Yep. Fantastic baseball game and the best sports franchise right now imho :) It looks beautiful btw.
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NPD April 2019: MK11 #1, Days Gone #2, MLB #3. Switch best selling hardware.
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I just went back and fast read some of the posts and wow.
I can understand thinking some games might run badly due to the nature of their coding/engine but last gen ports in general? That's crazy.
You're still shoveling this shit? lol
Thanks for making it clear you've never touched BOTW or DDDA either, after a combined 400 hours in both games I can assure you neither really "struggled" to maintain 30fps for the vast majority of that.
I don't think it's excuse making at all. Context helps understand. I certainly get more of why your posts were the way they were. As someone who struggles greatly with mental illness, I get it. And I apologize if I in turn caused any offense to you. If I had known that before, I would never have said something like that to begin with.
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter, and I am sorry to hear about your marriage issues. I hope all the problems you were facing are less stressful than they were before; ideally, I hope they are all resolved.
Anyway, like I said, in the end, you bring valuable insight, and I really appreciate that, and I look forward to more of it for a long time to come.
Person: "Highly doubt Switch can run GTAV"
People: "What? Of course it can"
Person: "Don't believe you, you're not changing my mind. Also holy shit at your collective non-related avatars!"
Yeah, something like MGS4 that was hardcoded to the PS3 architecture definitely probably will suffer in a port to any other system, I totally agree with that. But the notion that GTA5 can't run on the Switch is so hilarious that it obviously derailed the thread for a bit.
I also shouldn't have thrown an entire forum under the bus. It was frankly fucked up.
And thanks for the kind words. I'm honestly trying to do better.
You like video games? Oh snap, I like video games! We should all talk about how much we like video games!
If I ever go off on a contentious thread like this and get banned, one of y'all promise to keep the Link Climbing images alive.
BotW at launch definitely struggled with its framerate (and still does in Korok Forest)
It's a learning experience, lol. You're only human, you'll make mistakes.
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Anyway, time to get back on topic now.
Well, the earlier ones were mid budget games that sold like mid budget games. MUA3 comes after Marvel's success with the MCU, and with Nintendo's backing as a first party, so I expect it to sell better.
If it rides off of the Endgame / Far From Home hype with good marketing and the game is at least fun, I think it can perform better than those older games, even with it being an exclusive
Yeah this one kinda has everything going for it, it should easily set some sales records for the series.
They've been showing the trailer in the UK (and I assume elsewhere) before showings of Endgame. It's a shame it doesn't come out a little sooner to ride off it a bit more though.
I do expect it to sell very well. Definite 1-2 million seller.
I am still flabbergasted Nintendo didn't attempt to have the game complete and out in April alongside Endgame, with Switch bundles lol.
While I do expect Endgame to have a little positive effect, personally I don't think that a generally non cinematic game (as opposed to Spiderman) where the characters look different from the movie will benefit that much from it. Of course I could be wrong.
I mean who says they didn't attempt to do that? It could just be unfortunate development setbacks or something.
Releasing several months after endgame probably won't do sales a lot of favors.
Not sure how the reception will fair but the brand is pretty hot right now
Anytime a Moblin walked up on screen in BOTW, the framerate tanked to what felt like the teens. Also, Korok Forest?
I admittedly have not played the game in several years now but near launch it absolutely did struggle to maintain 30fps at specific times.
Back on topic, I predict CTR sales will be like this
PS4 >>>>>>>> Switch >> Xbox One
We'll probably never find out and it's just speculation. Too much nostalgia for Crash on Sony platforms for the game not to sell the great majority of it's copies on there. I think Switch portability and also mascot games seemingly selling well there points to it doing better than the Xbox One version. Nothing to base that off of at all though
Oh I don't think it'll make people necessarily go and get it for it but it at least puts it within the public consciousness and makes it more, well, acceptable to go for superhero games, which will help out by a good amount. I certainly feel that that helped Marvel's Spider-Man outsell the Batman: Arkham games
I worded that poorly. I'm surprised they didn't do it at all costs.
I guess piggybacking off of Far From Home is still good.
MLB is one of those titles every year that people underestimate. The title was tracking strong and even had supply issues but I believe that was localized but still, Game always does really well but people are shocked by it.
I'd rather they not rush it just to get it out by the time a movie comes out, that's how a lot of movie-based/superhero games end up bad
Take your time to ensure the game is the best it can be, Marvel hype isn't going away anytime soon
I guess it just wasn't possible to get it done in time, it's a shame. But there is still Far From Home releasing around the same time, while obviously not the same, will keep the Marvel mindshare going.
It has Marvel in the name, personally I think that'll be enough for a lot of casual fans, it's more the timing that will have an affect imo, but I guess we'll see.
