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Kerotan said:
Miyamotoo said:

No, this are not all Switch releases in next 6 months.

Are there likely to be much more announced because as of now there isn't much coming? 

Have you payed attention to Nintendos release strategy last year? Nintendo kept announcing things on very short notice and just releasing them. In some cases it was less than three months from announcement to release.

Before E3 they had only one 1rst party game that is going to release over a year out from annoucement (Fire Emblem).

If you're talking third party, there was a similar pattern with short notice announcements for Doom and L.A. Noire and the stream on indies is unbroken and keeps flowing onto the system.

At this point it's unlikely that we are looking at a finished 6-month line-up, imo. This seemed to be more of a Spring direct.

Louie said:
So for first party games...

February - Bayonetta
March - Kirby
April - Hyrule Warriors?
May - Donkey Kong
June - Mario Tennis?

They focused on the first half of the year for first party content so late 2018 games / release dates will probably be revealed at e3. We know Fire Emblem and Yoshi are coming this year, with Pokémon and Metroid hopefully 2018 releases as well. Looks like they are trying to put out one retail game per month (which was pretty expected) but I'm a bit bummed by the number of remakes - Bayonetta, Donkey Kong, Hyrule Warriors and Dark Souls.

I'll buy Hyrule Warriors because I've skipped that on Wii U and 3DS and maybe Mario Tennis.

Mario Tennis said Spring though, wouldn't that put it in the march-may quarter?



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So I looked at the release history of directs. Tyipically after  Mini/Micro direct there is a full direct a few days after. So we might still get a full direct this month.



SuperNova said:
Kerotan said:

Are there likely to be much more announced because as of now there isn't much coming? 

Have you payed attention to Nintendos release strategy last year? Nintendo kept announcing things on very short notice and just releasing them. In some cases it was less than three months from announcement to release.

Before E3 they had only one 1rst party game that is going to release over a year out from annoucement (Fire Emblem).

If you're talking third party, there was a similar pattern with short notice announcements for Doom and L.A. Noire and the stream on indies is unbroken and keeps flowing onto the system.

At this point it's unlikely that we are looking at a finished 6-month line-up, imo. This seemed to be more of a Spring direct.

Louie said:
So for first party games...

February - Bayonetta
March - Kirby
April - Hyrule Warriors?
May - Donkey Kong
June - Mario Tennis?

They focused on the first half of the year for first party content so late 2018 games / release dates will probably be revealed at e3. We know Fire Emblem and Yoshi are coming this year, with Pokémon and Metroid hopefully 2018 releases as well. Looks like they are trying to put out one retail game per month (which was pretty expected) but I'm a bit bummed by the number of remakes - Bayonetta, Donkey Kong, Hyrule Warriors and Dark Souls.

I'll buy Hyrule Warriors because I've skipped that on Wii U and 3DS and maybe Mario Tennis.

Mario Tennis said Spring though, wouldn't that put it in the march-may quarter?

No I haven't been following them closely but now that you told me I'm aware. 



Kerotan said:
SuperNova said:

Have you payed attention to Nintendos release strategy last year? Nintendo kept announcing things on very short notice and just releasing them. In some cases it was less than three months from announcement to release.

Before E3 they had only one 1rst party game that is going to release over a year out from annoucement (Fire Emblem).

If you're talking third party, there was a similar pattern with short notice announcements for Doom and L.A. Noire and the stream on indies is unbroken and keeps flowing onto the system.

At this point it's unlikely that we are looking at a finished 6-month line-up, imo. This seemed to be more of a Spring direct.

No I haven't been following them closely but now that you told me I'm aware. 

Glad to be of help. :)



SegataSanshiro said:

So I looked at the release history of directs. Tyipically after  Mini/Micro direct there is a full direct a few days after. So we might still get a full direct this month.

It might, but its safe we dont get our expectations too high.



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Oh, it's great to see that Square-Enix are giving The World Ends with You another chance, I hope this means that they're planning a sequel. Ys 8 on Switch wasn't something I expected.

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Mar1217 said:
ARamdomGamer said: 

Kirby looks like a mastahpiece as I expect from the IP, so nothing new there.

 

I see you're a man of culture as well

Kirby is still the most consistent franchise in history !

Now ... what Hellspawn are we gonna get as a final boss ?

Kirby lowkey best Nintendo IP.

The heart structure gives me 64 vibes, plus the new bad guy seems like Taranza's species.

Maybe finally another Zero form summoned by him.