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It's probably a new IP, given that if it was either Metroid or Castlevania, Nintendo or Konami would be publishing it themselves, not 505 games.

@Alpha-2002 Honestly, a big reason behind it was that the 360 titles like Nuts & Bolts were often used as reasons why Rare Replay couldn't come to Switch because they are simply the 360 versions running via emulation, and not full ports to the Xbox One.
People started responding to that reasoning with "well I'd rather have there Nintendo exclusive games in the collection over them anyway", not understanding that it would probably be just as much work to get those Nintendo titles onto the Switch as it would be to get the 360 games onto it and that Nintendo would probably never let their games be put onto another studios collection, even if it's exclusive to there system because they probably want to keep them, especially the DKC Trilogy, to slowly drop onto the SNES Online app.

@Cacophony The weird issue with Rare Replay, is that a lot of Nintendo fans actually want a unique Nintendo version, with the DKC trilogy, DK64, Star Fox Adventures, Diddy Kong Racing, ect, in place of there Xbox exclusive titles.

Kinda wish it wasn't voice acted. The games got far less creative with telling their stories once they just dubbed it over with the movie voices.
Still hope it'll at least be a fun game, and maybe we'll get DLC for Clone Wars, Rebels, Solo, Rogue One and Mandalorian down the line to make it feel even more complete.

I think it'll be a Capcom character been added to Smash, but I want a Dino Crisis reboot.

Am I the only one who feels Death Stranding been up for anything here is wrong?
IDK, but TGA been Geoff Keighley's award show, his very open love of Kojima, and the fact he's IN Death Stranding, kinda comes across as a conflict of interest, especially considering most people I know agree that the game's really not that good.
Does it matter either way? Not really, but at the same time, it just feels a little shady.

I'm torn on this.
Thing is, I'm against piracy for any games that there is reasonable access to, meaning that the publisher of the game has put it somewhere so it's available, be it digital or physical.
The problem is, due to so many different variables such as mixed publishing rights, general licensing issues and studio closers, or even just lack of interest from the developer/publisher many older titles simply aren't available now.
For many of these titles the only possible way to buy them is 2nd hand, if you can find them at all, and when you can oftentimes they're stupidly over-priced too, and none of that even reaches the devs or publisher so at this point, if they're not giving us a way to buy these games in a way that supports them, why does it really matter what way we play them?
It should also be pointed out how much more difficult it's becoming to even play many of these titles outside of emulation even if you can buy them. Most modern TVs can't display many older consoles, as they simply don't have outputs needed and modding the system to be able to actually do it is risky where as playing on PC via emulation bypasses that headache.

I knew about this. I used my Switch Pro controller on my PC fairly often and it always lights up then, nice to see it's finally been put to use.

So how do we actually get rid of it? I'm up to date on both versions, but they're still there, words and all.

But will Mouse blow up if he eats cake?

This makes sense. With so many Handheld series heading over to Switch in the next few months, Fire Emblem, Luigi's Mansion, Pokemon and Animal Crossing, it makes sense to make a version that'll appeal to the 3DS playerbase, who may not have interest in a "home console".
That said, for me personally it feels like a step back. The big appeal of the Switch is that you can play it on the TV or on the go, and IMO the current Switch isn't exactly difficult to carry around. I can honestly only really see this version actually been worth it if it's a significant amount lower in price than the current one, otherwise you're better off getting the one that offers you both styles of play.

@Zorox88 You realize the price of video games has rarely actually increased outside of natural inflation, right? What people paid for Super Mario Odyseey at launch, is equal to what they'd have paid for the original Super Mario Bros at it's launch.

Fact is the cost to develope games has increased ten fold, but the price in sales hasn't, instead they are force to rely on an increase in consumers, which doesn't always happen and has lead to many a studio shutting down. In addition to that video games has the largest second hand market of any media, and only has one point of sale, where as music and movies have multiple (concerts, physical/digital/streaming and radio for music and Cinema, physical/digital/streaming and TV for movies).

