Switch 2 is rumoured for 2024, but what could be launch titles? Metroid prime 4 would be a candidate, but might not a be a system seller.

A new 3d Mario could be a possibility, given wonder is a 2.5d and another team might be working on something.

Zelda - we’ve just had totk released so that seems out.

Mario kart 9 could be a system seller.

Splatoon 3 was only recently released.

What else could be lined up for a launch window, assuming a 2024 release? Maybe 2024 is less plausible 🤔

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    If you look at the Switch titles:

    1-2-Switch - Some game to show off new features.
    Just Dance 2017
    The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Cross gen game.
    Skylanders: Imaginators - Merch game.
    Super Bomberman R
    I Am Setsuna
    Tokyo RPG Factory
    Snipperclips - Another new feature game.
    Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove - Shovelware
    Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment - Shovelware
    Fast RMX

    I could see either a new Mario game launching on the Switch and Switch 2, maybe a Metroid game instead. Zelda will be too old and played out by then, but then Zelda fans love buying the same game over and over.

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      1 year ago

      Hold the GODDAMN heck up, did you just call Shovel Knight Shovelware??? b r u h

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        1 year ago

        Ported from another platform with little to no effort?

        It’s the literal definition of shovelware.

        The Switch was literally the last of 11 platforms it launched on.

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          1 year ago

          Also, by your definition, Skyrim and Witcher 3 are also Shovelware.

          Which, I want you to think hard about for maybe 1 min.

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            1 year ago

            With no new features or nothing added to take advantage of unique Switch capabilities = shovelware.

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              It’s worth noting, I think, that the definition of shovelware has slipped somewhat since it was coined like thirty years ago, and I think this is leading to you and niisyth talking past each other. Shovel Knight for Switch was maybe shovelware by the original definition, which was “shovel a bunch of old software onto a CD and resell it,” but by the Wii era people were using it to refer to software that is just bad, but exists to trick people into buying it by promising to be more full-featured than it actually is. The Wii had so many titles like this that it seemed like they were “shoveling” shit directly onto store shelves and calling it games. In this new definition, it refers to titles like My Horse and Me or Imagine Party Babyz. So if they are thinking of the newer usage, it sounds like you’re insulting Shovel Knight’s quality as a game.