Has this been shared yet? NS新闻速报 (NS News Flash), a Weibo (Chinese Twitter) account with 1.88 million followers, seems to be teasing GB and GBA content in this Direct:
“What is the GB/GBA game you want to revisit the most?”
And how is that different. to random western news account posting something like this?Has this been shared yet? NS新闻速报 (NS News Flash), a Weibo (Chinese Twitter) account with 1.88 million followers, seems to be teasing GB and GBA content in this Direct:
“What is the GB/GBA game you want to revisit the most?”
And how is that different. to random western news account posting something like this?
Does anything imply they may know more other than it just being a foreign account?
Omgg if we get gbaaaaaaaHas this been shared yet? NS新闻速报 (NS News Flash), a Weibo (Chinese Twitter) account with 1.88 million followers, seems to be teasing GB and GBA content in this Direct:
“What is the GB/GBA game you want to revisit the most?”
The Chocobo Minigame I find amazing. I love finding chocographs then exploring the world map to find better weaponsAbout the FF IX remake thing.
I'm definitely not a fan of the OG FF IX for numerous reasons :
1: The Limit Break system is ass and off course, whenever a character Limit jauge is full, it takes ages for it to show the animation of going full saiyan.
2: Everything loads so slowly.
3: Each battle takes around 15 seconds just to actually start and, personnal opinion here, I hate the battle theme.
4: The world map runs at 4 FPS.
5: Battles are so slow... sometimes you give orders to your characters and the game just do nothing for 3 to 5 seconds until it checks.
6: God the Chocobo minigame is crap.
7: You can't 100% the game whatever you do because one weapon requires to get to the 4th CD under 12 hours. I'm not a speedrunner, guys.
8! The forced card game moment. I was pretty "meh" about the Triple Triad in FF VIII because of the numerous and stupid rules that kept changing all the time. I hated FF IX' version and being forced to play it at one point -and to win-, piss off, game.
Coming from FF VII and VIII, everything feels slow in FF IX. In fact, the game actually killed my brother's PsOne when he went to farm XP in the last CD.
That being said, sometimes, remakes / remasters can fix games.
I wasn't a big fan of The Wind Waker back then and only the remaster made me enjoy the game much, much more (I love it now). I'm all in for QoL corrections but the FF IX "HD" remaster fixed nothing since it was just an emulated PS1 version of the game with 0 fixes and the same exact problems.
Jason Schreier has 384.8K Twitter followers globally, and Jeff Grubb 103.4K. NS New Flash has 1.88MM Weibo followers in Chinese speaking countries alone. While popularity itself doesn’t guarantee quality, a “random” account this is not.And how is that different. to random western news account posting something like this?
Does anything imply they may know more other than it just being a foreign account?
Most of that was helped with the port since you have the 3x speed option.About the FF IX remake thing.
I'm definitely not a fan of the OG FF IX for numerous reasons :
1: The Limit Break system is ass and off course, whenever a character Limit jauge is full, it takes ages for it to show the animation of going full saiyan.
2: Everything loads so slowly.
3: Each battle takes around 15 seconds just to actually start and, personnal opinion here, I hate the battle theme.
4: The world map runs at 4 FPS.
5: Battles are so slow... sometimes you give orders to your characters and the game just do nothing for 3 to 5 seconds until it checks.
6: God the Chocobo minigame is crap.
7: You can't 100% the game whatever you do because one weapon requires to get to the 4th CD under 12 hours. I'm not a speedrunner, guys.
8! The forced card game moment. I was pretty "meh" about the Triple Triad in FF VIII because of the numerous and stupid rules that kept changing all the time. I hated FF IX' version and being forced to play it at one point -and to win-, piss off, game.
Coming from FF VII and VIII, everything feels slow in FF IX. In fact, the game actually killed my brother's PsOne when he went to farm XP in the last CD.
That being said, sometimes, remakes / remasters can fix games.
I wasn't a big fan of The Wind Waker back then and only the remaster made me enjoy the game much, much more (I love it now). I'm all in for QoL corrections but the FF IX "HD" remaster fixed nothing since it was just an emulated PS1 version of the game with 0 fixes and the same exact problems.
