in terms of price. This sort of thing is pretty common in tech.

They also should do a new round of Selects.

Link Between Worlds
Smash Bros
Super Mario 3D Land

Would be good choices.