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Platina on 13 February 2017

If this is for 2018, I think Pokemon would do a better job, but Animal Crossing definitely would be a good consoler booster



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super_etecoon on 13 February 2017
Nuvendil said:
super_etecoon said:
Would you guys accept a Super Mario Maker 2? Or how about a Zelda Maker?

I wouldn't be interested but I think millions would.  The issue is that Mario Maker is elegant due to the Wii U's design: the two screens and the stylus being the two most important that spring to mind.  Now they could solve the stylus issue by just packing one in with the game but the fact that the Switch is only a one screen experience still means you have to undock to edit and dock to play on the big screen.  It could still work but it would be a good bit more clunky than the Wii U game.  Which I think is why we didn't see a Maker game in this initial lineup announcement. 

Those are good points.  Hmm...what are the odds that in the future when they supposedly allow other controllers through a firmware update that the GamePad is an allowable peripheral.  I know I'm stacking hypotheticals there, but it presents an intersting opportunity (and far cheaper than buying an additional Switch Tablet).

At any rate I see the delimma with my original suggestion.  Animal Crossing, Pikmin 4, and a New Super Mario Bros. title then.  This was my first idea, but I considered that Mario Maker made NSMB games obsolete.  Evidently not.



Nuvendil on 13 February 2017
super_etecoon said:
Nuvendil said:

I wouldn't be interested but I think millions would.  The issue is that Mario Maker is elegant due to the Wii U's design: the two screens and the stylus being the two most important that spring to mind.  Now they could solve the stylus issue by just packing one in with the game but the fact that the Switch is only a one screen experience still means you have to undock to edit and dock to play on the big screen.  It could still work but it would be a good bit more clunky than the Wii U game.  Which I think is why we didn't see a Maker game in this initial lineup announcement. 

Those are good points.  Hmm...what are the odds that in the future when they supposedly allow other controllers through a firmware update that the GamePad is an allowable peripheral.  I know I'm stacking hypotheticals there, but it presents an intersting opportunity (and far cheaper than buying an additional Switch Tablet).

At any rate I see the delimma with my original suggestion.  Animal Crossing, Pikmin 4, and a New Super Mario Bros. title then.  This was my first idea, but I considered that Mario Maker made NSMB games obsolete.  Evidently not.

I was more expecting a streaming function like the Wii U's only instead of streaming from the console to the gamepad, it would go from the Switch unit to the TV but that's not a thing it seems. 

If I were to pick a companion for Animal Crossing, I would go with something more starkly contrasting like Metroid or Smash Bros or Fire Emblem. 



NintendoPie on 13 February 2017

The release schedule for New Leaf is most likely what Nintendo will aim for with the next AC as well. Meaning, Holiday in Japan and Spring/Summer in the rest of the world. AC has a lot more traction as a tentpole title in Japan.



KrspaceT on 13 February 2017
Platina said:
If this is for 2018, I think Pokemon would do a better job, but Animal Crossing definitely would be a good consoler booster

It certainly would, but Pokemon takes time to show up. It took 2 years to show up on the 3DS and DS. They take their time, plus they probably were too busy trying to get Sun and Moon to not blow up to play with Switch specs. The Animal Crossing makers are the Splatoon devs, and their project is at the end of it's run.

Nuvendil said:
super_etecoon said:

Those are good points.  Hmm...what are the odds that in the future when they supposedly allow other controllers through a firmware update that the GamePad is an allowable peripheral.  I know I'm stacking hypotheticals there, but it presents an intersting opportunity (and far cheaper than buying an additional Switch Tablet).

At any rate I see the delimma with my original suggestion.  Animal Crossing, Pikmin 4, and a New Super Mario Bros. title then.  This was my first idea, but I considered that Mario Maker made NSMB games obsolete.  Evidently not.

I was more expecting a streaming function like the Wii U's only instead of streaming from the console to the gamepad, it would go from the Switch unit to the TV but that's not a thing it seems. 

If I were to pick a companion for Animal Crossing, I would go with something more starkly contrasting like Metroid or Smash Bros or Fire Emblem. 

Smash re-release maybe, but I feel it might be a E3 reveal and release this year is likely for that one. 



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Nuvendil on 13 February 2017
KrspaceT said:
Platina said:
If this is for 2018, I think Pokemon would do a better job, but Animal Crossing definitely would be a good consoler booster

It certainly would, but Pokemon takes time to show up. It took 2 years to show up on the 3DS and DS. They take their time, plus they probably were too busy trying to get Sun and Moon to not blow up to play with Switch specs. The Animal Crossing makers are the Splatoon devs, and their project is at the end of it's run.

Nuvendil said:

I was more expecting a streaming function like the Wii U's only instead of streaming from the console to the gamepad, it would go from the Switch unit to the TV but that's not a thing it seems. 

If I were to pick a companion for Animal Crossing, I would go with something more starkly contrasting like Metroid or Smash Bros or Fire Emblem. 

Smash re-release maybe, but I feel it might be a E3 reveal and release this year is likely for that one. 

No, Smash 5.  A Smash re-release is not a major holiday-level title.  And Nintendo knows it, look at Mario Kart Deluxe.  If there is a re-release, it will be a summer thing to fill a gap.  And I do think there will be a Smash 5, it would be very bad to put that franchise to bed when they need all hands on deck. 

Not sure on Pokemon, could show up in 2018 holiday.  The Xenoblade 2 appearance this early tells us we don't know as much as we think about Nintendo's resource allocation. 



zorg1000 on 13 February 2017
NintendoPie said:
The release schedule for New Leaf is most likely what Nintendo will aim for with the next AC as well. Meaning, Holiday in Japan and Spring/Summer in the rest of the world. AC has a lot more traction as a tentpole title in Japan.

The DS & Wii installments released in the west right around the time Japan got it.

You're right that AC is bigger in Japan but its still pretty big in the west as well, Wild World & New Leaf have each done over 5 million in the west.



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wombat123 on 13 February 2017

The only other title that I can think of that would be plausible and bigger than Animal Crossing in 2018 would be a mainline Pokemon game considering Smash, Mario Kart, Splatoon, Zelda and Mario will probably be released this year. Even then, it's way more popular in Japan than in the west so I would expect Nintendo to group it with a western friendly title like (for example) a Metroid game.



m_csquare on 13 February 2017

Ofc, as long as it's not as shallow as happy home designer



TK-Karma on 13 February 2017

I think I'd enjoy AC as a release in that period, but it would have to use online functionality to a much greater extent than previous titles. All depends!