atomicjuicer

@westman98 your blanket statement ignores the specifics I posted and your first point doesn’t even make sense.

Metroid sold well on a failing console means the franchise is not the problem. The platform is.

Wii was successful for a completely different audience. Grandma and kids ain’t screw attacking nuthin.

Those mentioning Metroid prime sales compared to Mario and Zelda don’t understand the context.

Super Metroid was the first massive success of the series really and it was on the SNES - a hardcore console at the time with an appropriate audience.

GameCube didn’t sell well in that generation of consoles and NONE of the games on GameCube reached huge heights - that’s the platform’s fault not Metroid’s.

Metroid did well on GBA.

Wii hit the casual family lottery. Nintendo forgot entirely about the hardcore audience and focused on grandma/kid friendly content. If Metroid had been on a competitor platform during this or the following generation it’d have found an appropriate hardcore audience.

Wii U was a failure.

3ds released a Metroid game after the console had died due to switch.

Now Nintendo drops the ball again. I always presumed work for Metroid should have been going on during the Wii U era but we saw nothing.

The truth is they’ve wasted this franchise and don’t deserve it. Same as star fox.

Like valve and half life 3 Nintendo need to license their ip out when they don’t know how to exploit it. Microsoft would murder for the rights to give half life to its internal studios. That’s money on the table. That’s fans being neglected or dying of old age.

Samus returns is cool though.

MIRRORS EDGE CATALYST!!!!!

Yeah baby

Human lifespan begins to be a factor for fans of certain series.

Get on the treadmill if you want to find out what happens next!

Put prime out for online subscribers and we can just move on from this... pathetic

I’ve been pissed with this since the logo reveal. They obviously didn’t know what they were doing even then and shouldn’t have promised it.

Better cancelled than a disappointment though.

Thankfully we have Samus Returns in the meantime.

@Wesjedker We can all read. We don’t need your calming gestures.

Furukawa was a mistake. If he feels comfortable enough throwing stupid comments like this into an interview even on a tangent then he doesn’t know what he’s doing (or he does and it’s not what anyone here wants).

He needs to go.

Galaxy and Metroid are the only things that make sense on this list

I didn’t like the mobile flavor but I don’t want realistic. I want arcadey

Love EVERYTHING about this game and would double dip except...

Ship designs are seriously UGGGLY

All these modern rally games are cookie cutter bore-fests!

Why are they going for photorealism? It’s the worst thing for racers these days. Give me a stylized look and a dynamic play style.

Even the trailer emphasizes the jumps and dust kicking up with the camera flying all over the place.

Woo!!

More games need to do this. Just turn off achievements for save files with a cheat activated. Maybe disable any ranked multiplayer mode if a cheat is activated too.

@electrolite77 I use a bunch of apps to track sales on psn. rime, doom, yooka laylee, snake pass, syberia, nba playground, butcher are cheaper than they should be and regularly featured in sales. These are some of the best 3rd party switch offerings and they are also decent for PS4 but unlike similar quality titles on ps4 these games in particular get slashed regularly.

@electrolite77 Wrong. Sony subsidize some items in their sales. Guess which ones?

Get a copy of watchdogs 1 out on switch while youre at it Ubisoft. That ran on ps3 and 360 right?

This game actually influenced my purchase of a switch. I still want it.

GET IT OUT UBISOFT.

Where's the game?
Where's Steep the game?
Serious opportunities lost due to delays.

You see the competitors intentionally targetting switch 3rd party discounts in every sale. Especially Playstation. They slash every 3rd party switch game down to nothing.

Nintendo need to accelerate 3rd party support.

Good. Downgrades after purchase should be illegal.

Cool

Samus returns is incredible and does justice to super metroid.

Must be played in stereoscopic 3d to be truly appreciated though.

Why are the ship asses so chunky? Also, the zoom effect is too strong - cant see whats coming.

Otherwise - truly fantastic game.

Love the music
Love the attitude

I actually really want this on switch! Cmon ubi!

Trolls suck

The sooner these two games come out the better

This dev's attitude stinks. They didnt add vita controls for remote play either. I asked then about it and they werent bothered changing that either.

Starfox 1 remake

I played the demo on ps4 then got a survey from Ubisoft asking why I didn't buy it.

I replied that I was waiting for it to come out on switch.

