westman98

At least its not yet another Mario Kart bundle.

Hey, at least Emio did better than Concord 😐

Amazon is publishing the next Tomb Raider game, maybe that will be a Switch 2 release?

No, $500 is too much, regardless of how powerful the Switch 2 is.

$400 is perfect.

https://x.com/Chris_Dring/status/1665754232857800705
https://x.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1671155958448529408

Dring said there wouldn't be June 2023 Nintendo Direct just less than 3 weeks before one actually happened.

Not to say that a post-March 2025 Switch successor release can't happen, but Chris Dring's sources have a poor record regarding Nintendo. If they don't know about Nintendo hosting a Direct that would happen 3 weeks later, I struggle to believe they know about something that won't happen 6+ months later.

Glad that the studio is alive, and this should be good news for a potential Switch/Switch 2 version.

Sad that other Tango IPs outside of Hifi Rush remain under Microsoft/Bethesda where they will likely not be used for a long, long time.

Borderland's box office take will be a fraction of that of other notable panned movies such as Morbius and Madame Web. To call this a disaster would be a gross understatement.

Anyone but Embracer Group

@Haruki_NLI
I don't actually think that Mario Kart Live is not a video game, my point is that it is a spin-off title that was never going to sell anywhere remotely as much as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in the same way that nobody expects Mario Golf to sell as much as Super Mario Odyssey.

@Haruki_NLI
Mario Kart Live is a spin-off, it hardly counts as some kind of legitimate sequel to Mario Kart 8 and honestly qualifies as more of a toy than a video game.

@Grumblevolcano
Super Mario Bros Wonder will be the game that kicks NSMBU Deluxe off the chart, though it probably won't happen until 2025.

Pokemon Legends Z-A will be big, but to outsell NSMBU Deluxe, it would have to significantly outsell Pokemon Legends Arceus, which I just don't see happening given how late it will release in the Switch's lifespan.

Decent Switch sales given it's age but it's definitely time for the Switch successor.

Nintendo Selects happened in the past because prior Nintendo platforms saw significant declines in software sales and active players in their twilight years. With Switch, software sales still remain strong (Nintendo sold 200 million Switch games in the last fiscal year, a decline from 217 million sold the fiscal year prior, but still a huge figure) so there is no need for Nintendo Selects anytime soon, if ever.

With that being said I think some of the smaller Nintendo IPs like Xenoblade, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Arms, Mario Tennis/Golf/Strikers (and other smaller Mario spin-offs in general), etc would benefit greatly from permanently price reductions.

Well that's kinda sad. I had fun with the first 2 Wii entries even if they were far from perfect.

When I step on a Shadow the Hedgehog LEGO piece:

@Cjam36
The actual sale figures are proprietary data locked behind a subscription to Circana which is quite expensive (thousands of dollars per month).

@link3710
No, it's because the PC version launched back in May.

@-wc-
You're free to share your personal opinions about those games but that really doesn't address the issue regarding increased development time/resources.

@-wc-
Nintendo didn't exactly ditch their software "parallelism": the Switch has (or will have) its own original 2D Mario, Zelda, and Metroid entries in Super Mario Bros Wonder, Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, and Metroid Dread. Those games are basically modern iterations of their SNES predecessors, yet they all had ~4 year development cycles anyways (possible Covid impact notwithstanding). We are well beyond the age of "small" games being developed in just 18-24 months with shoestring budgets, even they are decent investments in time and resources nowadays.

@-wc-
Nintendo going back to SNES-tier games might seem cool for those who grew up on the SNES and love ths console dearly, but it's not a strategy that'll work for the vast majority of consumers. Most people expect future products to improve upon on their immediate predecessors, not to be throwbacks to their 30 year-old entries.

@koffing
Increase in visual fidelity and bigger scope are the main culprits in long development times.

@datamonkey
Nope, HAL is completely independent from Nintendo.

So GTA Online but you never exit the vehicle?

I'm no prophet but it's easy to see this flopping.

@LadyCharlie
I dunno about UK prices but Luigi's Mansion 2 retailed at $40 USD, which was the standard retail price of 3DS games in the US.

It's absolutely brand-related. With a few exceptions (Mario vs Donkey Kong, Captain Toad, WarioWare, etc), Mario-related games will retail at $60 or whatever the regional equivalent is.