Besides, if you can't afford to buy at full price day one, wait for those sales you speak of. No one is every forced to buy a title day one, that is a choice the player makes for themselves.

This is clearly a farce. Just as the UK government is under attack by the public for this circus they call Brexit, they suddenly go after the video games industry? It's distraction politics at it's finest, go after something the public loves, to try and make them forget about the real issues going on.

But what would this mean for an actual remake of Diamond & Pearl? Sinnoh is my favourite region and I'd love to revisit it some day, but in the style of the traditional games, not Go.

This is fine, the only one I really played was 3 though. Still though, all these Capcom remasters and yet we're STILL waiting on Dino Crisis.

Hmm, you know. With all 4 seasons coming to Switch, and Clementine been a video game character, and Negan somehow ending up in Tekken 7, is it too soon to be requesting Clem for Smash?

With the amount of characters been held back for free updates, and the relative lack of launch day characters compared to older entries, it really does make you wonder if they're rushing the game out too soon.

As long as continued 3DS support doesn't affect content for Switch, I guess that's fine.

I really hope all these games that seem to be skipping Switch isn't just Nintendo holding back announcements.

I hate constantly having to ask "is this coming to Switch", all the time just because Nintendo can't play ball with other companies and has to reveal everything themselves. I'd rather just know one way or the other when it's 1st revealed.

The World Cup, and football in general sucks, and I hate living in a country that acts like it's the most important thing ever.

Hell yes. Wario Land 3 is one of my favourite GBC games, would love more from this series.

@MoonKnight7 It's a giant, angry, naked baby, what's there to get?

@Bunkerneath Oh believe me, they know. It's more a case of convincing Sakurai to work on another so soon, or finding someone who Sakurai is willing to hand the series over to.

A friend of mine has some of Wakelins work as posters. Though I'm pretty sure they not the originals.

Why the hell are people complaining that the Mario Movie will probably be aimed at kids? Of course it'll be aimed a kids, it's the nibelsnarfing Mario Movie! Jesus Christ! What the hell where you expecting from it? An Animated version of Taken, but with Mario characters?

My feeling is that they would make publishing decisions on a game by game basis.
EA Sports titles like FIFA and Madden, would continue to be multi-plat releases, much like MineCraft, to avoid losing the licence. However the Xbox versions would get exclusive features to make it more attractive to players.
EA owned games such as Battlefield, and Bioware's titles, would end up as Xbox and PC exclusives.
Other licensed property like Star Wars, depending on the specifics of the contract, would likely have to remain multi-platform until the end of the 10 year licencing deal with Disney. After that it would be up to EA and Microsoft to work out another deal with Disney for the possibility of future games been exclusives.

About what I expected after the US price reveal. Not terrible, but not a price that would get me to consider giving it a go.

Looks interesting, if my lineup is free when it launches, I'll consider picking this up.

@KirbyTheVampire I'm not a strategy fan either, but I ended up really enjoying this game. Give it a shot if you have the chance.

Guess I have no excuse to keep passing over TWEWY now.
Surprised Pokken is getting new fighters, Blastoise could sell me on this DLC.
Kirby looks adorable. Loving the Spider power.
Hyrule Warriors will be a triple-dip for me. Love that game so much.
Mario Tennis Aces is the first in a long time to peek my interest thanks to story mode. Hope it's actually good.
Ys VIII, looks fine. Probably won't play that one, not a series I've tried myself.
Mario Odyssey update is... interesting. Not what I expected at all, and TBH seemed kinda pointless. Would have prefered a paid DLC with a new kingdom or two.
SNK, eh, it's a fighting game, I'm not huge into those and I already have Pokken.
DK in Mario + Rabbids looks cool. Loved the remix of the classic DK theme (I'm assuming that was Kirkhope again right).
Payday 2 I wasn't interested in on other platforms, been on Switch doesn't change that.
Fe and Celeste both look good. Not my kinda games.
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is another Day One Double Dip. Adore this series so much. My only disappointment is that Returns isn't also included.
Dark Souls, we all knew was coming. It'd been hinted at for so long. I've dabbled in the Souls games once or twice, but didn't really give them a fair chance. Might be time for that.

