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Rumor: New Super Mario Bros. U is headed to Nintendo Switch, possibly this year.
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The only way that Nintendo would make me pick any game from the NEW series again is with some game-based DLC ala NSLU with Odyssey as theme.
Otherwise I'll pass like the Halley's comet.
Otherwise I'll pass like the Halley's comet.
I SERIOUSLY hope people are confusing NSMBU with an actual NSMB title. That at least would compensate with the fact that is releasing way too late.
I wished people would stop generalizing insiders. Just because certain insiders sources told them what Splatoon was doesn't equate to all insiders having bad information. Every insider is their own person with their own sources. Just stop generalizing them all.
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Well whatever it is playing these games portably and HD for the first time is exciting and isn't taking away from the development of Prime 4 or anything so why not?
Oh. Where's Mario Kart 9, Hyrule Warriors 2, Captain Toad 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3, New Super Mario Bros. 4, etc?
Remember when Wii VC purchases carried over to Wii U at a steep discount? Remember when Wii games were released on Wii U for $20 a pop? Remember when port-ups came as value-added compilations instead of individual titles with the price jacked up and the old cheaper games deleted from storefronts?
Nintendo could quietly re-release their back catalogue at affordable prices instead of using them to fill droughts and displace actual sequels.
I understand why someone would buy them but I don't understand why they would praise or hotly anticipate this demonstrably worse method that Nintendo is using here. This conversation started with someone saying we "need" more ports - no, we "need" more new games, ports should be discounted impulse buys or preorder bonuses.
i wouldn't bother with peeky, he has a retweet of a unhinged troll who has agenda against era on his account
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Thinking that ports take up the development of new games in a series is a fundamental mksunderstanding. Completely different teams handle them.
I need both. :D
I bought all the Wii U ports Nintendo released on Switch and will keep buying them.
Also got 5 new games + 10 new 3rd party games.
Keep'em coming :D
"Expect a 1:1 port of NSMBU and DLC being charged for 60 USD and be glad for that!"
-Nintendo Manager
Making new games? The Mario Kart guys were making Arms and the Hyrule Warriors guys were making Fire Emblem Warriors. I think part of the original Captain Toad team helped make Odyssey and Retro's new game has been rumored for a while. But hey what is doing research.
I might expect that but I sure as hell won't be glad for it.
Or that MK8 would include new tracks and such? Or that Mario Maker was coming? Or a female link in BOTW? There was a thread here detailing all the rumors and which ones came true or not.
NSMB has been rumored for a while now. Its nothing new - and given the amount of Wii U ports its a super easy guess.
Insiders generally have some knowledge a few days before something gets announced. They are likely just leaking NDA info they hear from others. Its fun to read what they say, but many have been wrong so many times its useless to take stock in it. I've seen posts on 4chan that are the real deal. I feel like some just do it for personal gain (youtube followers etc.)
Then... we're are the new games? They have thirteen internal devteams and lot's of external contracts. They even streamlined their teams and yet... the number of original games in the last 17 months isn't that huge.
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Don't ask me, just know that common sense says that these ports aren't getting in the way of them. They take minimal amounts of work, and some of them them aren't even done by Nintendo themselves.
Internal Nintendo is so fucked-up. Their output is so bad since 2015....
There are amazing games but it is just not the quantity you would expect from this huge army of developers.
You can't be serious...
They have been doing :
Arms (2017), Fire Emblem Warriors (2017), Super Mario Odyssey (2017), Star Fox Racing (2019 ?), something else probably not a New Super Mario Bros (2019 or 2020 ?).
Or it doesn't exist at all, there've been many rumours like these and only a few turned out to be true, others turned out to be something else or didn't happen at all.
People has taken for granted the supposed Star Fox game and there's still nothing about it.
That's the problem. You guys think Nintendo has "an army of developers" lol. This is not true.
Nintendo outputs more games than any other developer in the industry.
You just have ridiculous standards. It's not possible to do 2017 every year, and it was so ridiculously loaded that 2018 has to be a low year.
I believe 3 of the teams behind those games have a new game on the Switch already with the 4th one leaked/rumored. They're not the teams handling the ports.
