Hey fami, what Is your opinion about the rumored Persona 3 Remake and Persona 6 upcoming announcements? Any chance to play It on Switch? Will they be PS exclusive?
I think both are going to be multiplat.
5 Strikers was multiplat. 3 and 4 remasters were multiplat. 5 Royal went multiplat and sold 1 million like it was nothing, I expect Switch version to get to 1M on its own soon too.
I imagine a lot of new Persona fans were made with 3, 4 and 5 coming to Switch, Xbox and PC.
PS5 is almost a non-entity in Japan and by the time P6 releases PS4 will be probably dead too, and Switch really has been where the money is. Not to mention Microsoft making P5R on gamepass a HUGE deal, I very much doubt they'd not put their money on the table to get P6 on Gamepass day 1. I mean they could even go as far as paying for timed exclusivity to Xbox, I wouldn't be surprised. We highly overestimate how much Sony cares about Atlus' games. Surely Microsoft and Nintendo have proven to care more.
There has to be that one game that will be heavily promoted at E3 and will release in Holidays. If it's not revealed here, it will be revealed at E3 itself. TotK will be out by then. Something that was Odyssey to E3 2017, or Smash at E3 2018 and so on. It definitely won't be Pikmin sadly. But it will be something else, and that something will be bigger than a lot people think.
Oh yeah. I think that spot has to be either 3D or 2D Mario.
I think either of them that comes will be the holiday game and will be heavily promoted, just like Odyssey was in 2017.
People seem to have forgotten the huge deal that mainline Mario is.
An actual new form of 2D Mario with a holiday spot and heavy promotion, alongside Mario IP being hyped AF due to the movie can bring a NSMB Wii moment to Switch.
At the same time, I think a brand new 3D Mario releasing this year can even come to outsell Odyssey (look at how Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and Splatoon 3 performed last year).
it's too early for speculation, so how about discussion? what's everyone's favorite direct of all time?
mine has got to be E3 2014 (even if it lacked the Direct moniker). I watched it this afternoon and was astounded by how much of a panic button it obviously was. so many projects were shown at so many levels of completion, and I had forgotten how desperate they were to sell the Wii U.
it's a little sad but very interesting that by E3 2015 their tune had changed from it being "the best time to play Nintendo" to Nintendo being in a transitional period. with development having fully pivoted to Switch and Satoru Iwata being very unwell, this was a good messaging approach.
E3 2014 was pure magic. Only time it ever felt that great to be Nintendo fan again was Switch presentation 2017 and E3 2017.
As much as those three events were highly memorable due to stuff coming years after they happened, it was just... Fanfiction material.
E3 2014 had dream 3rd party characters coming to Smash, Zelda going full open world, Star Fox reviving, a brand new IP by EPD, Mario Maker!!!
E3 2017 had Metroid Prime 4, Pokémon coming to a home console, Odyssey having a GOAT trailer...
The other Direct that really was some GOAT material to me was February 2019. That was legendary. Super Mario Maker 2, Link's Awakening, a brand new IP in Astral Chain...
E3 2021 finally giving us Metroid Dread and TotK gameplay, return of Advance Wars, a great Mario Party game and much more.
February 2022. Mario Strikers, No Man's Sky, Nintendo Switch Sports, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, Kirby Mouthful Mode, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Absolute banger of a Direct.
Definitely, the "Switch 2 is never coming Direct" was GOAT material.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe getting a game worthy of content DLC, Kirby and the Forgotten Land being soooo much more than it seemed at first, Mario Strikers coming back, Three Houses getting a Musou sequel/prequel/side game, and of course Xenoblade Chronicles 3. It was just godlike.