Serkan Toto Rumor: Bandai Namco making several NX games, including a Smash for launch

I hope this and no BC are the case. Just a handful of NX ports of Wii U titles would be enough to bring most of the Wii U's big hitters over.
 
I don't believe for a second that we're getting a new Smash Bros so soon, but imagine if we did with Nintendo having all that Fighter Ballot info? Oooh.
 
Mario Maker, MK8, Smash 4, and Splatoon are most definitely getting ports.

Those are all evergreen games and very extensible in terms of content.

I wonder if there would be cross platform play? Imagine that?

I don't agree at all with this. Super Smash Bros is likely to get a port due to the amount of content it's received since it's launch but I seriously doubt Splatoon or Mario Kart 8 will get anything but sequels on NX. Mario Kart is a one game per system franchise and I doubt Nintendo will want to split consumers between Mario Kart 8 and 9, especially with how Mario Kart games rarely get effected by price. MK8 will almost certainly stay on the Wii U. Super Mario Maker wouldn't even work on NX unless it has a tablet styled controller or is a handheld.

It's very rare for Nintendo just to put their older games on new systems and I don't think we're going to start seeing them do it now. Sure the GBA got a lot of SNES ports but not ones from updatable franchises like Mario Kart and Splatoon, we'll see successors.
 
Smash for NX seems like a no-brainer, especially if it includes all the content of both versions. I'm more curious about the other Bamco titles, though I suspect they wouldn't be much more than ports of other multiplats. Granted, that would be a substantial improvement over Bamco's solo support on the Wii U, which consisted of a port of TTT2 and Tank! Tank! Tank!.

I wonder if Project Treasure got bumped to NX, then.
 
All 58 Characters
All 84 Stages
>1400 Trophies

Smash Run & Smash Tour included

Maybe all customs unlocked from the beginning

And maybe even more!

That sounds like a wet dream

Gimmie fountain of dreams and Melee's adventure mode(or an sequel) too if we're dreaming big.
 
I'd really rather have Melee HD Online Remix as the NX launch title with a proper Smash 5 a year or 2 later.
 
Super Smash Bros. at launch is a major letdown. The Wii U version will barely be three years old by that point. (Two if it managed to release this year, which I personally doubt.)

Give it a few years to do its thing and then get started on Super Smash Bros. 6.

I know it might disappoints some fans but I wouldn't if we are going to have more characters, stages and modes.

I don't really ask that much tho.
 
Smash for NX seems like a no-brainer, especially if it includes all the content of both versions. I'm more curious about the other Bamco titles, though I suspect they wouldn't be much more than ports of other multiplats. Granted, that would be a substantial improvement over Bamco's solo support on the Wii U, which consisted of a port of TTT2 and Tank! Tank! Tank!.

I wonder if Project Treasure got bumped to NX, then.

It is a no brainer

I thin most people predicted this once the NX was announced

thats a SHORT cycle to drop such high profile software behind in the dust
 
When was the last time a Nintendo system launch had a HUGE game that wasn't a port, remake, or "app" like Wii Sports?

I know it's not exclusive to Nintendo, but for every system I've bought from them in the last decade it's felt like "making do" with whatever crap they bring for launch day whilst waiting for the real system sellers. Maybe my fault for early adopting, but would really make a change to have a huge game like SSB from Day 1.

You're making a big mistake.

But if you exclude Wii Sports, the answer is Super Mario 64. Technically Smash Melee wasn't available for GameCube on launch day.

Depends on what constitutes huge. Huge in hindsight or game that could have been expected to be big.

The Wii U launched with New Super Mario Bros U. It didn't set the world on fire, but it was a good game that showed off the Wii U concept.

The Wii U had a pretty beefy launch lineup, though to be fair some of those were late ports.

Still, which discussing these technicalities, a Smash game available at launch might to rather well. I'm just curious how well a "Remaster" or "GOTY" edition would actually sell. Would it move consoles?

Smash bundled with NX Console and Handheld as the only available bundle on launch day?

No idea.
 
He's an analyst and consultant contracted by many of the big mobile publishers (that includes traditional publishers with mobile departments) in Japan.

Used to work as a reporter as well, so he'd have pretty extensive sources.

Smash is probably a port, but he didn't specify.

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Source: https://twitter.com/serkantoto/status/692755598497046528
Holy fuck I'm hyped!
 
Klonoa's going to be in Smash, Bandai Namco are going to be developing a new Klonoa game and it's going to sell 100 million units because everyone loves Klonoa, it's a household name.
 
I'd really rather have Melee HD Online Remix as the NX launch title with a proper Smash 5 a year or 2 later.

I think that would be a really bad move by Nintendo, given that aside from the niche competitive community for melee, the vast majority of potential consumers would see Melee as a downgrade
 
Certainly a port

Isn't it being speculated that porting from Wii U to NX is easy? Maybe we will see more ports on its first year
 
Food for thought. I think several implies more than what we knew for both Wii U and 3DS prior to launch by Bandai Namco no?

For Wii U, they only had announced Tekken TT2 and Tank Tank Tank right?

For 3DS it was Tales of the Abyss and Ridge Racer 3D right? Was Ace Combat AHL known prior to launch? Again, I'm referring to games known before launch to exist period.
 
Wonder if an alleged Smash 4 port will collate all the content from both versions into one. Would make sense if the NX is some shared console/handheld ecosystem like some are speculating.
 
Smash for NX seems like a no-brainer, especially if it includes all the content of both versions. I'm more curious about the other Bamco titles, though I suspect they wouldn't be much more than ports of other multiplats. Granted, that would be a substantial improvement over Bamco's solo support on the Wii U, which consisted of a port of TTT2 and Tank! Tank! Tank!.

I wonder if Project Treasure got bumped to NX, then.
It came out in Japan months ago.
 
I think Super Smash Bros 4: Final Edition is a pretty smart move from Nintendo. I dont think it will happen with Splatoon though. Splatoon 2 is probably already being developed, considering the succes of 1st one.

I expect several Zelda-TP crossovers in next two years (Zelda U, Smash 4, Animal Crossing).
 
Smash might end up running updates for years and start selling items like hats instead of sequels, is there a prcedent for such a thing?

On PC, sure. Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 are both sequels that went on forever. StarCraft 2 is also being treated as a DLC platform after the last expansion released. Even Rocket League is basically a sequel to Super Powered Acrobatic Rocket Powered Cars.

That said I kind of expect this to be a stop gap to fill in the launch line-up until Smash 5.

Tekken 7 seems pretty obvious, but could be seeing the return of Tales on Nintendo consoles with a port of Berseria, too?
These kinds of things would be the ballpark of what I'd expect, yes. It will presumably vary by franchise and development cycle and how much they want to go all in on launch, along with how easy or difficult it is to port to the system.
 
I'd definitely buy a Smash 4 port with all the DLC included + maybe a few new characters like Ice Climbers and Chorus Kids that weren't possible on 3DS.
 
They change them all the time with each patch

And sometimes not so subtly either

But they don't change their move set to something else entirely... which is what that poster wants.

Balance patching is entirely different from changing a character's move set with completely new animations and new stats just because.
 
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