I'm also not sure why you want direct sequels to everything. 3 of the 4 new games are completely different types of games than what the team made previously, which is far more interesting - especially since we're getting the ports anyway.
They don't have a huge army of developers. Next time you finish one try to sit through the credits. Then compare that to the credits of a Ubisoft game.
I think at the very least it will prevent Nintendo from making new games in the franchise for a while. I was really hoping for a new 2D Mario and I doubt we'll get one for years if this port ends up selling well. So I'll just hope this rumor is false and it's actually a new game.
Nothing you said is even remotely logical.
It's going to sell millions of copies and takes a small amount of effort that won't take away from brand new development. You're wrong.
Wind Waker and Twilight Princess on Wii U didn't stop Nintendo from doing BOTW.
Silly.
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Now that is a fair point, but it could be that this port is also because the 2D Mario team is working on something different entirely, yet they still recognize the need for a 2D Mario on Switch. That's more likely imo.
That would seem logical, but remember that this is the same company that released NSMB2 and NSMBU 4 months apart. Anything goes.
Zelda typically isn't an evergreen title and Nintendo often does more than one per console. The same can't be said for games like Mario Kart, Smash or 2D Mario (recently) so I think there is some merit to what I'm saying. I don't think Nintendo would release a Mario Kart 9 anytime soon even if it were complete because it would cut the legs from an evergreen MK8 Deluxe.
Well I'd be cool with that, as long as whatever they're making ends up being great. I REALLY wanted a reinvention of 2D Mario on Switch but I'll take whatever they make as long as it's fun.
Yeah, and the implication for both of those is that Nintendo felt bad BotW was taking so long to develop, Thus, they contracted outside help to port them up. To me that's the opposite of a problem and only bolster's a system library, and it means more funds to push forward development of major new titles.
To me this problem is just one of optics - it does look bad if Nintendo releases a bunch of ports in quick succession, but those issues will be put to rest in a matter of months. It's only more noticeable compared to the Wii U era because Nintendo has moved out of the years-long hype cycle.
The MK team made ARMS, which just released last year and had a solid 6 or so months of post launch support that was all completely free. That team was busy, and even if they had a small crew doing preproduction on MK9 it would still be at least a year or two away regardless of MK8 Deluxe
I'm aware, that was a hypothetical scenario. I also think if Nintendo didn't port MK8 they would have forced the team to make MK9 instead of Arms and we'd have a new Mario Kart sooner. In this scenario I prefer things the way they are, but I doubt Nintendo would let the console go long without a Mario Kart game. The port existing means they don't need to worry about MK9. I'm hoping that wont be the case with 2D Mario but I think it would be, especially if the port has typical 2D Mario legs.
That means they can develop a game with less developers than Ubi. Simple.. their games are smaller and less complex.
Yet.. they still have more than 5500 employees, devided over 13 teams.
Uhh, I don't believe that's true. I think there are many other large companies like Ubisoft, Bandai Namco and Square-Enix ship more games on average per year than Nintendo.
We will should get a new Mario Maker early next year so chill.
They will add a new level like Captain Toad with New Donk City.
Even better, go full All-Stars and upgrade the graphics with all-new 16-bit era spritework
Yup. King Zell (a well known ERA insider) posted about it in July.
Okay, I found the post. They didn't specify if it's a port or a sequel, though.
At this point I'm hoping sequel, though I also thought it was a no brainier for them to port it last year so what do I know...
Honestly, this would be amazing and easily worth a $60 price tag.
But if they didn't do a bundle of Tropical Freeze + DKC Returns HD, then they certainly won't do that. Unfortunately.
In regards to Mario Maker, this would sell much more so it makes sense that they would port this instead. (Mario Maker 2 is more likely anyway.)
You know overall I'm okay with it. People that arent hung up on aesthetics like me are gonna love it. I think a big partner of my bitterness is the existence of the title and how it was a launch title for Wii U. Wii got TP, Switch got BotW, and the Wii U launched with a super Mario side scroller. Like it's a great game but Jesus that is not what you launch with. It that launch line up followed by so many droughts got to me. Just real bitter about early Wii U.
Well, they CAN do that.
But they will? I Hope for that, but I'll never put my money on that, especially on NEW series.
Captain toad had a whole new chapter ... much more than just one level
