Jooxed
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Friendship and continued Nintendo GAF love.
Bakkus
Member
I can do both of those <3 my Steam username is the same as here.
Woopah
Member
Very few video game companies give numbers to the extent Nintendo does. Of the big publishers they are the most transparent as far as I'm aware. Would be great to get numbers for smaller titles too though.
However, even more than that I want to know what the third party million sellers on Switch.
Mr Hyde
Member
Hollow Knight, Cuphead and Dead Cells are those I'm certain have reached a million in sales. Overall, indies are doing solid numbers on Switch.
TheSadRanger
Banned
I kinda think the honeymoon is over with indies and the Switch. Unless your getting gaming press coverage or have insane word of mouth your just another title in an endless slog of shovelware on a storefront that's ridiculously archaic.
Games that are big indie darlings will probably be fine. Either way the eshop needs a total redesign from the ground up.
D.Final
Banned
Woopah
Member
I'm sure plenty of indies did well (I got Hollow Knight and Cuphead myself) but we also know that 9 third party retail releases sold over a million in the last year. I can make some good guesses about what they are but would be nice to get confirmation.
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
The eshop is pretty bloody awful - does an even worse job than Steam of surfacing interesting content.
Shaqazooloo
Member
I was on the eShop yesterday, it's very difficult to find some of the good stuff. You have to scroll for quite some time before you find anything interesting.
I just ended up pre purchasing a few titles and checked out what deals their were.
I just ended up pre purchasing a few titles and checked out what deals their were.
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
I'm taking the approach of researching elsewhere (including here) and then for most I'll look for cheap physical copies on shopto, but if I can't I'll get cheap codes and redeem them on the store as I'm not paying those prices.
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
NOLA_Gaffer
kindly introduced me to that site and it's already saved me a few quid since I got my Switch on Monday.
Jooxed
Gold Member
How are you liking it so far? What game did you start with?
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
I'm having fun.
So far I've picked up:
- Pokemon Shield (came with it - physical)
- Mario Odyssey (physical - arrived this morning - got cheap on shopto)
- Mario Kart 8 (physical)
- New Super Mario Brothers U Deluxe (digital - testing the water with that - want to see how ownership works and whether my wife's profile will work on it)
- Tetris 99
- Some demos
Obviously loving Mario Kart 8 though I had to google how to get the god-awful steering-assist thing off, and Pokemon Shield is proving quite a fun first crack at a pokemon game. Mario Odyssey turned up this morning and I had a quick look at it at lunch - it seems pretty cool though the camera is a bit annoying. New Super Mario Bros U is good fun but so much easier than the SNES games. I know it's a bit of a vanilla list but I'll spice it up in due course once Persona makes it across. Catherine Full Body is tempting too though I did recently buy Catherine Classic on PC (fantastic game btw) and I'm not sure there's enough upgrade there to make it worthwhile.
OutrageousFacts
Banned
Aaand no Tony Hawk for Switch. Honestly, this makes me angry, both because this absolutely would run great on Switch and also because I would've loved to play it on Switch. Played the N64-version to death back then.
Stealing this list of frustratingly missing Switch-ports:
One Punch Man
SAO Alicization Lyricois
Dragon Ball Kakarot
Destroy All Humans
Planet Coaster
Sakura Wars
Nier Remake
Demon Slayer
Scarlet Nexus
Mafia II
Tony Hawk 1+2 HD
It's just so insane how these publishers keep ignoring a near 60 million userbase that's starving for games. I wonder how many Haradas, Nagoshis and Nihon Falcoms exist within western publishers ...
Stealing this list of frustratingly missing Switch-ports:
One Punch Man
SAO Alicization Lyricois
Dragon Ball Kakarot
Destroy All Humans
Planet Coaster
Sakura Wars
Nier Remake
Demon Slayer
Scarlet Nexus
Mafia II
Tony Hawk 1+2 HD
It's just so insane how these publishers keep ignoring a near 60 million userbase that's starving for games. I wonder how many Haradas, Nagoshis and Nihon Falcoms exist within western publishers ...
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Publishers actively ignored the Wii's userbase when it was setting the world on fire. They have no issue ignoring the Switch in 2020.
