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Sounds like Take-Two are in:

 

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Coming from Take-Two President Karl Slatoff...

"The folks at Nintendo are making a great effort to support third-party developers, we’re very optimistic on the Switch though we are not announcing anything specific today."

 

UPDATE - Here's a more complete statement from Slatoff...

"With any new hardware, there is always an element of 'wait and see,' and the install base is going to drive a lot [of Take-Two's level of support]. We're very intrigued and excited about it. The Nintendo folks I think are making a great effort to reach out to third-party developers, which I think is fantastic. I would say we're very optimistic and they're good partners. We're excited to work with them in the future on it."

 

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2 minutes ago, deKay said:

Sounds like they're not, from what you posted.

I don't think Take Two said anything remotely positive about the Wii U from the moment it was announced did they? This kind of overtly positive stuff is a definite shift from them, and follows one of their games being in the trailer as well. I think we can assume at this point that they are at least going to dip their [little] toe in and see how the water feels....

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17 minutes ago, rgraves said:

I don't think Take Two said anything remotely positive about the Wii U from the moment it was announced did they? This kind of overtly positive stuff is a definite shift from them, and follows one of their games being in the trailer as well. I think we can assume at this point that they are at least going to dip their [little] toe in and see how the water feels....

 

"Wait and see" sounds like they're going to let other people stick their toe in to be honest. 

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1 minute ago, Alex W. said:

 

"Wait and see" sounds like they're going to let other people stick their toe in to be honest. 

I don't think Nintendo dropped footage of games from two publishers that totally ignored them last gen into that release trailer for no reason at all. And I don't think Take Two talking about Nintendo really reaching out is typical either.

 

I think a title or two is nailed on - I'm not expecting RDR2 or anything like that mind.

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Both companies showed games in that trailer, and then both turned around and essentially said they had nothing to confirm for the console. If they have for-sure committed to releasing software for the system that's a bizarre thing to do. 

 

I think it makes more sense to take them at their word than to assume it's some weird secret scheme. 

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Well I can see Bethesda's line of thinking as Skyrim SE was just about to release (or just had?) so it would have probably been a bit stupid to say hey, why not wait for the Switch version?

I'd wager we'll see both Skyrim and the NBA game at launch and during the 12th Jan presentation along with a whole bunch of stuff we've not even heard about from rumours and "leaks". The 12th will be a big blow out day in terms of information.

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23 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

Both companies showed games in that trailer, and then both turned around and essentially said they had nothing to confirm for the console. If they have for-sure committed to releasing software for the system that's a bizarre thing to do. 

 

I think it makes more sense to take them at their word than to assume it's some weird secret scheme. 

Well, no, it makes much more sense that Nintendo want to do a big reveal. 

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21 minutes ago, muffin said:

Well, no, it makes much more sense that Nintendo want to do a big reveal. 

 

So they reveal the fact that these companies are working on Switch games by including them in the Switch announcement video, then have them deny working on Switch games so they can re-announce it later as a big surprise?

 

Actually you're right, that's exactly how Nintendo does PR. 

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5 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

So they reveal the fact that these companies are working on Switch games by including them in the Switch announcement video, then have them deny working on Switch games so they can re-announce it later as a big surprise?

When have they denied working on Switch games? They've said they are not going to make announcements yet - which is a long way from a denial of development.

 

I think it's clear that Nintendo want to make a splash on Jan 12/13 - and it's hardly unheard of in the industry to ask folks to keep things quiet until certain dates. I think that's clearly what's going on here. Otherwise they'd just say "no, we're not doing Switch games" instead of all this coy "we're excited, but making no announcements just yet".

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1 hour ago, rgraves said:

I think it's clear that Nintendo want to make a splash on Jan 12/13 - and it's hardly unheard of in the industry to ask folks to keep things quiet until certain dates. I think that's clearly what's going on here. Otherwise they'd just say "no, we're not doing Switch games" instead of all this coy "we're excited, but making no announcements just yet".