I wouldn't call Tomodachi a casual game. It's one of Sakamoto's weird ass games like WarioWare or Kiki Trick. He said he had some new ideas for the future of the series, I expect them to be even weirder than before. But the lack of system level mii maker on Switch could mean a whole new direction for the series, similar to Switch Sports.This year is lacking a big casual game and Tomodachi Life seems like the perfect fit if you ask me....
Yeah anyone could be asking which gb game you want to revisit, no matter what follower count, doesn't mean you know something, could still be just speculation just like us over here.Jason Schreier has 384.8K Twitter followers globally, and Jeff Grubb 103.4K. NS New Flash has 1.88MM Weibo followers in Chinese speaking countries alone. While popularity itself doesn’t guarantee quality, a “random” account this is not.
??? bro it's 2023, how do you not know switch has miisBut the lack of system level mii maker on Switch
Glad I'm not alone.We are hours before the first real Zelda trailer and I still think that TotK means TikTok.
Where else would they be? The NSO wart???? bro it's 2023, how do you not know switch has miis
they're in the settings (because Nintendo is the worst)
Where else would they be? The NSO wart?
Yeah I meant a Wii or 3DS like Mii maker. The one Switch has is just for profile pic, games cannot use it. That's why we got Sportsmates in Switch Sports and Miitopia got its own weird Mii Maker.??? bro it's 2023, how do you not know switch has miis
they're in the settings (because Nintendo is the worst)
this isn't true. I only touched Miitopia's new crap once before going back to basicsYeah I meant a Wii or 3DS like Mii maker. The one Switch has is just for profile pic, games cannot use it. That's why we got Sportsmates in Switch Sports and Miitopia got its own weird Mii Maker.
The problem is probably that "causal" moniker is used for different aspects.I wouldn't call Tomodachi a casual game. It's one of Sakamoto's weird ass games like WarioWare or Kiki Trick. He said he had some new ideas for the future of the series, I expect them to be even weirder than before. But the lack of system level mii maker on Switch could mean a whole new direction for the series, similar to Switch Sports.
Yeah I meant a Wii or 3DS like Mii maker. The one Switch has is just for profile pic, games cannot use it. That's why we got Sportsmates in Switch Sports and Miitopia got its own weird Mii Maker.
TotK is that game. BotW crossed through to the mainstream casual crowd also. I know relatives who had a Switch and played that game and never played a Zelda game before in their lives.This year is lacking a big casual game and Tomodachi Life seems like the perfect fit if you ask me....
TOTK is not a casual game.TotK is that game. BotW crossed through to the mainstream casual crowd also. I know relatives who had a Switch and played that game and never played a Zelda game before in their lives.
TOTK is not a casual game.
I could see a HD Tomofachi Life appear, got sure, but equally it might not.
Just found someone on Reddit listing records of this accountHas this been shared yet? NS新闻速报 (NS News Flash), a Weibo (Chinese Twitter) account with 1.88 million followers, seems to be teasing GB and GBA content in this Direct:
“What is the GB/GBA game you want to revisit the most?”
even a spectacular lineup won't do it. they need to either reach new people or get droves of people to upgrade to an OLED (price cuts, incidentally, could accomplish both)There is no way that Nintendo sells 20M+ Switch this year unless they have a spectacular lineup.
New hardware might.even a spectacular lineup won't do it. they need to either reach new people or get droves of people to upgrade to an OLED (price cuts, incidentally, could accomplish both)
switch home!New hardware might.
This would be such a subpar Direct it’s not even funny.I was going to do an epic, eloquent, full-of-gags fake Direct script, but I'm on sick leave and pretty knackered. Plus, every potential leak eats into my brain, so I'll go ahead and do a quicker predictions post.
