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Nintendo has one upcoming game with a specific release date (Animal Crossing)
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wow that's a silly post. you said xenoblade on switch is a port, when it's not. not sure what ff7r part 1 has to do with that.I mean in the same year as this excuse me for not jumping up and down at that comparison.
that makes no sense. which is it?
At least it isn't 2018 all over again.
For prior Wii U owners, that was a dire year...
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze again, Hyrule Warriors again, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker again, Mario Tennis Aces, which didn't feel all that much different to Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash ... š¾
Then Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee + Pikachu came along and they weren't as good as they should have been, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a better and more complete version of Super Smash Bros. on the Wii U.
Whatever we shall (eventually!) get from Nintendo this year will be indefinitely better than 2018.
For prior Wii U owners, that was a dire year...
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze again, Hyrule Warriors again, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker again, Mario Tennis Aces, which didn't feel all that much different to Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash ... š¾
Then Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee + Pikachu came along and they weren't as good as they should have been, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a better and more complete version of Super Smash Bros. on the Wii U.
Whatever we shall (eventually!) get from Nintendo this year will be indefinitely better than 2018.
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Xenoblade right now is a remaster.
We'll see what extent of a remaster it is when we see how much new content there is.
We'll see what extent of a remaster it is when we see how much new content there is.
yeah except for animal crossing, trials of mana, spongebob, pokemon DLC, no more heroes 3, bravely default 2, outer worlds, xenoblade remaster, smash DLC, and many of the already existing games.
Yikes.. I mean.. I don't even know where to start, so I won't bother.I mean in the same year as this excuse me for not jumping up and down at that comparison.
Shut this one down, we've hit rock bottom.
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Yeah, this is a totally fair comparison.I mean in the same year as this excuse me for not jumping up and down at that comparison.
Dumbass.
OP has said some stuff about COVID... lol
but my guess it is this.
Yeah, looking back on it, Smash hype absolutely carried that year, holy shit.
Even if Nintendo's Q2 lineup is just remasters (and I wouldn't assume it is), we've at least got AC as a big new game in Q1 and then the whole back half of the year after that.
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Rock Band 2, Call of Duty World at War, Wario Land Shake It, de Blob, Mega Man 9, and World of Goo were the only games released in the last 7 months of the Wii's 2008 that received any acclaim. 6 games anyone liked in 7 months was a very rough time period.
I actually think we had this situation before in april 2016, although it's possible there were some 3DS dates known at the time. They had one game with a release date (Star Fox Zero, which was delayed from holiday 2015), and at the end of april of 2016 nintendo had no games with a confirmed releasedate (for wii U)
Their full list at the financial briefing was
* Star fox zero (released that april)
* Tokyo Mirage Sessions (which release in japan the year before)
* Mario & Sonic at the olympic games
* Paper Mario : color splash
* Legend of zelda (temp)
* Project Giant Robot (temp)
We all known Zelda became 2017 and Project Giant Robot never happened.
Their full list at the financial briefing was
* Star fox zero (released that april)
* Tokyo Mirage Sessions (which release in japan the year before)
* Mario & Sonic at the olympic games
* Paper Mario : color splash
* Legend of zelda (temp)
* Project Giant Robot (temp)
We all known Zelda became 2017 and Project Giant Robot never happened.
Im not worried - my Switch backlog is massive as it is and 2020 will be another big year.
The point is, the fact that this discussion and thread keeps coming up indicates they have a perception issue right now. It DOES feel like there isn't much on the horizon. We know there probably will be news before long, but ideally, you want to avoid this kind of weird zone where you're not looking forward to something new.
Where's the lack of chill in this post? It's someone asking a genuine question as to whether this situation has happened before, which is a completely valid discussion to have.
No-one here is seriously on the Nintendoomed train or anything like that...
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Federation Force and Kirby Robobot had confirmed release dates after Star Fox Zero.
But this is kind of close.
Xenoblade Chronicles is very much a Switch port. It is remastered, but it is a port. Do you think the two things are mutually exclusive?
Y'know, if Metroid Prime Trilogy HD is actually a real thing that's already done but Nintendo is just sitting on like all the """""""""insders""""""""" are claiming, it'd probably be a good idea to start prepping it for release so they at least have something during the impending COVID-induced drought.
