Oh for sure. I think 2019 might be the year where we see their handheld teams finally move to the Switch
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Well, we've seen what GF can do ;)
The only other exclusively handheld devs that I can think of being left are Alpha Dream, who've got that M&L remake next year, and Arzest, which who cares.
NLG has been handheld only since the Wii so I guess LM3 is them jumping into HD/home console again. Anyone else?
Well I was mainly thinking of them but also of the teams that made their more weird or non-core titles, like Brain Age. I always liked them doing weird stuff
Oh God no! :(
Oh I imagine those smaller teams got absorbed/moved to other projects/teams (maybe new ones). I doubt we'll see Brain Age, Wii Fit, Nintendogs, etc on the Switch.
As for Vitei/Steel Diver...who knows after Tank Troopers died on the vine.
Is it kind of full though? We don't know what they have fully for next year. Pikmin 4 could be a game for next year.
Well that's kinda rough. Not that I liked them all but there were a few I genuinely enjoyed. At the very least, I'd have hoped for Brain Age to be a mobile title or something
I expect MPT HD to be announced too. I don't see Retro's Star Fox game December. One insider said it was supposed to be a summer 2019 game. WW HD makes sense. 2D Zelda could be there too.
I hope we get Aonumas IP (if real). Luigi's Mansion 3 in July seems too early.
I mean, not that I know anything of course. Just my assumption, based on those franchises not being really a fit for Switch play. Like how it seems that Art Academy is dead.
they tend to be card game related if all three trademark names. what concept they would be, I don't know. maybe one leading with a new Tag Team GX card?
Maybe, would AC in July and L'sM3 in October make more sense?
I don't know if Nintendo could have both a BotW "sequel" and Aonuma's new IP in development at the same time tho, and the former was confirmed a few months after BotW launch iirc. I would love to see that too, but it's too early I think.
Who?
I've actually never played a Pokémon card game so I don't know anything about them.
Nintendo was pushing for it according to Emily and it just makes sense to port it to Switch before Prime 4, like they did with Bayo 1 + 2.
there's a new game in the series brandishing the number 4, so getting people a chance to catch up as well give the games a new lease on life. every little bit helps if they want to give Metroid the best possible chance at growth
we so far have pokemon, fire emblem, yoshi, luigi's mansion 3, animal crossing, nsmbu, daemon x machina, and maybe bayo 3 and/or metroid prime 4.
there will be new 2019 games announced in january and e3, so maybe pikmin gets announced for release next year, but i wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't.
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Yeah, so far, we haven't gotten much of them so I suppose it isn't a stretch to say that those sort of games will be fairly rare on the Switch
I like LM3 as an October game and AC as a middle of the year game. If Aonuma's game is real he could be making it with a smaller team. He's not needed as much on Zelda. Fujibayashi has a good handle on the series I think.
I can't remember who it was that said it was Summer 2019.
They also could have been hedging their bets and greenlit those sort of games only after the Switch proved successful.
That could also be the case. If so, I hope we can start seeing their efforts this year
Aonuma is used to producing like 200 games at the same time anyway. Like juggling WWHD, BotW, ALBW simultaneously plus whatever experiments they were doing on the side.
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Aonuma is a producer so by nature he is managing a lot of different games, although unlike the other producers, he's been stuck on different iterations of Zelda for the past 20 years. If anything, there's a chance that Aonuma has Fujibayashi on the new IP, and Tominaga (who took over the DLC as director) on the BOTW sequel. Who knows.
There's some group/team leads that haven't materialized projects in the Switch generation yet (Pikmin, Tomodachi, Rhythm Tengoku, etc.) We will see what happens there.
I didn't know there was another director for the DLC...
That changes things now because what's Fujibayashi been doing for a year and a half? I guess a new IP like you said or the next Zelda.
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He's been working on Zelda for a long time as well now, if anything his name might do a great job of promoting a new action-adventure title. "From the director of BOTW etc.."
Lmaoliving it up after the SS->BotW redemption arc
Then a new IP can be done at the same time with 20 other games produced from him.
I like this possibility. Fujibayashi would be working on some some early concepts for a new IP while Tominaga uses the work they did on BotW to make a new Zelda.
Skyward Sword got him the heli, BotW got him the boatliving it up after the SS->BotW redemption arc
We have 12 months to work with. In the 9 months of 2017 Nintendo had a big game every month except May IIRC. If they could pull off 11 big games in 12 months would be amazing.
There's very strong reason to believe Latios and Latias tag team GX is coming so yeah it's most likely that.
I'm looking at the best selling fighting game franchises. Currently, Tekken is #1 at 47 million and Street Fighter is at #2 at 45 million. Smash is at #3 with 40 million.
It's safe to say Smash Ultimate will put the Smash series as the best fighting game series. I'm hoping it can make it to 60 million as a series. It's well deserved.
It's safe to say Smash Ultimate will put the Smash series as the best fighting game series. I'm hoping it can make it to 60 million as a series. It's well deserved.
Saw someone said Skyward Sword Switch is announced by Aonuma during Zelda concert.
Edit: teased, not announced. Apparently Aonuma said something like "we hear you! You want to play Skyward Sword on Switch, right?"
Edit: teased, not announced. Apparently Aonuma said something like "we hear you! You want to play Skyward Sword on Switch, right?"
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Oh he teased it. It has to come at some point. Skyward Sword I enjoyed a lot.
Source: this person on weibo (Chinese only)
Original (the second "tweet"): 现场青沼原话「我知道你们在想什么，switch 的天剑没错吧」然后全场爆发如雷掌声我差点飞出去
Translation: Aonuma said "We know what you are thinking, Skyward Sword on Switch, right?" Then the audience were clapping like crazy. I nearly flew out.
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