DeuceGamer
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Fire Emblem Warriors would make sense hitting in August to me. When did Hyrule Warriors release?
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Nintendo UK confirms Fire Emblem Warriors and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for 2017
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Fire Emblem Warriors would make sense hitting in August to me. When did Hyrule Warriors release?
frankie_baby
Member
I was thinking August for spla2n, though the testfire this week suggests that'll be sooner just june/july seem bad months to release what is likely its biggest game
Dark Ninja
Member
After Hyrule Warriors im really excited for FE Warriors. Im ready to dump 200 + hours into this. Also please have local co-op.
Fun police are here guys pack it up.
DeuceGamer
Member
Yea, I guess it depends on how fast we get Splatoon2.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
I don't have the Switch yet and i plan to get one when Mario comes out, but holy shit if i can get Xenoblade 2 with it as well.
I stand completely corrected
It has always been 2017 everywhere. See this image for example:
I stand completely corrected
mocolostrocolos
Member
FEW sure.
XC2 nope.
Hope I'm wrong.
XC2 nope.
Hope I'm wrong.
1. The usual holiday AAA deluge won't be on the Switch.
2. While Nintendo's IPs pull a high tie ratio none are even 50%. Different games sell systems to different people. Nintendo needs to get as many of the heavy hitters on Switch as possible in order to convince as many interested Wii, Wii U, and 3DS owners to migrate rapidly.
Though I agree, they shouldn't load it all in Q4 of 2017. If this was the games list I was asked to sort:
Mario odyssey
Fire emblem warriors
Smash
Pokemon stars
Xenoblade 2
I'd want Fire Emblem Warriors out in fall 2017, Mario in late fall/early winter as the Christmas headliner, Xenoblade out shortly thereafter with a day one sale promo of some kind (like introducing digital Wii games on Switch with buy X2 get X free).
Then I'd push Pokemon Stars and Smash into Q1 2017.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Hyrule Warriors was August in Japan and September everywhere else. Something like that sounds about right for FE Warriors.
Spla2n is probably June/July. It's really the perfect "end of the school year, start of the summer vacation" game. Arms is likely the May slot.
I think we can all agree if Xenoblade 2 comes this year, it's going to be December at the earliest... Personally I feel if anything had to give from the schedule, it'd be that and/or Smash Bros. (if that's a thing). Selling Amiibos feels like the main incentive to have Smash out for the holiday. Beyond that I can see them waiting and putting it in the beginning of next year to keep the momentum going.
moustascheman
Member
I don't believe Xenoblade 2 is coming out this year, from the little we've been shown I expect at least a year more. Xenoblade to Xenoblade X was 4 years apart, 2 years for Xenoblade X to Xenoblade 2 seems way too soon.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
What i wonder though is, how long has Xenoblade 2 been in development? I mean didn't Monolith also help out on Zelda BOTW?
Gai Murakumo
Member
Hyrule Warriors released in August in Japan and September Worldwide. I expect Fire Emblem Warriors to be around the same time.
frankie_baby
Member
I was talking from a business perspective not a fun perspective
OmegaDL50
Member
Takahashi even admitted that Xenoblade X was a foundation for development for a future game, so it's probably likely that they are reusing the engine from Xenoblade X for Xenoblade 2's development which would substantially speed things along from a development standpoint.
Xenoblade X initial announcement in January 2013 to full release in April 2015, a mere 2 years, factoring probably a significant portion of the development was likely on the engine itself which won't need to be done for Xenoblade 2 considering the likelihood if of being reused based on Takahashi's admission of using Xenoblade X foundation for this new game.
If we consider that Monolith started work on Xenoblade 2 as soon as they finished with X, alongside their work on Zelda BoTW, then a 2017 for Xenoblade 2 isn't out of the realm of possibility.
http://time.com/4149809/xenoblade-chronicles-x-director-tetsuya-takahashi/Tetsuya Takahashi on Xenoblade X said:
It stands a chance that they might have even already been shifting people over to XB2 after they were dong on XBX as stuff was starting to wind down on that.
frankie_baby
Member
Well that kinda depends on there being any third party support
Nintendo honestly has no choice. They need to stuff the pipeline with as much software as they can. They cannot afford any let downs. They need at least 4 tentpole(Mario/Zelda level) games a year and a bunch of smaller ones on the sides. The only way they will convince people to buy the system is a wide array of games.
And to be honest out of your list only Mario and Pokemon are tentpoles, a Smash port isn't quite tentpole, but it wouldn't t hurt
sublimit
Banned
That was my thought as well.They will delay it to 2018 later this year.
I'm not believing Xenoblade will be out for a second until it's actually in my hands.
Dark Cloud
Member
I highly doubt Xenoblade 2 started development once X was done. I think it started earlier and it could make it this year. I can see it being a December game just like X was in America.
Not sure what you're thinking, but Smash and Mario Kart are tent poles regardless of being ports. Even more so than Zelda. Splatoon is a tent pole title now especially with how it sold as a console game in Japan.
The funny thing is that's not even year 1. That's only 9 months lol
Not sure what you're thinking, but Smash and Mario Kart are tent poles regardless of being ports. Even more so than Zelda. Splatoon is a tent pole title now especially with how it sold as a console game in Japan.
