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Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I know this seems like a "well, duh" comment, but sit and think about that for a second.
I'm talking about games like:
Fire Emblem
Mario and Luigi
Pokemon and its Mystery Dungeon spinoffs
Golden Sun (one can dream)
And so on. The past few generations have had a clear handheld/console split where the handheld titles suffer from their inferior hardware, but with the Switch, this is obviously no longer the case. I'm pretty sure the Switch is meant to play both markets at once and not support the 3DS at the same time, but correct me if I'm wrong.
If so, this is awesome. Pokemon is getting its third version on the Switch, so we already know that's coming. Fire Emblem might have the chance to increase its scope and scale once again, like it did during the Tellius games on GCN/Wii. Mario and Luigi might finally feel like the proper console sequel to Super Mario RPG.
Then there's the fact that major games like Luigi's Mansion or Animal Crossing, or spinoffs like 3D Land, will no longer be held back by handheld hardware. We won't get anymore Hyrule Warriors: Legends cases where the best version of the game is the graphically inferior one. And there won't be a split between Virtual Consoles anymore!
Do you see handheld franchises coming back in bigger and better ways? How do you think they could take advantage of their new console-level power? I think out of all the things the Switch represents, the cannibalization of handheld games is the most exciting. Can you imagine a console level Advance Wars game?
I'm talking about games like:
Fire Emblem
Mario and Luigi
Pokemon and its Mystery Dungeon spinoffs
Golden Sun (one can dream)
And so on. The past few generations have had a clear handheld/console split where the handheld titles suffer from their inferior hardware, but with the Switch, this is obviously no longer the case. I'm pretty sure the Switch is meant to play both markets at once and not support the 3DS at the same time, but correct me if I'm wrong.
If so, this is awesome. Pokemon is getting its third version on the Switch, so we already know that's coming. Fire Emblem might have the chance to increase its scope and scale once again, like it did during the Tellius games on GCN/Wii. Mario and Luigi might finally feel like the proper console sequel to Super Mario RPG.
Then there's the fact that major games like Luigi's Mansion or Animal Crossing, or spinoffs like 3D Land, will no longer be held back by handheld hardware. We won't get anymore Hyrule Warriors: Legends cases where the best version of the game is the graphically inferior one. And there won't be a split between Virtual Consoles anymore!
Do you see handheld franchises coming back in bigger and better ways? How do you think they could take advantage of their new console-level power? I think out of all the things the Switch represents, the cannibalization of handheld games is the most exciting. Can you imagine a console level Advance Wars game?