The way we got one of the best 2D metroid game and also one of the best remaster with Prime is crazy, since before the Switch the last main line Metroid game was other M, which is crazy to think about.
Hmm, it's rather hard to choose a proper list for myself, but I'll give it a try:
I really want to try it. I played so much fighting games when I got into them with Tekken 8 that I'm more or less taking a break aside from a little Street Fighter. It's kind of a hard genre to juggle multiple games with now that I've found my main one. But it does look really cool. Did they ever implement crossplay? I'd admittedly get it on PC.
Yeah if you want to get proficient, especially starting out with fighting games, you’ll probably want to focus on a few. With 2D fighters a lot of skills transfer though between games which helps a ton. Yeah no crossplay yet, so probably a much bigger online player pool on PS4 or PC. I plan to double dip on PS4 down the road for that reason.
I dont know why you say it like that when there are extremely good and valid reasons why those years in particular had a smaller line up of games compared to others, and this year (2024) has good reasons as well, buy we're so far averaging 1 game a month from Nintendo, so it's objectively not a drought unless the 2nd half of this year actually has nothing. Even then, 2020 in particular had fantastic 1st party games, several of them actually. I bought more 1st party games in 2020 than I did the final years of the Gamecube. Now the GC was a bad time to be a Nintendo fan, the droughts were endless until the Wii saved us. You likely never owned a GC or Wii U if you think now is a dry period!
I've owned Nintendo systems day and date since the 64. This is a dry spell on par with the Wii U lol
To me it feels a little odd that full on remakes are being viewed as filler in the same way lower budget remasters are.
I think we need to give Nintendo another month before we give up hope on 2024. Though as far as gaming is concerned this may be the most boring year I've personally seen, at least as far as bigger developers are concerned.
I'm not 100% confident, but using this thread as a reference point, it looks like it should be about 11:30 PM PT on 5/6 / 2:30 AM ET on 5/7. EDIT: That November 2023 earnings thread is funny because there are people hoping for a Switch 2 announcement in it.
Sony last year literally only released Spider-Man 2 for the entire year. We’re practically drowning in games on Switch once you start comparing to some GameCube or Wii U years in terms of 1st party support, and we clearly don’t know what the 2nd half contains.
There were 2 years in the GameCube era where I bought 3 first party games or less. So far this year, I’ve already bought 3 Nintendo games, with a 4th at the end of this month with TTYD. I’d say we’re doing just fine, and judging by how well the Switch is still selling worldwide in its eighth year and how big of a flop the GameCube was, clearly the Switch’s line up right now is perfectly fine for most people while people gave up on the GC due to the huge droughts. I’d say the consolidation was 1000% worth it as I feel we get more games than ever compared to prior Nintendo systems.
The combined first party output of the GameCube and GBA every year from 2001-2006 is significantly more quantity wise than any year of the Switch era. Your post here is just a matter of taste
I'd like to see receipts
To be fair, if this is criteria, I literally only bought one first party game in 2018, Smash.
You mean to tell me that HD game development takes longer than making GBA games? I'm shocked.
I addressed that already and that doesn't excuse the droughts when they could be making smaller handheld-style games alongside the big projects
They... literally do make smaller projects between big ones? F-Zero 99 is still going strong and a great example of a lower budget small release, WarioWare Move It was just last year, and NWC NES Edition will be another budget smaller title released at less than full price.
In all fairness, almost every game released recently has been a remake/remaster and that doesn't seem to be changing any time soon. It's not exactly a drought, but the water isn't clean.
But it is endless!
they literally just released a smaller scale game lol
I’m not sure how true this is compared to Switch titles
I don’t think ‘exclusives only’ is a great way to measure droughts either, or wanting first party only exclusive smaller releases, when part of the reason there’s shedloads of games to play on Switch is multiplat release of smaller titles. There’s pretty much always something worth playing when wading through the dozens of games on the eshop each month if you’re looking for smaller titles, the eshop threads here do a good job of highlighting them, they just aren’t first party games. And that’s a good thing- the variety is awesome. We don’t really have ‘droughts’ any more unless the criteria is really, really narrow like ‘high-scoring exclusive first-party release’.
I might be completely wrong but I think you’re not able to use vouchers for pre-orders if they expire before the game is released (or a week before w/ the preloading, not sure?)
Switch has been getting fewer and fewer of the big multiplatform games tho
This is true, but also wanting a constant supply of highly reviewed exclusives in year 8 of a console’s lifespan or considering it a drought is a bit of an unrealistic standard to want, even if it’s disappointing that it isn’t met. I don’t expect people to ‘be at peace with it’ (c’mon, we’re talking about video games here), they can have whatever opinion they want, but on the other hand it’s a situation with a pretty reasonable explanation.
You're right, but I think it's easier to accept a slower release cadence (of original exclusives that aren't swimming in sevens) if a successor has been announced. But right now, there's no official word on that. As far as Nintendo is publicly saying, the Switch is their future, and right now (again in terms of officially available information) that future isn't looking brightThis is true, but also wanting a constant supply of highly reviewed exclusives in year 8 of a console’s lifespan or considering it a drought is a bit of an unrealistic standard to want, even if it’s disappointing that it isn’t met. I don’t expect people to ‘be at peace with it’ (c’mon, we’re talking about video games here), they can have whatever opinion they want, but on the other hand it’s a situation with a pretty reasonable explanation.
I think everything I’m looking forward to this year is a multiplat or a port, and Nintendo haven’t told us what their plan is from this summer onwards yet. That’s OK (to me, at least). I expect most of their games development is focused on the next console at this point, and there’s absolutely shedloads of smaller titles to play until that happens.
TPC have said that Game Freak's development cycles have not changed ever and they realize that maybe that's not a good idea anymore with the backlash to Scarlet/Violet's launch, so I don't really think that's a good example.
