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The icons are really nice (they covered Bayo's best side with the logo tho), but the most interesting fact is that the games are completed already and downloadable.
Bayo 2+1 is releasing on 16/02, Kirby on 16/03.
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Kirby Star Allies, Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 are already preloadable in EU, months before release
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The icons are really nice (they covered Bayo's best side with the logo tho), but the most interesting fact is that the games are completed already and downloadable.
Bayo 2+1 is releasing on 16/02, Kirby on 16/03.
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Nah it's a preload. You download the majority of the game but you can't actually play it until release.
No, because you'll still have to wait for them to be unlocked before you can play them.
Of course, I would not be shocked if some homebrew devs managed to leak them.
Wouldn't call Bayonetta downloading now "months" ahead of launch.
But, yeah, super early. Likely just pushed back to fill the line up and because January is a poor time to release software
But, yeah, super early. Likely just pushed back to fill the line up and because January is a poor time to release software
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Kimishima is playing the chess game with first party releases.
The game data gets uploaded to the eShop in advance so members of the press can play the game for review. A lot of the time publishers will make the preload live too.
Like I said, it makes sense to strategically delay things. Still doesn't stop it from annoying me haha
Ah that's something I hadn't considered, good point. Still, ~2 months to review Kirby seems a bit excessive to me!
But I guess it's a good sign that Nintendo is churning out releases pretty quickly.
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Well technically both are more than 1 month away (1 month and 1 day Bayo, 2 months and 1 day Kirby).
Wait, what? Kirby's already per-loadable?
Like, Bayonetta makes sense seeing how it kinda matches with Xenoblade 2's Preload period, but Kirby? The game comes out in March!
Like, Bayonetta makes sense seeing how it kinda matches with Xenoblade 2's Preload period, but Kirby? The game comes out in March!
That's quite cool, wish it was possible with many more upcoming games especially indies wise.
Still going physical for Kirby tho!
Still going physical for Kirby tho!
This doesn't make me happy at all although I dont really have time to play Bayonetta right now (Xenoverse 2 is very long!). I own all the Bayonettas -but- the kids are always on the Wii U. So never got to finish Bayonetta 2 (I only beat the first one). Waiting on the Switch version to repurchase and I was planning to just run through them all on Switch
The fact that Kirby is available for preload so far in advance--especially since this is Nintendo--has me wondering if we'll see Kirby release sooner than the original March 16th date.
It would be a nice surprise at a future Direct, no?
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I would love that also, but FWIW I don't believe in the past 5+ years Nintendo has announced a specific game release day and then pushed it up to a sooner date. Just don't want you to get your hopes up and be disappointed. :)
Wouldn't surprise me all that much if development on these games were complete. Notice how Nintendo games rarely have huge Day 1 patches—I think they're often finished well in advance of release.
Oh I get that. It's just if you can preload the game now so it's like it already went gold, right? That's what I meant, that it is playable in theory - not for normal gamers who just pre-load of course :P
It's a nice fantasy but has basically no chance of happening since retailers also have the 3/16 date locked in. No surprise that the game's been done for a while with what they've been showing off lately.
Probably just waiting for Kirby Battle Royale to release in NA to give it space and some media presence.
Builders is a bit of a larger game than Kirby I would imagine. So you'd need more time to review it.
Not even remotely surprising, as Nintendo does this often. Not the super early pre-loading, but the holding back of finished software in order to space out releases.
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By the same token, US outlets don't have review code yet of Builders.
Yeah, rumor was that Odyssey was finished for a good six months or so before it came out.
Nintendo knew the game was done last week when they announced the release date.
Some Switch games haven't had day one patches at all. I'm pretty sure Mario Kart 8 Deluxe didn't.
Pro tip: any time you see the file size listed on the e-shop that means the game has competed Nintendo submission process. They're most certainly holding back lots of games for strategic reasons right now. Wouldn't be surprised if Tropical Freeze is finished or nearly finished right now.
I'm pretty sure that rumor was not true. There were a fair number of tweaks made to the game between it's E3 trailer and it's final release 5 months later.
I wonder if that's because the game is short on content. I hope not :/
Nah, they probably still want to spread out their releases like last year.
Larger as in it has more content? Dragon Quest Builders is 811MB digital (I know, shockingly low), while Kirby is 2,8GB!
Unless Nintendo has decided to throw out their security practices from the 3DS era, this isn't possible. There was a brief period where preloaded 3DS games could be played early with homebrew, but Nintendo quickly updated things so that all the preloaded data is encrypted and the decryption key isn't published to the servers until the release date.
It probably has a similar (IMO solid) amount of content in at least the main game portion as that in the last three mainline Kirby games which this one appears to be in a similar vein to. Triple Deluxe to Robobot was about two years as well. These games in particular don't seem to have a super long dev cycle and usually have had a very lean announcement to release gap, with Robobot it was only three months.