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Peach_buggy on 12 October 2017
Green098 said:

If Nintendo cares about my well being it'll be 2018. I expected Animal Crossing on Wii U to be announced E3 2015 and instead got Amiibo Festival, they owe me. But in all serious I think if Pokémon comes out in 2018 they'll have Animal Crossing in 2019 or vice versa and have Animal Crossing in 2018 and Pokemon in 2019.

They need one of their 10 million+ sellers for Switch next year.

I agree with the Animal Crossing OR pokemon part. I still think Pokemon could be the big 2018 holiday title.



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Peach_buggy on 12 October 2017
RolStoppable said:
Nintendo has an Animal Crossing title in the works for smart devices. The point of such games is to raise brand awareness, so it makes sense to launch Animal Crossing Switch not too long after the smart device app.

Animal Crossing for Switch should be a 2018 game. It has also been a long time since New Leaf released, so a new installment is due.

Only my opinion but i think the smartphone game will come late 2018 (Once the 3ds has been dropped) and Animal Crossing will be close behind in early 2019. Likei said, only my opinion, don't shoot me!



Peach_buggy on 12 October 2017
Shaunodon said:
Peach_buggy said:

Erm... None of us have any idea what Nintendo has up their sleeves apart from Kirby, FE and Yoshi. I already stated this was an opinion but even if Nintendo did use some 3ds-type franchises in 2018 there are still some big-hitters available. Plus there is a chance either Pokemon, Metroid or both will come in 2018. Personally i think Nintendo may shock us with a brand new, 3D HD Earthbound with the potential to be huge!

There's also no way a Smash title isn't coming to Switch next year.

Seeing MK8DX and Splatoon1.5 and how they've performed this year, they'll almost certainly want to have either Smash4/Smash4.5 to try and keep those same sort of results for the system in 2018.

Personally i don't think Smash will be ready anytime soon. It may be held back until 2020 to give that year at least 1 big hitter!



StarDoor on 12 October 2017
Peach_buggy said:
Green098 said:

If Nintendo cares about my well being it'll be 2018. I expected Animal Crossing on Wii U to be announced E3 2015 and instead got Amiibo Festival, they owe me. But in all serious I think if Pokémon comes out in 2018 they'll have Animal Crossing in 2019 or vice versa and have Animal Crossing in 2018 and Pokemon in 2019.

They need one of their 10 million+ sellers for Switch next year.

I agree with the Animal Crossing OR pokemon part. I still think Pokemon could be the big 2018 holiday title.

I think you have it backwards. Gen 7 of Pokémon just came out in November 2016. They've never released a new generation less than 3 years after the last one, and they definitely aren't going to do so with the first console-scale Pokémon games. 2019 will be Pokémon, 2018 will be Animal Crossing.



Shaunodon on 12 October 2017
Peach_buggy said:
Shaunodon said:

There's also no way a Smash title isn't coming to Switch next year.

Seeing MK8DX and Splatoon1.5 and how they've performed this year, they'll almost certainly want to have either Smash4/Smash4.5 to try and keep those same sort of results for the system in 2018.

Personally i don't think Smash will be ready anytime soon. It may be held back until 2020 to give that year at least 1 big hitter!

What do you mean not ready. The game is playable right now on the WiiU.

Why would they leave such a spectacular game to rot on a system no one owns, just so no one can play it and they make no more money off of it. Surely the only sane option would be to port Smash 4 DX/Smash for Switch/Smash for WiiU for Switch DX.



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Peach_buggy on 12 October 2017
RolStoppable said:
Peach_buggy said:

Only my opinion but i think the smartphone game will come late 2018 (Once the 3ds has been dropped) and Animal Crossing will be close behind in early 2019. Likei said, only my opinion, don't shoot me!

Nintendo has pushed back Animal Crossing Mobile a lot already. Originally it was mentioned as a late 2016 release, now it's fall 2017 and there's still no new information.

Which leads me to believe it will be pushed back to late 2018 to accomodate the dropping of the 3ds.



Peach_buggy on 12 October 2017
StarDoor said:
Peach_buggy said:

I agree with the Animal Crossing OR pokemon part. I still think Pokemon could be the big 2018 holiday title.

I think you have it backwards. Gen 7 of Pokémon just came out in November 2016. They've never released a new generation less than 3 years after the last one, and they definitely aren't going to do so with the first console-scale Pokémon games. 2019 will be Pokémon, 2018 will be Animal Crossing.

Good point. Like i said it could be either/or. Even if Animal Crossing is the 2018 game, i can't personally see it before holiday 2018 tbh. My whole point is though,  these games will come out post 3ds discontinuation.



Peach_buggy on 12 October 2017
Shaunodon said:
Peach_buggy said:

Personally i don't think Smash will be ready anytime soon. It may be held back until 2020 to give that year at least 1 big hitter!

What do you mean not ready. The game is playable right now on the WiiU.

Why would they leave such a spectacular game to rot on a system no one owns, just so no one can play it and they make no more money off of it. Surely the only sane option would be to port Smash 4 DX/Smash for Switch/Smash for WiiU for Switch DX.

Personally, i think they should work on a brand new Smash. There's already been two "enhanced ports" and if Nintendo release too many i think it would start to piss people off. Not sure Nintendo would risk pissing off the Smash crowd.



Peach_buggy on 12 October 2017
RolStoppable said:
Peach_buggy said:

Which leads me to believe it will be pushed back to late 2018 to accomodate the dropping of the 3ds.

But the 3DS is already in its final year that is noteworthy. Switch has to supplant a virtually dead 3DS in 2018.

I agree but i just think Nintendo will wait until they have "Officially declared it dead".



Lonely_Dolphin on 12 October 2017

But this is the last year for 3DS. We're past E3 and multiple Nintendo directs, yet Nintendo has no 1st party titles announced for 2018 asside from Kirby which is only there because it was delayed. Safe to assume they don't have anything more planned for it, so Animal Crossing totally can and should release 2018.