That's also true, they didn't want to compromise on the integrity of the game, and like you said, it's not like Marvel is suddenly irrelevant just because Endgame didn't release this month lol
I think this a bit overstated. It is known that many devs/pubs had provided the same feedback on RAM that Capcom did. As far as I am aware it wasn't specifically to satisfy them. My point was simply that Nintendo isn't known to make big overtures to 3rd parties, so it wouldn't be surprising to find that after learning what Capcom was focusing on and what they were doing with Monster Hunter, that Nintendo just let the relationship cool rather than pursuing aggressively. There's nothing wrong with that, just another factor in why Capcom's support is in such a state.
Yeah, I think they've done the next best thing for sure.
I do wonder if they will have bundles; have any been announced?
Crash should do fine but Sony association and the year of exclusivity for the NSane trilogy will probably assure the sales rate per console is about what you mentioned.
Also wonder about Spyro. Don't think that franchise is as popular now a Days, but I think the remake did well?
Feels like they were a bit stretched for resources so they couldn't do a PC/switch release. We might see that later this year.
about Zelda performance, it got an optimization patch less than a month after launch that fixed a lot of the issues. Game runs perfectly fine now, has some problem spots but so do most open worlds.
Possibly but considering the Classic Controller Pro and Circle Pad Pro it's not like there isn't prior evidence of Nintendo tailoring hardware specifically for Capcom.
With Capcom, if we don't see a new Switch MH reveal this year, something has to be up. Ichinose isn't working on World and that is tons of money left on the table. Capcom are the kings ot asset reuse, especially with MH, they wouldn't have to go too crazy will new assets for a potential Switch entry.
I know about the patch, i didn't play BOTW till a few months after launch and those issues still existed. I don't even know why Moblins specifically made the game slow down so much, you had Lionel's doing all types of crazy shit and game runs fine, Moblin literally just walks on screen and game starts stuttering immediately
I know about the patch, i didn't play BOTW till a few months after launch and those issues still existed. I don't even know why Moblins specifically made the game slow down so much, you had Lionel's doing all types of crazy shit and game runs fine, Moblin literally just walks on screen and game starts stuttering immediately
Of course, but bearing in mind that stuff like the Circle Pad Pro was completely in service of Monster Hunter. I imagine that from Nintendo's perspective that's the only Capcom IP they care about.
Yeah but they posted just the least ridiculous parts.
Can we stop the derail about Switch ingame performance now? This is a sales thread, and as we can see, whether what you said is true or not (it's not), it has no impact on its sales (just like the poor ports on PS3 or Wii had no real impact on their sales).
So my opinion is ridiculous?Lmao Comical
And I didnt bring it back up there were 3 post speaking on it before I posted, but I derail since you dont agree with my ridiculous opinion...but you right this is a Sales thread...we digressed
I wouldn't go that far but for sure. Nintendo isn't going to bending over backwards for them for nothing. Hence the aforementioned dropping of European distribution.
Could current GTA Online work on Switch? Single Player should be fine, given it runs on PS360, but GTA Online stopped supporting those platforms years ago (in 2015 I think) and we've seen how little Rockstar care about GTA5's SP mode post release, they don't even put the new vehicles or weapons in it.
I think GTA:O, plus the size of the game (it's over 60GB now, isn't it?) is the main consideration with a Switch port of GTAV, yeah.
Hence "vast majority". Yes BOTW had performance issues with Korok Forest but that was due to the volumetrics (aka: not a CPU issue, it's bandwidth) and some large moblin ragdolls (speculated to be a bug maybe related to hitflash pause at death). Both were worse earlier on too but with patches the game improved dramatically, there's almost no performance impact now undocked.
Some limited/isolated performance issues =/= the game struggles to hold 30fps generally and should be classed next to SR3 or Ark
I think it will depend a lot on reviews, which I expect to be very mediocre and the game to sell accordingly.
I think Switch is gonna have an easy time "winning" every month going forward, unless TLOU II releases this year. If it does, then the month of it's release will be highly contested one at NPD.
That's unfortunate, but maybe they can ratchet up the marketing campaign in the lead-up to launch and that will help (TV spots, E3, etc.)
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Which metrics are you referring to? Preorders, Youtube views, something else?
They still got 2 months and the Blu-ray release of Endgame might also be an oppurtunity for some cross-promo, resulting in some legs (if the game is good enough). August might be too soon for that, but if the gap is the same as for Infinity War, it can hit in September.
I think MUA3 doesn't have a visual or gameplay hook, probably something you have to play to get a feel of.
But reviews will probably be mixed so I'm not entirely sure what'll happen with that.
Not sure if Marvel gave nintendo a chance to pick and they picked MUA3 or if Marvel only gave Nintendo the option for MUA3...but it seems like a pretty lackluster result for a Nintendo published/funded Marvel game
But reviews will probably be mixed so I'm not entirely sure what'll happen with that.
Not sure if Marvel gave nintendo a chance to pick and they picked MUA3 or if Marvel only gave Nintendo the option for MUA3...but it seems like a pretty lackluster result for a Nintendo published/funded Marvel game
Its the type of game that takes off with reviews and commercials. Both wont affect the other too much, but having both would sell the game really well
YT views.
Sure there's still plenty of time, but it's generally harder to ramp up since the trend is ramp-down.