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It's a SEGA title, not Atlus, but I wouldn't be surprised if ReFantazio is released in the launch year of Switch 2, just as Sonic Forces was released in the launch year of Switch.
I don't see a new 3D Sonic game (Frontiers 2?) being released in 2024.
 
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Hmm, interesting. 4 I know for sure is a homophone for death in both Mandarin and Japanese, and I've seen it mentioned plenty of times in pop culture. But 9 is not a homophone with something so negative in Mandarin, to my (admittedly very limited) knowledge at least. Checking with a Japanese dictionary... okay, fine, one of the readings of 9 is indeed ku/homophone with pain. Hmm, it's an on'yomi (for the thread readers: on'yomi is Sino-derived reading, while kun'yomi is native Japanese). I can see kyuu coming from jiu (Mandarin; sounds like alcohol, not pain to me), but I don't know what would be the base for the ku reading...
I dunno, I've only ever heard jiu for 9 in Mandarin.
I also find it odd that I've just never encountered this before in Japanese pop culture either.
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4 I know that have a negative conotation on asian culture, that intereting they have another number with a negative conotation in asian
 
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NintenDuvo said:
THat would be a bad money move for Atlus to skip the Switch and the game seems to be running on the same engine as Persona 5 royal which runs real good on the Switch
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Soul Hackers 2 didn’t come to switch for that very reason. It didn’t sell well enough on other platforms to invest in the port.

I know Atlus has made games in similar styles using both UE and Unity, so the issue isn’t the engine, so much as the asset authoring. This is showing some serious performance issues in the trailer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything about the final product.
 
Look over there said:
Hmm, interesting. 4 I know for sure is a homophone for death in both Mandarin and Japanese, and I've seen it mentioned plenty of times in pop culture. But 9 is not a homophone with something so negative in Mandarin, to my (admittedly very limited) knowledge at least. Checking with a Japanese dictionary... okay, fine, one of the readings of 9 is indeed ku/homophone with pain. Hmm, it's an on'yomi (for the thread readers: on'yomi is Sino-derived reading, while kun'yomi is native Japanese). I can see kyuu coming from jiu (Mandarin; sounds like alcohol, not pain to me), but I don't know what would be the base for the ku reading...
I dunno, I've only ever heard jiu for 9 in Mandarin.
I also find it odd that I've just never encountered this before in Japanese pop culture either.
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In Korea, 4 is also a negative meaning.

4 means death.

So the elevator in the hospital marks 4 as F.
 
majimazio said:
It's a SEGA title, not Atlus, but I wouldn't be surprised if ReFantazio is released in the launch year of Switch 2, just as Sonic Forces was released in the launch year of Switch.
I don't see a new 3D Sonic game (Frontiers 2?) being released in 2024.
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Well.

2023 has Sonic Superstars.
 
demomansz said:
9 does indeed have a negative meaning in Asian culture, along with 4. It comes from 四苦八苦, meaning "the four and eight kinds of suffering" (4 comes from 死 meaning death). Sometimes buildings omit 4th and 9th floors for example
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When I was shopping for a house a few years back, I noticed the Lot numbers didn't have 4. It was a single storey rowhouse in a group of four, and they are labeled as block #, Lot 1, 2, 3, 5. That said, I took 3 and 5 because the house is too small if you take only one unit.

Here's a sample subdivision map: Map
 
oldpuck said:
Soul Hackers 2 didn’t come to switch for that very reason. It didn’t sell well enough on other platforms to invest in the port.

I know Atlus has made games in similar styles using both UE and Unity, so the issue isn’t the engine, so much as the asset authoring. This is showing some serious performance issues in the trailer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything about the final product.
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They more or less gave up on Soul Hackers 2 before launch. I’m not sure even if it did “well” that it would come to Switch. The game probably would have needed to be developed for the Switch to be on the Switch with how it was originally handled.
 
L_esson said:
Isn't it weird to have listings for Metroid Prime 2 & 3 Remasters (although not confirmed to be legit yet), and not for Prime 4 which should also be coming to Switch?
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Very weird. I was under the impression Prime 4 would come 12 months within Prime 1’s release. Unless Primes 2 & 3 come six months after Prime 1 (August) and they release Prime 4 on March of next year (possible Drake launch month).

