Hopefully the sizzle reel. It's a great game to get on the platform but I should hope there will more exciting things to highlight in the Direct than years late PS4 ports.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Persona 6 didn't even enter full-production yet. And I'm only half-kidding.
About Metaphor being on the Switch 2 stream, I think the AAA or AAA-adjacent games that skipped the Switch 1 will all be featured together in a segment, but something longer than a sizzle reel
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Maybe. I wonder if they will delist SMTV if they re-release SMTVV on Switch 2 (due to BC)
SMT V has been delisted for almost a year now. If you mean SMT VV, then it wouldn't make any sense to do that. Why would they not allow Switch 1 owners to buy the game?
I'm betting on the announcement being made at the Xbox/Bethesda/Activision summer event, and announced as a day one release on Game Pass.
Yeah, seems more likely that Atlus would reveal a new Shin Megami Tensei at a Nintendo event.
I'm a little baffled that they never revisited the franchise. Didn't it actually do pretty well overseas?
The series were Atlus USA's best sellers outside Demon's Souls until 3DS/Vita when Megaten began heating up (and then went into overdrive on PS4/PC/Switch).
If I remember correctly, Trauma Center did pretty well on NDS and Wii with Trauma Center New Blood becoming a big success for Atlus. Traum Team bombed pretty hard unfortunately (13k in Japan and 11k in its first month in the US). They could release a collection to test the waters, I suppose.
It's fairly amusing that they didn't immediately greenlight HD versions of the other EO games for Steam and Switch.
There's around half a dozen games that use the same framework on the 3DS that you could bundle up by the twos and threes, sell at 70 bucks with frequent discounts, and make a killing.
There's around half a dozen games that use the same framework on the 3DS that you could bundle up by the twos and threes, sell at 70 bucks with frequent discounts, and make a killing.
PQ1&2 as well, I think a collection of those might've outsold Tactica.
I mean the total list of games that use the same engine are.
DS version
SMT Strange Journey
EO 1-3
3DS Version
SMT IV, IVA
EO Untold 1/2
EO 4/5/Nexus
PQ 1/2
Strange Journey Redux.
That's about four compilations worth of titles. Probably skip SJ DS and bundle Redux with IV and IVa as a 70 dollar bundle, EO 4/5/Nexus as a 70 dollar bundle, PQ 1/2 as a 50/60 dollar bundle, same with Untold 1/2 if you even want to bother with those.
DS version
SMT Strange Journey
EO 1-3
3DS Version
SMT IV, IVA
EO Untold 1/2
EO 4/5/Nexus
PQ 1/2
Strange Journey Redux.
That's about four compilations worth of titles. Probably skip SJ DS and bundle Redux with IV and IVa as a 70 dollar bundle, EO 4/5/Nexus as a 70 dollar bundle, PQ 1/2 as a 50/60 dollar bundle, same with Untold 1/2 if you even want to bother with those.
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Yeah Under the Knife was ATLUS USA’s best selling game at one point, I believe it was >200k according to NPD. Wonder how a collection could do on Switch or PC.
SMTIV/A don't use the same engine, or at least framework grid design. Soul Hackers (3DS) does though and we could throw in older titles then on Saturn and PS1/2 that are also similar (Devil Summoner, SMT1/2/if, Busin Wizardry, Persona 1, etc).
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This getting more care than Nocture is such an Atlus move...
It's the same director too.
I honestly expected both Raidou games packed together, they're really doing that because they felt like they could afford it, thing is the 2nd game is bound to do much worse despite being the better game originally (some stuff were a bit rough on the first Raidou) so it's a bit sad.
They seem to have backported a lot of stuff from 2 in the first game.
raidou appeared for 3 seconds lel
It all starts with a girl’s strange request… RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on June 19th!
Pre-order date will be communicated at a later date.
This is ATLUS entire marketing and development plan for the Switch 2 launch: a tweet with a screenshot for a crossgen remaster of a PS2 game.
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Yeah, the only question is when. If it's only coming next year, then it'll be embarrassing on Atlus's part. At least with PS5/XBS, there weren't much recent games to port that weren't already available through BC and SMTV was tied up in an exclusive deal so it made sense then. But for Switch 2, they do have a handful of games not Nintendo platforms to be ported so it'll be surprising if it takes them just as long.
I'll be frank, it's pretty clear Atlus is not interested in supporting the Nintendo ecosystem in a meaningful way. A PS2 remaster being their launch title and no word on support from their two pillar games from last year...rough. Yakuza and FF are seeming to support the ecosystem more, which is shocking.
Raidou Remastered isn't a huge get but it's also a launch window game (1st couple weeks even). That's something few systems have ever gotten from Atlus, no PlayStation or Xbox ever has and going back only GBA, Wii and now Switch 2 did.
I would hesitate to say the 3P games shown at this Direct disqualify meaningful support from anyone, the curation is going to vary and Raidou probably got the spotlight due to it's release timeframe. I mean if we apply this logic to PS5 and Xbox Series, Atlus had literally nothing to announce and how did that translate to platform support? If we apply your logic to other devs, you're saying effectively "it's pretty clear Team Asano is not interested in supporting the Nintendo ecosystem in a meaningful way. A 3DS remaster being their launch title and no word on support from their pillar games from this and last year". Maybe hold off a little, that Atlus was present at all probably says something about how they'll move forward...
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You need to give it some time. I think within 1-2 years we will get a lot of third party games.
In 2 years we will have given ATLUS a full decade.
their are probably just gearing up for the Switch 3, that will finally put a Nintendo console at the same level of other major platforms
From Atlus in that timeframe, we'll have multiple releases almost certainly (Raidou R, Metaphor, P3R, SMTVV, maybe P4R, maybe Persona Party, maybe something from Vanillaware, maybe more EO remasters, etc). Their first release is only taking 2 weeks, that's a lot better than the 2 years it took Switch 1, PS5, Xbox, etc.
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The equivalent of the exclusive SMT would be game releasing in early 2030, considering the gap between the Switch launch and its release.
I'm actually more surprised RGGS is skipping Switch 1 for Yakuza 0. You'd think they'd at least go cross-gen to hit those 130m+ current Switch users.
Meanwhile all Sonic Team had was an ancient Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 port. I guess that means they'll be skipping the system for future Sonic games right? Time to write off CrossWorlds, Frontier 2, etc?
And also no Shinobi so I guess that and all the SuperGame revivals will skip Switch 2 also?
Wait, that sounds ridiculous...
Meanwhile all Sonic Team had was an ancient Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 port. I guess that means they'll be skipping the system for future Sonic games right? Time to write off CrossWorlds, Frontier 2, etc?
And also no Shinobi so I guess that and all the SuperGame revivals will skip Switch 2 also?
Wait, that sounds ridiculous...
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No, Sonic x Shadow Generations is apparently on Switch 2.
https://xcancel.com/SEGA/status/1907457174474825953
Sonic games have not skipped the switch. Atlus’s two (well three rip SH2) latest new pillar games have and have no port in site. A chasm between those two devs.
This is going a bit far into cynicism. Nintendo is Sonic's strongest device. If there's one SEGA franchise for sure appearing on the switch it is going to be Sonic, at the very least.
P5T was more of a pillar game than SH2 frankly. Both bombed though.
No, Soul Hackers was going to be a pillar for the company, with Sega highlighting the return of the IP in IR before the game was even shown. A spinoff game like T doesn’t mean much at all. Atlus had 4 new mainline games this past gen. Only one was on Switch, the one Nintendo paid for.
Sega IR placed comparable significance on P5T and P3R
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I thought it was known though? They even had an exclusive cut scene right?
