The Nintendo Switch

45 minutes Nintendo Direct coming wednesday night. Get on the hype/mild disappoint train

is anything new expected or just more hyping up their fall releases? they don't usually make big announcements via direct

Some of the announcements from the Direct:

Last year's new Doom coming to Switch before holiday, this year's new Wolfenstein coming next year sometime.
Kirby: Star Allies is the Switch Kirby title, out Spring '18
"Arcade Archives" coming (Arcade versions of Mario Bros, Ice Climber, Balloon Fight…)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 out December 1

Haven't actually watched the video just looked at some recap posts but a bunch of Xenoblade and Mario footage was shown

yeah nothing too groundbreaking. the other big announcement was a square enix retro-ish jrpg (2d characters in 2.5d environments stylized after the old SNES squaresoft games) called octopath - there's already a demo available for it

looks kind of like a paper-mario-ized FF6 visually

most interesting one to me was the arcade Punchout getting released, think this is the first time it's been ported?

I think the Doom and Wolfenstein announcements are interesting business-wise. These are AAA, current gen, third-party, rated-M games of the kind that the last three Nintendo home consoles have seen vanishingly little of.

but they'll all be old. not as old as Skyrim, but still

people buying the Nintendo Switch during the next 6 months (i.e. me) do not care how old these ported AAA other-console / PC games are - and we never have

If a Dark Souls Anthology comes out for Switch it will sell many copies.

Anyway, Octopath Traveler demo was pretty fun, also fairly gorgeous

jrpgs are the genre that i am the most skeptical of, there's really only a few that i like and they were all made in the 90s. i definitely love the visual style of octopath though so i'll have to give it a try

I'm not sure I've ever finished an honest to god JRPG but I'll sure as hell start em now and then

I guess I finished Golden Sun? Maybe? Yeah I must've.

I think the Doom and Wolfenstein announcements are interesting business-wise. These are AAA, current gen, third-party, rated-M games of the kind that the last three Nintendo home consoles have seen vanishingly little of.

yeah, considering how little third-party support nintendo consoles have had since the gamecube this is really encouraging news

and both doom and wolfenstein are fantastic, i'd be really tempted to double-dip on both because i am an idiot

a dark souls trilogy would be amazing

i will definitely double up for Doom - DOOM ON THE BUS. DOOOOOOM.

Was thinking of getting my son the new 2DS XL for Christmas as thought there'd be load of cheap old 3DS games available for it.

However, upon looking it seems they've all held their price. Super Smash Bros is selling for about £40 for example, despite being 3 years old. Is that something that's happened since the 2DS came out? (As most PS4 and Xbox One games that are over a year old are usually dirt cheap).

Nintendo first party games have always tended to hold their price, unless they are a total disaster like Metroid Other M. There is a half price line of games for the 3DS though http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-selects

Some first party games at this point may cost less as download titles than physically, since the physical versions will be out of print and overpriced by Amazon robots

also these games are being added to the Selects line in October - Super Mario 3D Land, Kirby's Triple Deluxe and Luigi's Mansion 2.

Nintendo handheld games for first-party stuff, going back as far as GBA at least, always hold value

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/09/video_super_mario_odyssey_seems_to_have_at_least_600_power_moons_to_collect

not eough

yeah wtf

need at least one thousand power moons

don't worry there's also 900 korok seeds

mario vs rabbids is exactly charming enough

ha, yeah - it could easily have toppled over into 'lol so random' minions-style larfs but it toes the line perfectly

Octopath Traveller demo (square enix new-old school rpg coming as Switch exclusive) is up on the estore and its EXCELLENT.

Golden Sun vibes imo

is that good or bad

I thought golden sun was on the boring side and was only notable for being on handheld

I was a teenager when I started Golden Sun and maybe a young adult when I finished it I don't remember but I liked it and this game made me recall Golden Sun fondly, in particular the rhythm of the core combat mechanic of breaking and bursting reminded me of the Djinn system of unleashing and summoning. I bet this game is reminiscent of things that older people or people with different touchstones from the aughts might think of as more noteworthy but yknow I've never actually played a Final Fantasy other than FF Tactics Advance and uh the weird cartoony one for DS.

ah ok. visually this is very much trying to be FF6 but 2.5d-ized. I haven't seen the combat system yet so I can't speak to that

i like how it looks but the unskippable text and tiresome first attempts at fighting aren't helping

ALERT ALERT ALERT
https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/20/16339746/picross-s-nintendo-switch-release-date-price

is picross still fun in 2017

picross is fun for eternity

Agree.

Yep!

oh i keep forgetting this thing has a touchscreen since i don't have any games that use it yet

Nintendo stock is on a good run

Thank goodness for that, I sometimes worry Disney will try to buy them.

i'm 100% down for switch picross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eOdEkmTP0o

looks solid! the switch is really turning out to be a way more capable performer than i'd expected

lol the audio sounds so wimpy

switch runs a lot of stuff at 900p or adaptive resolution which lets it cheat on its specs a bit

Octopath Traveller demo is gooood (if you read faster than the voice acting)

xp so do all consoles from time to time

Golf Story on Thursday