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Nintendo Switch Adds Three New Games Today

A fourth, Has-Been Heroes, also launches on Tuesday.

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There may not be any major new Switch games arriving this week, but the eShop has added three more titles in the US.

The first of these is another entry in the ACA NeoGeo series, 1996 golf game Neo Turf Masters ($8), which features two-player support. Next up is New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers ($10), a single-player town-building sim. And finally is a port of Othello ($5), a version of the classic game Reversi. Two-player support is offered with a single Joy-Con, or the game can be played used the touchscreen itself. All three games are ports or updated versions of existing games for Switch.

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You can grab all three of these games right now on the eShop in the US. You can see screenshots of them all in the gallery above.

Coming up next week, on March 28, is an original Switch game, Has-Been Heroes. This is a sort of strategy/action game hybrid that was showcased during the big Switch event in January. It'll be available digitally and physically for $20.

Last week saw the release of five new games, including The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+.

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Those are Switch games? Really? I am not a graphics person or anything but... well, those look like Gameboy Color games.

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@wookietim: That Othello is nearly photo-realistic.

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@milk: LOL!

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@wookietim: Hey now. Uno rocked the Xbox 360 for a very long time. It's not all about the visuals.

Although, I honestly don't see myself playing any of these, there is a market for simple on the go games and this does fit the bill that some will desire.

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@wookietim: Not in the same sense as brand new first party titles meant to show the console off, like Zelda, if that makes sense xD

That Frontier Days looks like proper jank though.

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@koospetoors: I would play the shit out of any new offline city builder, so long as it's not by (the remains of) Maxis/EA.

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@koospetoors: Everyone is different. I know people that are not my parents that love farm sim games

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@amk11: True true haha, and it looks like a competent enough game for fans of the genre to enjoy. Definitely not for me though xD

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@koospetoors: Trust me, I get to review Farming Simulator this year for the Switch... TELL ME ABOUT FUN... /s

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@amk11: Silver lining here? You can take the console to the bar at least :P Exclusively so you can comment in your review about how the game handles itself on the move of course ahem, no other hidden suggestions here!

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@wookietim: I would like you to show me an example of a gameboy color game that matches what you're suggesting.

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@unreal_master: True. But you know what I mean - these games don't look like a next gen or even current gen (Or even most-recent-gen) games. That golfing game looks almost prehistoric. That's not the type of game you see show up early in a consoles lifetime - those are ones you see shoveled out in the last year.

Mario Kart and (even better) Super Mario Odyssey are coming up and that'll look good. But these ones aren't really ones to trumpet from the rooftops, if you get my gist....

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@wookietim: yeah I mean that's the problem, even when they debuted zelda for switch I was like really -those- are the graphics. In the age of PS4 and 4K I know they're not out to compete to be the best but they could have had stuff that was a little more striking. All the switch is is a corrected Wii U, and u know how that did...hopefully in the coming months we get better surprises.

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@twilight2tron: BOTW is gorgeous my friend. I prefer looking at it over my 4k witcher 3

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@twilight2tron: I don't know... Personally I think that the Zelda graphics are perfectly fine. But then again, I am not a person that pays too much attention to that - I don't do 4K TV and I don't care if something is 1080p or not. So to me the Zelda graphics look great. For that matter, even the older Gamecube Zelda game still looks perfectly acceptable to me...

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@wookietim: yeah the zelda from the switch looks fine, but I just see the quality level in the Wii U graphics and the other current systems like even the original PS4 and orig Xbox one and think Nintendo didn't really step that far from where the Wii U was.

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@twilight2tron: I'm kinda okay with that. Mario Kart on the Wii U looked really good to me. I have no problem with the graphics on the Wii U or Switch.

Let's be blunt - the Switch is a different animal than the Xbox or Playstation. It represents a different way to use a game console that neither of those ones can match. I cannot take my Xbox along with me on the bus (Not very easily anyway - I am sure someone cobbled together a backpack or something that does that). I can't start playing Horizon: Zero Dawn at home and take it with me. So I am not sure that directly comparing the Switch to the Xbox or PS is that valid of a thing...

