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@nintendolie Don't bring politics around here, especially that alt right idiocy

@apoqalypse Makes no difference if there's an NDA or not if the information leaked is private, confidential information that the leaker got access to illegally.

This was announced months ago, the only new thing here is the date.

Awesome to get though.

@Knuckles-Fajita Only mid-tier titles from big publishers and everything from mid tier ones?

You realise when you factor in indies too that's the vast majority of the industry right?

I highly doubt there are any Switch owners who play digital games and don't have an SD card already, unless they're very recent adopters - and those people can get a chunky SD card for next to nothing these days.

This is a complete non issue and has been for a long time.

I got a 200GB one for £40 at the Switch launch, have over 40 digital games, more retail than smaller games, and it hasn't come close to being filled.

@AxeltheBuizel Based on the list announced and released so far...not many????

Looks vaguely like him from a distance, is immediately and clearly not him as soon as you zoom in slightly

@jufonuk Makes sense at first but when you think about it, not really.

Panic Button are currently being paid by devs to bring their games to Switch and doing an incredible job of it, without Nintendo needing to pay a penny.

Devs know Switch is popular, they know Panic Button are experts are porting to Switch, so they call them up, allowing games to come to Switch when the original studio doesn't have the resources or manpower to do it themselves, bringing us games we could potentially never have otherwise.

If Nintendo bought Panic Button, they'd have to either keep hiring it out to third party devs in the same way, which would likely change very little about the studios output while increasing Nintendo's risk factor, or use them as their own 2nd party porting studio, which would involve spending even more money to get the rights to the games they wanted to port.

Not to mention some of those third party IP holders might have been capable and willing to do the ports themselves, but would rather let Nintendo take care of it, so now they are paying through the nose for games they would have gotten anyway.

The likelihood if Nintendo bought Panic Button is that they would just started porting Wii U and Wii games to switch before long lmao.

Which could be great but, not better than constantly pumping out high quality third party Switch ports without Nintendo needing to do a thing or spend a penny, like they are now.

@xanderten50 The above says £2.29 for people who have bought the devs previous games but doesn't give the normal price.

Assume it's 50% off and if you don't own the previous games, it's what you said.

@Tharsman Transformers was an incredible game. You might not like it but it reviewed pretty well and fit right in with all of Platinum's games gameplay wise.

Star Fox Zero you're completely right, but I wouldn't be surpised if that's on Nintendo somehow.

@Newsinz @trakkerx same happened to me, never seen anything like it before in my life, it’s 100% the site

@Shellcore What an asinine comment. It wouldn't and couldn't be said about any other skin colour because no other skin colour completely dominates like white does.

@CharlieSmile That's a little unreasonable. I do understand where you're coming from, I'm a feminist myself, we need to be aware of diversity and representation more than ever, and we definitely need the option of either gender whenever the game allows, just like we do with transgender, people of colour, and more. But a huge percentage of games are based around a specific plotline, and can only work with the specific character the plot was written about. For example, Assassins Creed Syndicate allows you to choose a male character or a female character, because they are both characters in the story so to do so changes very little. Other stories, the main character is just a template for the player, so you can also choose male or female without causing issues. However with games where the main character and who they are is a focus of the story, this is impossible. For example, the Witcher 3 is written around Geralt, and Uncharted 4 is written around Nathan Drake. To implement a female character to these games would not only be an absolutely gargantuan task for a very small gain, requiring changes in storyline, new voice recordings (not just of the main character), changes to scenes etc, but would also completely change the piece of art away from what the writers/developers intended. In cases like that, forcing you to play as a male or female, and not giving you the option, is completely reasonable. Asking for a gender option in those type of games is the same as asking to watch the whole Harry Potter series with a girl actor taking Harry's place. Like, it's cool if you want that, but no studio is going to put the extra money and work into that for such a small benefit, and if for example Harry Potter was about Harry's struggles with puberty, and learning about girls, it would completely break the narrative.

