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The switch lineup this year is fucking insane

I’ll miss BotW2, but if there was a time it wasn’t needed, it’s now
 
I'm currently still most interested to find out where the last missing pieces of 2022 fit right now including the Mario Kart DLC, Advance Wars, rumored Metroid Prime, other surprises etc. but I think it's worth remembering not only is 2022 stacked, but we are starting to get a small look into 2023 even without Nintendo teasing much yet.

Some big ones we currently have largely avoiding undated year games:

Zelda Breath of the Wild 2
Metroid Prime 4 (Undated I know)
Mario Kart DLC
Xenoblade 3 DLC
Trails To Azure (An incredible game all JRPG fans need to jump on)
The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
Trails Into Reverie
Labyrinth of Galleria: Moon Society
Super Bomberman R2
MegaMan Battle Network Collection
Eiyuuden Chronicle
Gunbrella
Sea of Stars
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I'm really not worried about Switch in 2023 even with Drake somewhere on the horizon.
 
There's currently 12 games released/Announced for the year that's being published by Nintendo in the west.

Outside of 2017, that's quite the few fewer than other years.
I think there's going to be more, games from Nintendo this year than say prime HD and 1-2-3 Switch.
Maybe smaller ones, but I definitely thinking that there are games know one knows about - much like Dream Buffét.
 
so we are in the Summer of Punk...hmhmhmm, Summer of Direct, it seems.
Summarizing, we had

Live a Live: demo + Threehouse
Xenoblade: full dedicated Direct
Kirby Yum Yum new game trailer and announcement
Bayonetta 3 trailer and release date
Splatoon 3 OLED LE + new trailer

we are probably gonna get also

Mario Kart 8 DX DLC Pack 2 trailer and release date /and actual release)

I bet also on Advance Wars 1+2 or Metroid Prime HD date/reveal during July
 
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Mbolibombo said:
There's currently 12 games released/Announced for the year that's being published by Nintendo in the west.

Outside of 2017, that's quite the few fewer than other years.
I think there's going to be more, games from Nintendo this year than say prime HD and 1-2-3 Switch.
Maybe smaller ones, but I definitely thinking that there are games know one knows about - much like Dream Buffét.
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But if you combine it with the third party games that are coming the year is quite loaded. I would argue that 2022 could be the best year of the Nintendo Switch release wise for now.
 
Vantell said:
But if you combine it with the third party games that are coming the year is quite loaded. I would argue that 2022 could be the best year of the Nintendo Switch release wise for now.
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Not sure why that matter, since I am strictly talking about first party games and not third party games - They've been consistant in putting out 15-20 games every year but the first one no matter the third party support.
 
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Vantell said:
But if you combine it with the third party games that are coming the year is quite loaded. I would argue that 2022 could be the best year of the Nintendo Switch release wise for now.
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Why would that matter? It’s not like Nintendo is like “well third party is picking up so we can make less games or publish less games”.
 
Dragoncaine said:
Trimmed my script from 109 to 105 pages today, all while still making better use of each page and continuing to add valuable context, comedy, and character moments despite the trim. Feeling really good. Two more intense days to go until we turn this draft in.
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I wish you the best of luck and hopefully a nice, break after that
 
Now that we finally accepted that our old enemies (parner directs + twitter drops) are back... Why is Nintendo going back to that model?

In 2021 general Directs came back and made us believe that partner directs were a temporary thing to fulfill contracts while they were suffering the difficulties of the pandemic. But now, they actually decided to do it that way... why? And if they decided to do it this way, whats stoping them to keep doing it in the future?

Oh, and it's time to stop making fun of people who might thing that Directs are not coming back, at least this year. We'll see what happens with the September Direct.
 
Jeff said in today’s Game Mess Mornings that Metroid was coming in November.

It was mentioned casually in conversation, but it stood out because I don’t think he put a date to it before. He might have just been slotting it in after the already stacked October tho
 
stodesign12 said:
Now that we finally accepted that our old enemies (parner directs + twitter drops) are back... Why is Nintendo going back to that model?

In 2021 general Directs came back and made us believe that partner directs were a temporary thing to fulfill contracts while they were suffering the difficulties of the pandemic. But now, they actually decided to do it that way... why? And if they decided to do it this way, whats stoping them to keep doing it in the future?

Oh, and it's time to stop making fun of people who might thing that Directs are not coming back, at least this year. We'll see what happens with the September Direct.
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My best guess is that there was a big announcement/reveal/segment planned for a full June direct, and something changed behind the scenes which meant it wasn't ready to be shown (maybe BOTW2 related, maybe Drake, maybe a combination of other things). Without this one thing (or multiple things maybe), Nintendo didn't feel a full direct could hold its own weight, so split up the announcements, with said delayed announcement moving to the September direct. Nintendo then has to announce a load of the stuff it is contractually obligated to (Third Party Partner Showcase) and reveal any of its own stuff for which a September direct would be too late (Kirby, Bayo).

