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Am I going crazy or in Odyssey there is a beach level and you can also dress up Mario in a swimming suit?

Played the demo and saw people playing it in the Arcades in Japan.
Loved the style and have been waiting for a discount for ages but it seems that it's never more than 20% off.

@Reprise I'm with you there even though I got AC for my daughter to play.
What Ive been doing these past months is to try to catch up with some backlog but also got a few games that never played before like Crysis and Call for Juarez.
Both great games. Also, just bought Burnout Paradise that dropped the price to 25€ on Amazon and it should arrive soon.
Again, never had the chance to play that and it's a genre lacking on the Switch.
It's a shame that Nintendo didn't present any games for August and September (yet) .
I also find appalling that instead of releasing the 4th entry of Pikimin they had the audacity to announce the port of the 3rd one.
The 4th game was announced ages ago so it's hard to accept this move from them.

Finished Crysis recently and just started Call for Juarez.
What a great surprise that game is. I've bought it when it was discounted and just now had a chance to play it.
Great gameplay and story, highly recommended.

Wow, Ninty is going full price as expected.
It's not very nice the fact that it's been announced the 4th game ages ago and they decide to release a port from WiiU.
I might be wrong but the extras added are not so great and don't justify the price.
It would be a better announcement if it was for the new entry.
As it is I'll be skipping this one.
BTW, where are the games for August and September? 🤔

That's what we have for October?
Pikimin 3?
Where's the 4th entry already announced ages ago?
And August and September games?
My God what a year....

@TheFullAndy yes, fact:
AC is a big IP and didn't have any proper competitor game from Nintendo in the first 7 months of 2020.
And still not having it for the foreseeable future.

@TheFullAndy no, it wasn't pointless and I could discuss it further but, then again, we can't agree on it.

@TheFullAndy yes, you provided a link, however, it doesn't say what kind of people are buying.
Are they new Switch players?
Are they current Switch owners buying games that they didn't have before? Etc.
You and a few other people said here that X, Y and Z games are being purchased by new Switch players.
What I am saying saying is that nobody has a link to a research proving it.
I can also look at the top 40 and say that the people buying are currently Nintendo Switch players without any new options so they are buying old games not owned yet.
However, I can't prove that the same way nobody proved to me that these sales are generated by new Switch owners.

@Batty5 yeah, you can say that I'm not happy with the games released so far but what I said on my first comment was an opinion based on the fact that Nintendo didn't release any 'new' games that could potentially compete with AC. As far as I can remember only AC, the board game collection and Paper Mario are really new games. So out of 7 months we had only 3 new games and that's being generous with the board game one.
All the other comments after that were responses based on the replies I received from people 'guessing' what people were buying but nobody showed me a link proving their points (facts).

@MrBlacky still not answering my question and adding more stuff to it but okay.

@beazlen1 hahaha, true story!
Either of them would satisfy my expectations until next year lol

@Cyrax77 probably not, I think Nintendo didn't release 2x big franchises in one semester (I might be wrong though).
But I think that IF there were more options, perhaps the AC sales would not be as great.
Also there is the lockdown situation that certainly helped.
At home, for instance, my daughter (9 years old) asked me to buy it for her after seeing the ad on the TV.
I bought it because of the lockdown situation but this kind of request is something that she normally doesn't do, usually I'm the one introducing her to games so my case was one of the lockdown ones as I only got it for her because she couldn't get out to see her friends.
Having played AC myself, I don't see me buying it again as it doesn't appeal to me.
My point is: wouldn't people buy something different if they had the option?
Perhaps not to beat AC sales but enough to make a dent over the months?

@MrBlacky where did I say that exactly? 🤔

@nhSnork if you followed the discussion after my initial post you will see that we touched the point you make.
And just a FYI, my first comment is talking about in general - no other big hits released to challenge AC - not specifically about any type of user.
In regards to the users, that can apply to the other side of the spectrum as well so the same way that there are users on the situation you described there are others up to date with the their games and waiting for new stuff.
Heck, you can see some of them commenting here even.

@TheFullAndy he talked about the top 10 only.
So no, not trying to put a negative spin.

@TheFullAndy yes, I get your point but I disagree 😉
Personally I think it's soon to say that AC will be a MK8 style of game, meaning, that will keep appearing on the charts for years.
And no doubt that there are plenty of options to please many gamers but I don't think this changes my point of the lack of new games from Nintendo.
You also mentioned that, partially, these are new Switch owners so they'd buy AC but if that's the case then we probably would also see other older games on the chart (ie. Mario Odissey, Zelda, Splatoon etc). These are new games for the owners right?
Anyway, as I said I agree to disagree with you 👍😉

@westman98 "3 of the Top 10 best-selling games on the charts released more than 6 years ago.
People buy games they are interested in, not because they are new."
Yes, people buy games that they are interested. No doubt, however, it's not the majority of people is it?
If it was, instead of 3 games older than 6 months we would have more games like that on the top 10 following your logic.