I don't know enough about this game to say which type it is, but being an RPG, I wouldn't be surprised if they wrote it about a male character, and wanted it to be about that specific character, in the same way as the Witcher and Uncharted examples above, and if that's the case, they are completely justified forcing players into whatever character they want, and complaining that they don't allow you to play as a female is frankly misguided and unbeneficial. Based on what I can tell about this game from the video and review above, it seems like it's more taking the p out of the typical privileged white male than glorifying them, and if that's the case, it wouldn't even make sense with a female main character.

Hearthstone is pretty much guaranteed. Will be interesting to see what else comes along. You’re definitely into something here.

@Preposterous The very first one is one of the best animated movies ever made. The second one is pretty decent too. From there onwards, I'd agree.

Technically this isn't wrong as predecessor just means something that came before, not something that came immediately before. Gamecube, N64 and SNES are all Switch predecessors.

@NintyNate what a stupid comment lmao. Switch is like an eighth the size of a PS4 and is a handheld. It's an absolute powerhouse for what it is.

Good, they would be idiots if they weren't. The more Pokemon on mobile the better. Although I hope they keep pushing out high quality, high content ones like Pokemon Go and Pokemon Quest. As opposed to half assed ones that provide an hour's content at most like Magikarp Jump. TCG would be great but a port isn't the best idea, the PC and tablet version is pretty outdated and low on content. I think they should completely reboot it into a animated, high quality Hearthstone experience. Put some microtransactions in it, make it F2P, and launch simultaneously on phones, tablets, PC and Switch. Tell me that wouldn't be massive.

This part is wishful thinking but a campaign where you walk around and battle NPCs like the original GB trading card game would be even better.

@BubbleMatrix82 @Arehexes @link3710 @Spectra pretty sure you guys are talking about SaitoGemu

@timson72 I'm guessing you haven't played a GRID game before? It's not a realistic sim like Forza or Gran Turismo. Analog triggers are barely noticeable on PS3, this will make little difference if any.

The Smyths deal that supposedly comes with a free game just links to a product page for the Switch alone and there is no mention of a free game whatsoever on the website. How do you go about getting the free game?

@matii No? The game had a different voice actor so not sure what you mean there. Even if it did, the context of that sentence was talking about the movie so it would be kinda strange to mention at that point.

@NintendoFan4Lyf Possibly not, since I'd imagine the challenging parts would lean more towards the regular video game puzzle logic side than the genuine coding error side, as most of their target audience wouldn't have the background you have. As in, finding the solution and what you want to physically happen being more complex than actually making it happen via instructions. But I may be wrong.

@Retupmocnin it's not, actually. It's either a port of the PC version or a new version specifically built for the switch that falls somewhere in between. The videos have shown features that aren't in the iPad version. Also the PC version has touch screen controls too.

@DenDen you worried about how cheap it is? That's the only way your comment could have any semblance of logic

@Bunkerneath that's pretty much guaranteed. They won't be announced until nearer the time though as per the norm with Switch ports of older games

@SpottyBulborb It's a new controller scheme for the game when it's getting ported to it from another system, which is the context we're talking about. I get that the Nintendo button layout is older though don't worry, I've had every Nintendo system at launch besides the Virtual Boy, and PS3 was my first Sony console, so if anything i find the PS4 layout more strange to get used to.

@RootsGenoa Fair enough, didn't realise that, sorry! Still a very minor thing for me personally though

@RootsGenoa I highly doubt it. This is the norm for third party AAA games for Switch. B is jump on Doom for example. They focus on making the button layout the same as it is on other systems as opposed to adapting it to a new Nintendo layout. Which I'm happy with to be honest, as a comfortable layout that matches the developers intentions is a lot more important than what the buttons are actually named.

@Kalmaro do you prefer Halothane?

EDIT: @BLD lmao you beat me to it

@DigiF4N Let us know if you need medical aid

@HobbitGamer Nobody has ever debated that side of it. Would be pretty weird to expect otherwise.

@twztid13 yeah sorry for snapping too lol. I’m pretty sure it’s happened to me aswell.