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@wookietim: well I mean in the sense that there are the PS4 xb1 pc high end and then there's Nintendo somewhere in the middle, I just think they could have ramped up their game a little bit more given the nature of tech and gaming now.

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@wookietim: You make no sense. Neo Turf Masters is from 1999 what do you want it to look like? Not sure what ground breaking graphics you want Othello to have especially with a $5 price tag. You're comparing indie non Nintendo games to Nintendo games made by Nintendo.

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@unreal_master: I was not aware that it was from 1999. As I said in another post, when I see three games billed as "New Games for the Switch" I assume that they are "New games for the Switch" and not "Old games that have just recently been released for the Switch on the VC".

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@unreal_master: I just think it's a waste, its like winning the lottery and you get some track Ferrari and then drive it only in a hospital parking lot...they could have done a little better w their games. I know the retro gen will look like that, but the switch games are what I'm talking about. I know they're not competing for top spot, but in 2017 one of the top video game companies in the world could do better stuff.

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@twilight2tron: I don't understand what you're looking for in a Othello board game, a port of a game from 1999 and a random farm sim. These games exist on every system.

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@unreal_master: well what I think they should have started with were more feature titles from n64, GameCube, Wii or Wii U to fill the digital marketplace from day one launch. These titles are what to add as filler in year two, low demand titles, odd move for one of the most in demand systems.

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@wookietim: Are you aware that the indie games market is HUGE, and that N would be committing suicide by not supporting it?

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@wookietim: That golfing game is a classic Neo Geo game. They've been releasing NeoGeo stuff since launch. Its not VC its like a NeoGeo Hub with games released every week.

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@skemaal: it's cool it's neo geo, retro is cool, but it's like a rom game or a phone app, I think there r a lot of much better choices Nintendo could have gone with. Even the best sports games lose value very quickly, and in that lot you'll never hear them mention golf. Really odd why they'd choose that game.

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@twilight2tron: Nintendo didn't make Neogeo games. The company that makes them is porting them to the switch.

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@unreal_master: yeah but that's what I mean, for someone who likes Nintendo enough to buy their new experimental system with low launch titles, they prob wouldn't be looking to get a ton of Atari games in the digital marketplace, they'd prob be more excited with n64, Wii, or Wii U titles. People went crazy over the Nintendo classic and that thing only comes with like 50 games on it right? They could have easily filled up their digital marketplace with nes and snes titles, but n64 and on are what I think people would have gone nuts over.

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@skemaal: I honestly did not know that. When I see an article saying that these are "New" games I assume that they are "New". But that's cool - VC and backwards compats are a decent thing.

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@wookietim: Switch is the best console hahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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@alan_wake1: But don't worry i am sure Nintendo will release the stink bomb at E3 hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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"The first of these is another entry in the ACA NeoGeo series, 1996 golf game Neo Turf Masters"

NEW game????? LMAO it's from 1996!!! Really???????? It's not April 1st so I don't know what to say if Nintendo's latest greatest console is putting 21 year old games on it. What...the...f.

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@wtf_666: You're reading comprehension is repulsive. Are those words to big for you understand? PS4 had been releasing games from PS2 era and XboxOne from 10 years ago. It only ok if they do it?

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@fig56: It wasn't ok then and it's not okay now. I'm pretty sure people don't buy new consoles to play old games. I mean there's no law against stupid, but come on.

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@ranbla: Your ignorance is astonishing. Old games have been a staple since the dawn of gaming. Did you know that the most popular games on the Atari 2600 were ports of OLD GAMES! The practice is fine and should continue. You don't like it then don't buy the games...that simple.

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@wtf_666: Hmmm all current consoles do that that. Including Nintendo's previous consoles.

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@wtf_666: why is bacward compatibility only ok when it's on Sony or MS' platform?

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@wtf_666: it's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

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