SanAndreasX said:
Slownenberg said:
Loads of games announced.
Lots of good RPG games coming.
Just in terms of first party:
- Mario RPG remake is huge.
- Obviously Mario Bros Wonder is what we've been long waiting for - a 2D Mario built on the Switch, and will likely be their final mega selling game on the system.
- A 3DS Luigi's Mansion remake gives LM fans more to play, I'm sure that'll sell pretty well.
- A Princess Peach game is cool, no idea what to expect but cool they are expanding out a game for yet another Mario character.
- New Detective Pikachu game for those fans is nice.
- HD versions of Pikmin 1 and 2, so the entire series now available on Switch, with 4 one month away, is great.
- plus other stuff
And then there's a bunch of great third party stuff coming too.
Switch may be likely getting to its last 18 or so months of its lifecycle but one thing we can say for sure is the library is gonna keep pumping out quality to the end. Hopefully early next year we'll get one last big round of announcements to carry the Switch library strong until the next gen starts.
At this point all that's left for first party games that I'm hoping to see on Switch before its days are over is DK, Star Fox, Prime 2 and 3 remasters, Zelda WW & TP HD, Mario Galaxy 2 (still miffed about why it wasn't included in 3D all-stars), Prime 4 (though starting to get the feeling it could be a launch title next gen), and maybe something like Kid Icarus. To me, if they get those last 8 or 9 games out in 2024, five of which are just ports/remasters so isn't too much to ask, the Switch will have what I would consider a complete library, in that it'd be hard to say the system missed out on much of anything in terms of bringing the full arsenal of Nintendo games out on the system.
This Direct put to rest any speculations people may have had that Switch games will be slowing down as Nintendo focuses on getting next gen ready.
This is a 10/10 Direct. |
I wonder if they're hanging onto the GameCube Zeldas to fill out the next system's library. |
Could be. Maybe WW, TP, and Galaxy 2 will be used to fill in holes in Switch 2 lineup at some point.
With 2D Mario coming out this Fall, presumably 3D Mario being a launch game next gen, and TotK having just come out, after the next gen launch there's gonna be a bunch of years with no new Marios or Zeldas other than perhaps Mario Maker 3 and I hope a brand new 2D Zelda. But yeah I could definitely see Nintendo waiting on WW, TP and Galaxy 2 in order to resurrected them to fill in those Mario-less and Zelda-less years next gen.
