With rumors of the NX flying left and right practically every few days, there's no shortage of things to speculate about; what controllers it should launch with, when it should launch, what features it should or shouldn't have, how powerful it should be, etc.
Pick a card out of hat, and you've basically got yourself an NX topic.
One that I haven't seen touched upon, however, is what games would sell gamers, both Nintendo AND non-Nintendo alike, on getting an NX day 1.
One of the most recent rumors to crop up, on this site and many others, is that FFXV and FFVII Remake may be intended to release on the NX, hopefully as launch titles.[allegedly, because the developers are impressed/happy with the graphical capabilities of the system, but that's a different topic altogether, to be touched upon at another time, by people other than yours truly.XD]
Squeenix has had a fair bit of success in the past regarding FF on Nintendo consoles, so it wouldn't be outlandish to think that a strong return of the series, on the home console front, would be an excellent way to generate day 1 interest in the system.
But would it generate YOUR interest?
And if it wouldn't, what would, as far as third party games go?
This post is an attempt, by me, to see how many people out there on this site fall into one of two categories:
- Those that ACTUALLY care about Nintendo getting third party support and would show Nintendo support in return if they had it.
- Those that were just using Nintendo's lack of third party games as a reason to criticize them, and wouldn't support Nintendo even if they DID get said support.
Would you get the system if the majority of the games third parties deigned to grace the system with, were just ports of last-gen games like The Witcher, Destiny, etc?
Or would it require that third parties focus on the latest and greatest of multiplats in order to make you want the NX for their games?
I'm very interested to hear what you all have to say about this.
So tell me; what games would sell you an NX on day 1, regardless of when it comes out?
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Inti Creates’ vibrant action platformer Majogami will shed its Switch console exclusivity and strike PS5 on 28th May, the Japanese dev has announced.
Bandai Namco announced today that its popular flight simulator-lite Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has passed another sales milestone.
Great game, and deserves all its sales. Ace Combat has always been a great series. I should replay AC7 again for the fourth time.
It’s unfortunate that Ace Combat8 won’t have vr, as the devs felt it would be too much work and they would be essentially making two games.
Would love a release of Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but I’d be fine with Ace3,4&5 remasters for PS5 with updated tightened controls.
If i can play both on PS4 before the NX arrival, i will. And honestly, the only game that will definitely make me buy the NX day 1 would be a Metroid exclusive for the NX as a launch title.
That would be Megaton.
What would sell me on a NX day one is seeing full third party support. And what I mean by that are actual multiplats releasing on NX the same way they're released on PS4/X1.
Nintendo themselves will always support it with their own games so that wouldn't be a problem at all.
Not only that but full native BC of Wii U games would put me over the edge of getting NX day one.
I have honestly never cared for the Final Fantasy games so if they were put on the Nintendo NX they would not really affect me. I have never been let down by a Nintendo system to date and see the consoles as more an investment to buy as soon as they are released and look forward excitedly to what comes in the future, such as I have done with the Wii U this generation.
However if I had to pick a game or games that would instantly sell me on the NX without even a second thought, it would either be an entirely new Bioshock game, or the first three games with all additional content remastered for the system. Since I first played Bioshock 2 and Infinite in 2015 I have found they would sell me on any future console if they were put on them. Though either way I would go for the NX no matter what because I do not need a solid launch and the promise of big support to buy a Nintendo system, I buy them because Nintendo makes the games that define the console and people should simply buy their consoles to play.
A bit of a ramble but hopefully I answered the question there.
But I can get all of that on my PS4 a home console which will have huge publisher support for another 5-7 years.