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Jranation said:
Mnementh said:

There were a lot of rumours, some of them true, some not. But mostly about tech and stuff. Todd Howard probably isn't that impressed by technical data, the Switch will barely beat the WiiU in juice. Much more is impossible with a mobile device. He is probably impressed with something Nintendo showed you can do with the thing. All we know we can do with the thing was shown in the reveal video. But Todd Howard mentioned NDA. So maybe Nintendo has some more uses for the Switch in mind, that weren't revealed yet.

Yeah. I mean the Switch Trailer didn't even showcase the rumored touch screen, and the joycons pointer thing. 

Exactly, Nintendo just show core concept of Switch, but they didn't show all features and possibilities of Switch.



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TheLastStarFighter said:
I can see a real market for FPS titles on Switch. Doom LAN anyone?

I'm hoping for a data plan.



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It's official, God Howard has given this console his blessing, so it will be great!

It has the Bethesda Seal of Approval, thus everyone will buy one, and yes, this will include Pro and Scorpio fans...





Perhaps...



Yup, this is very important for Switch because Bethesda is one of most hardcore 3rd party developer on market, they really don't have also casual games like EA, Ubi, Activision...



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Miyamotoo said:
Yup, this is very important for Switch because Bethesda is one of most hardcore 3rd party developer on market, they really don't have also casual games like EA, Ubi, Activision...

People said this about Call of Duty for Wii U as well, that it would be a huge deal for Nintendo to have a "real" Call of Duty, and no one bought it. 

I'm skeptical Skyrim sells well at all on Switch. It's a 5 year old game already available on 5 other platforms with this style of game having no established base within the Nintendo ecosystem to lean on. 

Minecraft will sell well on Switch ... things like Skyrim ... I doubt it. 



Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:
Yup, this is very important for Switch because Bethesda is one of most hardcore 3rd party developer on market, they really don't have also casual games like EA, Ubi, Activision...

People said this about Call of Duty for Wii U as well, that it would be a huge deal for Nintendo to have a "real" Call of Duty, and no one bought it. 

I'm skeptical Skyrim sells well at all on Switch. It's a 5 year old game already available on 5 other platforms with this style of game having no established base within the Nintendo ecosystem to lean on. 

Minecraft will sell well on Switch ... things like Skyrim ... I doubt it. 

You missing point, GC, Wii had CoD games same like Wii U, so CoD games on Wii U was not relly anuthing new for Nintendo console (and CoD couldnt do anuthing for Wii U beacuse Wii U had some other huge problems), and CoD on Switch really wouldn't be nothing new (Switch will most likly have CoD game also). But Nintendo platforms didn't had almost any Bethesda game from NES/SNES, and now Switch will have Bethesda games. Like I wrote Bethesda is probably most hardcore 3rd party developer on market, and having Bethesda on board is huge win for Switch. And not only that, they sound very exaited about Switch and they never were exatied about any Nintendo console, and this Todd Howard guy is not same guy thats is known for hypeing things just beacuse PR talk.

Skyrim could sell well on Switch, Nintendo fans who love Zelda could play Skyrim, especially because Zelda BotW is coming few months after Skyrim and also has huge open world like Zelda.

Also its not only about Nintendo fans, there are people who would love to play Skyrim on go, I already saw some people saying they considering buying Switch because they could play Skyrim on go. From that point of view, Switch can be interesting for 3rd parties, because they can offer their games in portable mode also on Switch and they are aware of fact beacuse they are people who are interesting to play 3rd party games on go also, and on Switch they have game that could play in portable and home mode, PS4/XB1 do not offer that.



Miyamotoo said:
Soundwave said:

People said this about Call of Duty for Wii U as well, that it would be a huge deal for Nintendo to have a "real" Call of Duty, and no one bought it. 

I'm skeptical Skyrim sells well at all on Switch. It's a 5 year old game already available on 5 other platforms with this style of game having no established base within the Nintendo ecosystem to lean on. 

Minecraft will sell well on Switch ... things like Skyrim ... I doubt it. 

