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Slarvax on 11 January 2018
Kerotan said:
Does this cover the releases for the first 6 months of the year or are there likely to be more big announcements?

They only announced games releasing as far as May, and I think 1 or 2 were for Summer. They could have a a big game on June announced on another direct, but yeah. Those seem to be all the games coming H1 2018.



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Volterra_90 on 11 January 2018
Kristof81 said:
Dark Souls on Switch ... for the sake of your console, don't play it in handheld mode.

Why? I intend to play it in handheld mode. I'm a big franchise fan, and the fact that I can play it anywhere is a big plus. Do you say this because it can be too demanding? Dark Souls 1 shouldn't be so demanding for the Switch xD.



Flilix on 11 January 2018
irstupid said:
Flilix said:

I strongly doubt there will be any other big games for the first half, they would've announced them already. Kirby and Donkey Kong are both fairly big games, so I suppose that they found this sufficient to keep the Switch going until E3.

I would suspect another direct in like March or so to show off some more Spring and mainly Summer games.

But I can see them keeping as much secret as they can for E3. They seem to like this announce and release in a few months strategy.

They definitely need to announce more stuff for summer. But for Spring, I don't think there will be any more notable games that have yet to be announced.



Kerotan on 11 January 2018

Someone wrote this on gaf.


"In 2007, after a huge holiday season, DS had a pretty quiet Q1 in terms of releases. Notable games: Wario: Master of Disguise, Picross DS, Hotel Dusk, Harvest Moon, Professor Layton, SimCity DS, Super Robot Wars W, Mojipittan, Digimon, Dragon Ball Z.

All of them sold well because of DS but weren't big titles to begin with. Layton sold 1m units but started with 150k units and it was a surprise hit. The bigger game was Yoshi's Island DS."

Now the only difference is the 2007 games were mostly knew vs ports this year but I still think we will see something similar. Basically hardware selling software where as last year it was the software selling the hardware. 4 big titles launched last year. Realistically all they need is 1 big title for the second half of 2018 and sales will stay high. Personally I think they will have 2.



Miyamotoo on 11 January 2018
Slarvax said:
Kerotan said:
Does this cover the releases for the first 6 months of the year or are there likely to be more big announcements?

They only announced games releasing as far as May, and I think 1 or 2 were for Summer. They could have a a big game on June announced on another direct, but yeah. Those seem to be all the games coming H1 2018.

This are not all announcements for first 6 months of year, for instance games like Doom, Mario Rabbids, Rocket League, Pekkemon Tournament, Bayonetta 1/2...are announced only 2-3 months before launch. We will most likly have another full Nintendo Direct around March-April with new announcements same like we had in 2017.



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Veknoid_Outcast on 11 January 2018
COKTOE said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Ys VIII! So glad more folks get to play one of the best games of 2017!

I own it, but aside from a friend talking it up, bought it blindly. That clip in the direct was the first time I saw anything about it. Looks choice.

I hope you like it. I played it on PS4 and loved it.

It didn't sell so well, so I'm glad it's getting a little more visibility.



irstupid on 11 January 2018
Flilix said:
irstupid said:

I would suspect another direct in like March or so to show off some more Spring and mainly Summer games.

But I can see them keeping as much secret as they can for E3. They seem to like this announce and release in a few months strategy.

They definitely need to announce more stuff for summer. But for Spring, I don't think there will be any more notable games that have yet to be announced.

Yea I don't expect any big titles, but there can be smaller surprises. I mean heck, we got Mario Tennis announced in a mini direct and its releasing in what March?

They could announce Yoshi releasing in summer, some more remasters, and then 3rd parties ports or something.

I'm all fine with saving all the big hitters to E3.



konnichiwa on 11 January 2018
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? 

They had 9 Nintendo directs in the first 6 months of 2017. Counting E3 + special Nintendo directs. (they had 2 last january)






Volterra_90 on 11 January 2018
Veknoid_Outcast said:
COKTOE said:

I own it, but aside from a friend talking it up, bought it blindly. That clip in the direct was the first time I saw anything about it. Looks choice.

I hope you like it. I played it on PS4 and loved it.

It didn't sell so well, so I'm glad it's getting a little more visibility.

Did you review that game? If that's the case, give me a link and I'll read it. If not, I'd love to know your impressions about it.



justinian on 11 January 2018
Finale said:
I have only one thing to say:

Good thing i never bought a wii u,cause this is all good news for me.

A small part of wished I hadn’t bothered with the WiiU, but I had some great times being part of such a small gaming community.

overall if I knew the future I probably wouldn’t have bothered with the WiiU either as I am pretty sure ALL the WiiU Nintendo games will eventually come and be far better this time around, like MK8D.