Nintendo Direct - September 2018

This had quite a lot of stuff.

3DS

• Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn
• Bowser’s Inside Story

Switch

• Luigi's Mansion 3
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
• Katamari Damacy Rerolled - a remaster of the first game, I think?
• A new GameFreak RPG codenamed "Town"
• Cities Skylines is out now, including both expansions
• Final Fantasy XII: Zodiac Age, plus Final Fantasy VII, IX, X and X-2 remasters, and the previously-announced Crystal Chronicles
• Isabelle from Animal Crossing is going to be in Smash
• Animal Crossing Switch due "2019"
• A few tabletop game adaptations - Carcassonne, The Lord of the Rings living card game, Pandemic and (ugh) Munchkin

There was also some stuff about the Online Pass, the NES game service that isn't going to shift half as many consoles as Nintendo think it will, and some new NES-style joycon things. Splatoon 2 and Mario Tennis are getting more updates.

Quite a lot of ports, you mean.

At what point is a game a "port" rather than just multiplatform? Yeah there are a bunch of remasters, but the first Katamari never got a UK release before. The Final Fantasies are going to be on everything else (so the Switch would be missing titles if it didn't), except Crystal Chronicles which nobody played on GameCube because the GBA gimmick was such a hurdle.

It's not like Mario Bros U had a massive audience, so much like Mario Kart 8 it's going to be new to most Switch owners.

Fair enough, I guess, there just wasn’t much in there I hadn’t already played ages ago on other platforms.

That said, if Civ VI is a good version then I can definitely get on board with that.

Well this announcement was enough to convince Seonaid to buy a Switch. Finally!

Anything in particular tip her over the edge?

Animal Crossing maybe? I'm not sure.

She might just be looking for some large scale retail therapy after we had to put our 18 year old cat down the other day.