I mean, you're acting like there are some objective, universally-agreed-upon definitions of ports and remasters and remakes and where they each begin and end
some people would say that a re-release that changes the models and environment is not a "port" at all. just sayin'
It's pretty clearly not just running the same game at a different resolution, which is what "it's a port" implies, even if later you go back and say "no no no i meant it was a *remastered* port"
To be fair, it's stressful times for people now for different reasons and games are a main way of escape for a lot here.
The OP is perfectly reasonable and level-headed. How do they need to chill?
Maybe more impatience than chill? I don't know, it just comes across as concerned when I believe there's no real need to be.
What exactly is the competition showing up with? Sony has The Last of Us Part II after years of delays and Ghosts of Tsushima after years of delay with no formal announcement to the PS5 even around other than a generic "it's coming this year." Microsoft has next to nothing shown except for the Series X with limited details on Halo Infinite existing and Hellblade II, and this is after a fairly anemic showing in general from Microsoft for ages.
There's some solid third party titles coming out, but when we're talking about first party offerings, none of the three have a whole lot on display for 2020, and Nintendo just had a massive year in terms of their first party output. It's still just early in the year and the world is also dealing with COVID-19, so like, just chill for a little while.
Whoa there, pardner. I don't know where you get off with the name calling, it's a shame you have to resort to calling people dumbass. Is there something going on in your life that has brought you to this?
I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
Then why not say that to the guy who quoted me for calling the game a port? By your logic, if it's not agreed upon, then I have just as much right to call it that as someone else has to not call it that. By the way I don't agree with your logic, it is a port. You guys for some reason are taking offense to a port being called a port. Why is that?
I'll repeat, where's the lack of chill?
I don't think there's any I'll intent here, it's a genuinely strange scenario for a console manufacturer to find themselves in. Again, no-one is saying it's the end for Nintendo because of this, it's just odd.
Wooow you mean the Switch is weaker than a PS pro?? Damn...I mean in the same year as this excuse me for not jumping up and down at that comparison.
Isn't like half of Japan shut down or telecommuting for work/school right now? Are y'all serious with this?
COVID-19 severely impacted Switch's production line anyway, I think it's likely they delayed PR because of it. Same for Sony and PS5.
I'm pretty sure a port gets an existing codebase to work on a new platform with changes to low-level code. If the Xenoblade remake is exactly the same with new assets, then it's a port. If it's been rewritten from the ground up, it's not.
(I get the sinking feeling that I just joined your side of the argument)
It's impossible to tell what's sarcasm when people genuinely believe that
In the US, we're barely at a fraction of what other countries are experiencing with COVID-19 and already companies are limiting work functions across the board. College systems are even considering closures. I can't imagine how processes might be stalled in other more affected regions.
Welcome to the dark side, where its apparently evil to call ports ports. I had no idea this was offensive until this thread, I say we just do away with the word. Maybe call them "updates."
I think its more that Nintendo just hasn't told us what's coming yet more than anything, which is why people are starved for a Direct. Nintendo could have easily filled the early 2020 release calendar with more WiiU ports and announced it by now if they had nothing.
The problem with that line of thinking is that tons of sequels reuse the codebase, too, which is where we get into the whole "Splatoon 2 is just a port!" thing.
In the industry, "port" never implies enhancements, beyond possibly things that are innate to the new platform like its display resolution. It certainly never implies things like going back and redoing character models and making the environment more detailed. Port means port. You are taking one product and porting it to another platform. A remaster is a different thing.
Cactuar's argument is that, by some objective metric, remasters are a subset of ports, which I don't think is really supported by how the term of art is used in the industry at all. When someone tells a team to port an app from iOS to Android, no one is like "oh, what features are we adding!?!"
what was the point of the ff7 remake comparison tho? that's a ps1 game from 23 years ago, coming to a more powerful platform. of course the difference in visuals is going to be way bigger. what does that have to do a 10 year old wii game coming to switch?
A statement that they have more to announce for 2020 in the coming weeks will get them through the investor meeting just fine I'd expect. Not to mention the investor meeting typically isn't until the end of June (unless I'm thinking of a different meeting than you). That gives Nintendo plenty of time to announce things before then.
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