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StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST4 Jan. 2022| Resurrections

The next Switch model will be called...

  • Nintendo Switch 2

    Votes: 40 23.5%

  • Nintendo Switch Pro

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Switch 4k

    Votes: 13 7.6%

  • Nintendo Switch U

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Switch +

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Nintendo Switch Max

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Nintendo Switch Up

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • New Nintendo Switch

    Votes: 5 2.9%

  • Nintendo Switch Advance

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Super Nintendo Switch

    Votes: 53 31.2%

  • Nintendo Switch Super

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Nintendo Switchxty Four

    Votes: 4 2.4%

  • Nintendo Switchcube

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Swiitch

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Change

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nintendo Modify

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nintendo Adjust

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Nintendo Wii U 2

    Votes: 6 3.5%

  • Other (Please specify)

    Votes: 7 4.1%

  • Switch Plus

    Votes: 5 2.9%
  • Total voters
    170
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Plum said:
Honestly one of the most baffling things I've ever seen a company do is Nintendo putting out goddamn Pikmin and Dr. Mario on mobile instead of Nintendogs.

Was it pride or something? Did they want to be more 'innovative' with mobile stuff like with Mario Run instead of doing the most obvious choice that might-as-well-be tailor-made for mobile? Or did they just lack the foresight to see the golden goose of an IP they were sitting on? I simply can't see a world in which Pikmin Bloom was seen as more of a good investment than "a lifestyle game where you raise cute puppies/kittens."
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Part of their strategy for mobile has been to make their IP available to more people who would then buy their hardware to play the mainline entries. Not much of a point in making a Nintendogs game for mobile if they have no plans to follow it up on Switch.
 
Dardan Sandiego said:
Part of their strategy for mobile has been to make their IP available to more people who would then buy their hardware to play the mainline entries. Not much of a point in making a Nintendogs game for mobile if they have no plans to follow it up on Switch.
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I wonder how that strategy worked out for them lol

Genuinely, because whilst the Switch is doing gangbusters I wonder how many people bought them because "oh wow, I loved Mario Kart Tour so I better spend £350 to get the full-fat version!" There's definitely going to be some crossover there, but whether it was an overall success is something that I doubt we'll ever know. All we can really use to guess is how Nintendo is kind of 'leaving' the mobile space now, but whether that's due to a case of "our mission is finished," or "this wasn't worth it," is hard to see.

Either way, it is a very Nintendo thing to go full-in on a more esoteric strategy like that whilst not even attempting to do the simpler option. They are the company that made the Wii U after all :p
 
Josh5890 said:
At this point, I just can't see a brand new Mario Kart getting announced unless it is exclusively for the next system. Seems like a waste to put it on the OG Switch at this stage of the timeline.
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I'm with you. Why kill the legs of the biggest seller on your system.
But even for Switch 2 (or whatever) it could be a launch (window) game, which I think is realistic.
 
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Josh5890 said:
At this point, I just can't see a brand new Mario Kart getting announced unless it is exclusively for the next system. Seems like a waste to put it on the OG Switch at this stage of the timeline.
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We haven’t had anything new for Mario Kart since 8DX at launch. People are thirsty.

Same reason for Splat 3 on OG Switch vs holding it for the next iteration.
 
Nathan Little said:
Purchased Strange Journey, SMT IV Apocalypse, and the 2 Devil Survivor games. I won't be playing them til I'm done with other games first, though.
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Nice. I didn't finish Devil Survivor (I played it at a point where I wasn't finishing many games at all) but what I played was good. I need to get back to it.

I actually bought a new SD card for my 3DS just to buy a few games during that Sega/Atlus sale lol. I picked up Apocalypse, 7th Dragon III Code: VFD (idk anything about this game but it was cheap and I had leftover money to spend), Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold, and Stella Glow. Not sure when I'll get to them though.
 
surely eventually we'll run out of people to buy mario kart 8

I guess we have like 40 million left?
 