Let's start with what's not happening today:
- No Metroid Prime 4 or Metroid Prime HD; I think they'll appear in a summer presentation
- No Detective Pikachu, no Pokemon patch, no Pokemon DLC; I think this comes in a Pokemon Presents later this month
- No Pikmin 4; saved for the summer presentation
- No new N64 roadmap (summer)
- No Nintendo software that's coming any later than July; Nintendo are saving the late summer/autumn titles for a later presentation and concentrating their current marketing efforts on the Mario Movie and Zelda (this is why they aren't spending on an E3 exhibition)
- No new titles from Good-Feel, Grezzo, or NdCube (these are summer/September announcements and part of Nintendo's late 2023/early 2024 line up)
- No 2D Mario - it's announced in June for a November release
What does happen today:
- Zelda gets a bombastic trailer to close the Direct
- NSO GB and GBA do happen; Nintendo confirm Pokemon games will come to NSO and utilise transfer pak functionality with N64 NSO. GB and GBA go into the Expansion Pack; GBA games will launch once per month at first, with N64 dropping down to once every other month. GB/GBC updates will come at random intervals in random quantities, because Nintendo are filled with spite and ROMs. 15 GB/GBC & 10 GBA titles on day one.
- Mario games do happen, but they're smaller titles: Dr Mario 99 will be available later today & Mario's Mediocre Sports Mix launches mid June
- the other new first-party game reveal is Tomodachi World: launches mid July
- Advance Wars gets a new release date: April 21st, 2023
- Bayonetta Origins gets a new trailer and a demo
- Kirby gets new content confirmed
- Splatoon 3 Season 3 reveal
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 wave 3 launches this week; first look at the story DLC which is confirmed for summer 2023
- Fire Emblem DLC is also detailed
- Sparks of Hope DLC is also detailed
- Mario Kart next wave gets a release date
- F ZERO GX HD is a first-party release, late June
- Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings & the Lost Ocean HD, supervised by Monolith Soft, and published by Bandai-Namco, comes to the eShop this summer. Baten Kaitos Origins HD gets a vague 2023 confirmation.
So to sum up: it's high on content (DLC! games! NSO!), low on reveals (Dr Mario 99, Mario sports, Tomodachi World). No fucking clue what third parties bring to the table, but I'm hoping for Oxenfree 2, Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, and Sea of Stars.
Jan 20th: Fire Emblem Engage
Feb 9th: Dr Mario 99 (NSO)
Feb 24th: Kirby's Return to Dreamland DX
March 17th: Bayonetta Origins
April 21st: Advance Wars Reboot Camp
May 12th: Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
June 9th: Mario's Mediocre Sports Mix
June 30th: F ZERO GX HD
July 14th: Tomodachi World
even a spectacular lineup won't do it. they need to either reach new people or get droves of people to upgrade to an OLED (price cuts, incidentally, could accomplish both)
A re-release of 3D All-Stars, but with Galaxy 2 includedI also think DK this year is likelier than Mario.
For Mario movie “tie ins” for Switch newcomers from the movie, I feel they’re just gonna be like “hey look at all this Mario stuff you can get on Switch.” Maybe a smaller thing or a spin-off, though.
I agree, prices cuts are necessary to achieve that, and the Mario movie needs to be a huge success too. Having a great lineup is the bare minimum and the starting point, but I don't know, I still feel 20M+ is too optimistic for 2023, I think the number is going to be closer to 15M even doing all those things.even a spectacular lineup won't do it. they need to either reach new people or get droves of people to upgrade to an OLED (price cuts, incidentally, could accomplish both)
My biggest concern is Nintendo do something with Mario and Donkey Kong together. Like a remake of the original Donkey Kong or a Mario vs Donkey Kong.I also think DK this year is likelier than Mario.
For Mario movie “tie ins” for Switch newcomers from the movie, I feel they’re just gonna be like “hey look at all this Mario stuff you can get on Switch.” Maybe a smaller thing or a spin-off, though.
I’m rolling different than you. I feel like the big point of this Direct should be to get us past Zelda TK through July, but to also show the system has a future beyond Zelda. For that I do think they’ll show the next Mario platformer and we’ll even see our first look at Metroid Prime 4 which is the big game left after Zelda.I was going to do an epic, eloquent, full-of-gags fake Direct script, but I'm on sick leave and pretty knackered. Plus, every potential leak eats into my brain, so I'll go ahead and do a quicker predictions post.
