There's a chance something like that happens again, but it was clear the game was very early when the trailer was shown in 2017, Nintendo just wanted to let people know they have that specific game coming.
today is Ubisoft Forward, the final presentation before the june Direct, and last change to see a game been knowledged and confirmed to come to Switch sucessor, after that we have to wait for Nintendo to reveal Switch sucessor itself and boom, third-parties confirming my game will launch on Nintendo next hardware this period.
Unironically will be so excited when those monks start chanting
I'll guesstimate and say 70 percent of the third party games announced have switch 2 versions
Unironically will be so excited when those monks start chanting
Also I was just searching through my old posts trying to find something but came across this tweet from Wario64 back in January earlier this year where Ai Shark announced in a press release they were bringing back Game Shark to coincide with Switch 2 in September 2024.
Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date May Have Just Accidentally Been Revealed by...Gameshark - IGN
The Nintendo Switch 2 is supposed to launch in September 2024, according to a press release from Ai Shark (formerly Game Shark).www.ign.com
Who else forgot about this until just now?
Also, thanks to the power of Wayback Machine...
This was the original press release captured at 5:46PM EST on January 11th, 2024, and the current version you see now edited out the Switch 2 mention roughly six hours later
Weird thing to say when we have this update and a console beta in the fallIF it ever comes out
Hasn't it been in development for like more than 5 years? Also sorry if I came off as hostile
From what I remembered, when they announced the game all they had was a pitch. They just wanted to drum up support to hire people. I assume at the very least they had an idea. I could be misremembering.
For some reason I'm not that hopeful. While I think EA will increase their support for Nintendo next gen, I'm not sold on the idea that they'll have platform parity right away.
Whenever the next Smash happens, there are still some characters they can get that would generate a ton of buzz.
Amongus Mii costume
Eh, probably not. Still plenty of third parties that'd get big reactions.
If you are going to add Goku might as well put Iron Man, Spider-Man, Batman, Shrek, Mickey Mouse, Sponge Bob, etc
the whole development cycle sounds like it it's not a large team or massive budget. and since it's a F2P pseudo-mmo, it's going to need a long gestation cycle since not getting it right out the gate is pretty much a death sentence
forgot a potential playstation rep. I mean aloy technically qualifies now
. so does kratos too. not that it's likely but sakurai has that avenue now open to him.
Kat from Gravity Rush would be the most fun to design a move set around.forgot a potential playstation rep. I mean aloy technically qualifies now
What's the weird history Kelper has with Switch?I actually should've posted this here instead of the hardware thread, but eh live and learn.
Anyway this will be a direct repost just in case you're getting Deja Vu from reading this:
So I wanted to note this here after the (very minor granted) discovery I had last night.
So my new hyperfixation for the next year, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 the new French-JRPG made on UE5, has an official website where you can sign up to a newsletter. Very cool, and it's very worth it to see the concept art of the game. Looks gorgeous. However, the key take away is one of the questions that's asked on the site before you sign in.
"What Platforms do you typically play on?"
It goes on to list the 4 current platforms that are listed, being Playstation, Steam, Epic Games and Xbox Series respectively... but it also lists Nintendo Switch as a platform at the bottom. Only those 5, usually questionnaires list other platforms, even if there's no plan to release their games on them. Kelper Interactive, the publisher for Sandfall Interactive's game, has a weird history with Nintendo Switch but they still released titles like Sifu, Tchia and the upcoming Cat Quest 3 onto the system.
Yeah I don't see this game not being on Switch 2. The only problem with this theory is that I can't find evidence of it saying it'll come to "all-modern platforms" like someone I asked pointed out, but like... c'mon why wouldn't you release a JRPG on the JRPG machine. Still very cool to see.
It was mainly in reference to their overall releases. Of the 7 titles on their list (excluding Clair Obscur), only three are on Switch, with Tchia not even being published by them instead being self-published by developer Awaceb. Cat Quest III and Sifu both have/will have Switch versions. Flintlock is a multiplat release that's reasonably demanding settings so that's fine, but the remaining 3 titles (Scorn, Pacific Drive and Ultros) were all console exclusives.
On the Canadian eshop, seems like the situation is different. Sifu is not published by Kepler, but all (i think) the Tchia and Cat Quest games are by Kepler
... Huh... Wikipedia suggests Tchia and Sifu are the opposite. Funky.On the Canadian eshop, seems like the situation is different. Sifu is not published by Kepler, but all (i think) the Tchia and Cat Quest games are by Kepler
I totally expect Ultros and Eternights to hit Switch once the exclusivity period is over. Eternights devs even teased a Switch port on twitter. Sony exclusivity could take more than a year though. I also expect to En Garde to make its way to consoles, Switch included.
I think it's very case by case. Unlike a lot of other publishers, Kelper is a publisher formed of a committee of smaller studios (a "super developer" publishing group as described on Wikipedia), with Sandfall Interactive (and The Gentlebros of Cat Quest fame) being recent partners as of 2023. I think the individual developers choose to have those agreements, but overall it's just a company pooling resources to allow for publishing of individual projects.
makes sense. there's a big gap between "indies" and "AAA" that's difficult to fill. big publishers seem to be pulling out of that (EA Originals, Private Division, SE Collective) as the games cost more that they could spend on their high returns projects. meanwhile, these games are too costly for small indie publishers to fund
Anything new?The Midori leaks about Switch 2 support
Nintendo Switch 2 does not have games
yea. they are all made up
why is alternate universe old grizzled andre from GameXplain in this meme.that's noice!
not just Sega/Atlus, most third-parties treat Switch as a port machine, not a relevant hardware they can make games on it
