Hope you are right on the direct: I would expect also something Megaman -reminder of Legacy Collections-, Ace Attourney and ports of third party games in general -release dates for de Blob, among others-.
GTA V is an E3 announcement I feel like. But the overall expectations seem reasonable. Maybe they address VC and Online. If they do, I expect Smash there as well.
Not so sure about Pokémon: I think is this year,
but I can see a proper reveal at E3. Who knows.
The first three months is what I expect too. Seems right to me. Some comments:
- I would add South Park in March because of leaks and placeholders.
- I expect Wolfenstein 2 to be Q2. April or June.
- Mario Tennis is Spring, so it cannot July. My guess is April.
- In June/July maybe we would have Ys VII or/and TWEWY. April is too early I feel like.
- I think Animal Crossing is July, to have a title in the summer break in Japan like they did with Splatoon 2 last year is important. GTA V is July.
- Steep, NMH3 and Dragon Quest no idea: the first one is missing in action and the third one, well, Square Enix has been extremely shady with it. Almost no information whatsoever, so I expect the Switch versión to not be localized -because SE treats Nintendo fans like second tier costumers-.
- Fortnite will come alongside the online as well. Agree. Smash absolutely is September.
- No way Octopath is in the holiday season: my guess is Sumder or December. It may get overshadow otherwise.
- Fire Emblem is late summer -August, probably-, December is too late I feel like. Vakyria Chronicles 4 could be there.
- In general, if insiders are right -hope they are-, I expect substantially more third party support, such as Dragon Ball FighterZ, Tales of, more games from Bethesda and Ubisoft...
I feel like GTA V would be a really good game to be announced at E3 too. To me, Smash, Pokemon, GTA V, and some other games sounds overwhelming for one event but who knows, Nintendo is very unpredictable.
Pokemon would also be a really good thing to announce at E3, but as far as i know all Pokemon games have been announced in their own Directs, sometimes having a cameo at E3 with more info. Now that I think about it, don't see a Pokemon Direct happening before E3 if were getting a March Direct, as long as it gets announced at E3... which is sort of a 50/50 at this point. Idk.
March seems really close for a big unconfirmed AAA game. I believe Emily mentioned in a thread she expects an announcement in March though.
I was thinking Aces wouldn't fit into anything before May since we already have a game coming out each month before then (assuming Hyrule Warriors comes out in April, which I think is a safe bet). June would be the last chance they release it if they want to stay true to its Spring release I guess.
I didn't put too much thought into where third party games released. I tried to spread them out evenly but didnt think about their developments, just bein lazy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Animal Crossing, paired with Smash, Pokemon, and GTA V, would be a wicked 2018. I'm not a business analyst or anything but this seems like it would be almost too wicked, who knows though. Nin might want to save some games for 2019 haha.
Yeah thats true. We got a demo for Octopath not too long ago so I do expect it to release atleast before Fall.
Really had no clue where to put FE. I figured since we haven't heard anything about it since... E3 or something... it might've been pushed back a bit. Just checked and VK4 is coming in March... whoops.
I do expect
way more third party games on the way because of how popular the Switch has become, I think 2018 will be one of the best years for third party games on Switch.
Thanks for the feedback though, I'll update it when I get the chance. Hopefully we'll know soon about what Nintendo has in store for us in 2018!
