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Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat! The show kicks off this week with a discussion about IGN's Game of the Year awards, including the winner for best Switch game. Then, hear the crew's thoughts on the latest Indie World showcase from Nintendo, which gave us a look at a bunch of upcoming Switch games, including Sports Story, Axiom Verge 2, Streets of Rage 4, and much more. In the news, the panel discusses Shovel Knight's final expansion, the recent talk about MLB The Show, and more. Then, on Question Block, the panel decides if Nintendo should give Kid Icarus another shot. Timecodes! 00:00:00 Welcome! Our Game of the Year discussion 00:11:26 Nintendo's Indie World showcase 00:25:00 News! Switch Grips, Shovel Knight, and more 00:36:28 Games out this week 00:37:45 What we've been playing 00:43:57 Question Block! 00:49:00 Wrap it up! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yes
0:04.1	Hello and welcome to NBC IGN's Nintendo podcast today a ton of new games were just announced during the Indie World Showcase and
0:11.4	IGN just announced our game of the year for Nintendo and overall and today I'm joined by Brian Altono
0:17.0	Brapp Brapp
0:18.0	Pair Schneider the jingle is back and Tom Marx hello, and I'm your host Casey to Freitas
0:23.1	So let's start it off with game of the year. Okay, just to get the big the big
0:27.8	I guess it's not really an elephant in the room. I mean we talked about this a lot before
0:31.7	but
0:32.8	Tom what were the nominees for the Nintendo game of the year for Nintendo game of the year?
0:37.4	The nominees were Fire Emblem 3 houses Pokemon Swords and Shield Luigi's Mansion 3 Super Mario Maker 2 and the Legend of Zelda links
0:45.3	Awakening what that's a pretty good year
0:47.8	That's a great year really good for first party lineup to yeah
0:50.9	I went back and looked at our list from last year from 2018 and it was still a really good year right
0:55.9	But like the first party tiles were it was it's basically just Pokemon and smash pretty much and comparatively to
1:03.3	Xbox and PlayStation is really really strong showing from Nintendo. Yeah, I killed it this year
1:08.3	Really those three of those games yeah three of those games were in our overall game of the year nominees as well
1:13.8	Whereas there were no
1:16.2	There were no
1:17.7	PlayStation 4 or Xbox one exclusives in our nominees. Oh wow
1:22.0	If this is like essentially the middle of the switches life cycle then it's
1:26.9	Pretty much kicking butt. Yeah, that's a that's a nice center point
1:31.5	We're in year three if the life cycle of this machine is more like the handhelds like DS and Game Boy it'll be way longer
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