Could a New Wii U follow closely behind the New 3DS?
Xenoblade Chronicles composer Kenji Hiramatsu reflects on his work and feels that it's "time for a fresh start."
Tetsuya Takahashi has revealed his plan to make the next Xenoblade vastly different from previous games.
I liked the Xenoblade X formula. It takes awhile, but opening up Mechs was amazing. Especially once you can fly them, and use them in battle. You have to put some time into the game to do it, but it's worth it!
Also, the graphics were more realistic than the other games. Still looks good today, just a lot more pop-in than is acceptable today, hell even too much for back then. It wasn't game breaking though.
Xenoblade 1-3 and X are so great. That said, I'm ready for them to do a big change up.
Some of the best Switch JRPG games out there include the epic Xenoblade Chronicles to the hard-as-nails Dark Souls Remastered.
Me being a Playstation guy and a huge JRPG fan, I can say that the only franchises I actually miss that are on Switch are The Fire Emblem series and The Xenoblade Chronicles series. I've played neither but I've heard good things. I've seen people play Xenoblade Chronicles games on youtube, and it seems like they think it's a big deal so I'm curious.
I agree with top 1, for me xenoblade chronicles 3(and 2) is one of the greatest jrpg to date. It's like the feeling of playing ff7 on ps1 for the first time again. Imagine if XC3 was done with ps5 graphics, that will be magical. I might get the xc remaster before the year ends or after I got the platinum trophy of GoW ragnarok.
Doubtfull. Nintendo has revised their handhelds before with new hardware that make only some games possible (DSI and Gameboy Color) but doing that with a home console which requires a much bigger investment of money is a lot more risky.
No, it would be to risky. 3ds is at a much better position as was the Dsi and Gameboy color when it did the same. Consoles such as wii u are no near healthy enough to risk it.
I swear, the same topics always appear on this site.
That'd be pretty stupid. The 3DS is a handheld...MUCH less risk to "upgrade" than an entire home system. And Nintendo has done it before with their handhelds (Gameboy ---> Gameboy Color ---> Gameboy Advance ----> Gameboy Advance SP and then DS ---> DS-Lite ---> DSi ---> DSi XL).
This isn't new.
The author of this piece seems to have forgotten that New 3DS is as much Nintendo emulating Apple as Wii U and DSi were. Apple released something called the New iPad. It caused massive consumer confusion and Apple reverted back to a more normal naming scheme.
I also disagree with the opening comment about wanting to encourage more hardware revisions. Part of the reason people buy dedicated hardware for video games is because it's simple. There shouldn't be compatibility issues like you'd find on PC and mobile. You lose that when you start segmenting the userbase with constant hardware upgrades.