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Nintendo Switch Discussion Thread (Question of the Day, Countdown, etc)

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koss424

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Jesus Christ, this is some serious brain-washing...

And it's not about the ad... it's about what we can expect of the Switch if it's being compared to the Wii.

Anyways...

as stated before, it's just a play on the old ad. It's pretty good in that regard too. In the original ad the NES was compared to Pong. I imagine the NES haters of 1985 were also concerned about that.
 

Plum

Member
Didn't From say they were working on 3 titles a little while back and one of them was a Sci Fi title? That's basically where my prediction is from after seeing them listed on that Nintendo 3rd party reel and that rumour of them testing out and being happy with DS3s performance on the Switch ahead of a possible DS trilogy release for all three consoles.

After all who better in Japan for a Metroid game outside of Nintendo themselves especially with Nintendo's western arm in Retro not working on Metroid going by the rumours. Perfect way to build up that relationship with From also.

Shit I completely forgot about that news, it's been a while. Now I've got a little hope that it might actually happen.
 

GAMETA

Banned
I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt before as people weren't exactly being polite in their replies, but you've jumped the shark now.

Console yourself with the knowledge that your opinion is just as worthless as everyone else's and move on with your life. You're wrecking this thread with a debate about the Wii; a debate that has no place here.

Are you a mod? If not I don't care what you think about me buddy, have a nice day! :)


Anyways, end of conversation here... this is definitively not contributing to the topic, sorry for the inconvenience.
 

ugoo18

Member
Shit I completely forgot about that news, it's been a while. Now I've got a little hope that it might actually happen.

Fingers crossed it happens, if not then fingers crossed we get a Metroid game sometime soon to begin with lol.
 
Or that Nintendo will sit on 3D Mario until the Holidays?
https://twitter.com/ArcadeGirl64/status/817883101032513538?lang=de

Let me just say for one last time that I told you this stuff a long time ago but you didn't believe me. Ok, then. I'm done being petty.
For now.

You're acting as if we don't all know how Nintendo operates. If Zelda is coming in March, then of course Nintendo might sit on the Mario game until Christmas.

Or they could release it earlier. Galaxy 2 released in May. Emily is speculating, as are you. 3D Mario would make a great Holiday game, but it would also make a great post-launch release. Either is possible and Nintendo has a track record of doing both.
 
Wasn't the original prototype for Metroud Prime a third person game? I can see Nintendo returning to that.

From would be perfect for that.

If we're talking third parties using first-party IP, I would love a 2.5D Metroid from Chair. They already made one with Shadow Complex, and I'd love to see what they learned from that applied to the actual Metroid IP.
 

Frodo

Member
You guys talking about Metroid, when Retro is probably releasing fucking Donkey Kong for the Switch.


I need a new Metroid, now. Please.
 

Plum

Member
All From would have to do for a Metroid game is is take Bloodborne, set it in a dark sci-fi world, focus the combat around ranged attacks instead of melee, ditch the RPG mechanics, add a Prime-like option to scan environmental details and call it Metroid Dread. It almost makes too much sense.

Fingers crossed it happens, if not then fingers crossed we get a Metroid game sometime soon to begin with lol.

Yep, fingers crossed.
 
Are you a mod? If not I don't care what you think about me buddy, have a nice day! :)

Anyways, end of conversation here... this is definitively not contributing to the topic, sorry for the inconvenience.

I don't think anything of you. I merely wanted the inane, off-topic debate to end. In fact, I thought people were being unfairly aggressive toward you until you started to talk rudely and in absolutes as well.

Alas, you apparently also agree it isn't contributing to the thread, so I'm glad it's done. No hard feelings.
 

Lgndryhr

Member
I feel like the Switch's box / packaging will be mostly red. Like a solid red box with white accents and the console pictured.

Just trying to talk about something else, lol.
 

GAMETA

Banned
I don't think anything of you. I merely wanted the inane, off-topic debate to end. In fact, I thought people were being unfairly aggressive toward you until you started to talk rudely and in absolutes as well.