@twztid13 I assume you tagged the wrong person? I haven’t said anything “hateful” I haven’t tried to “act as referee” and I certainly haven’t acted like any opinions are worth more or less than anyone else - in fact the entire point of my comment was that opinions are subjective. Your weird little rant doesn’t relate to what I wrote in any possible way, lmao

@Nincompoop

You didn't say "I'm not excited, I find old games boring"

You said "why is everyone excited? These games are boring"

That is trying to pass off your horrible, close minded opinion as fact, which is why people feel the need to point out it's not

lol

@SegaBlueSky It's not clear as explained in the article. The NES version you're talking about is called Excitebike. The multiplayer arcade version is called VS Excitebike. Famitsu has revealed the game to be VS Excitebike but the game's title is Arcade Archives: Excitebike instead of Arcade Archives: VS Excitebike.

so until we get more info, nobody knows. I imagine it's the VS version and maybe it was missed by the name by mistake and will be added.

Surprised it's as low as a 5...The game itself content wise is an 8 or 9. Frame rate is a minor thing in a low action game like this. And the drops are as much based on your camera angle as city size and can be avoided for much longer if you keep it top-down as often as possible. It's a minor annoyance at worst and I've seen streams of people with 100k population where it's still more than smooth enough. I'd read this as a 7 tbh.

@Cobalt Gamekult is one of the worst sites in France if not the world....they lie regularly on basic facts and if anything this convinces me it should be higher lmao.

@Medic_alert It is by design! Frustration is the entire point of this game. The pc version is frustrating, the PS4 version is frustrating. I’m sure the motion controls only add to this but the game is designed that way, your mistakes and mess ups are “the joke”. It’s not really my thing but watch some streams and you’ll know what I mean. Accurate controls are not really the aim

@SonOfVon Cities Skylines is much more complex than Civ processing wise and has thousands of pedestrians walking around all with actual destinations and jobs etc. Civ is a turn based game with much less to keep track of so should be nothing to worry about.

@JHDK The frame rate in the PS4 version is pretty bad but it plays great to me. Because it's not an action game, more just one where you're scrolling around and looking at stuff, frame rate doesn't make much of a difference.

Will have to see more gameplay of course but I'm not worried. This will be updated for a while too if the other console versions are anything to go by

Why is everyone like "omg it was better than E3!"

....The September Direct has always been bigger and better than E3, since it's where they set the scene for their holiday sales.

On topic though, it was really great. Was hoping for one new third party megaton Doom & Wolfenstein last year, but with Civ and Doom Eternal on the way, and that shower of Final Fantasy, I can't complain at all.

@Moshugan Outside of the idiots counting down to it every hour on ResetEra, we did know that haha. Or at least it was the only logical expectation

@huyi Wait what? They've had two indie showcases in the last month and the last real Direct was at E3. You can't seriously expect any large amount of this to be indies? Where do people get this stuff?! The entire point of the indie showcases is so that indie games don't clog Directs up.

@aznable But if that's the case, you're basically treating the game as a party game and have no real use for the XP? Not judging you at all, I mostly play offline too. But you can't argue this doesn't make sense. Although Aven's idea could work too.

@EverythingAmiibo I hope you're joking lmao, seems like you might be but hard to tell. COD is equally childish to Fortnite if not more

@bones Wait what? Have I travelled back to 2008? That's less the case now then ever, with games like Fortnite, Paladins, Splatoon, Overwatch, DOOM etc. It was the 360/PS3 generation where we were showered with browny grey realistic shooters. Outside of COD and Battlefield there barely are any anymore, and even those series are changing rapidly.

@Spoony_Tech Because it came day and date with PS4 and XB1 versions. If they held it until after these, people would complain that it's a late port. Plus they'd probably have Season 1 launching on Switch around the time the new one came to the other systems which would look stupid from a marketing perspective

@Trash_Mammal Now we do just announced

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/08/a_range_of_nindie_games_will_soon_be_offered_at_brick-and-mortar_stores_in_europe

@Nincompoop Name a genre, there are people that like it out there. Zombies may not be everywhere like they used to be but you can save the childish comments