Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

I can't see myself purchasing games on PS4 that have Switch versions. The handheld mode/TV mode flexibility is just too good to pass up. Aside from exclusives, I'm 95% Switch with third party games now.

Y's VIII is a great game to show off on the platform. The portability of the Vita version and the added power of the PS4 version all in one package.

I hope it's good. After years of hearing people praise the Trails games, I tried Trails in the Sky and... it wasn't bad, but hardly the modern classic people had been crowing about.

@YummyHappyPills The reason you might not have heard about YS VIII is because no one would want to promote that. The state at which it released was completely unacceptable, which lead to NIS offering a public apology.
Game released September 2017, I bought it couple of weeks after launch, but didn't get its re-localisation patch until February 2018. Still stuck in its wrapper, because I've lost interested.

If you couldn't tell I'm still salty paying full price for a game that wasn't playable for 5 months.

@Fight_Teza_Fight The game was fully playable. The localization was just subpar.

Glad this issue was resolved, though. Hopefully NISA will tread more carefully with future Falcom JRPG's.

@Ralizah If members of the dev team say 'wait for the patch', the CEO offers a public apology as well as an internal investigation & has the entire script re-written as well as re-voiced, that would be cause for not playing the game.
There were also gameplay affecting issues such as food recipes not displaying the correct materials.
To be fair NIS have been a bit lax with their localisations lately. They allow for some 'creative' freedom as seen by Disgaea 5, but this was just bad.

Anyways @YummyHappyPills If YsVIII failed to gather any traction it was due to the disastrous Western launch & NIS have none but themselves to blame. Hopefully it'll fare better on PC/Switch.

@YummyHappyPills Surely Skyrim is on it's third or fourth wind by now?

@YummyHappyPills It wasn't a stealth release. It was talked about on the blog, and it was promoted. Obviously, it's not going to get promoted or talked about like God of War or something. But it certainly wasn't a stealth release. Games like this are niche. It's hardly surprising to see it being promoted more on Switch. Nintendo really needs to show that they've got third party game. Re-releasing everything that came out on Wii U until they've finished a new Pikmin isn't going to cut it. They need big third party titles to fill in the gaps, they're never gonna have the likes of Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed or whatever else the big things are on PS4/Xbox One, so they need to double down on the third party games they do get. It's a sound strategy, and it helps the developer/publisher too as they get a second chance to make a splash.

For me, it is whether the game fits the Switch and I want to take it away. The Switch for me, works because I can pick it up and whap like 15-20 minutes in. BOTW made me want Skyrim because I managed over 100 hours over a few months without really noticing (and still playing other games on my PS4).

That old Toki remake is coming our for the Switch!

There's a game I'd be very surprised if many here have ever come across. My brother and I had Toki: Going Ape-Spit for the Mega Drive - tough game but it was great.

I never go anywhere and I never do anything so I pretty much just play games on my PS4, unless they're not on my PS4, and then I'll play them on my Switch.

So er...Smash may launch in September too.

Dragon Quest XI has already been mauled by Spyro and Spiderman, after ssying they made that move to grow the western audience (whoops).

We dont know what Nintendo has in September....just the Online service.

But Smash is playable at E3 tournament style so...

@YummyHappyPills Time to see how those JoyCons are really going to hold up under pressure!

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I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high but after my initial confusion over Spyro skipping Switch (which is frankly just a dumb decision given the genre and Nintendo fanbase are a perfect match), my first thought was the maybe Activision, being privy to information we don't have, knows Smash is set for September and obviously anything on Switch releasing around the same time would get overshadowed.

@Fight_Teza_Fight "Lately?" No, NISA in particular has been messing up translations for over a decade now. Y's VIII is sadly not even among their worst localizations. Some of their games actually do border on unplayable, because the NISA localizations introduce game-breaking bugs that weren't there in the original release. They also constantly butcher translations, either out of laziness or for the sake of stupid jokes (renaming a character "Esty Dee," for example...) We're only hearing about this because Falcom has a fanatical fan-base that went Gamergate on them and started making such a fuss that the Japanese media actually reported on it, which probably convinced someone in Japan to put pressure on NISA. They've certainly never apologized for butchering a game before.

At least they do well enough with Danganronpa and Disgaea, even if murky translation issues sometimes crop up in those as well.

Anyway, if bad translations made a game unplayable, we probably wouldn't have played half of the JRPGs released during the SNES/PS1 era. Or, heck, that first SAO game on the Vita that reads like the translators ran the script through Google Translate.

But yeah, the original translation is verging on "so bad it's good" territory.

@Gamer83 They could also be waiting to see how well the Crash Trilogy does first before considering releasing Spyro on the Switch.

@Tasuki Probably a combination of a few things.

1) They had already started work on this before the Switch released, and want to focus on the initial platforms first
2) They want to see how Crash performs.
3) There is also the real possibility that Nintendo is reserving the news for a Direct or E3 presentation.

Remember when Nintendo had an "indie Direct" two weeks ago, and Hyper Light Drifter wasn't in in the Direct, but was announced on Twitter the next day? Or Firewatch? They surely knew it was coming to the Switch two weeks ago.

Nintendo and reveals don't make any sense, at all.

@Octane Hyper LIght Drifter is coming to Switch? I completely missed that. WAHOOO

@Rudy_Manchego Somehow, HLD didn't make it into the Nindies Direct, but a bunch of random indie games that nobody cares about did. I don't understand how they decide which games to include.

I think you just might be my doppelgänger lol

@Ralizah I have been looking out for Hyper Light Drifter for Switch as I would happily double dip. The game is amazing. I just don't get why this wasn't in the Nindies video. Sigh.