Right. I wanted to be able to sit down with this thread on my laptop and give a full answer. I've tried to keep them vaguely realistic, and I've not read through other's responses in detail I'm afraid. Here we go:
Games-
Metroid Prime 4 to come out next year, and to be more like MP1 than MP2 or (God forbid) MP3. Loneliness, selectable beams, varied environments, and more loneliness. If there must be the odd NPC, make them like
Hollow Knight's - crucially, not fully voice-acted. Gandrayda anyone?
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Daemon x Machina to be chuffing brilliant. It looks like it could be. I just hope it is.
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No proper new Pokémon, not next year.
Let's Go! will have just arrived, and I for one would like them to space out the Poké-offerings. I suspect they won't be able to resist the lure of money, but that's what I'd like.
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Smash season pass content fully out before year end. I won't insist on any specific characters, but I do want to see them all! Yes I'm greedy.
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No more Wii U ports apart from Tokyo Mirage Sessions. That one looked like a quirky fun JRPG that got away. From the others that people talk about often, SM3DW will look pathetic next to
Odyssey, and
The Wonderful 101 needs a sequel with a few of the kinks ironed out if anything. I think we've got enough to be honest.
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Paper Mario and the Thousand-Year Door HD is a bit pipe dream-y, but slightly more realistic than hoping that the main series goes back to that style.
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Yo-Kai Watch 4 announced for the West. It looks like a whole big leap up in quality over 3.
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Some more 3DS-style belters. I'm talking the sort of games recently seen more on the handhelds than Nintendo's home consoles, but with a slightly higher level of budget and polish. So - 2D Zelda, 2D Mario, AA7, a new Professor Layton... Any two of those, let's say.
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one more major Nintendo franchise goes BotW or Odyssey. By which I mean, large production-value-heavy 3D explore-a-thon. Could be Kirby, or Pit (free flight anybody?), or friggin' Ice Climber. Just let me point my character towards the horizon and charge off, collecting stuff on the way in an entertaining fashion. I don't mind if that's held back to 2020, and indeed it'd be greedy to insist on it in 2019: I just want to know it's coming.
Other Stuff-
No 'Switch Pro' or whatever. I don't mind if they want to release the 'Switch Pocket', a handheld-only budget offering. But I don't want them starting to release games that only run on the Pro, or are meant to run on both but actually only run like dogsh*t on the standard. Don't split the audience ta.
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A bit of Nintendo quirk on the main menu. Whether that be themes or tunes or Miis running around, I'm tired of it all feeling a bit sterile.
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Optional apps. I see why people want apps., but don't download them onto my Switch by default and clutter up the thing. I really do only use it for games.
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Online service adds SNES games at the very least. Really it's about time we had GameCube titles on VC. Given that, starting from the NES again was ridiculous.
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eShop gets a tune. And some easier formatting, I suppose, but primarily - tuuuuuuune please.
Thanks for reading if you did!