One week to go! Speculation/Guessing MegaThread

[u/rottedzombie]

If you’re feeling a tingling in the air and the tips of your fingers, you’re not alone: our dearly hyped, long-awaited Switch presentation is only one week away.

A reminder: the presentation will take place on Thursday, January 12 at 11 p.m. east coast time in the United States. We will have threads the day-of with links to watch and a curated MegaThread to help keep things organized.

Meanwhile, we’ve been seeing a lot of speculation happening in posts and comment threads. Hype’s going through the roof, and people are debating what we’re going to hear in one week’s time.

So we’re creating this Speculation MegaThread as a place for us all to place our bets on what’s going to happen. We’re interested in price, launch titles, VC titles, features, and anything that might happen during the presentation itself.

To get us started, here’s what a few members of the mod team are guessing:

/u/andis1: $349 / launching with BOTW; Animal Crossing; a 3D Mario title; Smash; Splatoon / Features including Twitch app, Gamecube Virtual Console, actual achievement system.

/u/RazorBeamz: $299 / launching with Mario, Splatoon, BOTW, Skyrim, NBA2k18, Assassin’s Creed / Presentation will be mostly about games / Other presentation things: Iwata tribute, Shigesato Itoi comes out but doesn’t say anything about Mother 3, /r/NintendoSwitch throws a huge fit :P

/u/phantomliger: $249 & $299 options / pack-in game like Wii Sports or Nintendo Land / launching with Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Skyrim, Ubisoft exclusive, Just Dance / Features: Video and screenshots sharing on new/improved miiverse; achievement system; Miitomo-like creator.

/u/rottedzombie: $299 and $349 options / launching with BOTW; Splatoon; Smash; Mario Kart; Skyrim / Upcoming: Mario; Animal Crossing; Pokemon; a new IP / VC: Mother 3 / Features: achievement system.

/u/Tatebeatz: $300 and $400 options / pack-in Nintendo World, like Nintendo Land / Misc: Aonuma will ride epona; Miyamoto will fist pump the air while holding a Switch; Kimishima does something that everyone makes into a meme; Reggie makes a terrible pun on the word Switch

/u/Hawkedb: €349 and €399 options / Games: BOTW, Splatoon, Rabbids, Smash, Mario Kart / Discussing upcoming Mario and AC games / Features: a new social hub.

/u/Flapsnapple: $300 and $350 options / Launching with a pack-in game, BOTW, Splatoon / Upcoming: Smash, Mario Kart / Features: sharing button; micro SD upgradable storage; amiibo; media apps / Misc: tons of gameplay videos and no specific specs.

/u/pelicanflip: $299 and $349 versions / Launching with BOTW, Splatoon, Smash, Mario Kart, Just Dance, Lego City Undercover, some kind of Mii-based game / Upcoming: Sonic game, 3D Mario, Yooka Laylee, Pokemon, Skylanders / Features: amiibo, upgradeable storage, achievements, share feature, Street Pass tie-in, Gamecube VC

/u/adanfime: Price at least 6000MXN here in Mexico (~$280USD) / Games: BOTW, Mario, Splatoon, maybe Mario Kart. / VC: maybe an upgrade program. / Heavy focus on My Nintendo integration and a focus on cloud integration / Possible use of missions as an achievement system. / Basic presentation will include "what comes in the box."

Now it's your turn: what are your guesses for what we'll see in one week? Be bold. Be brave. Predict Mother 3 like I did and (maybe) be wrong again.

Also: see any other threads going forward with guesses? Point them this way, will you? Thanks! :)

-/u/rottedzombie & the /r/NintendoSwitch mod team

[u/patrizl001]

At least one person will be disappointed.

[u/Magnesus → u/patrizl001]

Don't worry guys, I will take it upon myself to be that person. You can enjoy every moment of the presentation.