Yeah, didn't catch that on first watch was distracted. 

This feels a lot like the 3DS getting a port of Luigi's Mansion 1 late in its product cycle. 

? Are you one of those people who think that it has been in development for over 6 years? Or do you think 4 years is way to long? Metroid Dread's development took longer than that.

Dragon Quest Monsters and Star Ocean 2 remake are both Enix games.

8/10
Very solid, large variety of stuff and a bunch of games I'm looking forward to.

I meant nothing from Enix that interested me (same goes for remasters/remakes)

I will edit to avoid confusion

Super Mario RPG was a pleasant surprise. It was strongly rumored, but the reveal exceeded my expectations. I expected, at best, a cleaned-up version with smoothed over pre-rendered models, not a full on 3-D remake.

Nintendo is really banking on that Mario momentum this year after the massive success of the movie. I'm not complaining about it, either. I'd like to try Princess Peach 3D.

The MG Collection intrigues me, and I'm not the biggest MG fan. One thing I did notice is that NES Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge are also included along with the MSX and MGS games. NES Metal Gear was my introduction to the series back in 1990, and I honestly got a same sense of the feelings that people would have for MGS on PS1 eight years later. I guess that since Kojima is no longer working at Konami that he couldn't register his objections to including those games.

I hope Star Ocean 2 is going to get a physical release at the price they're charging for it, but I'm not going to be disappointed if they don't because I'm keeping expectations there in check.

Dragon Quest Monsters, long-rumored, now a reality. I will likely pick that one up. 

No Persona 3 Reload or Chrono Trigger. I'd hoped, but again kept my expectations in check. 

No Metroid Prime 4. I'm guessing that's going to the next Nintendo system at this point.

Overall, a solid Direct. Nintendo is trying to make sure the Switch has enough to keep people satisfied during the transition to the next Switch/Nintendo system.

Super Mario RPG was actually developed by Square AND Nintendo.

So odds are Square enix is involved with the remake as well.

If Prime is cross gen then I'll definitely buy on Switch 2, it's one kind of a game that will benefit with graphics and framerate upgrades

I'm still sucking for a 60 FPS high resolution TOTK, hope Switch 2 has an upgrade of some sort

Somewhere between a 7-8/10. I'm not sure yet this soon after.

+Super Mario Bros. Wonder
+Super Mario RPG
+Peach
+Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC
+Persona 5 Tactica
+Pikmin 1&2 HD releases
+Palia
+Dark Moon HD
-No Donkey Kong
-No update on Metroid Prime 4
-Forced motion controls for WarioWare
-No update on release dates for confirmed N64 games on NSO
-No announcement of Luigi's Mansion HD, whether the 3DS remake or something else

Loads of games announced.

Lots of good RPG games coming.

Just in terms of first party:

- Mario RPG remake is huge.
- Obviously Mario Bros Wonder is what we've been long waiting for - a 2D Mario built on the Switch, and will likely be their final mega selling game on the system.
- A 3DS Luigi's Mansion remake gives LM fans more to play, I'm sure that'll sell pretty well.
- A Princess Peach game is cool, no idea what to expect but cool they are expanding out a game for yet another Mario character.
- New Detective Pikachu game for those fans is nice.
- HD versions of Pikmin 1 and 2, so the entire series now available on Switch, with 4 one month away, is great.
- plus other stuff

And then there's a bunch of great third party stuff coming too.


Switch may be likely getting to its last 18 or so months of its lifecycle but one thing we can say for sure is the library is gonna keep pumping out quality to the end. Hopefully early next year we'll get one last big round of announcements to carry the Switch library strong until the next gen starts.

At this point all that's left for first party games that I'm hoping to see on Switch before its days are over is DK, Star Fox, Prime 2 and 3 remasters, Zelda WW & TP HD, Mario Galaxy 2 (still miffed about why it wasn't included in 3D all-stars), Prime 4 (though starting to get the feeling it could be a launch title next gen), and maybe something like Kid Icarus. To me, if they get those last 8 or 9 games out in 2024, five of which are just ports/remasters so isn't too much to ask, the Switch will have what I would consider a complete library, in that it'd be hard to say the system missed out on much of anything in terms of bringing the full arsenal of Nintendo games out on the system.



This Direct put to rest any speculations people may have had that Switch games will be slowing down as Nintendo focuses on getting next gen ready.
This is a 10/10 Direct.