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What ISN'T on Nintendo Switch?

gogglebob

gogglebob

The Goggles Do Nothing
(he/him)
The Nintendo Switch was released on March 3, 2017. On March 9, 2017, six days later, Waku Waku 7 was available on the Switch. There was an obscure Neo Geo fighting game starring an ersatz My Neighbor Totoro on a Nintendo console before an official Mario release. This... means something.

Now it's been seven years, and I'm still wondering who will be next. The Switch is widely believed to be at the end of its time as the dominant Nintendo system, but are we going to see more obscure titles? What are some releases you never thought you would see on Switch, but there they are? Is there anything you are still desperately pining for? Basically, what isn't on Nintendo Switch?
 
Peklo

Peklo

Oh! Create!
(they/them, she/her)
Raiden II sure isn't, because its only ports since the 1993 arcade original also happened in the '90s; it has been totally missing in action since, despite commanding a largely series-best reputation. One can only hope Hamster are sitting on it for an Arcade Archives blowout, eventually--and I'd also dearly like to see another Seibu Kaihatsu favourite, Viper Phase 1, similarly unported for nearly thirty years.

Having just played through all of them again: M2's Konami ReBirth series would be great to see again, since they are now completely inaccessible through legitimate means. Get all the inspired Manabu Namiki arrangements in people's earholes once more.
 
MetManMas

MetManMas

Me and My Bestie
(He, him)
The obvious is that we've had two Xenoblade sequels and a remake of 1 but Xenoblade Chronicles X is still nowhere to be seen. If not on Switch, hopefully it will get adapted to the Switch successor.

Also there are still too many 3DS games to count that I would like to escape the system.
 
gogglebob

gogglebob

The Goggles Do Nothing
(he/him)
Oh yeah! When the new Zelda-Zelda game was first trailer'ed, I got really excited imagining it was going to be some way to play A Link Between Worlds...
 
Violentvixen

Violentvixen

(She/Her)
After years decades of being sad Seiken Densetsu 3 wasn't available in the US and fumbling with the Famicom converter on my SNES, Collection of Mana came out (I imported it from Japan before they announced the English release oops), then Trials of Mana. I am still surprised.

I'm not pining for it but I would be incredibly amused if Halo 1-3 suddenly showed up. Also Master Chief and/or The Arbiter in Smash would be amazing.
 
Tato

Tato

Still baffled at some of the stuff missing on NSO (Zoda's Revenge, PLEASE), but I was inspired enough by the missing things to get my Steamdeck all fixed up with emudeck.

I understand Square doesn't want to put their stuff on NSO since they could charge for it, but the lack of certain collections or releases is just odd. If you're not doing anything with King's Knight, why not put it on NSO? Just throw the Quintet ROMs in a collection and sell those things!

Lots of XBox360/Wii era stuff is still not available anywhere now and would feel right at home on Switch. I understand why Capcom didn't initially put Disney Afternoon Collection on Switch as it had just come out, but the thing has been a success for 7+ years now. The Switch seems an ideal platform for stuff like Ducktales Remastered, Bionic Commando Rearmed (2 isn't even on Steam!), Dungeons and Dragons Fighter Collection, etc.
 
Olli

Olli

(he/him)
Any Yakuza games. Those are the primary thing I feel like I'm missing out on by being Switch-only.
 
4-So

4-So

Spicy
The Quintet games would fit nicely into SNES Online but nowhere to be seen. I have to assume someone is aware of those games considering the surprise Actraiser remake but so far it's all crickets.

I'd like to see Kickle Cubicle on NES Online. No one cares about this but me.
 
O

otakujeb

I lose sleep at night because Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy Tactics aren't on Switch.

Also, I really thought we might get a port of Final Fantasy 7 Remake after Crisis Core Reunion made it to Switch, but nooooo
 
Sarcasmorator

Sarcasmorator

Same as I ever was
(He/him)
Elden Ring is not on Switch.

I think Elden Ring will be out on day one for SwIItch

As for things I want and that COULD be on Switch still, I'd like Metroid Prime 2-3, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess. I will accept them on SwIItch instead if need be.
 
