Nintendo Switch - The Bear and Badger

Moot_Geeza

Wookienopants wrote:

Let’s play a guessing game, how much are they gonna charge on the eshop for the Trilogy? I’m betting £29.99. But then again it is Nintendo so also expecting £49.99 chancing it

Cheers Retro.

Closer to £50 than £30 I'd imagine Wookie. I'm gonna go £44.99.

Wookienopants

If it’s a sub £30 I’m buying it there and then.

retroking1981

£49.99 all day long.

I'd be selling my Wii copy to cover it if this rumour is true.

Hopefully a re-release would implement both IR and analog controls ala the recent Resi releases to keep both camps happy. Dual analog please though Nintendo!!

cosmicjellybean

I have it on wii and wii u, think you had to use a wiimote to play them? Actual controller support (and handheld) makes them a must for me. Never completed any of them!

Edit: Oh, what retro said...

Dinostar77

VIDEO GAME SALES WIKI
Best selling Nintendo games

Best selling games and franchises developed or published by Nintendo.

Franchises
Sales data from Best selling game franchises, unless otherwise noted. Sales data largely based on Nintendo's official sales data.

Super Mario (627.51 million)
Pokémon (301.5 million)
Wii Series (203.15 million)
The Legend of Zelda (105.62 million)
Donkey Kong (75.6 million)[8]
Super Smash Bros (53 million)[9]
Game & Watch (43.4 million)[10]
Kirby (38 million)[9]
Brain Age (34 million)[11]
Animal Crossing (33.6 million)[12][13][14]
Nintendogs (28.25 million)[15][16]
Yoshi (24.87 million)[17]
Wario (22 million)
Metroid (17.44 million)
Fire Emblem (12.4 million)*
Splatoon (12.4 million)[18]
Star Fox (12 million)
Tomodachi (10.06 million)[19][20]
Big Brain Academy (10 million)
Luigi (10 million)
F-Zero (5 million)
Pikmin (5 million)
Excite (5 million)
Nintendo Land (5 million)
Style Savvy (5 million)
* This entry uses numbers from VGChartz, so may be questionable

Dinostar77

Metroid been around longer, had more releases and sold more than StarFox. Personally for me Metroid is the more important IP than StarFox imho.

acemuzzy

Neither as important as nintendogs tho

retroking1981

Top selling Metroid:
Prime - 2.84M

Top selling Star Fox:
64 - 4M
SNES version also beat out Prime with 2.99M

Also there's been 16 Metroid releases and only 7 Star Fox games, 9 technically if you include Guard and 2 which were never sold separately.

So on an average:
Metroid - 1.09M
Star Fox - 1.71M

Having said all of that I'd say Metroid is a much bigger IP going forward, Star Fox along with the on-rails shooter genre has become niche at best.

Moot_Geeza

Good work all.

Tl,dr: Nothing to be sniffed at but not quite mixing it with the heaviest hitters.

Speedhaak

Bought a Switch Lite yesterday with the Collection of Mana - mainly due to me probably not getting much free time to play games on PC with the recent arrival of our little man but also I've been meaning to reply Seiken Densetsu 2 for years now and I never played the third in the series so yay.

Nice little bit of tech, and having not kept up to speed on Switch I was pleasantly surprised at how vast the library of games is now.

I can feel a 90s RPG marathon coming on.

Speedhaak

Also, I nearly got laughed out of the shop when I asked about Black Friday deals for Nintendo.

retroking1981

Speedhaak wrote:

I can feel a 90s RPG marathon coming on.

I'm currently going through Final Fantasy VII on this. I think I'm nearly up to where I got to back in the day.

It's a great old skool JRPG but man...

The graphics on the characters are awful and upressing them has just made them stand out even more. Coming from someone who played VIII more than this in the 90s it's way worse than I remember.

I know it's not in line with the quick cash in model but I'd have loved them to have used the character models for the battle screens on the main areas and made them a bit darker and grittier to blend in a bit better with the pre-rendered backgrounds.

But even worse are the controls. I know this was a pre Dual Shock release on PS but they could have surely implemented some analog controls easily enough?

It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the odd inconsistencies. In some buildings up moves you north east and down south west etc, but in others up is up and down is down. It's horrible.

Speedhaak

Yeah I imagine those rose-tinted glasses can be quite jarring when met with the reality of early 3d games being played in this day and age. I do want to try a few though, I will probably go for FFXII: Zodiac Age first though.