This seems like the most plausible scenario by a country mile to me.
 
stodesign12 said:
Now that we finally accepted that our old enemies (parner directs + twitter drops) are back... Why is Nintendo going back to that model?

In 2021 general Directs came back and made us believe that partner directs were a temporary thing to fulfill contracts while they were suffering the difficulties of the pandemic. But now, they actually decided to do it that way... why? And if they decided to do it this way, whats stoping them to keep doing it in the future?

Oh, and it's time to stop making fun of people who might thing that Directs are not coming back, at least this year. We'll see what happens with the September Direct.
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We will all see September Direct, am no doubter of this at all, few days before TGS, NSO announcements, 1 or 2 first party games.

As to why they choose to do a Partner? Maybe something wasn't ready, maybe it was Zelda for full blowout. There are tons of posibilities.
 
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stodesign12 said:
Now that we finally accepted that our old enemies (parner directs + twitter drops) are back... Why is Nintendo going back to that model?

In 2021 general Directs came back and made us believe that partner directs were a temporary thing to fulfill contracts while they were suffering the difficulties of the pandemic. But now, they actually decided to do it that way... why? And if they decided to do it this way, whats stoping them to keep doing it in the future?

Oh, and it's time to stop making fun of people who might thing that Directs are not coming back, at least this year. We'll see what happens with the September Direct.
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So here's what I think:

-Nintendo already had a pretty busy release schdule for the rest of the year, so they didn't see the need to set up a direct to set up the release dates for games we already knew about.

-Making announcements for one specific game at a time let's that game lead the online conversation. For example that Kirby game would have been buried among other first party title if announced in a direct.

-They're not ready to show off Zelda. They knew that if a direct was announced for June/July, people would expect to see BotW2 since it's supposed to come in Spring. I think that at this point, we will be waiting until September.
 
i think because most they had to present was kind off linked to Switch Pro/2, so they decided to show a partner direc,t and 2 or 3 small to mid anouncements with tweets. And after that they will have a blowout later this year or something like that.

LonkFromPA said:
So here's what I think:

-Nintendo already had a pretty busy release schdule for the rest of the year, so they didn't see the need to set up a direct to set up the release dates for games we already knew about.

-Making announcements for one specific game at a time let's that game lead the online conversation. For example that Kirby game would have been buried among other first party title if announced in a direct.

-They're not ready to show off Zelda. They knew that if a direct was announced for June/July, people would expect to see BotW2 since it's supposed to come in Spring. I think that at this point, we will be waiting until September.
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First Yeah, second no. That would be an argument against Directs in generall, as in: why ever do it differently.
Directs are seen by many more people, and many of those will see a game they would otherwise have ignored.
Honestly, have bayo, kirby, xeno in the partner direct, and people would have been fine with it as an E3 direct i feel.

Zelda is not ready, for shure. Thats why i expect a Switch Pro / Zelda / Fire Emblem / 2-4 other First party games anouncement. Maybe a MP4 trailer running on switch pro.
 
I'm still mystified; they could've turned the Partner Direct into a Regular one, no sweat. It'd be even more weeb than it already was with Bayo though, but that's never stopped them before xD . *

RealUncleNintendo said:
I really hope Breath Of The Wild 2 has a moment similar to when you first come out of that cave/shrine and see the world for the first time. I really hope they can capture that magic again.
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My intuition is that we've already seen the "Cliff Moment" for BotW2 - it's the first sky shot in the second teaser. Only needs a bit of clouds parting revealing some crazy ass overworld and we're golden 🤤.

*stil crying internally over no botw2. they could've shown it easily if it's "spring 2023".
 
eli said:
I prefer this format. Not my enemy.
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Why do you prefer it?

I prefer general Directs to know all the games coming this year, so I can organize myself and save money for the ones I really want.
There is also the emotion of the general Direct format, the talk about the Direct while rewatching it, and it's nice to discover new games that you probably wouldn't see otherwise.
 
stodesign12 said:
Why do you prefer it?

I prefer general Directs to know all the games coming this year, so I can organize myself and save money for the ones I really want.
There is also the emotion of the general Direct format, the talk about the Direct while rewatching it, and it's nice to discover new games that you probably wouldn't see otherwise.
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Because now we don't have to wait on 2 or 3 moments a year to learn about new games.
I'm not emotional attached to an ad-reel or discussing it so that's also a big part of it. I just wanna know what games are coming and when.
 
karmitt said:
Jeff said in today’s Game Mess Mornings that Metroid was coming in November.