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Does anyone know anything about Omno? Seems like a pretensious arty farty indie I'd be interested in.
 
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Skittzo said:
Reminder that there is a $5 eShop card raffle ongoing in this thread, all you need to do is post a picture of food and some comments about why/when/what you cooked/ate/saw it.

So far only 5 people have entered this week's raffle.
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Does it have to be an actual photo taken by me?
 
Skittzo said:
Man, I just got done putting that into context on the last page.

Just to recap, this is only a prediction of his and he has gotten quite a number of Nintendo predictions wrong over the years.
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Sorry, didn't see it. Weirdly worded prediction though, sounds too definitive for one and tbh, "the next Mario Kart is in active development" isn't a shocker.
 
Nathan Little said:
Man, forget SMT x FE. I want SMT x DK!
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shoptroll said:
We haven’t had anything new for Mario Kart since 8DX at launch. People are thirsty.

Same reason for Splat 3 on OG Switch vs holding it for the next iteration.
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Trust me I'm as thirsty as anyone for the next Mario Kart, but that franchise is traditionally one per system.

Also, we did get Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit a couple of years ago :p
 
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lightning16 said:
Nice. I didn't finish Devil Survivor (I played it at a point where I wasn't finishing many games at all) but what I played was good. I need to get back to it.

I actually bought a new SD card for my 3DS just to buy a few games during that Sega/Atlus sale lol. I picked up Apocalypse, 7th Dragon III Code: VFD (idk anything about this game but it was cheap and I had leftover money to spend), Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold, and Stella Glow. Not sure when I'll get to them though.
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Yeah, I need a new SD card. I had to go through hoops on the 3DS eShop because they wouldn't let you just buy the game. You have to either download now or download later which still takes up data. I had to download them then delete them because I didn't have enough space.
 
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I was ready for a new Mario Kart since before the Switch launched; I'm bored of the face of MK8. :sleep:
 
Actually, this year is the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Kart. I wonder if Nintendo will have anything special.
 
Nothing said about mario kart seems that groundbreaking to me, it almost definitely is in development right now and the expected turnaround time for that should probably be 2022/2023, if we assume they started after finishing up tour in 2019, with a lean towards 2023. Hence you know a probable tease this year with a date for next.
 
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Nathan Little said:
Purchased Strange Journey, SMT IV Apocalypse, and the 2 Devil Survivor games. I won't be playing them til I'm done with other games first, though.
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All great purchases, Devil Survivor on the DS was my entry to MegaTen and I will always have a soft spot for that subseries.
 
It hadn't really hit home to me until I listened to the latest Nate the Hate, but it is mind-boggling that the Switch has now (in all likelihood) outsold the Wii. Just remembering how much of a juggernaut and phenomenon the Wii was, and to think that the Switch has outsold it and is likely to have several more very good sales years to come? I never would have predicted that back in 2017.
 
If (big if) the next MK has a bigger focus on being a crossover of Nintendo IPs and they somehow decide against letting Samus join in on the fun, I will eat the biggest bowl of gelato I can find.
 
MissingNo. said:
If (big if) the next MK has a bigger focus on being a crossover of Nintendo IPs and they somehow decide against letting Samus join in on the fun, I will eat the biggest bowl of gelato I can find.
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Could be like F-Zero in 8 where we have 2 tracks but no C. Falcon. I doubt they'll leave out Samus if crossovers is the next game's gimmick though.
 
NateDrake said:
It was Halo and when the tease happened there was 100% backing to such a project being shopped around and planned. Considering the silence, odds favor the project being shelved for any number of reasons.
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Even if it's alive, it'll take some time before it arrives. Nowadays even the simplest Switch ports take more than a year, no wonder Halo is nowhere to be seen. It even took years to hit PC.

It's been a year and still no word on Mass Effect on Switch, for instance.
 