You missing point, GC, Wii had CoD games same like Wii U, so CoD games on Wii U was not relly anuthing new for Nintendo console (and CoD couldnt do anuthing for Wii U beacuse Wii U had some other huge problems), and CoD on Switch really wouldn't be nothing new (Switch will most likly have CoD game also). But Nintendo platforms didn't had almost any Bethesda game from NES/SNES, and now Switch will have Bethesda games. Like I wrote Bethesda is probably most hardcore 3rd party developer on market, and having Bethesda on board is huge win for Switch. And not only that, they sound very exaited about Switch and they never were exatied about any Nintendo console, and this Todd Howard guy is not same guy thats is known for hypeing things just beacuse PR talk.

Skyrim could sell well on Switch, Nintendo fans who love Zelda could play Skyrim, especially because Zelda BotW is coming few months after Skyrim and also has huge open world like Zelda.

Also its not only about Nintendo fans, there are people who would love to play Skyrim on go, I already saw some people saying they considering buying Switch because they could play Skyrim on go. From that point of view, Switch can be interesting for 3rd parties, because they can offer their games in portable mode also on Switch and they are aware of fact beacuse they are people who are interesting to play 3rd party games on go also, and on Switch they have game that could play in portable and home mode, PS4/XB1 do not offer that.

Wii had COD games, but not the "real" COD, Wii U got that and that was BLOPS2, a new COD game at that, not one that was 5 years old. 

Bethesda can say what they want, lets see what their support is if Skyrim doesn't sell well on the Switch. 

I bought BLOPS2 at Wii U launch to show third party support, but other Nintendo fans bailed on that. People like you and me who actually give a shit about any of this stuff are a very, very small minority. 



Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

You missing point, GC, Wii had CoD games same like Wii U, so CoD games on Wii U was not relly anuthing new for Nintendo console (and CoD couldnt do anuthing for Wii U beacuse Wii U had some other huge problems), and CoD on Switch really wouldn't be nothing new (Switch will most likly have CoD game also). But Nintendo platforms didn't had almost any Bethesda game from NES/SNES, and now Switch will have Bethesda games. Like I wrote Bethesda is probably most hardcore 3rd party developer on market, and having Bethesda on board is huge win for Switch. And not only that, they sound very exaited about Switch and they never were exatied about any Nintendo console, and this Todd Howard guy is not same guy thats is known for hypeing things just beacuse PR talk.

Skyrim could sell well on Switch, Nintendo fans who love Zelda could play Skyrim, especially because Zelda BotW is coming few months after Skyrim and also has huge open world like Zelda.

Also its not only about Nintendo fans, there are people who would love to play Skyrim on go, I already saw some people saying they considering buying Switch because they could play Skyrim on go. From that point of view, Switch can be interesting for 3rd parties, because they can offer their games in portable mode also on Switch and they are aware of fact beacuse they are people who are interesting to play 3rd party games on go also, and on Switch they have game that could play in portable and home mode, PS4/XB1 do not offer that.

Wii had COD games, but not the "real" COD, Wii U got that and that was BLOPS2, a new COD game at that, not one that was 5 years old. 

Bethesda can say what they want, lets see what their support is if Skyrim doesn't sell well on the Switch. 

I bought BLOPS2 at Wii U launch to show third party support, but other Nintendo fans bailed on that. People like you and me who actually give a shit about any of this stuff are a very, very small minority. 

Well, Skyrim has the advantage of 1) being a cult classic now, 2) coming to Nintendo for the first time and 3) being similar to BotW, so people interested in one might get the other one.

The problem with 3rd parties on Nintendo is they don't make the efford to catter its audience, specially the big western ones. Whether that's profitable or not, that's another thing, but the fact of the matter is that Nintendo's aucdience usually like games and genres that are not that big outside of it, and don't care that much about the biggest trends. The same way FPS sell great on XBox devices but JRPGs struggle, a lot of 3rd parties tried to sell their biggest franchises on Nintendo and failed, when they could have actually tried with other smaller ones and being more succcessful.



You know it deserves the GOTY.