Now someone get it tattooed.

@SanderEvers Nintendo has said that EA (along with many other 3rd parties) has games coming to the Switch this year. We know of Fe, but if anything else was to come a remaster/port of a game would probably be the most likely as it has the lowest development costs.

Picked it up today with some of the money I got for Christmas. Was gonna get Skyrim too, but it was out of stock.

I know it's been done before, and not exactly been the most well received feature, but I'd love for the next Zelda to take another shot at a central Dungeon that you visit over and over.

Have the game be that, much like in BotW, Ganon has returned and taken over Hyrule Castle, and much like in that game has put up a barrier around the castle.

Link is tasked with collecting 5 magical orbs, which are located inside mini dungeons, similar to the Divine Beasts, which are each guarded by a boss. The first orb allows Link to enter into Hyrule Castle, where he'll fight the first main boss of the game.

After that the remaining Orbs will unlock the four towers, each with a different theme and boss, these can be tackled in any order, with Link's goal always been to get the orb to the top of said tower, defeat the boss, and place it in a pedestal at the top, once all 5 are returned to the castle, the way to Ganon would open.

Obviously, this is just my rough idea, but I still think it could be pretty cool, and would still keep the fresh feel of BotW, while also bringing back a bit more of the structure that past titles had.

Sold. Crystal is the only 3rd version I've never played, so it'll be great to finally get the chance after all these years.

I've not played either of the Bayonetta games. Have had some interest since her inclusion in Smash though, so I'll probably pick this up. Doubt I'll get this version though.

@GameOtaku To be fair, the amount of stories I've read in recent years where someone walked out of GameStop with a box of rocks instead of the console they thought they were getting, it's not really that much better.

It's a sad moment when you realise that a fictional video game character has a better real world carrier than you ever will.

@kokjopan You can take mobile games with you everywhere, doesn't stop those people from spending hundreds, if not thousands to advance faster.

Eh, I think I'll be fine with missing it. I'm sure any relevant info will be easy to find after the fact.

@SimplyCinnamon53 Go look up "The Great Mighty Poo", then you'll understand the love for that game and it's soundtrack.

If Retro is working on a new Donkey Kong, I hope it's more like DK64.

That moment when you forget SMT isn't Persona, and think Switch is getting a port of P5.

Sweet, as someone who loves the Switch's cases, I'm very glad I held off on several Indie games. Will absolutely be picking some of these up.

Yikes. The movies they credit the director with don't exactly inspire confidence.

I legit don't understand why DKC2 and 3 weren't included. I doubt it would have cost them any more to do it, and surely Nintendo knows that DKC2 is widely considered the best of the trilogy.

I half expect a SNES Classic 2 at this point, what with so many great games missing.

@Captain_Gonru Yeah, I'm in EU. I think it was back in 2014/15, when I still owned my X1.

@riChchestM ShopTo is the best if you want releases early.
If a game releases on a Friday, I always get it the Thursday. If it releases on a Tuesday, I usually get it Saturday, but if not at least Monday.
Hell back when it released, I actually got my Wii U from them a day early.

I hope no one wastes money on this. I got it for free with Xbox Gold back when I owned my X1, and I still felt ripped off by it.

Also, am I the only one who thinks it's a little dumb that Nintendo and Bandai Namco thought it was a good idea to release both Pokken AND DBX2 on Switch on the same day?
With a bit of time between them, I'd have likely picked up both, but now I'm probably just gonna stick with Pokken for my fighting game needs until we finally get Smash on Switch.