Topic: Nintendo Switch --OT--

I'm giving very serious thought to picking up 3D World+. Ordinarily, I'd probably wait for my birthday, but I LOVE 3D World. I really love it. And it'll be even better now I can play it with a proper controller.

Other than that my Switch has laid dormant since I beat Xenoblade Chronicles DE.

I'm going to pick up 3D World eventually since I missed out on the original game as a result of not owning a Wii U, but it probably won't be for a while as I'm still PS5 hunting and I'm starting Persona 5 Strikers on Friday as a result of preordering the Digital Deluxe Edition on PC

New Nintendo Direct tomorrow. 50 minutes long.

Finally. I was wondering if they'd ditched the longer format ones permanently.

@Ralizah Ooh, it's been a very long time indeed. I wonder if there'll be any Zelda or Metroid announcements given it's the 35th anniversary of both this year. Or maybe they'll troll everyone and unveil a new version of Super Mario 3D All Stars that includes Galaxy 2 - but we'll have to buy the whole thing again at full price. 😂

@mookysam I'm really expecting SMG2 to get a $30 eshop-exclusive release after the 3D All-Stars collection has been delisted. Meanwhile, I expect those games to go up for sale for a similar price on the eshop individually.

For Zelda, ports of the Wii U remasters wouldn't surprise me. I'm not expecting BotW2 this year, but we'll see.

There have been rumors about a new 2D Metroid for a while, but Nintendo fans spread rumors about literally everything, and often can't distinguish rumors from reality (which is what caused the online meltdown about P5S not being a port of Persona 5, lol).

Honestly, I'm expecting mostly info about third-party releases. Lots of exclusives releasing for the system this year. Really hoping Gnosia is shadowdropped during the presentation.

Zero expectations. Pikmin 4, that's all.

2021 has the potential to overtake 2017 as my favorite year for any platform ever if stuff doesn't get delayed. Third parties are coming through for Switch owners in a big way this year.

At this point, I'll take first-party stuff from Nintendo when they release it, but they could take the rest of the generation off, and I'd probably be good.

I'm still waiting for some good Switch titles that aren't Wii U ports, and weren't rushed out in 2017

Nintendo is about to tell everyone to play a real Shin Megami Tensei game on stream and then dip

Some Guesses on my part.

• new No More Heroes III release date
• Monster Hunter in Smash
• Mario Golf reveal for June-ish release
• something Kirby
• Wind Waker/Twilight Princess HD twin pack
• Ninja Gaiden Sigma trilogy, new trailers for MonHun Rise, & MonHun Stories 2
• ends with new BotW 2 teaser

Persona 5 the Curryathon coming to Switch this year.

Man, the hours before a Nintendo Direct are the worst. It's kinda like being a kid the night before Christmas: the anticipation, the fear, the excitement. But, more than anything, the anticipation. The next few hours are going to by at a crawl.

@Ralizah Don't forget the inevitable disappointment when you don't get exactly what you wanted

Instead swap Christmas sweaters with some licensed sports game on Switch

@TheFrenchiestFry I'm not worried. Indie World Showcases might be State of Play-tier presentations in terms of their ability to disappoint, but I've NEVER come away from a general direct thinking: "This sucks."

There's a ton of stuff I'm looking forward to on Switch. They'd have to actively be trolling not to put on at least a decent show.

Shigesato Itoi's Mother 3

Only on Nintendo MAX

@Ralizah Yeah, I’m trying to get all my work done in time for it starting except it’s on at 10PM over here annoyingly. Had a whole day full of awkward Zoom calls and wrapping my head around AI so I’m definitely ready for the Direct 😂

OK, I admit it. That sucked. Sucked hard. That was the worst general Direct I've ever seen. One or two cool surprises, but mostly just pure, time-filling garbage.

Stick to twitter announcements, Nintendo. You clearly can't do good Directs anymore.

Yeah that was 50 minutes of meh.

What a disappointment.

Splatoon 3, cool. But that's 2022.

The rest felt like the Switch catching up with the last decade or so. No Zelda either, I guess they took a whole year off.

I was not blown away. Mario Golf, the Octopath FFT-like game and World’s End Club were nice surprises. I like Skyward Sword and I’m really glad they’ve kept the motion controls but it’s another game that I already own. So many of those games were ports or remasters which is great if your only console ever is a Switch but I just kinda want new first-party games. Splatoon 3 isn’t really my style but I appreciate that it will be enough for some people. No news about Bayonetta 3, Breath of the Wild 2, Shin Megami Tensei 5 or Metroid Prime 4 is really disappointing.