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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

You missing point, GC, Wii had CoD games same like Wii U, so CoD games on Wii U was not relly anuthing new for Nintendo console (and CoD couldnt do anuthing for Wii U beacuse Wii U had some other huge problems), and CoD on Switch really wouldn't be nothing new (Switch will most likly have CoD game also). But Nintendo platforms didn't had almost any Bethesda game from NES/SNES, and now Switch will have Bethesda games. Like I wrote Bethesda is probably most hardcore 3rd party developer on market, and having Bethesda on board is huge win for Switch. And not only that, they sound very exaited about Switch and they never were exatied about any Nintendo console, and this Todd Howard guy is not same guy thats is known for hypeing things just beacuse PR talk.

Skyrim could sell well on Switch, Nintendo fans who love Zelda could play Skyrim, especially because Zelda BotW is coming few months after Skyrim and also has huge open world like Zelda.

Also its not only about Nintendo fans, there are people who would love to play Skyrim on go, I already saw some people saying they considering buying Switch because they could play Skyrim on go. From that point of view, Switch can be interesting for 3rd parties, because they can offer their games in portable mode also on Switch and they are aware of fact beacuse they are people who are interesting to play 3rd party games on go also, and on Switch they have game that could play in portable and home mode, PS4/XB1 do not offer that.

Wii had COD games, but not the "real" COD, Wii U got that and that was BLOPS2, a new COD game at that, not one that was 5 years old. 

Bethesda can say what they want, lets see what their support is if Skyrim doesn't sell well on the Switch. 

I bought BLOPS2 at Wii U launch to show third party support, but other Nintendo fans bailed on that. People like you and me who actually give a shit about any of this stuff are a very, very small minority. 

Wii actualy had real CoD games just downsampled to Wii hardware, Wii U had CoD BLOPS2 and CoD Ghosts. CoD are yearly releases and they are nothing new for Nintendo platforms because last 3 Nintendo console had them, Skyrim become cult classic and Nintendo platform never really had anything similar.

Offcofurse, but like I wrote, Bethesda is probably most hardcore 3rd party developer on market, and having Bethesda on board is huge win for Switch. And not only that, they sound very exaited about Switch and they never were exatied about any Nintendo console, and this Todd Howard guy is not same guy thats is known for hypeing things just beacuse PR talk.

You totally ignored my point about Skyrim sales that they dont have anuthing with CoD sales on Wii U, here you again:  "Skyrim could sell well on Switch, Nintendo fans who love Zelda could play Skyrim, especially because Zelda BotW is coming few months after Skyrim and also has huge open world like Zelda. Also its not only about Nintendo fans, there are people who would love to play Skyrim on go, I already saw some people saying they considering buying Switch because they could play Skyrim on go. From that point of view, Switch can be interesting for 3rd parties, because they can offer their games in portable mode also on Switch and they are aware of fact beacuse they are people who are interesting to play 3rd party games on go also, and on Switch they have game that could play in portable and home mode, PS4/XB1 do not offer that."

 

Darwinianevolution said:
Soundwave said:

Wii had COD games, but not the "real" COD, Wii U got that and that was BLOPS2, a new COD game at that, not one that was 5 years old. 

Bethesda can say what they want, lets see what their support is if Skyrim doesn't sell well on the Switch. 

I bought BLOPS2 at Wii U launch to show third party support, but other Nintendo fans bailed on that. People like you and me who actually give a shit about any of this stuff are a very, very small minority. 

Well, Skyrim has the advantage of 1) being a cult classic now, 2) coming to Nintendo for the first time and 3) being similar to BotW, so people interested in one might get the other one.

The problem with 3rd parties on Nintendo is they don't make the efford to catter its audience, specially the big western ones. Whether that's profitable or not, that's another thing, but the fact of the matter is that Nintendo's aucdience usually like games and genres that are not that big outside of it, and don't care that much about the biggest trends. The same way FPS sell great on XBox devices but JRPGs struggle, a lot of 3rd parties tried to sell their biggest franchises on Nintendo and failed, when they could have actually tried with other smaller ones and being more succcessful.

Basicly this, and I will just add 4) some people want to play Skyrim on go.

You really dont know whats Nintendo effort regardless 3rd parties on Switch, but having Bethesda on board for now is huge win for Switch in any case.