OutrageousFacts
Banned
The Wii was severely underpowered. The Switch is not (do not try to claim the listed games would be too much for Switch ...).
-Arcadia-
Banned
THPS not being on Switch is insane.
I really don't know what goes on at those companies. You'd think that at least a money-hungry entity like Activision would see the profit to be made, even if there isn't creative desire.
With some publishers, you end up with them treating the Switch as some kind of weird afterthought, while in parallel, the system is dominating the world. It just makes zero sense.
At least third party support in general looks a lot healthier than any Nintendo system in quite some time.
I really don't know what goes on at those companies. You'd think that at least a money-hungry entity like Activision would see the profit to be made, even if there isn't creative desire.
With some publishers, you end up with them treating the Switch as some kind of weird afterthought, while in parallel, the system is dominating the world. It just makes zero sense.
At least third party support in general looks a lot healthier than any Nintendo system in quite some time.
Jooxed
Gold Member
Obviously they don't like money.
Nicktendo_
Banned
Not much news going on this week, but we have some first impressions of 80s Overdrive and Streets of Rage 4
We also have an hour long deep-dive into Ori and the Blind Forest.
Optional drinking game for the Ori chat: Take a swig every time you hear me say "incredibly frustrating". Anyone who survives that instantly has my respect.
We also have an hour long deep-dive into Ori and the Blind Forest.
Optional drinking game for the Ori chat: Take a swig every time you hear me say "incredibly frustrating". Anyone who survives that instantly has my respect.
StormCell
Member
I don't want to raise any false hope, but it's possible that an announcement for Switch could still be pending on Nintendo's Summer Direct plans. I know they've given permission for other publishers to make separate announcements, but you never know. It makes zero sense to skip Switch. The games are perfect for it.
D.Final
Banned
Shaqazooloo
Member
Tony Hawk remasters skipping Switch is maddening. Wouldn't be surprised if it's a late port though...
Yeah, it's a complete shambles.
They need a proper "Nintendo Recommends" section and then pay someone to curate and maintain a list of good indies and 3rd party stuff.
Then also have a "Nintendo Exclusives" section that has all of their 1st party stuff.
Then a proper "coming soon" and "current offers" section that is also carefully curated.
Let the rest be thrown into a big pot at the bottom of the page.
OutrageousFacts
Banned
What I dislike most about the eshop is that you can't sort games from best to worst discount. I'd like to easily see all the games that got a 80 or 90 % discount, but no, I can only go to a general 'special sales' site and wade through meaningless 15-30% discounts :/
Shaqazooloo
Member
Looks like Square Enix is in the same boat as Nintendo when it come to E3.
nintendoeverything.com
Square Enix won't hold online event to announce new games despite E3 cancellation
E3 2020 is undoubtedly the biggest gaming event of the year, especially when it comes to new announcements. But after the expo was cancelled due to the coronavirus, publishers were left scrambling and have been forced to reshuffle their plans. We’ve started to see some companies regroup with...
nintendoeverything.com
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Jooxed
Gold Member
Looks like Square Enix is in the same boat as Nintendo when it come to E3.
Square Enix won't hold online event to announce new games despite E3 cancellation
E3 2020 is undoubtedly the biggest gaming event of the year, especially when it comes to new announcements. But after the expo was cancelled due to the coronavirus, publishers were left scrambling and have been forced to reshuffle their plans. We’ve started to see some companies regroup with...
Come on Bravely Default 2 release before I die from corona.
Jooxed
Gold Member
OutrageousFacts
Banned
I don't believe it. And I read they saw the whole map in 4h. So maybe there's 20 hours of content overall, but not the story.
Btw I hope these preview videos finally put to rest the 'remaster or remake' debate: i love the game, but it's clearly a remaster. Lots of 'bad' elements that are generationally better in Xenoblade 2. Which is ok. And this looks still great. A great remaster.
Jooxed
Gold Member
I hope it's sizable for sure but I think anything pushing 10 hours would be big. I was only expecting a few hours to be honest.
Mr Hyde
Member
It's clearly a remake.
OutrageousFacts
Banned
I don't believe you that you'd be satisfied with those animations, the poly count and lack of modern effects if Xenoblade 3 looked like this game. Not sure why some feel so offended at the notion that it's a (great) remaster and not a remake (no, it doesn't matter if the engine changed or whatever, the visible end result matters).
