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| Topic | Kotaku ranks Wii U games by most likely to get a Switch port |
| ninkendo 12/18/17 4:07:21 PM #2: | Switch Me Maybe? 1. New Super Mario Bros. U and Super Mario 3D World Nintendo likes to look back on Zelda games, but it tends to look forward with Mario. Bringing back one of these games would strike me as less of a the beloved classic returns situation and more of a heres an old game situationespecially after the transcendent Mario Odyssey. Still could happen, although both games have touchscreen controls that would need to be sliced out or redesigned. 2. Super Smash Bros. Of course, Super Smash Bros. will eventually launch on Switch to great fanfare and probably huge success. But while a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe-style port would have made sense if Nintendo wanted to get Smash out in 2017, the fact that its taking its time with the series means that the Switch version might end up being a sequel, not a simple port. Then again, its still possible that Smash Switch might just end up being fundamentally the Wii U game with some extras. Hence the maybe. 3. Hyrule Warriors Again: I have zero doubt that Hyrule Warriors will end up on Switch, and the only question is, does Koei Tecmo do a port of the Wii U game, or a sequel to it? As with Smash, the longer we wait, the more likely its a sequel. 4. Pikmin 3 The Wii U version had a lot of GamePad integration, but none of it was strictly necessary. You could play it all with the Pro Controller. On the other hand, that was not really the best way to do it. Maybe the Wii Remote implementation could be done with split Joy-Cons instead? Or maybe its all too much bother for a port of a 2013 game. 5. Yoshis Woolly World It was already ported to 3DS with extra levels, and theres already an original Yoshi game coming out on Switch, so maybe Woolly World wont get another... bite at the apple. 6. Super Mario Maker First of all, I definitely think Mario Maker needs to come to Switch, although again we run into the port or sequel? conundrum. Either way, Id like to see Nintendo package the game with a capacitive stylus pen, because no way is anyone going to be designing levels with their finger. Maybe this (and Smash, come to think of it) are waiting on the launch of the Switch online service. Nah 1.Nintendo Land, Game & Wario, Captain Toad Treasure Tracker, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Star Fox Guard Good games, but dual-screen gameplay and/or GamePad touch controls are too tightly integrated into them to make a port make sense. 2. Star Fox Zero, Paper Mario Color Splash Could Nintendo redeem Star Fox Zero by ripping out the ill-considered GamePad controls and just let you play it with a freakin Pro Controller already? Possibly, but that feels like a lot of work for a game with a bad rep. Ditto Color Splash, which got better reviews but not great reviews. 3. Splatoon, Mario Party 10 Insofar as the multiplayer aspect has been rendered obsolete by Splatoon 2, the first is extremely unlikely. And Mario Party is most likely to just be replaced with a Switch sequel that uses Joy-Cons in wacky ways. 4. Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash These games were designed on a budget and released in a hurry to get some content on the shelves during Wii Us worst years; I doubt Nintendo wants to resurrect them. 5. Devils Third Insofar as Nintendo tried to literally hide the existence of this game when it shipped, I imagine it would just like to pretend it never did. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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