Or they wanna release all Prime games before Switch 2 and then Prime 4 with the successor
 
ziggyrivers said:
Very weird. I was under the impression Prime 4 would come 12 months within Prime 1’s release. Unless Primes 2 & 3 come six months after Prime 1 (August) and they release Prime 4 on March of next year (possible Drake launch month).

Or they wanna release all Prime games before Switch 2 and then Prime 4 with the successor
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Yeah, I've always wondered how they'd handle this.
I personally don't mind if the remasters (if confirmed) are coming after Prime 4 for some reason, I guess they'd make the Prime 4 story so it's not really necessary to have played the whole trilogy to appreciate it.
But those listings, as they're supposedly placeholders... They could have just added Prime 4 in there with a placeholder visual too.

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Xtralife, a Spanish retailed has added listings for various games including Prime 2 Remastered and Prime 3 Remastered.
But I'm stupid and should have checked earlier, as they indeed has a Prime 4 listing as well (which I suppose has been there for a while, like other retailers actually)
 
L_esson said:
Isn't it weird to have listings for Metroid Prime 2 & 3 Remasters (although not confirmed to be legit yet), and not for Prime 4 which should also be coming to Switch?
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depending on which retailer has hte listing, it could just be something placed just in case those games are announced rather than being an hint at something. Why Metroid Prime 4 isnt a part of that doesn't mean much either depending on which website you're talking about .
 
For some reason (I guess the desire to have Persona 3 on Switch), the Nintendo community has recently given a lot of attention to Xtralife listings… As a buyer from them, they are a good store, but they will simply create listings from anything announced, just for the sake of traffic to their site, it doesn't mean it will have a retail listing in the end.

They, for example, did have a listing for Hellblade on Switch:

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olobolger said:
For some reason (I guess the desire to have Persona 3 on Switch), the Nintendo community has recently given a lot of attention to Xtralife listings… As a buyer from them, they are a good store, but they will simply create listings from anything announced, just for the sake of traffic to their site, it doesn't mean it will have a retail listing in the end.

They, for example, did have a listing for Hellblade on Switch:
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I believe that's a listing for Hellblade 1, which actually did come to Switch (unsure about physically though)
 
olobolger said:
For some reason (I guess the desire to have Persona 3 on Switch), the Nintendo community has recently given a lot of attention to Xtralife listings… As a buyer from them, they are a good store, but they will simply create listings from anything announced, just for the sake of traffic to their site, it doesn't mean it will have a retail listing in the end.

They, for example, did have a listing for Hellblade on Switch:

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Hellblade did come to Switch
 
Giancarlo said:
Street Fighter 6 on Switch? the rumored timed exclusive Resident Evil?
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Resident Evil was bullshit. There's no exclusive RE game coming to Switch. As for SF6, the devs themselves said they're open to return to Nintendo consoles also.
L_esson said:
Isn't it weird to have listings for Metroid Prime 2 & 3 Remasters (although not confirmed to be legit yet), and not for Prime 4 which should also be coming to Switch?
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Xtralife creates listings for a lot of rumored things. Sometimes they're right, a lot of times they're wrong, but they're not a trusted source.
 
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ziggyrivers said:
Welp, wonder if today they’re gonna announce their possible Direct for tomorrow. Or any announcement this week
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I think we'll see a Pokemon Presents this week, or just a Scarlet and Violet DLC trailer at the very least. Nintendo Direct for next week imo.
 
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By the way, we know that Nintendo Switch Online will carry over into the next generation, right?

If so, i wonder if Nintendo is going to have some NSO content exclusive to the next system. I just have a hunch they could introduce highly anticipated games like Super Mario RPG and Mother 3 to NSO, but lock them behind their next system.

Thoughts?
 
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Dutchie said:
By the way, we know that Nintendo Switch Online will carry over into the next generation, right?

If so, i wonder if Nintendo is going to have some NSO content exclusive to the next system. I just have a hunch they could introduce highly anticipated games like Super Mario RPG and Mother 3 to NSO, but lock them behind their next system.

Thoughts?
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I think those games would stay on their respective tiers. However, I can see GameCube, Dreamcast, and DS games being exclusive to Switch 2.
 
L_esson said:
No tweet at the usual time today? Is it common on Mondays?
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e3 Directs were usually Tuesdays, but since this wouldn’t be an e3 Direct, and more like a June/Summer Direct, maybe it’ll be Wednesday, like they generally are. And are usually announced a day or two ahead.
 
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