Mr Hyde
Member
I'm not offended. But a remake is a remake. A remaster is upping the res and framerate. Here Monolith have revamped the whole game. New engine, assets, animations, increased poly count and so on. They did the whole nine yard which is more work than that of a remaster. It's not hard to understand.
Starlight Lotice
Member
Nintendo saw Geoff and didn't want any Nacho Doritos and Mountain Dew staining their Switches.
Also, the N64 port back in the day probably scared Activision with limited Cartridge vibes. "NO! NOT LIMITED STORAGE! HOW CAN I DO THE 1080 SHRED ON A CARTRIDGE!"
Nintendo should make a Mario Skateboarding game and it will sell in the millions if Acti don't wanna do it.
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StormCell
Member
Annnnnd snowboarding. Bring back snowboarding.
Starlight Lotice
Member
ATLUS making a new Snowboarding Kids would be pretty amazing. No doubt.
-Arcadia-
Banned
If it were legal, this company would sell us to human traffickers, and throw in
OutrageousFacts
as Season Pass extra content.I more attribute it to stupidity than anything.
...Okay, that does make sense.
OutrageousFacts
Banned
In light of the current situation I had to write another blog entry. Hope the right people (lurking) see it:
outrageousfacts.wordpress.com
First season pass ever to be worth its money.
Blog #008 – The Bad Nintendo-Fans
Let’s make this short, because there’s no need to drag things out: There’s currently a stark dichotomy between Nintendo’s well-being as a company and what they’re doin…
outrageousfacts.wordpress.com
If it were legal, this company would sell us to human traffickers, and throw in
First season pass ever to be worth its money.
StormCell
Member
In light of the current situation I had to write another blog entry. Hope the right people (lurking) see it:
Blog #008 – The Bad Nintendo-Fans
Let’s make this short, because there’s no need to drag things out: There’s currently a stark dichotomy between Nintendo’s well-being as a company and what they’re doin…
First season pass ever to be worth its money.
In response to the blog post, I agree that it is really frustrating not hearing about anything. Radio silence is the worst communication. The flip side of the coin regarding this, OutrageousFacts, is that Nintendo is choosing to be understanding of their employees' transition and struggles. It's refreshing to see a corporation placing its people ahead of its business rather than going into crunch or whatever. Japan is not America or Europe, and working from home is not a common prospect over there.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
-Arcadia-
Banned
Switch can't handle it
It is just a prosthetic of course, but if that breaks TOS, I apologize. Not the intention.
Jooxed
Gold Member
It is just a prosthetic of course, but if that breaks TOS, I apologize. Not the intention.
I'm still wondering who let him back in the thread.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I work with several major Japanese developers, and literally all of them are handling the situation better than Nintendo. They figured out working from home, and they're doing fine. Still slow as shit, because that's how they are, but that's more of a cultural problem than anything.
Anyway, despite my excitement for Xenoblade... looks like I'll be waiting a few weeks to play it. My new speakers won't be here until mid-June, and it just wouldn't be right to play that game without 'em.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
PM me your address so I can give you some corona
Jooxed
Gold Member
Lol hopefully the beer, I had enough trying to dodge it at work man.. just got word we have another 5 confirmed cases in the building. Do you actually have it? Hope your well.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
I'm waiting on my results but I'm pretty sure I have it. Supposed to call back tomorrow. I'm only dealing with head and body aches, dizziness, sore throat and a cough so luckily I don't have any respiratory issues. The testing process was the worst part about this whole mess lol.
OutrageousFacts
Banned
And as I say, it's not just the lack of releases that's terrible. It's the lack of announcements, too.
If Nintendo revealed Monolith Soft's new ip, a 3D-DK and a new Paper Mario *now* and just added "due to Corona we can't promise to releasesl these games this year, but we'll do our best", NOBODY would be angry or disappointed. Because then at least we'd have awesome reveal-trailers and something awesome to look forward to. Atm all we have to look forward to is the rumor of old Mario-games coming to Switch.
StormCell
Member
Agreed, and what sucks about this is that they won't do it because they believe it deflects consumer attention away from current software releases.
If Switch hardware wasn't selling so well, we'd be getting those announcements and trailers.