Alas, you apparently also agree it isn't contributing to the thread, so I'm glad it's done. No hard feelings.

Np buddy, no hard feelings as well :)
 

Plum

Member
Where do people think is the best place to safeguard a Switch in the UK, Game?

Game's already taking preorders, but they're not exactly 100% reliable. The best bet if you don't care about a midnight release is Amazon or ShopTo since they'll possibly open up preorders at 5/6am on Friday morning when most people will be sleeping.
 
Where do people think is the best place to safeguard a Switch in the UK, Game?

Switch is for busy people. I would head north to secure mine
EDIT: Ok serious answer, Shopto have a good reputation honoring their preorders and sending one day early to make sure they parcels arrive on launch date.
 
Burning their 2 aces at the same time? I want to believe!

I have no opinion about whether both are ready for the Switch release, and sure, it would be great, but it does seem like a really bad idea. Even pushing one to summer, when there would be more stock or something, just seems like a much better business idea. I want them both too, but I think Nintendo really does need to spread those out a bit.

I feel like the Switch's box / packaging will be mostly red. Like a solid red box with white accents and the console pictured.

Obviously the red and the white seem to fall in line with their iconography. Red is the Mario color too. I'd say a bright red box is actually a pretty good bet.
 

ugoo18

Member
All From would have to do for a Metroid game is is take Bloodborne, set it in a dark sci-fi world, focus the combat around ranged attacks instead of melee, ditch the RPG mechanics, add a Prime-like option to scan environmental details and call it Metroid Dread. It almost makes too much sense.

Their the perfect dev for realising that initial 3rd person attempt at Metroid pre Prime's release and also their games are almost perfect realisations of the various dread steeped parts of Metroid Prime from Retro's efforts.

They basically tick all the boxes of what Retro brought to Metroid in the first person perspective but this time from the 3rd person perspective.

They do tension well, their environmental work is up there with the best, their story telling is very evocative imo of Retro's style, their enemy design is phenomenal, their level design is great when they start something new (Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne to be exact) and the lore they create for their worlds at the very least is as intricate and varied as Retro's lore for the Metroid series. Plus like Retro solely dependent on how bothered the player is to find it all or not and make the connections themselves.
 

Anarky

Banned
Ahh marketting. Telling you the stories they want to you hear, as opposed to the actual story.

That graphic should be a bunch of ever decreasing dias' until Wii then it goes up and then drops down dramatically, with the final one being a question block.


Edit: I just notice the fine print "even skeptics are welcome" now that's funny.

Wut? Am I wrong? Tell me how complex a sports minigame can be...

"but it sold the industry changer MOTION CONTROLS" yeah and 10 years later no one gives a single fuck about it.. seeing comments on the internet about Wii games on the Wii U Eshop and you hear people saying "oh shit, I really need to use motion controls? Can't I play with the Pro Controller or the Gamepad? Nintendo should fix it!".. Such an innovation, was so much ahead of it's time that not a single person wants to use that crap anymore...

VR is going down the same way... trendy stuff selling to trend follower cool wannabe people, once the hype's gone it's all gone.

What crawled up your asses and died?
 

Aostia

El Capitan Todd
Anyway, do you guys NOW believe Zelda is coming out in March since Emily tweeted about it?

https://twitter.com/ArcadeGirl64/status/818523361093582848?lang=de

Or that Nintendo will sit on 3D Mario until the Holidays?
https://twitter.com/ArcadeGirl64/status/817883101032513538?lang=de

Let me just say for one last time that I told you this stuff a long time ago but you didn't believe me. Ok, then. I'm done being petty.
For now.

I'm ok with Zelda at launch also in EU :)
Sit on Mario until Hoidays instead wouldn't make much sense. so it will happen :)
Doesn't make much sense because of RUN release on mobile, and because I think that oneof the main reasons fo Nintendo going hybrid and killing WiiU releases was to put out a solid continous stream of games on Switch
if they go back to the usual release schedule policy....................
 