Is IX on the Switch?

LivDiv

Wookienopants wrote:

Let’s play a guessing game, how much are they gonna charge on the eshop for the Trilogy?

I’m betting £29.99.
But then again it is Nintendo so also expecting £49.99 chancing it

£59.99

Syph79

Speedhaak wrote:

Bought a Switch Lite yesterday with the Collection of Mana - mainly due to me probably not getting much free time to play games on PC with the recent arrival of our little man but also I've been meaning to reply Seiken Densetsu 2 for years now and I never played the third in the series so yay.

Nice little bit of tech, and having not kept up to speed on Switch I was pleasantly surprised at how vast the library of games is now.

I can feel a 90s RPG marathon coming on.

Welcome aboard. Best console.

regmcfly

LivDiv wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

Let’s play a guessing game, how much are they gonna charge on the eshop for the Trilogy?

I’m betting £29.99.
But then again it is Nintendo so also expecting £49.99 chancing it

£59.99

£45 but also they'll do a physical version with an awesome statue or some shit and old reg here will buy it for £75.

Wookienopants

Speedhaak wrote:

Yeah I imagine those rose-tinted glasses can be quite jarring when met with the reality of early 3d games being played in this day and age. I do want to try a few though, I will probably go for FFXII: Zodiac Age first though.

Is IX on the Switch?

IX is indeed on switch. I have VII, VIII and IX all sat on the internal memory for me to never play

The Daddy

I’ve been dipping in and out of IX. It’s decent enough, the cheats really help speed up the tedious bits.

JonB

retroking1981 wrote:

I know it's not in line with the quick cash in model but I'd have loved them to have used the character models for the battle screens on the main areas and made them a bit darker and grittier to blend in a bit better with the pre-rendered backgrounds.

Someone's doing or has done a modded version like that. From the screenshots I've seen it looks kind of weird. Like the world doesn't really fit around properly proportioned characters or something. Obviously the original models are horribly blocky, but the game suits them and the animation is clearly based around extra expressive movements to make up for the lack of facial features.

retroking1981

How much better looking are VIII and IX compared to VII?

retroking1981

JonB wrote:

Someone's doing or has done a modded version like that. From the screenshots I've seen it looks kind of weird. Like the world doesn't really fit around properly proportioned characters or something. Obviously the original models are horribly blocky, but the game suits them and the animation is clearly based around extra expressive movements to make up for the lack of facial features.

God bless modders, I'll have to have a look online to see what it's like.

Yeah I can imagine it looking out of place here and there but I think I'd like it tbh.

Minnesänger

retroking1981 wrote:

How much better looking are VIII and IX compared to VII?

VIII's character models are much more proportional and the game does much more impressive things with regards mixing real-time models and CG. But...there's a lot of jaggies. Still, it a major step up.

IX is gorgeous, though. Even to this day, even though some of the background textures (pre-rendered) have suffered from the original assets being somewhat low-res.

EvilRedEye

People have been using deep learning algorithms to upscale the backgrounds from the PS1 FF games with fantastic results.

Paul the sparky

Minnesänger wrote:

retroking1981 wrote:

How much better looking are VIII and IX compared to VII?

VIII's character models are much more proportional and the game does much more impressive things with regards mixing real-time models and CG. But...there's a lot of jaggies. Still, it a major step up.

JonB

Yeah but you should see the others.

Gamermike

They released Metroid prime trilogy on Wii U, I purchased it for 17.99 when they first released it (think it was a early bird discount before it went up to £30) but never got round to playing it. I suspect it will be more for the Switch mind.

The Daddy

I did the same. Really annoyed I didn’t play it as never did the second two. Will probably impulse buy this one and not play it on switch too.

The Daddy

US thanksgiving sale is now live for those that like to take an international approach to bargain hunting, list here:

https://happyholidays.nintendo.com/cyber-deals/

Bob

Never got past the first boss on Metroid prime ... still ranks better than getting stuck on the telescope on wind waker

Speedhaak

Wookienopants wrote:

Speedhaak wrote:

Yeah I imagine those rose-tinted glasses can be quite jarring when met with the reality of early 3d games being played in this day and age. I do want to try a few though, I will probably go for FFXII: Zodiac Age first though. Is IX on the Switch?

IX is indeed on switch. I have VII, VIII and IX all sat on the internal memory for me to never play

Nice one, shall try them out. Although I suspect they'll suffer the same fate on my SD card

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