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I'm predicting they'll at least officially reveal 2 or 3 of the games that were in that massive internal leak that happened a few months back

Hideaki Itsuno's been apparently working on Dragon's Dogma 2 behind the scenes and there's the matter of that supposed Switch exclusive Resident Evil game

I personally don't expect the hybrid thing to be their model post-Switch considering Nintendo are a company that thrives on throwing any idea at the wall and seeing what sticks, but I am interested in what their handheld output would be like. Maybe the Switch might become its own line of systems like the DS in the future

Being "quirky" and "unique" are things that run far deeper than just their hardware. Their IPs are so diverse in scope and content that they don't even need to do something like hybrid consoles again and risk losing their Nintendo charm because the games speak for themselves. Innovation is their lifeblood, and the same reigns true for their competitors

Games where you throw your hat to possess enemies, a shooter that involves inking turf with cephalopods, or even the mature titles involving people like witches who use their hair to summon demons and beat the crap out of angels. You won't find that from any company out there like how Nintendo does it. They could throw out the Switch tomorrow and announce a conventional console that's graphically on par with Sony and Microsoft's offerings, and the games will still be as unconventional as they were yesterday

I will only accept celebrity cameos if Zelda Williams and Keanu Reeves host a conference together

@tntswitchfan68 Switch isn't 9th gen. It's just very, very fashionably late 8th gen going by release timeline. It only came out like not even 5 years after Wii U so it's basically attempt 2 from Nintendo to make an 8th gen system

@Magician "Only alter internals" only sounds like a super minimal refresh and not a console redesign

It sounds like the biggest alteration will just be related to a slightly updated AMD chip and nothing else. I doubt it's a Slim console since those usually come closer to the midway point of a console's lifecycle

@teo_o lmao that sounded straight up like it came from Nintendo PR and not someone writing an editorial

I'm really interested in what Microsoft has to announce for E3 if only because most of their first party software seems at best, years off from release with maybe the exception of Hellblade.

Nintendo has it way easier this year if only because I don't expect the Xbox conference to blow my mind in terms of games they have positioned for the near future outside Halo and Forza, and Sony's not even showing up at all (which I do miss their presence to be fair)

@MsJubilee If you seriously think that I can't help but feel you've been out of touch for years and you've only missed out because of that

Immortal Hulk, the Chip Zdarsky Daredevil run, the Jonathan Hickman X-Men run and the new Fantastic Four stuff are all superb (especially Immortal Hulk), as was what I've read of Nick Spencer's Amazing Spider-Man run and I've only heard great things about Spider's Shadow

@Varkster I don't know what alternate Earth within the multiverse you came from but Marvel literally giving us movie/TV content in addition to new comics virtually every week for the entire year thanks to how COVID delayed everything is definitely not them being in an awful state on those fronts

The only reason we've gone a two years without a movie release is the same reason for a lot of other movie franchises or just the industry in general

@westman98 Oh wait Eidos? Ok it's probably the Guardians of the Galaxy game then.

The World Premiere is probably that other PS5 exclusive FF game

Really hope they show more of FF16 though. That first trailer looked great. At least a cinematic teaser for Remake Part 2 would be nice as well

The Butthole Cut of Cats actually got released?

Ew not new Ben 10

Give me either the one that had the grey shirt with the black strip or the one voiced by Peter Parker, Prince of Altea and two time Persona user

And Elden Ring will sweep the awards without any footage lol

@BloodNinja They're probably still stuck in that mindset that the least powerful console will always win if it has good games

I personally don't like that THAT was the message they extrapolated from the PS2 being the most popular of the three big consoles, because PS3 and PS4 also fly in the face of that argument given they were both, more powerful than their counterparts, AND had great software

I'm not surprised Switch development was dropped

Playing the game on PC rn it doesn't just look like a simple up-res of the original PS3 game to me. There actually seems to be some visual changes and improvements to make the game more closely align with the aesthetic of Automata, which in of itself is a pretty damn good looking game.

Maybe they can just bring the original game to Switch like they did with Ni No Kuni?

@Ambassador_Kong The GameCube was actually only less technically powerful than the original Xbox but more so than the PS2. The big bottleneck there was that they decided to opt for their weird physical formats for games again just like the N64.