Reddit Rumour:

someone says their gamestop germany employee showed them what games can be pre-ordered for the switch.

"http://imgur.com/8jwngTz Just got to see this list at my Local GameStop, Germany."

prices and release dates are placeholders so far if I understand correct. But honestly I just found it funny and probably fake

So as a former Gamestop employee I believe that list. Theres a lot of little things that make me believe its real partly because it doesn't have anything to crazy on it besides DQ 10 and while I've seen many people here say it'll never happen... Most of us pretty much thought the same about DQ7 and 8 coming out for the 3DS until they announced that as well and Square certainly seems to be making an active effort to make the series more well known in the west by releasing all the games they can over here I don't think its THAT crazy.

Since I have first hand knowledge of Gamestop I made a video to properly explain why I think this is real: https://youtu.be/PdcUSpwxH6Y I start going over it about 1 minute in.
 

GAMETA

Banned
Let's just hope the "Crazy New IP" is not what became of the Project Robot. That was some serious crappy stuff.
 
Game's already taking preorders, but they're not exactly 100% reliable. The best bet if you don't care about a midnight release is Amazon or ShopTo since they'll possibly open up preorders at 5/6am on Friday morning when most people will be sleeping.

I have put a preorder down at Game and I am also going to order one from Amazon to make sure I get one day one.
 

LordKano

Member
So as a former Gamestop employee I believe that list. Theres a lot of little things that make me believe its real partly because it doesn't have anything to crazy on it besides DQ 10 and while I've seen many people here say it'll never happen... Most of us pretty much thought the same about DQ7 and 8 coming out for the 3DS until they announced that as well and Square certainly seems to be making an active effort to make the series more well known in the west by releasing all the games they can over here I don't think its THAT crazy.

Since I have first hand knowledge of Gamestop I made a video to properly explain why I think this is real: https://youtu.be/PdcUSpwxH6Y I start going over it about 1 minute in.

DQX is way more unbelievable than DQ7 and DQ8, solely because of the nature of DQX. It's an MMO. They're already struggling a lot to sell a single-player DQ game in the west, what sales disaster it would be for a MMO ?

It won't happen. I'm sure of it.
 

Knobiwan

Neo Member
I was so sad this game had been cancelled. We never saw anything really, but it had my interest.

We saw that and NA never got Disaster: DoC, so I was a bit dissappointed as an avid(rabid) dweller of the Nintendo forums back in the day watching every trailer I could.

The WiiU didn't have games not see the light so much as uses of the touch screen that never made it into games.

So we'll see in a few days whether there are similar stories in the origonal reveal trailer for the switch. (Even though I'm sure it's real I will be VERY sad if Skyrim SE is not a real Switch game)
 
I'm ok with Zelda at launch also in EU :)
Sit on Mario until Hoidays instead wouldn't make much sense. so it will happen :)
Doesn't make much sense because of RUN release on mobile, and because I think that oneof the main reasons fo Nintendo going hybrid and killing WiiU releases was to put out a solid continous stream of games on Switch
if they go back to the usual release schedule policy....................

I think it would be alright to hold Mario until holidays if they don't have another title to bolster the Switch during the holiday season and if the release schedule is alright for the rest of the year. (Don't know if it is or not and Nintendo likes spacing out releases most of the time, for better or for worse.) Plus, it fits that Nintendo would delay a game like the new 3D Mario when we don't know much about it other than the footage from Switch reveal and vague rumors of how it'll play and that fits with how Nintendo usually has something during the holidays to boost sales on their platforms like Pokemon, Zelda and Mario titles over the years.
 

hatchx

Banned
Why isn't there a hype train pic yet? Really? Seriously?

There hasn't been a time to be this hyped about a Nintendo console since they unveiled the Wii in 2006, and seeing as Switch launches in two months and doesn't have any gimmicks, I expect this to be a far, far better presentation and unveiling for gamers like us.

Choo-choooo!
 
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