The funny thing is that's not even year 1. That's only 9 months lol
frankie_baby
Member
Well there will already have been Zelda botw, MK8D and Spla2n so nintendo is sorted for tentpoles
Sammy Samusu
Member
I don't doubt that Fire Emblem is coming out this year, but Xenoblade... Lol.
How young and innocent.
How young and innocent.
I'm hoping for some mindless fun at least. I was strangely addicted to Hyrule Warriors for a very short while. Never touched that game against after finishing the plot though.
Considering most third party support will be bare I'd say that's a smaller (but awesome) lineup than the competition.
I sure hope it's true but I can't see it happening. Xenoblade will be delayed imo. I hope we get a port of X.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Especially because Skyrim is also coming at the end of this year. But i would love to be wrong.
Jaded Alyx
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Smiles and Cries
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I won't believe Xenoblade until I have downloaded from eShop
WrenchNinja
Member
Doesn't sound remotely believable, but hey, here's hoping
Linkstrikesback
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Yes, but I imagine the "Monolith" that helped in Zelda isn't the same one that makes the Xenoblade series. Monolith is a weird studio in that it's actually two branches, one in Kyoto and one in Tokyo. Tales from my ass, but I bet the Xenoblade team (Tokyo) weren't heavily involved, while the Kyoto team (largely focused on asset creation previously) I'd guess were involved in Zelda.
For sure. I guess we'll see definitively one way or another if Nintendo can successfully launch a console on only it's own software (+indie). If this year doesn't work out, who knows what actually could.
Not sure if I should take it as a good/comforting thing that I'm not the only one in this thread [still] skeptical about XC2 arriving (in the West) this year. Xenoblade Chronicles quickly earned its place among the upper echelons in my mind and as much as I'd be interested in a follow-up - does the big fat '2' indicate this being an actual sequel - even with Nintendo UK talking it up, I'm still confident about it getting delayed last-minute.
Whilst I love Splat & cant wait for the sequel it isn't fully a tentpole for the mass market. It can be, and I think the sequel can have further reach than the first.
To me Zelda, MK, Mario and possibly Smash are the potential tentpoles for this year. But honestly Nintendo needs about 10 plus games a year to keep interest primed for switch. That was my greater argument. They cannot afford even the slightest hiccup and I'd say they are cutting it close with 8 weeks between Zelda and MK8.
frankie_baby
Member
Sequel to the biggest home console game of the gen in japan isnt a mass market tentpole?
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
British cast or complete european localization like Zelda, any one of those would do.
NoA's direction in voice acting its subpar, they have demonstrated enough with nearly every game they have released, even on probably its biggest game ever were they only needed less than 20 actors.
Other M, Xenoblade X, Zelda...
When Spain can go and get professional loved voice actors, that are not even common on videogames but movies for Zelda and NoA does a subpar job, something is wrong.
I likes the american voice acting in games like Wonderful 101, but I dont know if that was becuase Platinum was doing that stuff, or NoA got it right that time.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
XCX was rarely ever marketed as "coming out this year", except on those meaningless calendars you'd see that would go "TBA 2015". Otherwise when it popped up as a Direct Reggie would always say "We'll hear more about this game, later in the year."
This time they have been VERY vocal about dates. Reggie did multiple interviews talking about how they were counting on XB2 to bring in niche fans this year.
Either way, the skepticism is no longer reasonable. Wait until the next direct/E3. If we get nothing then? 2018. But for now? Chill. There's NO release date or mention of any big games for the latter half of the year and I have to think there's a reason for that.
This time they have been VERY vocal about dates. Reggie did multiple interviews talking about how they were counting on XB2 to bring in niche fans this year.
Either way, the skepticism is no longer reasonable. Wait until the next direct/E3. If we get nothing then? 2018. But for now? Chill. There's NO release date or mention of any big games for the latter half of the year and I have to think there's a reason for that.
So
March Zelda
April Mario Kart
May Arms
June Splatoon
July???
August???
September FE Warriors
October Xenoblade 2
November Mario
December????
Year 1 is shaping up to be pretty good for the Switch. Especially with Pokemon Stars, Smash 4 and Retro's next project rumoured for this year.
March Zelda
April Mario Kart
May Arms
June Splatoon
July???
August???
September FE Warriors
October Xenoblade 2
November Mario
December????
Year 1 is shaping up to be pretty good for the Switch. Especially with Pokemon Stars, Smash 4 and Retro's next project rumoured for this year.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
No Pokémon talk in weeks makes me skeptical. If it exists tho bet on October release again, while XB2 hits in December. And FE Warriors might be in August while they let NBA 2K hit in September. That's a big get for them and if they can leech just a few users from PS4 and XB1 they can give sports gamers something special.
Remeber ORAS. Wasn't announced until May, released 6 months later.
I'd say if we don't hear anything until E3, we get nothing from Game Freak this year
family_guy
Member
Obviously Xenoblade 2 will be out in Japan by December and since it's region free you'll be able to play it.
Resistance100
Member
Wouldn't say it's overkill compared to the first 3 months of 2017
Dark Cloud
Member
You just solved the puzzle lol. It would be hilarious if this got promoted.
WooHooAlex
Member
No way in hell Xenoblade 2 is coming out this year.