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@Alucard83 If you don’t support publishers releasing games for the Switch...why are you here?! For the retro stuff?

@NullPointerExcep Mirrors Edge would be so awesome. Both games are fantastic, and don’t get enough love.

If these had at least one full game on a cartridge that you could play without downloads, I'd have bought all three. This "we'll put part of each game on the card" is just ill-conceived idiocy.

I'll probably just get Bioshock instead of all three as I've been waiting to play that again and wanted it for the switch.

Oh my god this is awesome news...day one purchase for me too.

I’d prefer to see games developed to the Switch’s strengths rather than consistently trying to port AAA games from other platforms, but I’ll certainly take some solid ports of older gen titles.

Playing the Witcher on the Switch is a revelation if played in portable mode, as is Skyrim and Assassins Creed Rebel collection. Give me Mass Effect and Fallout in 2020!!

The US one is...poor.

Great game through

If this can’t get a 10 I’m not sure what can...

I love this game so much, am happily playing it through for the 6th time, it’s superb.

Oh no. That’s...terrible. No more Celeste...because the first one was so great...

(Yeah, so I hated Celeste...)

@JayJ I totally agree! I'd go with the European box art if it wasn't for the clash between the cartoon megaman characters and Kazuya Mishima in the background...

Oh good grief. Why not make the game £5 more expensive and actually include it in the goddamn cartridge?!

This is a great game, I really enjoyed it. The mixture of planet and space battles is really good fun. I was sad it didn't do better...but the Toys were definitely a mistake

I’m going with the European art. The knock-off arnies and the “borrowed” Geiger alien are super cheesy!

The PAL SNES one is my dream Switch Lite...(drools slightly)

I think that developing to the strengths of the system (like Breath of the wild) is a different thing to porting something made for a different system to the switch.

With the former, devs can make the design and the style work on the hardware...with the latter, you’re always talking about the compromises necessary.

We just need some more games built from the ground up for the Switch.

1. Metroid Trilogy...for the love of god just release it already!
2. F-Zero...it is time.
3. Any Zelda or Mario remasters. Preferably all of them.
4. SNES or (dare we hope) Gamecube games

I loved this game, and am just about to finish Warmastered, so am totally ready to jump straight into this.

Just a 7?!

While it might take inspiration from (or steal large chunks of) some big name properties such as Zelda or God of War, it does it very well, and there's not much like ti on the switch. I can't wait to play this again and I'm hoping that that the sequel will follow suit.

I hope this will be a but of a lesson for all dev teams porting to the switch.

Personally, I'd prefer a racing game that skimped on the flashy details and focused on the framerate and general performance...framerate and smooth gameplay is too important for a racer.

Xenon reeks of a game that was made for more powerful platforms and clumsily ported rather than built with the Switch in mind...it's the only reason I can think that it can look so much worse than Fast RMX (or even GameCube F-Zero!) and yet still run this poorly.

I'd really like to see some racers developed from the ground up just for the Switch.

@Phle this is a really good point! I get so many PlayStation emails I send them straight into a junk folder. I missed the presentation too!

Every time I see Dead Cells mentioned I have to fight the urge to drop everything and pick up my switch for a run through it...

@SBandy Blimey, someone is having a bad day?

If sites didn’t report on stuff other sites have reported, you’d have to follow every gaming site on the internet to keep up.

I really prefer the cell shaded original.. Great to see it this way for kicks, but it really loses some of the magic of the original.

This looks amazingly cool to me and I can't quite say why...

Not so sure about this, would be a really odd move for Microsoft?

But at the same time, I'd throw money at being able to play Ori and some Halo on my Switch!

@Leuke You make a really good point. In the UK, prices for a new game have generally hovered around £40-£45 since the days of the NES. Some could argue that this should mean prices go up... especially given the insane amount of time that goes into a game nowadays...

I support LRG now they've moved to a pre-order model for switch games and you know you can get a copy if you want one.

I did try to collect their vita stuff though and lost out so many times to games selling out while you even got the "buy" option on your screen...only to appear on Ebay seconds later for a small fortune. I vowed never again.

Sad another company has popped up feeding the eBay scalper beast.

@Hoho

Re-releases is not a Switch only issue....this from someone who has just bought Castlevania Symphony of the Night for the 5th time and console, and Skyrim for seemingly the bazillionth (VR Skyrim!)