When Switch 2 launches, all of those games will cost $10 more.

@Kirgo
Let me rephrase: Most PC games don't really exclusively use the scroll wheel for anything, not even for navigating long lists.

To be fair, most PC games don't really use the scroll wheel for anything, not even for navigating long lists.

If I got a nickel everytime I've seen someone say "This looks too good for Switch, it must be Switch 2/Pro footage" over the last 3+ years, I'd be Elon Musk by now.

The Trirod echo/imitation summoning ability looks like a better version of Fuse from TOTK. It's safe to say emergent gameplay will remain a pillar of all Zelda games from now onward, even in 2D.

Any game that relies as much on backtracking as Metroid basically requires that you lose all or most of your abilities at the very beginning so that not everything is accessible to everyone immediately.

@sanderev
That is completely different from him saying that he is done working on Smash Bros.

@sanderev
Show me where/when he said that.

@Randomname19
There is no need to guess when we know it will be the next Smash Bros.

Stuff like this is why companies like Nintendo are very, very protective of their brand and their IPs.

@rjejr
It's not like Mario Kart went on complete hiatus after 8 or 8 Deluxe, Tour released in 2019 followed by the Booster Course Pass in 2022. Once it became clear that 8 Deluxe was going to sell as much (or in this case, a lot more) than any previous new Mario Kart title, releasing Mario Kart 9 on Switch became completely redundant, it'll surely be a Switch 2 title instead.

The same applies to 3D Mario, Bowser's Fury launched in early 2021 and the next entry is surely a Switch 2 release.

@Yosti
I guess it's possible but it'll be a lot harder since Tango can't supervise or provide any assistance.

Tango's closure also means Microsoft no longer has a Japanese game studio which means there may be language-barrier-related complications for another (presumably western) studio to handle a HiFi port.

@obijuankanoobie
Boy have I got some bad news for you...

@Maxz
Amiibos are basically collector figures at this point, producing and selling amiibos of obscure characters will do more than fine for the purpose they serve (i.e. generate easy short-term profit).

The toys-to-life game genre has been dead since 2017/18 - there is no chance Nintendo will make their own Skylanders, especially since Smash already acts the one big game that supports all the amiibos.

@rjejr
Games take 4-6 years to make nowadays and Nintendo only has one active platform rather than two, you'll never see the same rate of game output as in the past ever again because of this increase in development times and lack of redundancy (this goes for the entire industry, not just Nintendo).

You can't mandate performance/quality mode options if developers don't want to or are unable to do so.

This probably should have happened back in 2016 when the logo change actually happened, but better 8 years late than never lol.

@GrailUK
Quite the opposite, and that's the problem

Midori went from being a fairly reliable Sega/Atlus leaker to suddenly having access to all this inside info from other companies (Nintendo, Square Enix, Capcom, etc) as well?

I don't believe it and neither should anyone else.

Intelligent Systems actually did change the combat system of another game franchise they work on, and the response was, well, not great.

@Sisilly_G
Activision already does this on other platforms: the PlayStation and Xbox retail disc version of the last 2 CODs each shipped with a mere 70-100MB of data and you have to install the rest of the game via an internet download.

This is done because all Call of Duty games (Warzone, MWII, MWIII, soon BO6) are played from the same launcher named "Call of Duty HQ", and therefore each game is treated like a giant "expansion" to this single Call of Duty HQ "game".

Bowser is just glad Nintendo didn't treat him like how Boeing treats their whistleblowers.

@LG555
AlphaDream was "dumb" for remastering BiS for 3DS because they should have remastered it for Switch instead - very few people were actively buying 3DS games by late 2018/early 2019.

Sony was not dumb for remastering TLOU on PS5, the TLOU HBO show debuted just a few months after TLOU PS5 and both products massively benefitted from the brand synergy.

@Ulysses
Huh? Shiver is now a Nintendo studio, why "poach" Nintendo employees to work at...Nintendo?

Anything that loosens Embracer's grasp on this industry is a W in my book

Kinda curious if this year's Call of Duty Black Ops 6 (or whatever the final name is) will be a Switch 2 launch title.

Unlike other 3rd party games, Microsoft is contractually obligated to port COD to Nintendo platforms for the next 10 years starting sometime soon, and that "start date" could very likely be the launch of the next Switch.