 

The problems with that are that 1) the time from splash till release is incredibly short imo, too short. And 2) it puts a huge amount of pressure on the titles which will be shown to deliver the goods.

 

Yes companies such as Apple can announce and release in short time, yay for them. Nintendo are not Apple with all the added on hype/media momentum and public belief that goes with it. Imo, Nintendo should be keeping things simple, getting news out in good time and generating the necessary hype needed for this crucial launch. Perhaps they're worried about stealing the 3ds's limelight this Xmas? If that's the case, I'd argue there's no point as that ship's already sailed.

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11 minutes ago, gizmo1990 said:

 

The problems with that are that 1) the time from splash till release is incredibly short imo, too short.

It'll likely be about 2 months from launch still - in this day and age hype comes and goes in a lot less time than that. The days of having to work around printed media deadlines and such are long gone - there is absolutely no need to show things anywhere near as early now. Impressions, previews, reviews etc can be online in minutes, not weeks like it used to be. Two months ahead is more than enough time to get people on-board - especially when any earlier means getting caught up in everything else that's happening in Q4.

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7 minutes ago, gizmo1990 said:

 

The problems with that are that 1) the time from splash till release is incredibly short imo, too short. And 2) it puts a huge amount of pressure on the titles which will be shown to deliver the goods.

 

Yes companies such as Apple can announce and release in short time, yay for them. Nintendo are not Apple with all the added on hype/media momentum and public belief that goes with it. Imo, Nintendo should be keeping things simple, getting news out in good time and generating the necessary hype needed for this crucial launch. Perhaps they're worried about stealing the 3ds's limelight this Xmas? If that's the case, I'd argue there's no point as that ship's already sailed.

Nonsense. You're just being impatient. It's not like people need to save up for 6 months for one. 

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28 minutes ago, rgraves said:

It'll likely be about 2 months from launch still - in this day and age hype comes and goes in a lot less time than that. The days of having to work around printed media deadlines and such are long gone - there is absolutely no need to show things anywhere near as early now. Impressions, previews, reviews etc can be online in minutes, not weeks like it used to be. Two months ahead is more than enough time to get people on-board - especially when any earlier means getting caught up in everything else that's happening in Q4.


You can be sure those millions of people with Super Mario Run installed will be getting a notification pushed to them around the 12th Jan too, along with news about "a brand new Mario game for a brand new Nintendo console being available soon, go here to pre-order!"

I'm not sure Nintendo could be handling this run up any better, really.

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2 hours ago, gizmo1990 said:

 

The problems with that are that 1) the time from splash till release is incredibly short imo, too short. And 2) it puts a huge amount of pressure on the titles which will be shown to deliver the goods.

 

Yes companies such as Apple can announce and release in short time, yay for them. Nintendo are not Apple with all the added on hype/media momentum and public belief that goes with it. Imo, Nintendo should be keeping things simple, getting news out in good time and generating the necessary hype needed for this crucial launch. Perhaps they're worried about stealing the 3ds's limelight this Xmas? If that's the case, I'd argue there's no point as that ship's already sailed.

 

the core gamers who need to know about day one switch stuff - already know about it.  Many are excited about it.  There'll be plenty of demand for day one... the trick will be creating the buzz around the product for short attention span millenials.  There's absolutely NO POINT directly marketing to them right now.  

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7 minutes ago, scottcr said:

 

the core gamers who need to know about day one switch stuff - already know about it.  Many are excited about it.  There'll be plenty of demand for day one... the trick will be creating the buzz around the product for short attention span millenials.  There's absolutely NO POINT directly marketing to them right now.  

 

Did Sony and MS not doing any marketing until a couple of months before the system launched then to millenials?

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there's an overlap of millenial core gamers - those folks already know about the switch.

 

there's going to be a bunch for whom their first ever Nintendo experience will be Mario Run on the phone.... that's who they want to capture and right now, there's no need to do anything other than release Mario Run.

 

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