Kazin

Kazin

did i do all of that?
(he/him)
Fallout New Vegas, but that's apparently going to be PC or old systems only forever, apparently :/
 
ShakeWell

ShakeWell

Slam Master
(he, etc.)
For reasons I still cannot fathom... NES Remix 1 & 2 are still NOT on Switch. At this point, they're legitimately the only reason I keep my WiiU out of storage, just in case.
 
Bongo

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
The most glaring omissions are the ones where a very similar game did get a Switch version, like how there's Super Mario Galaxy but not Super Mario Galaxy 2. So many major Nintendo-published Wii U games got ported (or subsumed by a sequel) to the Switch or 3DS that the ones with little to no Wii U-specific functionality stand out: Paper Mario: Color Splash, Star Fox Zero, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and arguably Yoshi's Woolly World.

Square Enix's back catalogue has some noticeable gaps in it, partly as a result of their strategy of favoring remasters over ports. They've got ports of the mobile versions of Dragon Quest 1-3, for instance, but not of 4-6, and it wasn't until the Pixel Remasters that they had Final Fantasy games older than 7. I wonder if there is some technical difficulty that inhibits Final Fantasy XIII from being ported (probably).

The 3DS is pretty much the last game platform where the software was so closely linked to the hardware as to cause a very severe impediment to attempts to port it to a newer one, while also being the earliest one where emulation on something as weak as a Switch would be infeasible. So while there have been plenty of remasters of games released between 2011 and 2017, none of them were 3DS originals. Somehow this feels more unusual to me than the story with the DS, where there've been just a handful of ground-up remakes.

Speaking of which, the NSO retro lineup has nowhere near the selection of even the Wii U Virtual Console, let alone the Wii Virtual Console. Not having to buy them a la carte helps to showcase deep cuts, but overall, fewer publishers are playing ball, and the ones that are on board (including Nintendo themselves) have been maintaining a pretty slow pace. And I'm not just saying that because I want Ogre Battle and Donkey Kong '94 back.

There are five mainline The Legend of Zelda games that aren't playable in some form on the Switch; of them, two (Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks) are very closely tied to a specific form factor, two (Wind Waker and Twilight Princess) had already been ported to Wii U, and one (A Link Between Worlds) is just stranded on 3DS. The absent Super Mario games have no such excuse: I can believe that they consider NSMB1 and NSMBWii too similar to NSMBU, but NSMB2 is fairly unique, 3D Land doesn't need stereoscopic graphics that badly, and Galaxy 2 I already mentioned.

Sometimes the game that is missing is a Switch game originally. I wonder if we'll ever know what the hell they were trying to do with Super Mario Bros. 35.

But seriously, though, consider this: Nintendo and Microsoft have struck deals in the past, so why is Rare Replay not on Switch?

Pombar said:
Well that’s today’s mood ruined, I’d managed to forget
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How could you possibly forget?
 
MetManMas

MetManMas

Me and My Bestie
(He, him)
Bongo said:
But seriously, though, consider this: Nintendo and Microsoft have struck deals in the past, so why is Rare Replay not on Switch?
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I'd assume the emulation is a factor. Rare Replay covers multiple platforms (ZX Spectrum, NES, SNES, Arcade, Nintendo 64, Xbox, Xbox 360), and those latter three no doubt pose the biggest problem emulation-wise.

So you'd probably be either looking at a bigger price tag given the work it'd take, or a lesser version which omits the Xbox originals. And personally I wouldn't wanna deny the Switch audience the Viva Piñata games and Nuts & Bolts.
 
Tato

Tato

Rare Replay would have been much better than the awful emulation for Perfect Dark (and bad emulation for Goldeneye). Nintendo just needs to throw the current N64 emulator in the trash and start again for Switch 2
 
SpoonyBard

SpoonyBard

Threat Rhyme
(He/Him)
Kinda surprised neither of them got a pixel remaster and/or HD2D treatment.

But I would also not be shocked if exactly that was in the works.
 
Bongo

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
You'd think that more Sonic the Hedgehog games would be on this thing.
 
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