If they had just gone with full size discs like everyone else was, they might've had a way better chance at more third party support. Even the support that did come was actually really solid for the time

@the_beaver I think this is coming 2023 at the EARLIEST

Forspoken is already confirmed for 2022 and FFXVI is said to be coming out after it (at least on PS5) so considering those games are fully playable and have had gameplay shown for them, DQXII is probably not nearly as far in production.

This is definitely 2023 or possibly even 2024

I'm expecting at least PS5 and Switch to get this game. DQ has pretty sizable audiences on both Sony and Nintendo systems for Square Enix not to want to launch on both

Hell, considering this game might be in super early development based on how little they showed, it might even launch potentially in time for Nintendo's next console like the timing on DQXI before

I'm really excited that Sonic 1, 2 and CD seem to be based on the Christian Whitehead remakes that were mostly exclusive to mobile, and I hope S3&K gets the exact same treatment because they distinctly put an "original gameplay" disclaimer over it specifically. I have a feeling it's not just going to be a ROM Dump of the Genesis entries

Continuing in the tradition of Sonic announcement teasers of "looks pretty, I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to get excited over"

@Skunkfish Yeah first time. The original was Wii/DS exclusive

@RupeeClock I know it's nice that Colors is finally coming to Sony and Xbox platforms, it's just that I think Generations is far superior as a game and probably still the best Boost title

Plus technically the console/PC version of Gens has never come to a Nintendo system either since all they got was the 3DS version

Not the title I would've remastered or remade honestly.

Would've much preferred a Generations remaster

Damn these Persona 5 spinoffs are getting wild

I require FFVI to be remade like this. This looks spectacular.

I hope this time they don't make the mistake they previously did when marketing the Steam Machines solely to console gamers and having multiple of those things from different PC makers sold commercially

This should just be one device and it definitely sounds tempting on the premise that there are still a lot of big AAA games that either can't run on Switch that well or just haven't shown up at all, in addition to the interfacing of the Steam Controller being suited for both console and PC gaming with the types of games that necessitate mouses and keyboards

@NTDO89 The fact you're linking to a third party option that's basically like cheating to get this kind of content inadvertently proves how scummy this practice is

@Slowdive The difference with the e-Reader stuff and this is that in the case of the Super Mario Advance games, the e-Reader unlocked actual additional content that was seperate from the main game, like extra levels in SMA4 for example

Fast travel isn't extra content. It's a legitimate extra feature that improves the entire game. This would be like if an Elder Scrolls game locked fast travel behind paid DLC despite developing it alongside the main game and having no reason to do so

A quality of life change isn't DLC. This article completely misses the point about why people are mad

Why the hell would they lock an additional feature specific to an HD remaster of an older game behind a plastic toy?

If it was something superfluous like item drops like what Hyrule Warriors had, nobody would've been upset. Fast travel being added to Skyward Sword shouldn't be locked behind any sort of paywall. That's a legitimate improvement to the entire game, not extra content for the sake of extra content

If any other open world game or game with open ended design did something like this they'd get the same amount of flack thrown at them.

It's going to stay like this until the stock situation for both consoles get better and especially when more exclusive software starts to come out since at the moment PS5 really only has Demon's Souls and Returnal with Ratchet & Clank coming in a few weeks, while Xbox has basically nothing.

Switch outselling both consoles when it's been on the market and readily available for about 4 years is really not surprising

This remaster for being in development for about 2 years sounds like it still needed more time in the oven

The game by itself is fantastic, it's goddamn Nocturne. The remastering of the game however seems to be leaving a lot to be desired

@Mach_Rider Yeah but the difference there is that Mask of the Phantasm is for all intended purposes, a movie meant to be enjoyed by all ages. It's still an extension of the animated series from '93 with a larger budget, and is thus targeted to the same audience that watches the show

Batman TAS is a show that knows how to be mature while also accessible, but Castlevania isn't by design meant to be enjoyed by anyone under a certain age. Even the games have gone into full on M-rated territory at times with grotesque imagery, explicit referencing of religious and sexual themes and accentuated usage of gore. Batman couldn't do that because it was a show meant for families and general audiences, so it basically stretched how mature it could go and did that very well without crossing boundaries, but there were still restrictions, especially given they eventually built a universe of interconnected shows with it and the Superman series that came out shortly after, which was comparatively lighter in tone

@Mach_Rider Surprised that you didn't at all like Season 2

I can understand the complaints levelled against S1 about the animation quality or the pacing of the story but I thought S2 was when the story really started to invest me as both a show and an adaptation