@TheFullAndy AC, as I said, it's a big IP and certainly had benefited from the current world situation. It's a phenomenon as you say.
However, this doesn't exclude the fact that in 2020 we didn't have many new games from Nintendo that would be strong enough to persuade people to buy them instead of AC.

Well, you can say that AC is selling so well because it's a big IP but, also, because there isn't many other options from Nintendo in the past 8 months.

I'd prefer to see a complete new entry.
Perhaps with Fox's father and his team?
They could tell the story of the betrayal. It would be very interesting.
Also, they should definitely create sections of a 3rd person shooter where you can play with other team members and use their abilities to infiltrate places etc.
Nintendo should also get some ideas from Starlink and improve upon it.

Golf and maybe WWE.
So far August and September are not looking great and nothing from Nintendo...

Playing Crysis currently and plan to get Burnout Paradise soon.

I can only say that I'm having a lot of fun playing this game for the first time.
At the moment I've only been able to play it in handheld mode and the game runs absolutely fine.
Highly recommended for anyone that likes FPS games.

"game releases planned for this fiscal year are currently not affected"
And, yet, nobody knows what to buy from Nintendo from next month 😂

For me it's simple. As this is pretty much the 2018 game (that I have) I'll keep playing that until a true update arrives on the Switch.
Until then, EA won't see my money.
And, at this point, I could not care less about the cover.

I'd buy PÉS over Fifa in a heart beat.

@Virtua4 I know!
Keep trying to get it to work and keeps saying it's on preorder still.

Getting for sure, never played and, from the gameplay videos I saw, it seems to be a nice game to play.
Perfect for my commute to work.

Who is ready to be disappointed again?
Sorry, I'm not so I'll be skipping this one.

Crazy that they opted to show a game that will release in 2021 and we, the players, don't even know what's going to be released next month and through out the rest of the current year.

Is golf with your friends discounted in Europe?

Why the heck would I want to know about previously announced games?
What are they smoking in the Nintendo HQ?

This looks really promising. I'm going to get it for sure.
Never had the chance to play it before.

My only hope from that list are from Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Electronic Arts, Koch Media, Sega Europe.

Bethesda on a release date for Doom Eternal.
EA on the list of missing games they said they have planned.
Sega on anything 😂
Bamco and Koch on new releases for the Switch.

Also, some games from smaller developers.

That will be very interesting and makes us wonder what Nintendo might be planning for Mario's anniversary.
What I hope is that not only some Remasters but also new entries for Mario games (ie. Mario Golf, Strikers etc).
I also hope that this will not mean the second half of the year with Mario games only.
As much as I have fun and like the IP we need to have variety of IPs.

This is looking good. I'll get it if it runs nicely.

@rockodoodle yeah, I suppose it is but my point before was that after AC, released about 4 months ago, we only had clubhouse as a filler from Nintendo, at least this is the only game I can remember and I'm not counting the pokemon DLC.
So it's been a very slow year and, now, I have doubts that it will be better on the second half of the year.

@beazlen1 what's more frustrating is that some of these games would be perfect fillers, tell me what did we have between AC and now from Nintendo? Nothing memorable that I can remember.
Just the board games collection but that's all?
And, in my view, these are not games that would require a lot of time & resources to be made.
It's crazy to think that none of these IPs appeared on the Switch yet.

@beazlen1 lol loved your comment.
You forgot Luigi's Diddy Kong Race!

It's sad to see that AC is nearly 4 months old and nothing from Nintendo came in between 😑
It's been a dry season for me so far.

What a waste of time. Nothing for the Switch.
And all the other games were leaked so not a single surprise.

@illmatic20xx was about to come here to say that.
Mario Rabbids 2 would be amazing.
Wish they release something else exclusive for the Switch as well.
I remember they made an AC exclusive for the PS Vita.
It would be good to have something like that only for the Switch.

I hope that it's true and some good surprises.
Also, hopefully there will be more than 4 games only.

Nice, I'll get it after reading a few reviews.
Never had the chance to play it before and now it's the perfect time.

So it's like a fake Pokemon game?
Even a virtual console announcement would be better than anything at this stage.

It seems that there is a bit of debate on the image.
I see an 'announcement' of a TR collection that starts from the very beginning until the newer games (reboots).
I do hope this is the case and that we can finally not only play the classics but have the reboots available to play on the go.

This looks nice and I just hope the controls will be simple.
Kind of game easy to pick up and play with anyone, if they try to complicate too much then it might not be so fun.

@Kimyonaakuma completely agree, a demo of the game would be great.
I've never had a proper run with previous entries so a demo to refresh my memory and entice me to buy the game would be great.

@Scrubicius Mário Kart should get a new entry at this stage.