Overall I'm really happy with the mix of new releases and ports on the Switch, I think that it has a really healthy library.

I'm pleased both to have Retro back on the title and that Nintendo was uncharacteristically open about it.

Like others have said though, getting the metroid trilogy port to tide us over would be the best way to cushion this blow...

Dead Cells is incredible. I found it ridiculously hard at first, but something kept me going...then I couldn't stop playing it for weeks.

Definitely one of my favourite games of last year, and I'm thrilled at the Motion Twin's success.

I loved both Bravely Defaults so I'm super excited by this and really hope it'll make it to the Switch.

Dead Cells was one of my favourite games this year, I couldn't stop playing it.

Currently making my way through Iconoclasts and having a good time, whereas I gave up on Hollowknight because I just can't face any more joyless backtracking...

Dead Cells is the game I had the most fun with this year.

Surprisingly, Starlink is right up there too. I loved that game way more than I thought I would.

Also surprisingly, I haaaaaaaaaate Celeste! I wish I could love it like everyone else does, but it is just a hateful, joyless grind (its not the difficulty...I've completed Super Meat Boy...it's just missing that spark for me that makes it worth persevering).

Huzzah! Decapitations on the train...day one purchase for me!

I picked this up on launch day...and it is a hot mess. Nobody should suffer this game.

@Draken18 I bought this at launch too and have no regrets either, this game is terrific fun. Really sad that it didn’t do better.

@link422007 I hope so! But I'll get excited when it is announced!

I love these games, but very few managed to make it to a western conversion. I’m not getting too excited until they announce it for the US and Europe...

I didn’t really bother with the toys, but the game was surprisingly awesome. I’d really recommend it to anyone who likes a bit of a
starfox/no mans sky mashup. I put more than 40 hours into this one.

Oh good grief, why, why does this exist?!

Why not just bring a proper Dead or Alive game to the switch...even a port of the 3DS game would be better than this!

Quite looking forward to this, I'm keeping the faith! Really glad they're giving it a physical release.

I’d be tempted with new games...if it didn’t look ghastly.

I was a bit on the fence with this one, but am totally sucked in now, it's great!

I play mostly in handhld mode and find the game smooth and enjoyable. In fact it's technically very impressive, particularly transitioning from a planet to space and vice versa. The open world feel to it is really impressive.

I'm totally happy with this as a filler until a true Starfox game comes out, and I do hope that Starfox takes some of the elements of this, like the open world mechanic.

@Silkyinsect_UK yeah, I love the aesthetic of Edge...but the quality of the writing was atrocious, they wanted so badly to be high-brow that so many features became a tedious exercise in translating pretentious drivel

Why the hell do massive coloured skulls pop out every time she does anything? It completely obscures the character and makes it hard to see what is going on!

Awesome, this game is amazing. If only there was a physical edition...

I'm still sceptical of the fully digital future, but I'm not normally suckered into special editions.

Capcom beat em ups hold a special place in my heart though...and I've loved them ever since nagging my mum for 20p for just one go if we ever saw an arcade machine. I recently bought myself an arcade machine (...sold a kidney...) just so I could recapture that feeling, the only games I play are the capcom games.

As much as Capcom doesn't seem to care about their UK fans, I just can't pass up the special edition in this case...some of these games I lusted after in my youth. The collectors edition is already appearing on eBAY for more than £200.

Sigh.

Aaaaaand the top tier is sold out already.

Looks like I'm about to get thoroughly screwed with my pants on by an eBay scalper...

Grumble.

No surprises here. Their plan re optimisation sounds like a good one, but this is one option.

What about changing the graphical style of games, such as keeping the fundamental game but introducing cell shaded graphics to reduce the strain on the Switch etc. There are artistic choices that could be made too, rather than just tinkering at the edges.

It’s more work sure, and risks annoying the hardcore fans, but I wish some developers would be a bit more bold in addressing the Switch’s limitations relative to PS4/Xbox One

Second Sight?! Yesssss, I love that game!

(Timesplitters ok too, obvs...)

I really enjoyed Doom on my PC, silky smooth 4k carnage was awesome.

However, I played Doom more on my Switch on the go, it got me through many a bored train or plane trip, and the drop to 30fps was noticeable, but quickly forgotten. I can't wait for the sequel!