Like he basically gets no breaks when it comes to being Dracula's right hand man so obviously there comes a point where after doing the same song and dance to people who oppose him or his resurrection, he's obviously going to get kind of fed up with the whole job at a point

I actually kind of like the take on Death they did here. He wasn't spouting Shakespearean slang all the time like he does in the games but I hope we see more of him. They're probably starting from square one again with a new Belmont and his respective supporting cast. Maybe Simon? I'd actually like to see what they do with Leon since they had several easter eggs referencing him in S2

@Low_ink Cloud versions are usually the last resort

I doubt they didn't at least try to get the game running natively or entertain the idea before going a different route. Similar things happened with games like Final Fantasy XV and Resi VII where developers openly discussed their efforts to get their games running on the hardware directly, but they couldn't even after sacrificing more than what should've been required, so they came to compromises

@Low_ink Still wouldn't matter either way considering the game requires an online connection to play on the other platforms too so you won't be playing this on the go regardless

Whoa Nintendo

Tone down the sexuality. You can't have Waluigi looking fine as hell in your renders

@MortalKombat2007 Demon's Souls is not an apt comparison whatsoever

That's a complete from the ground up remake designed specifically to take advantage of new gen hardware much like Shadow of the Colossus on PS4 was, or in the case of MGS, what Twin Snakes was for GameCube.

Porting or remastering MGS4 would take a lot of effort given that unlike other PS3 exclusives or games on PS3 it took specific advantage of the PS3's hardware. It's still probably one of the most demanding games on the console and there's a reason it shipped on a dual-layered Blu-ray when it came out

Another hurdle that people likely forget to consider when it comes to re-releasing the game is that there's an obscene amount of product placement for stuff like Apple products all over the game that would likely involve an extensive and likely expensive negotiation with that company in the event they release the game again. There's literally an in game mechanic involving playing BGM during missions on Snake's personal iPod

@HamatoYoshi Guns of the Patriots is damn near impossible

That game is basically designed from the ground up specifically for PS3. A remaster or port to another console would be extremely difficult considering how it was basically made to take advantage of how unique the PS3 architecture was, which is why it never got ported to 360 and has also never been re-released

It's already probably one of the most demanding games to run through emulation on PC via RPCS3

Bluepoint Games. Please.

Literally every game that made me consider getting a Wii U before getting a PS4 instead has been ported to Switch or given a sequel in the cases of Splatoon, Bayonetta 2, Mario Maker and Smash Ultimate

I think I'm good. All I need now are the Zelda HD remasters and I'll be satisifed

@ChromaticDracula If there was a trademark related to the movie it wouldn't come from Konami. Sony Pictures are producing that film on their own terms and Konami is only there by association of the IP. Sony will retain all rights to the film or future films they make with it

I have faith it'll be good considering Jordan Vogt-Roberts has a pretty stellar track record and the interviews he's conducted tells me he really understands the core of what makes Metal Gear such a cool franchise

Legend of Zelda 3D All Stars

Only on Xbox, PC and Game Pass

Available through March 31, 2022

@CheapCheepBeach I don't know why people expected Switch or even Xbox announcements on a livestream that was hosted specifically on PlayStation's YouTube channel and only promoted on their social media outside the official RE accounts

Also Switch probably still isn't powerful enough to handle the multiplatform RE Engine. I'm pretty sure Rise and G&G are running on a bespoke version of RE Engine specifically made for Switch hardware instead of the one powering the RE games and DMC5

@spiderman0616 The new consoles are naturally disadvantaged due to stock limitations which probably aren't improving until Fall at the very earliest

Their situation will improve over time, but it's not immediate

Fez, OlliOlli, TMNT, House of the Dead and Getsufumaden are probably the highlights for me

@Rika_Yoshitake The extent of their """game output"""" this entire time has been PES, some Yu Gi Oh card games, Castlevania gacha crap on mobile, pachinkos and the occassional console release that looks and plays like it was programmed on a Sunday afternoon in a Starbucks

This is literally their first actual game with a budget since...Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain

Oh boy

There were rumors Konami were outsourcing their IP to other studios

This might be part of what they're talking about

@roy130390 TMNT 2003 was MY childhood

The 4Kids Turtles were like a perfect blend of 80's and Prime Turtles