Chris Kohler's discussions

Ishihara-san brings the thunder.

Here’s Shinya Takahashi, who basically has Miyamoto’s old job of running all the game development.

And the second game of this conference “focusing on 2017" is for 2018. Read more

The money maker.

Nope! But Kirby for Switch does! Read more

Man, get ready to spend another 100 hours curled up with your Switch I guess. Read more

Well, this would seem to put the kibosh on rumors that this will get bumped back to 2018, if this event is supposed to focus on 2017 games? Read more

Xenoblade 2!

Rocket League for Switch. Perfect pairing of game and system.

And here we go. It begins. Read more

I feel like this is not the venue for Animal Crossing. You have to spend a good deal of time explaining the new features, and it’s not the sort of thing you can get a lot of buzz over by just showing a teaser spot. I think they’re going to try to pull off a Pokemon Go with Animal Crossing mobile, get everybody playing… Read more

I mention this now not because I think I’m right but because I try not to shy away from my predictions after the fact, which is a good practice to have because it, among other things, keeps one from making predictions. Read more

After the January conference, I predicted Metroid for Switch would be at E3, based on the fact that I felt Nintendo was going hard after getting classical “Nintendo fans” to buy this platform. A Metroid teaser would be the obvious move. Of course, Nintendo usually skips the obvious easy layups, which sometimes works… Read more

Or it could be a total dud, I mean. That seems to be what the Internet is girding its collective loins for. That would probably say more about what Nintendo thinks of E3 as a marketing tool these days, and less about what it actually has in the hopper for Switch. Read more

Neither Microsoft nor Sony had particularly show-stopping moments over the last two days. Microsoft, I think, struggled to explain why people need an Xbox One X. Sony showed 60 minutes of trailers for games mostly coming out in 2018, with lots of no-shows. So even with just half an hour to do it in, Nintendo could… Read more

Hello, Kotaku, and hello Gita! Nintendo’s said it’s going to be a short show, focused on 2017 games for Switch. Considering which way the winds are blowing at E3, though, that doesn’t seem to be too far off from what everybody else was doing. Read more

And that’s that! Yeah, obviously some anticipated games from great developers, lots of stuff in 2018, and honestly anything that shows me a Shadow of the Colossus full ground-up remake can’t be all bad, but I think the takeaway there is going to be that that show was light on new games, and light on 2017 content.

But… Read more

One person is chanting “Sony.” Read more