When did pre-orders go up, this morning with the date?
No link to pre-order physical
. Hopefully it gets a physical release. I still prefer to do physical for special occasions like this.
Excited to play 2 in definitive form. No issues of playing on a tiny, cramped handheld without precise camera control.
Everything so far has suggested a very faithful remake, straight to the core. I imagine the whitty writing will remain in tact. Just as Flurry’s large bust has.Hope TTYD's anarchic writing and humour haven't been "improved" for modern audiences.
Was on TBD date at GAME.
I think they’ve intentionally bought themselves enough time thru June.
6 games in 6 months is not a bad amount, even if most of them are rereleases. I too hope there will be a Direct soon (April was rumored before) to pad out Q3 months.
Yes they've used Mario Day and the Partner Direct to fill out the H1 lineup. But I think they need to start talking about H2 before the end of June.
We’ll see
. It’s gonna be a light year with new console being pushed to next spring. I think hence why none of these announcements were in a full general Direct in the usual February slot, and instead they’re drip-feed piece-mealing these announcements out.
Being the last year of Switch and sales still being reasonably good, I think it’s fine for them to skip a month here or there. At this point April won’t have anything noteworthy, and that’s fine. It won’t hurt sales too much. Nintendo is just riding out the last year of Switch as best they can.
We don’t know that for sure. It ain’t official til it’s official. September 2023 was 6 months ago and this thing doesn’t come out for another 90ish days.
It’s incredible to think we had no idea Super Mario Wonder even existed before June last year
On average they release 1 game per month, but yes that doesn't mean a game every single month.
I think the original plan was to have a Switch 2 reveal event in March or April (before their investors meeting).We’ll see
Not unusual for Nintendo. In 2023, 4 out of 5 H2 games were unknown or undated before June.
I mean they do that every year, basically. 6 month gaps from announcement to release is Nintendo’s preferred method for most announcements. You can trace it back to like 2008 or before.
, and make the Feb Direct just third-parties.
And hopefully us die-hards are in for some extra content and additional post-game stuff
I firmly stand by it as one of my favorite games of all time. It’s funny and brilliant, and the ultimate Mario RPG game. For sure.
They could skip it in June in 2022, because at that point they had already announced their 5 H2 games.
No. It’s because outside of Pokemon they didn’t have any major first party games for Holiday 2022. So they had to rely on third-parties.
They published Xenoblade 3 and Live A Live in July, Splatoon 3 in September, Bayonetta 3 in October and Pokemon S/V in November.
Paper Mario on NSO runs exactly as it does on N64. The game chugged on N64 in quite a few areas, but it is perfectly playable. One of my favorites. I credit that game with getting me into turn-based RPGs.
They'll have a couple things for the holidays, for sure. The March 2025 pivot means they didn't desperately need to launch hardware this year to boost their sales, they could afford to wait another 6 months. That kind of confidence only happens if you have the games to finish out 2024 without new hardware.
Yeah, that's probably not a bad idea. I'm glad you mentioned this, I hadn't really considered it, but I wouldn't put it past Ninty for a big upcharge or separate sku.
Hope TTYD's anarchic writing and humour haven't been "improved" for modern audiences.
