Nintendo Insider writes:
Perhaps of more interest, at the tail end of that trailer we can see how Nintendo are looking to differentiate the New Nintendo 3DS exclusive on retailer shelves.
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.
I'm excited for this game and I don't even own a WII U. Could it finally be time?
Now that I think about it, due to this port the chance of Xenoblade coming to the eshop on Wii U are slim to none at least anytime soon.
People say they will have a pr nightmare by shipping New 3DS exclusive games but I believe the box art difference will be enough. Its a new system, essentially. In the same way that the Game Boy Color and DSi were, due to exclusive games. A stop-gap new system that will probably be obsolete in 2016 or 2017 with a new handheld but still, a new handheld. Heck, 3DS came out 2 years after DSi. GBA came out like 3 years after GBC but Nintendo had no competition then.