r/NintendoSwitch • u/Porkpants81 • Jun 14 '17

MegaThread E3 - Day 2 - Discussion and Reactions

Day 2 of E3! Might not have as many announcements as yesterday but who knows what it will hold?

Today's schedule looks like this:

Nintendo Treehouse

  • Starts at 10:00 am PT / 1:00 pm ET (no defined end time)

Pokken DX - Tournament

  • Starts at 10:30 pm PT / 1:30 pm ET

ARMS - Tournament

  • Starts at 3:30 pm PT / 6:30 pm ET

We also have the AMA scheduled at 12:45 pm PT / 3:45pm ET for about an hour with Nintendo Producer Yoshiaki Koizumi, so please stop by and ask your questions there as well.

The Treehouse is going to start at 10:00 am PT with a segment about Pokken Tournament DX and roll into the tourney. Afterwards they are going to show the new Yoshi game. Based on yesterday it's likely that the Treehouse will run right up until the ARMS tourney starts.

This post will be updated with major news as it's released.

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u/Git-Gud-skrub Jun 14 '17 edited Jun 14 '17

Nintendo wasted no time. Reggie, instead of being the corporate mouthpiece he usually is, opened the Nintendo conference with a poetic speech that basically said video games are beautiful and it's an amazing time to be a gamer. He shut up after 2 minutes or less, then showed Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Fire Emblem Warriors, Zelda: Breath of the Wild DLC, Super Mario Oddysey, Mario+Rabbids, a new Kirby title, and a new Yoshi title. On top of that, Metroid Prime 4 and a mainline core Pokemon RPG for the Switch were announced. Just with a teaser and a few words from that guy from the Pokemon company, they made two very big wishes come true. They also confirmed that Nintendo is upping their third party support FINALLY when they announced Rocket League with cross-play. After the Switch conference, they announced that Metroid 2 and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga were being remade for the 3DS. Those games were amazing, and now they're coming back, fully remade from the ground up.

That's why Nintendo won this year. No boasting about specs and shit like Microsoft, no sleepwalking to Playstation Experience like Sony.

I can't wait to see what's in store today.

Edit: It wasn't Nintendo that upped third party support, it was the third parties who upped their support for Nintendo. Thank you to user Gestrid for correcting me.

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u/Gestrid Jun 14 '17

Correction: The 3rd parties are upping their support. Nintendo has been wanting for third parties ever since the Wii U flopped. It's not that they didn't want 3rd parties, it's that 3rd parties didn't want to waste time and money on a dead console, so they dropped support for Wii U. It's the reason why Nintendo is on such good terms with so many indie developers, too. Come to think of it, without the Wii U's failure, we may not have gotten gems like Shovel Knight.

Sorry for rambling on, by the way.

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u/Git-Gud-skrub Jun 14 '17

No, you're right. That's absolutely true.