Nintendo Switch #3: More than 1 year later

[guinness]

Nostalgia doesn't have to be the reasoning. Good games are good games in any context, and there are at least a couple of legitimately good games on the NES.

In isolation, completely removed of nostalgia and on non-market-influenced value alone, I would gladly be willing to make a single $20+ purchase for just Super Mario Bros. 3 alone. That said, paying a subscription to be able to rent games on a continual basis rather than just buying the ones that are worth it does seem pretty lame to me in general. The Switch would be a lot more desirable to me if it had the Virtual Console on it rather than the online service.

Nostalgia colors everything. Old me can't get as hyped as 30 years ago me for NES games. Yeah, the games are still good, but I can play those old games on everything under the sun, it's the same reason I can't get hyped for FF VII or movie reboots...let it go, move forward, make original IP, please.

As for the Switch, that's part of it's problem for me: so many ports of older games and indie Metroidvania games out the ass, but older me (with adult me money) is also getting real sick of Nintendo's nickel and dimeing shit. It's a portable Wii U, but the Switch can't begin to touch what the Wii U offered in older games, re: the VC. On that end, it makes no sense, because the Wii U was a sales disaster, yet Nintendo is so guarded with their IP, they're worse than Disney. I feel like Nintendo does well, in spite of themselves.

See the "but it's only $20/year" online. It's still lame in comparison to what Sony and MS offer, and while those are more expensive (but year passes go on sale a lot too), those don't require paid online to do cloud saves.

If not for the Twitch Prime, I wouldn't have bothered with Switch online, and even then, I'm not going to renew. It's just some old NES games, cloud saves, but not for all games, and online play. Sony and MS at least give people newer "free" games, and if the Netflix angle is important, MS does it better.

 

[Shareefruck]

Nostalgia colors everything. Old me can't get as hyped as 30 years ago me for NES games. Yeah, the games are still good, but I can play those old games on everything under the sun, it's the same reason I can't get hyped for FF VII or movie reboots...let it go, move forward, make original IP, please.

I mean... you not being hyped for something anymore isn't a reason to think that those who are are automatically colored by nostalgia and haven't seen the light yet. It's just like anything else that anyone disagrees about.

 

[S E P H]

My money is on Animal Crossing.

For the love of God give me a Pikmin game.

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Here's the link to view the stream when the time comes:

 

[Emperoreddy]

Idk. Animal crossing gets me hyped. It’s always been the perfect unwind game for me. Something to relax with.

 

[sa cyred]

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Animal Crossing delayed to March. Shoot.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

What was that Zelda music? Sounded like it needs to be reversed.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Inject that BotW2 into my veins.

 

[The Burdened]

we're not getting a new Mario Kart for Switch.... are we?
Fingers crossed next year they announce it.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Two thoughts about the sequel to BotW:

- Looks like the Twilight Realm will be coming into play? Could be a great way to flip the original map a-la Dark World: no need to start from scratch and a great call back to Link to the Past
- I expect Zelda to be playable: she was pretty well developped in BotW (for a character you only see in flashbacks) and people have been asking for it for a long time

 

[Blitzkrug]

This Zelda is certainly a bit more...hands on than other princesses.

I'd be okay with it.

 

[Daisy Jane]

interesting no mario kart Switch. nearly 3 years old and no new Kart game.
Hollow Knight Sequel: ON IT.
Link's Awakening: yeup!
BotW 2: YEUP. (also Zelda got a haircut. cool).

my little irritant. they keep bringing all these japanese only games to NA, but never fire emblem.

 

[Blitzkrug]

The one thing i think a good majority of the people missed in that Banjo trailer; DK, K. Rool and Diddy cheer for Banjo's reveal because all 4 of them were once property of Rareware. I thought that was a nice little nod to history.

 

[Josepho]

I'm very excited for Animal Crossing.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

I am very excited for Link's Awakening. A Link Between Worlds is easily a top 3 game in the franchise, the potential is there.

 

[Jovavic]

Hopefully with Seiken Densetsu 3 release Nintendo will bring over Terranigma from Europe, no translation needed there, hope it doesn't take 24 years.

 

[Turin]

Don’t care if the graphics are potato, preorder Witcher 3 for Switch.

 

[Shareefruck]

Hopefully with Seiken Densetsu 3 release Nintendo will bring over Terranigma from Europe, no translation needed there, hope it doesn't take 24 years.

Not really promising, considering that Terranigma (a far superior game to anything in the Mana franchise, IMO) doesn't have nearly the name recognition that the Mana series does. Hope I'm wrong about that.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Terranigma is the best game people haven’t played.

Still I am super pumped about the Mana collection and how Trials look. That was a low key awesome announcement.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I am very excited for Link's Awakening. A Link Between Worlds is easily a top 3 game in the franchise, the potential is there.

LA is a fantastic game, just hard to come by in its original form due to it being a game boy game. . Absolutely deserving of a remake. I love the art style too.

 

[Jovavic]

I remember playing LA through the SNES add on all those years ago, this new one should be a blast with it's color and sound

 

[Jovavic]

Not really promising, considering that Terranigma (a far superior game to anything in the Mana franchise, IMO) doesn't have nearly the name recognition that the Mana series does. Hope I'm wrong about that.

I had hope since they put Japanese games no ones heard of on the Virtual Console.

 

[Shareefruck]

I had hope since they put Japanese games no ones heard of on the Virtual Console.

Maybe.

Terranigma and Mother 3 are the two big ones for me. The fact that the latter hasn't been re-released is an absolute joke.

 

[HanSolo]

LA is a fantastic game, just hard to come by in its original form due to it being a game boy game. . Absolutely deserving of a remake. I love the art style too.

They gave it for free with my Nintendo on the 3ds a while ago. That's how I played it.