You generalize what people want, citing things I've never said.
And then with 0 indication, you reach the conclusion that "our" issue is the anime style, and lump me in with this group.
"Still butthurt" over it, in fact, as if I ever said anything about the anime style in the first place.

Xenosaga 1 used a similar style.



It's what you do with the artsyle that matters.
And I happened to like what they did with it so much that I made countless sigs and avatars from it.
Examples:




But yeah you're probably right. My problem boils down to the anime style. You nailed it.

Aside from attempting to discredit opinions with nonsensical reasoning and generalization, your argument here is "They've shown story, environment, and combat, so you shouldn't want anything more."

Well I don't know about you, but I don't get automatically interested whenever I see any story, any characters, or any combat system, no matter what they appear to be. If I did, I would want to play every rpg that was ever made.

They don't have Soraya Saga as a storywriter anymore, so I don't know what to expect from this game, but I'll tell you how Xenogears and Xenosaga did not present their stories. They didn't immediately introduce some sort of holy grail tropey item/goal like "the legendary sword" or "Elysium" as the the deus ex machina to strive for that's going to save the world, and repeat it over and over again. Concepts like that were not used as dangling carrots, but rather the culmination of slowly developing the stories. I'll give you an example:
In Xenosaga there may have been a counterpart to Elysium. But like I said, it wasn't intruduced as a mythical goal for your journey. It wasn't until the third game that it was revealed that this place was even possible to visit. Over the course of three games it was subtly built up in the story more and more, and eventually came as a surprise in the third game.

Tropey mythical locations and deus ex machina objects like "the legendary sword" were not the focal point of the story, or what made them intriguing enough to keep you interested until such concepts were introduced.
I don't have anything negative to say about the world of Xenoblade 2 aside from the legendary destination, but I also don't have anything positive to say about it yet.
And the character design hasn't exactly compensated for this either.

I could go into why I found Fei, Elly and Citan, or even just KOS-MOS much more interesting from how they were presented in magazines/trailers, but I digress.
And some of the voice acting in Xenoblade 2 sounded very questionable. In particular some of the characters with accents.
The music seems good though. Not sure how I feel about the combat system. Need to see more.

I didn't call it Xenogears. I compared it to Xenogears, because you asked "What else do you want?"

I didn't play Chronicles 1, but I would have if I had a WiiU.
That said, I don't recall that sword being mentioned in the trailers I watched. To refresh my memory I watched the Story Trailer and Launch Trailer again.
And it is not even mentioned at all in any of them.

Story Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5b2ZoZlW5c
Launch Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb8QpABNTPM

But even if it had been, you may have missed my point. I didn't say that the story shoudn't contain such elements. I enjoy getting the Master Sword as much as the next person. What I said was that if that's the focal aspect of the trailers, or the story, that's not going to make me interested in the story. And if I'm not, I may never find out if it was actually good or not.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 may turn out to be a fantastic game, but they haven't sold me on it yet.

Actually it change hole picture, because its announcement of new game, not announcement of port or remaster of some old game like you wrote.

Well Nintendo never had strong 3rd support from SNES, and Switch situation is very OK despite all those ports and remasters, it also has some new games, and together they making killier 1st year for Switch.

And that basicly means Spring is also in first quarter. We already go through all that, they don't show everything they have 6 months in front. We already saw how Nintendo is operating recently and espacily with Switch where in most cases they focusing on games that will be released in next few months, so nothing isn't strange relly, for instance Doom is announced in middle of September like Holiday game. Again you are only person who find all that strange or worrying.

You generalize what people want, citing things I've never said.
And then with 0 indication, you reach the conclusion that "our" issue is the anime style, and lump me in with this group.
"Still butthurt" over it, in fact, as if I ever said anything about the anime style in the first place.

Xenosaga 1 used a similar style.



It's what you do with the artsyle that matters.
And I happened to like what they did with it so much that I made countless sigs and avatars from it.
Examples:




But yeah you're probably right. My problem boils down to the anime style. You nailed it.

Aside from attempting to discredit opinions with nonsensical reasoning and generalization, your argument here is "They've shown story, environment, and combat, so you shouldn't want anything more."

Well I don't know about you, but I don't get automatically interested whenever I see any story, any characters, or any combat system, no matter what they appear to be. If I did, I would want to play every rpg that was ever made.