It was mentioned casually in conversation, but it stood out because I don’t think he put a date to it before. He might have just been slotting it in after the already stacked October tho
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November also makes sense when you consider that it's literally the 20th anniversary of Metroid Prime, on the 18th specifically.

also the 10th anniversary of the wii u
 
eli said:
I just wanna know what games are coming and when.
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Don't you think it's better to know them all at once instead of being constantly waiting for news?
I'm sorry, i just can't see how drip feed could be better in any way lol, but it's okay, I hope you are satisfied with these announcements :)
 
Neves said:
So... Nintendo Europe seems to be tweeting like normally.
I don't really follow patterns, but does this mean we shouldn't be expecting anything today?
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I'm a big anti-pattern guy but Nintendo EU also tweeted regularly yesterday, so draw your own conclusions :)
 
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karmitt said:
Jeff said in today’s Game Mess Mornings that Metroid was coming in November.

It was mentioned casually in conversation, but it stood out because I don’t think he put a date to it before. He might have just been slotting it in after the already stacked October tho
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I'd prefer September, but...I'm ok with that! :)

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November release for Metroid Prime makes sense as Pokemon covers the family friendly market for that month, while Metroid caters to the more mature/enthusiast crowd. Something for everyone that month.

I'm echoing thoughts that it's a stacked second half of the year if Prime does make it. Even forgoing Splatoon 3, I'm still grabbing Xenoblade 3, Mario + Rabbids, Bayonetta 3 and maybe Pokemon. If we add in Metroid Prime and Advance Wars, and maybe the occasional third party punt like Harvestella, then it's their best H2 lineup for me personally for some time.
 
Dunno where to post it but the Switch Pro Controller is currently €35.49 on Amazon Germany if anyone from Europe is interested. LINK

Edit: Seems like Amazon fixed the price already.
 
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pld said:
Yeah seems to be over already, sorry. :(
I managed to buy one for that price and then I quickly posted the link here so someone else could also get one for cheap.
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Next time you post the link first, so that you can miss out like the others!




j/k ^^
 
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Bonejack said:
Next time you post the link first, so that you can miss out like the others!




j/k ^^
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Hey, it took me like 10 seconds with Amazon's one click buy now thingy so I was as fast as humanly possible. I guess it was a pricing error and they fixed it within a few minutes or so. Knowing my luck they will cancel the order anyways lol.
 
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Mbolibombo said:
There's currently 12 games released/Announced for the year that's being published by Nintendo in the west.

Outside of 2017, that's quite the few fewer than other years.
I think there's going to be more, games from Nintendo this year than say prime HD and 1-2-3 Switch.
Maybe smaller ones, but I definitely thinking that there are games know one knows about - much like Dream Buffét.
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Without the Zelda and Advance Wars delays, we'd have 14 for the year; add on the 1-2 Switch sequel and we're up to 15; Prime HD would be 16. 15 of those games would be retail releases, too. Even without many more reveals, it's not hard to see 2022 having been closer to the usual standard without delays happening. As much as Nintendo have done a good job at consistently shipping software through the pandemic (even though they leant on Old Stuff for significant stretches), delays can easily happen and throw them off their stride a little. I guess the difference this year is most of their output is a) new and b) exciting for the online crowd, so it's getting a lot of positive attention online and in enthusiast communities like this. I've said for a while the year isn't stacked for Nintendo; it's strong, and consistent, and fairly varied (if a little RPG heavy, but that's Switch for you). It'd be interesting to see if Nintendo have anything to compensate for the potential loss of both Advance Wars and 1-2 Switch sequel; the Ukraine conflict and poor focus group testing are two wildcards. Granted, neither game would've been leant on as a big deal (especially not Advance Wars), but having genre and brand variety is pretty key to Nintendo's output on Switch.

Advance Wars, Prime HD, and the 1-2 Switch sequel may yet make it out in 2022. I think you're right to say we get more smaller titles too - I'm surprised Kirby is the only eShop title from Nintendo so far this year; still hoping, probably in vain, that the annual Zelda fix is an eShop only (or NSO bonus?) Four Swords Adventures HD release with local and online multiplayer at a lower price point (i.e. not $60 or £50). I'm also going to (once again) predict Style Savvy, because eventually I will be correct and then I will claim to be a prophet.
karmitt said:
Jeff said in today’s Game Mess Mornings that Metroid was coming in November.

It was mentioned casually in conversation, but it stood out because I don’t think he put a date to it before. He might have just been slotting it in after the already stacked October tho
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Jeff said last month that it was on track for November. Emily also floated the possibility of a November release a while back, but I'm not sure if that was certainty as opposed to a guess.
 
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