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Josh5890 said:
At this point, I just can't see a brand new Mario Kart getting announced unless it is exclusively for the next system. Seems like a waste to put it on the OG Switch at this stage of the timeline.
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It's funny too because I feel like releasing any year before this one could have been easily justified. But 2022 really is the "OK, it's too late to announce a new Mario Kart for Switch" time (unless it's cross-generations? But seems kind of pointless compared to just making it a big game for the Switch 2).
 
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Plum said:
I wonder how that strategy worked out for them lol

Genuinely, because whilst the Switch is doing gangbusters I wonder how many people bought them because "oh wow, I loved Mario Kart Tour so I better spend £350 to get the full-fat version!" There's definitely going to be some crossover there, but whether it was an overall success is something that I doubt we'll ever know. All we can really use to guess is how Nintendo is kind of 'leaving' the mobile space now, but whether that's due to a case of "our mission is finished," or "this wasn't worth it," is hard to see.

Either way, it is a very Nintendo thing to go full-in on a more esoteric strategy like that whilst not even attempting to do the simpler option. They are the company that made the Wii U after all :p
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I don't really think there's a "simple" option here, not with how expensive it has gotten to develop mobile games. The budget you need to launch and then maintain a mobile game can rival if not exceed the one for an equivalent console game. Any mobile game they make will tie up development resources and if you ask enthusiasts their output is already suffering without an increased focus on mobile.
 
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Sander RX said:
Does it have to be an actual photo taken by me?
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Nah, just ideally something you've eaten.
Lichtsang said:
Sorry, didn't see it. Weirdly worded prediction though, sounds too definitive for one and tbh, "the next Mario Kart is in active development" isn't a shocker.
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It's in an article about a bunch of 2022 predictions for the whole industry, a lot of them are worded like "this thing will happen"

Obviously he probably knows a new Mario Kart is in development but so do all of us.
wookiee said:
NO. WHERE
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Top of the OP, friend.
 
Pokemaniac said:
I find it very doubtful that Nintendo's in-house teams are going to touch a mobile game ever again. They might greenlight some smaller projects like Pikmin Bloom by outside developers, but by and large they seem pretty done with mobile.
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I hope so. I really dislike mobile gaming and would prefer Nintendo's top talent not waste their time on it.
 
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Talking about Mario Kart, would people be up for the next one being Nintendo's big first foray into stuff like 'battle passes' and 'content seasons'?

So it launches with your typical 32 tracks and such-and-such vehicles, then every 3 months you get a new "Season" with a free 2 new tracks and 2 remastered tracks alongside a paid 'racing' pass that offers new characters and karts.

Honestly... I wouldn't mind it. The biggest issue with most of Nintendo's recent 'sports games' is that, outside of the short singleplayer stuff, there's not much to really strive for outside of just playing the same stages over and over. Whereas an evolving MK game would give you some reason to jump back in outside of "hey lets play a few tracks with friends."

I know that's probably not a very popular opinion but, hey, I ain't here to make friends. I'm here to make pointless grudges with anonymous people on the internet over electronic toys >:)
 
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Plum said:
Honestly one of the most baffling things I've ever seen a company do is Nintendo putting out goddamn Pikmin and Dr. Mario on mobile instead of Nintendogs.

Was it pride or something? Did they want to be more 'innovative' with mobile stuff like with Mario Run instead of doing the most obvious choice that might-as-well-be tailor-made for mobile? Or did they just lack the foresight to see the golden goose of an IP they were sitting on? I simply can't see a world in which Pikmin Bloom was seen as more of a good investment than "a lifestyle game where you raise cute puppies/kittens."
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Their mobile efforts have always been about trying to boost their ips and put more eyes on them. If they actually wanted to do a new nintendogs they would just make one for the Switch, not for mobile just because it would be fitting. Nintendo is in the business of their own hardware and their own platform and shifting some of their series to an outside platform wouldn't make any sense. Its the same reason why they never ported and of their classic games to mobile.
 
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