I'm sick of these dodgy promises. Switch needs core 3rd party games. Otherwise its just another Mario device and I have enough Mario already.

Wish I'd known flashback was coming to switch. It's a great game but I've played it to death and bought on ps3 and Xbox 360...

Anyone who hasn't played it, ignore the reviews and be sure to customize the game before you play as the options menu is quite specific.

Can't say the other games here have me thrilled to be honest. I'm sure they're fine but not feeling it for switch. They seem either too boring or low quality.

C'mon Nintendo- get us more third parties and metroid too.

It's not out on Nintendo yet so it's too early for "reflection".

Is there a normal head mode? This actually makes the difference between a buy and a not buy for me.

I think the big heads are too distracting.

No metroid, no buy.

If its less powerful than xbox one then it's competing with Wii U tbh

Sonic generations 2 please!

Wakey, wakey Nintendo. How blind are you to the desperation of Metroid fans?

Why have there been so few Metroid games this decade? No love, no interest, no respect.

Presumably retro studio are working on Metroid again but it has been SUCH a long wait that fans are driven to this madness.

Absolutely cannot wait!!

Worst ever.

Super Nintendo version looks better (and has better music).

Oh well - at least we got FF7 this e3.

Pity no metroid games announced.
/s

@Tank207 The music on starfox 3ds is so awful in comparison. You can't even turn off music in the settings I wanted to listen to the orignal games music while playing but then I can't hear the weapons and sound effects. Ugh

Sonic boom was rubbish.

Sonic colors was good (except for the colors).
Sonic generations is widely recognized as the first decent modern sonic game (although it has framerate problems on consoles - except 3ds)

(To clarify my reason for a "limited" release:

Americans seem to believe that bigger is better (I've visited the US a few times and everything is HUGE!). Over here cars, buildings, seats, portion sizes, and people* are smaller. Now don't get me wrong, some things like IMAX theaters, roads, TVs and houses should be bigger but controllers, phones and handhelds deserve limits in my opinion.

Nintendo probably felt that the bigger handheld would sell better in the US and they probably used test groups (I even remember youtubers from the US saying they would be getting the bigger one). The cover decision was probably a tough one either way, but its unusual for Europe to get customization and personalization options not available to the US so this was a first and maybe an experiment by Nintendo just to see what would happen.

*I mean bigger in terms of height.

They should do a limited release of the regular new 3ds in America.

I have the wooden covers and they rock! (Very hard to acquire though even in Europe).

The other M gameplay was great (environments, power ups etc.) but they lost the idea of being alone. Exploring by yourself without extra annoying characters.

Samus should be more like a sci-fi archaeologist with weapons and scanners to keep her safe. Or Lara croft / indiana jones in space sorta.

I hope Star Fox (or Star Wing!) goes back to its SNES roots. Majestic music, awe inspiring visuals, and dramatic scenarios.

I've no interest in waving my gamepad around and I don't care about the characters.

If they want to use the gamepad well they should let you give special orders to the team (like a list of targets on the right of the screen and a list of pilots on the left so you can match them up or something). Maybe let you transfer shield energy between ships or power bombs (kinda like a midair refueling).

I'm not interested in smash brothers which seemed to be one of the main games for amiibo and though the stock levels and price were fine where I live, the only character I was interested in (Samus) seemed too plasticky to me. I wouldn't mind having a Samus figure on my desk at work but I'd want something a bit more expensive looking with better materials.

I'm glad they don't hold important DLC though because I'm not a toy collector.

METROID! METROID! METROID!

Also, a starfox game with music like the original please (and less focus on the characters).

Absolutely can't wait for this!

Might preorder it too if the release date is soon.

Can't wait!

Brilliant video. At least nintendo have a sense of humor. METROID AND FZERO PLEAAASE. Looking forward to Starfox!!!!

Somehow this news is exciting and dissapointing at the same time. I'm excited that a new nintendo console is defintitely coming but announcing it now worries me that it means there'll be no Metroid or Fzero for Wii u.

The mobile stuff is just a terrible idea full stop. Sony just closed PS mobile because it was an absolute failure and they actually make mobile phones so nintendo games on mobile is a bad idea.

Look at ridge racer or street fighter on mobile and tell me that something like Metroid would work. It won't and they'll waste millions.

Ugh

New dedicated gaming device sounds great though. I wonder if they'll go after VR again?