Kresnik258
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Just loaded up the Project Octopath Demo and I'm greeted with two unexpected logos:
Acquire
Unreal Engine
Guess it's one of those 20+ Unreal Engine games.
Also means Silicon Studio might still be making a new Bravely game
Ah, sweet. Nice to see Acquire continue to get this kinda work. I was a bit worried about them considering how many self-developed bombas they've had over the past couple of years.
I genuinely have no idea what Capcom is doing at this point, this is now beyond "oh we weren't prepared". Bethesda is porting over two (three?) major AAA games, sports games are showing up, we're seeing SE ramp up and even brought over the Phyre DQB1 (Octopath's demo is sublime), and outside of Bamco we're seeing most of the market slowly showing up on the Switch. But then I look at Capcom, and I have no idea what is even going on any more. Neither of the Collections (still) and Okami is missing it too. Wolfenstein and Doom, but not platformers and a Zelda clone. Like... wtf?.
I mean, lets flip this on its head.
I genuinely have no idea what Bethesda is doing at this point, this is now beyond "oh we weren't prepared". Capcom is porting over two (three?) major AAA games (etc.)
But then I look at Bethesda and I have no idea what is even going on any more. Not The Evil Within 2. Not Dishonored 2. Fallout 4 is missing too. Resident Evil Revelations 1 & 2, but not other horror games or open-world RPG's.
I feel like this whole thing is oddly reactionary. The Bethesda support is great, and a massive surprise given the company's previous stance on Nintendo hardware, but late ports of games is... exactly what Capcom is doing too.
I hope so much that TGS is where we'll see more Switch support from publishers. NIS is due at any point I feel to be announcing more stuff (shocked that Penny Punching Princess and Longest 5 Minutes aren't announced for Japan yet are they?). KT should have a couple of 2018 Switch games to show soon enough (they have none as far as I know as of yet).
Edit: Back to Japan, surely Fate/Extella Link is Switch-bound since they got the original out on Switch. Why have they been quiet on the platforms for this game?
I mean, I'm sure NIS will announce those two for Japan, but they're both likely going to be < 5k anyway so it's neither here nor there really. Need to start announcing some bigger stuff, maybe a port of Witch & Hundred Knight 2 since that one bombed on PS4 and still hasn't been announced for the west yet (maybe because they're waiting for another version, just like Coven & Labyrinth of Refrain).
re. Fate/Extella link, read this plus the reply:
https://twitter.com/bk2128/status/907990809697382400
Sounds like PS4/Switch to me.
So still no tales or Taiko even if they should hit he market within next March
No blazelue (officially announced in january)
No new Koei game despite them assuring that Switch is fully compatible with their in house engine and keen to develop switch games one after he other even with exclusive games
No Konami game despite bomberman success
Rofl. I mean, stuff gets delayed for starters, so...
There's also a Blazblue game with platforms unannounced that it's obvious where it's going.
What Koei games are you expecting to be announced for Switch that we know are coming out which aren't already heading there?
Konami developing anything at all is a success in and of itself.