They don't have Soraya Saga as a storywriter anymore, so I don't know what to expect from this game, but I'll tell you how Xenogears and Xenosaga did not present their stories. They didn't immediately introduce some sort of holy grail tropey item/goal like "the legendary sword" or "Elysium" as the the deus ex machina to strive for that's going to save the world, and repeat it over and over again. Concepts like that were not used as dangling carrots, but rather the culmination of slowly developing the stories. I'll give you an example:
In Xenosaga there may have been a counterpart to Elysium. But like I said, it wasn't intruduced as a mythical goal for your journey. It wasn't until the third game that it was revealed that this place was even possible to visit. Over the course of three games it was subtly built up in the story more and more, and eventually came as a surprise in the third game.

Tropey mythical locations and deus ex machina objects like "the legendary sword" were not the focal point of the story, or what made them intriguing enough to keep you interested until such concepts were introduced.
I don't have anything negative to say about the world of Xenoblade 2 aside from the legendary destination, but I also don't have anything positive to say about it yet.
And the character design hasn't exactly compensated for this either.

I could go into why I found Fei, Elly and Citan, or even just KOS-MOS much more interesting from how they were presented in magazines/trailers, but I digress.
And some of the voice acting in Xenoblade 2 sounded very questionable. In particular some of the characters with accents.
The music seems good though. Not sure how I feel about the combat system. Need to see more.

They don't have Soraya Saga as a storywriter anymore, so I don't know what to expect from this game, but I'll tell you how Xenogears and Xenosaga did not present their stories. They didn't immediately introduce some sort of holy grail tropey item/goal like "the legendary sword" or "Elysium" as the the deus ex machina to strive for that's going to save the world, and repeat it over and over again. Concepts like that were not used as dangling carrots, but rather the culmination of slowly developing the stories. I'll give you an example:
In Xenosaga there may have been a counterpart to Elysium. But like I said, it wasn't intruduced as a mythical goal for your journey. It wasn't until the third game that it was revealed that this place was even possible to visit. Over the course of three games it was subtly built up in the story more and more, and eventually came as a surprise in the third game.

Tropey mythical locations and deus ex machina objects like "the legendary sword" were not the focal point of the story, or what made them intriguing enough to keep you interested until such concepts were introduced.
I don't have anything negative to say about the world of Xenoblade 2 aside from the legendary destination, but I also don't have anything positive to say about it yet.
And the character design hasn't exactly compensated for this either.

I am skeptical that Elysium is going to turn out to be what it is stated to be, just as the Monado, Bionis, and Mechonis in the first game weren't what they seemed throughout that game and the mythologies of them were unraveled as just that -- misleading mythologies. 

One must recall that these are self-contained games that come as a single title, unlike Xenosaga whose development was stretched over three titles, and which was intended for more than that, and Xenogears whose story was cut short a third of the way through and the rest provided in an abridged version with some necessary backstory through an artbook. Due to the nature of how things are paced you're going to have less long, multi-game build-up, nevertheless the original Xenoblade had a decent amount of foreshadowing, and I expect the same of Xenoblade 2. Taking "Elysium is a paradise which we'll aim to reach" and "the aegis is special" at face-value really tells us little, since it could be the case that most characters don't know much about Elysium or the aegis and there might be something more fundamentally interesting about them that we don't know about. Personally I feel that Xenogears and Xenosaga handled some of their plot-twists sloppily. For example, in Xenogears the wave-existence came out of nowhere, with very little relevant fore-shadowing of its existence. A good balance would probably be in between Xenogears/Xenosaga and Xenoblade where there is foreshadowing, but it isn't hitting you over the head with it, although in Xenoblade's case it might be that the explictiness of these plot elements is a red-herring. 

If Xenoblade X continues as a series, I see that as the analogue to Xenosaga, where the mysteries of Mira are slowly funneled in until the end of the series. 

Just because the game hasn't been released doesn't mean it changes the big picture.
The game will still come out after it's released and seeing as we got no footage, that might be a sign that the game probably didn't start with Switch in mind and was recently added to the Switch library (hence having a 2018 release date, unlike Doom).

What matters is not how you start (remember how people said that the first to reach 5m consoles would be the winner of the generation?). What matters is what they can do to keep the coming years as good as the 1st year (for example: next year you surely won't get a breathtaking new Zelda, a great MK and a amazing Mario 3D game or even the next Splatoon).
We did get a good 1st party year (probably like the Wii) and great sales but it remains to be seen if, for 3rd parties, Switch will be more than a (multi) port town. And honestly, it worries me that it may not get in 2018 the games that the mass market loves.

You could say Spring is in the Q1, even if by a single day! ;)
I don't think you understood what i wrote: why show stuff (again) that is coming in Spring and not reveal first or aswell, what's coming in Winter (January, February and most of March). That's it.