Let's start with what's not happening today:
- No Metroid Prime 4 or Metroid Prime HD; I think they'll appear in a summer presentation
- No Detective Pikachu, no Pokemon patch, no Pokemon DLC; I think this comes in a Pokemon Presents later this month
- No Pikmin 4; saved for the summer presentation
- No new N64 roadmap (summer)
- No Nintendo software that's coming any later than July; Nintendo are saving the late summer/autumn titles for a later presentation and concentrating their current marketing efforts on the Mario Movie and Zelda (this is why they aren't spending on an E3 exhibition)
- No new titles from Good-Feel, Grezzo, or NdCube (these are summer/September announcements and part of Nintendo's late 2023/early 2024 line up)
- No 2D Mario - it's announced in June for a November release
What does happen today:
- Zelda gets a bombastic trailer to close the Direct
- NSO GB and GBA do happen; Nintendo confirm Pokemon games will come to NSO and utilise transfer pak functionality with N64 NSO. GB and GBA go into the Expansion Pack; GBA games will launch once per month at first, with N64 dropping down to once every other month. GB/GBC updates will come at random intervals in random quantities, because Nintendo are filled with spite and ROMs. 15 GB/GBC & 10 GBA titles on day one.
- Mario games do happen, but they're smaller titles: Dr Mario 99 will be available later today & Mario's Mediocre Sports Mix launches mid June
- the other new first-party game reveal is Tomodachi World: launches mid July
- Advance Wars gets a new release date: April 21st, 2023
- Bayonetta Origins gets a new trailer and a demo
- Kirby gets new content confirmed
- Splatoon 3 Season 3 reveal
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 wave 3 launches this week; first look at the story DLC which is confirmed for summer 2023
- Fire Emblem DLC is also detailed
- Sparks of Hope DLC is also detailed
- Mario Kart next wave gets a release date
- F ZERO GX HD is a first-party release, late June
- Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings & the Lost Ocean HD, supervised by Monolith Soft, and published by Bandai-Namco, comes to the eShop this summer. Baten Kaitos Origins HD gets a vague 2023 confirmation.
So to sum up: it's high on content (DLC! games! NSO!), low on reveals (Dr Mario 99, Mario sports, Tomodachi World). No fucking clue what third parties bring to the table, but I'm hoping for Oxenfree 2, Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters, and Sea of Stars.
Jan 20th: Fire Emblem Engage
Feb 9th: Dr Mario 99 (NSO)
Feb 24th: Kirby's Return to Dreamland DX
March 17th: Bayonetta Origins
April 21st: Advance Wars Reboot Camp
May 12th: Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
June 9th: Mario's Mediocre Sports Mix
June 30th: F ZERO GX HD
July 14th: Tomodachi World
My predictions are:
Zelda, Bayonetta Origins, Kirby, and Advance Wars are definitely there. No Pikmin 4.
Mario Kart Wave 4 is teased with Waluigi Stadium and the new Yoshi’s Island track. Also teases new characters! Xenoblade Wave 3 DLC is detailed, Wave 4 gets a poster and a release month.
We’ll see both Metroid Prime Remake and Metroid Prime 4 as either the second to last or final segments.
New Mario Platformer announced and one more spinoff game. Donkey Kong announced.
New HAL eshop game. (Box Boy 5?)
F-Zero GX HD is there, Kid Icarus is not.
Yeah, it’s a tough one to get the finger in the pulse of.My biggest concern is Nintendo do something with Mario and Donkey Kong together. Like a remake of the original Donkey Kong or a Mario vs Donkey Kong.
That's not to say those wouldn't/couldn't be great. It's more that we're in a really weird point in time where we haven't had a new 2D Mario or a new Donkey Kong game for just over and just under a decade respectively. I don't want a spin off style of game... I want full fat Donkey Kong and 2D Mario.