HyrulianScrolls said:
I do agree that BOTW2 is a possibility for Q4 now. I know it seems unlikely because we've seen almost nothing of it, but there's no way there isn't something big coming for November if they didn't slot either All Stars or 3DWorld/Bowser's Fury there. And a game like BOTW2 that was announced a long time ago and has already been in development for years seems more likely to me than something we've never even heard about. My theory is they've held off showing anything because they weren't sure after COVID if it was gonna be able to get finished in time for this year, and were likely saving All Stars as their backup holiday game just in case. Hence why we're only officially finding out about All Stars 2 weeks before launch. I could see that meaning that they know now that BOTW2 will for sure be ready and we'll get the announcement and probably a whole direct dedicated to it within the month. I think it makes more sense than some huge game we've never even heard about being ready for release in a couple months.It also makes sense that BOTW2 would have always been slated for holiday 2020 so that they'd have something to compete with the PS5/XSX launches, and COVID was the only thing ever putting its release date in question.
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Yeah exactly. Since Covid started launch dates have probably been in flux and Nintendo wanted to make sure they have big holiday title(s) ready for the holiday before they announce other things like Mario Collection and Mario 3D World that could fill in as the holiday titles if their major title(s) got pushed back due to Covid. That is completely reasonable. I view the Mario Collection and 3D World launch dates as confirmation that they've got something big coming out for the holidays and the most obvious game is BotW2.
Also it's cool that the Switch is now the ultimate Mario playing system. By February every mainline Mario console platformer other than NSMB Wii and Galaxy 2 will be on the Switch. And I don't think anyone care about NSMB Wii get re-released, so the only glaring missing game is Galaxy 2, and I will never understand why they didn't add it to this collection. The only thing I could think is either they are remaking it instead of making another brand new 3D Mario game on Switch, which I feel would be dumb because Wii graphics in HD look good enough, like it would make much more sense to remake 64 which would be a huge graphical update rather than Galaxy 2, so I don't think that's gonna happen. So maybe they are just gonna be jerks and give us every old Mario game except the one most people consider the best one, or they are gonna be jerks and release it slightly remastered for like $60 by itself in the future.
As a side note, with the Zelda 35th anniversary coming up next year, I'm hoping they'll follow suit and we'll get a OoT, MM, WW HD Collection and then maybe TP an SS remastered sold each on their own or something like that. I'd be all about an OoT/MM/WW HD Collection. Really all I want is WW cuz I only played the beginning of that game on the GC but it seemed really cool, and I wasn't a huge fan of TP and don't really care about trying SS, but I never did beat MM either so I wouldn't mind playing through it, and of course having OoT available to play through again would be a treat as well. If they have a big Zelda 35th anniversary planned I think it makes it even more likely we'll get BotW2 this holiday season, because they wouldn't want to put a brand new Zelda game against a ton of other Zelda games, cuz people aren't gonna buy multiple Zelda games at once, so they'll want a different launch period for BotW2.
