Happy New Year and Switch Event Predictions! (Patreon)

Hello my beautiful friends!  I thought I'd change things up and do a public post celebrating the new year.  How are all you patron and non-patron folks alike doing?  My holiday truly was fantastic, though I suspect I’m going to have to jog about a thousand miles in order to work off the food-related horrors I inflicted upon my poor body.

Here would normally be where I would fill you in on the projects you can look forward to in the coming month, but unfortunately those of you who aren’t patrons are out of luck; this could have been a rare peek into the future of Arlo...but I’m not sure what I’m doing yet!  There are a handful of projects that I’ve had on the backburner for a while, but as far as the immediate goes, nothing is solid yet.  Partially this is because I just finished up a lot of stuff I’d been wanting to do for a while and had been really focusing on that.  But also because the Switch event is soon, and I’m going to be focusing pretty heavily on that.  I’m not sure if I’ll have a video out between now and then, but after the event there will at least be a reaction video and some sort of analysis/thoughts thing.  As usual though it all just depends on how it goes down.  I could get five ideas for all I know.

But onto business!  In my latest video I talked about some of the stuff I want to see at the event versus stuff I more realistically expect to see, but I thought it would be fun to put down some straight-up predictions.  I am, to the best of my ability, going to try to guess what we’ll see revealed for the Switch’s launch/launch window.  And in fact, I’d love it if you could all do the same down in the comments!  Then after the big day finally comes we can see who was closest!  Okay, here we go:

Launch dates:

USA, March 21st.

Japan, April 8th.

Europe, March 28th.

Price:

“Standard” bundle--console + base + that controller thing you can slip the joycons onto, $250.

“Deluxe” bundle--Everything in the standard bundle + 32gb microSD card + pre-installed game + six months of Nintendo Network “premium” subscription.

Launch titles:

Nintendo Land-style collection--four Nintendo-themed mini games built around two-player/one screen multiplayer.  Pack-in for the Deluxe bundle.

Breath of the Wild.  (I know I previously predicted that it would be delayed, but I’m going to throw caution to the wind and go for it.)

Skyrim

Luigi’s Mansion HD

Mario/Rabbids RPG (I didn’t want to pay attention to such a rumor, but I think I might just be a believer now).  Looks like budget/download title, but sold at full/close to full price.

Launch window titles:

New Animal Crossing

Mario Kart 8+, enhanced port with new features/characters

TBD:

Teaser reveals unnamed Metroid title, no gameplay shown.

Teaser for Splatoon “Inked Edition,” enhanced port, no release window.

Other:

Announcement of paid subscription service for Nintendo Network, Nintendo’s answer to PS Plus and Xbox Live Gold.  My Nintendo integration.

No Gamecube for Virtual Console announcement.

Screen is not a touch screen.

Uses microSD cards.

Miiverse on the system.

No mention of 3D Mario.

System is region-locked.  [ADDED 1/10]

Alrighty, well that’s the stuff that I’m 100% sure will ALL go down on the 12th!  Okay not really, but it’s certainly fun to give it a shot.  Remember to make your own predictions before the day comes!  And before we go, tons of extra special thanks to my new patrons since the last update!  You’re all SERIOUSLY amazing.  Like, no joke amazing.

See you at the show!!!  8D