I kind of wish they waited another generation to remake the OG Xenoblade. This has fixed the weaknesses in the original's visuals, the character models and the textures up close, but it doesn't seem to be improving the vistas anywhere near as much as I'd like, and overall it still seems to have the worst visuals in the series. I guess it's to be expected that a remake wouldn't match up to a completely new game. Still will be a real treat for anyone who didn't play it before.

I doubt you will ever see anything done with xenogears and xenosaga.  I know monolith has the rights to xeno, but with square making and publishing xenogears and namco publishing xenosaga, I’m sure the rights to those games are murky enough that they will be lost to time.

Don't think waiting a generation would do anything. It's not the Switch's power holding back the visuals of this, it's the amount of work.

They could make it look a lot better on Switch if they wanted to.

They don’t need to be played in order.  They are loosely connected at best.  You may get a better understanding of some of the stuff that happens at the end of the 2nd game by playing the first, but still, not necessary at all.  It is a stand alone game.

Eh, don't forget The Last Story. The holy trinity of Operation Rainfall

This is good for me. I have the original one but never had a chance to play it so hopefully if i pick this up ill actually be able to play it.

I think part of the reason was that it was (if I remember correctly) only released at GameStop in North America.

In any event, I'm ready to buy it for a third time!!

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was awesome! I'm glad the first game is coming to the Switch! Can't wait!! :D

Loved Xenoblade on the Wii, but I never took the time to properly play through the side quests and extra stuff (even if some of the fetch quests were kinda annoying) so I'm definitely hyped to revisit this game with brand new graphics.

Oh yeah, that at the linked point in the youtube-video is the day music of the leg of bionis. I remember it so specifically, because that was the point I went from enjoying the game to falling deeply in love with it. The leg of Bionis is the first part that opens up to a really big environment and this is added with this so enjoyable music. I roamed the leg just for looking around to the music because that alone was so great. I love the song to this day.