INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Nintendo is at last (at last!) bringing some new content to the Switch! Yes!
In a Nintendo Direct, the company let fly a number of games
and a couple of original titles
The biggest Nintendo-produced titles we had glimpses of are a new Animal Crossing in development for the Switch and Luigi Mansion 3.
We
learned next to nothing about the new Animal Crossing, other than that it coming in 2019, but we did get to see some gameplay from the
latest chapter of Luigi only titular adventure in the Nintendo world
Luigi Mansion 3 seems to follow in the ghost-vacuuming footsteps of its predecessors with the bizarre camera angles and all
It also heading to the Switch stage in 2019, setting up a couple of Nintendo titles for us to look forward to next year, possibly alongside
Metroid Prime 4 ().
Other familiar additions to the Switch include a port of the Wii U gameNew Super Mario Bros
U Deluxe coming in January and Yoshi Crafted World coming in spring 2019.
Nintendo NES Switch controllers activate the nostalgia centers
(and wallets) of retro gamers
Aside from the Nintendo-made titles, fans were served up a big surprise with the announcement that some
recent and old-school Final Fantasy titles are coming to the Switch
Final Fantasy VII, IX, X, X-2 HD Remaster and XII are all arriving in 2019.
There are about a dozen other incoming titles (several of which
are remasters), includingEA SPORTS FIFA 19,Starlink: Battle for Atlas,Diablo III: Eternal Collection,Mega Man 11,Katamari Damacy REROLL and
plenty of others that you can jump through in the Direct below.
The Nintendo Switch is a fantastic system, and while it has a lot going for
it, I barely have any games to play for it anymore
It not all that out of character for Nintendo to delay the hell out of the instant gratification its customers want, but the Switch has had
a particularly stuttered content rollout since its launch
Hopefully the company can pick up a little more consistent cadence as it gets more third-party studios onboard.
