Nintendo Direct: Japanese Fans React as Every Major Publisher Backs Switch 2 — "Touhou Going Official? Didn't See THAT Coming"
ニンダイで全社ガチ参戦 日本のファンの反応
“With no media middleman in the way, the quality and reliability of the info just went way up.”
間にマスコミが入らないから情報のクオリティと信頼性が高まった
On the Nintendo Direct, essentially every major Japanese publisher — Capcom, Koei Tecmo, Square Enix, Marvelous, Atlus, FromSoftware — showed up in force for Nintendo Switch 2, and the top-liked Japanese comments read like a victory lap for Japanese gaming itself. The recurring theme wasn't just hype over the lineup; it was relief that the support felt genuine rather than half-hearted ports, and a very Japanese kind of trust in the format ("no media middleman, so the info is cleaner"). From there the thread became three reunions at once: stunned joy that Touhou — an underground doujin game by Team Shanghai Alice — is going official with a remake; the read that Kingdom Hearts debuting on a NINTENDO broadcast means Square Enix and Nintendo have finally buried the hatchet (complete with fans recounting how Square left for PlayStation with Final Fantasy VII and how Sony once held Square-Enix shares); and pure nostalgia over the Ocarina of Time remake. Underneath the lore-dropping and the FromSoftware screaming, the same warm note kept surfacing — that this felt less like a press conference and more like a festival.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 447)
- @ああああ-y1l8u👍 138
If the games press actually did its job properly, Nintendo wouldn't have had to go to all this trouble in the first place.
マスコミが真っ当に仕事してれば任天堂もこんな面倒やることはなかったのにね
- @MeDo-1456👍 59
Yeah, all of it comes down to the gaming media — press included — being so useless.
@ああああ-y1l8u 何も感もマスコミ含めたゲームメディアが不甲斐ないせいや
- @Poniki556👍 45
They leak something every single time, after all.
毎回何かしらの情報をお漏らしするからな
- @流星野郎-h2d👍 304
Team Shanghai Alice: "!" No seriously, THEM showing up is the last thing I expected!
上海アリス「！」 いやそっちが来るの予想外だわ！
- @GenereiaSol👍 1
Nintendo All-In-One — so they finally pulled the trigger on it.
NintedoAll-In-One、遂に実行が来たか
- @shinp7919👍 375
Personally, hearing they announced you'll actually get to play Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was the single biggest shock.
個人的に東方紅魔郷がやれると発表されたのが一番衝撃だった
- @まめ吉-l8b👍 25
It's a 20-year-old game now, so you literally can't play it even if you want to. If it sells well and the original data's still around, I'd love to see Perfect Cherry Blossom and the ones after it too.
気づけばもう20年も前も作品だからやりたくてもやれないし、売り上げ良くて元データあるなら、妖々夢以降も出してほしいよね
- @ENDsan475👍 37
In the dev announcement after the Direct, hearing "yeah, we dug up a 24-year-old backup" — I was genuinely impressed they kept their stuff that long, lol.
ニンダイ後の制作発表動画で「24年前のバックアップ見つけたわ」と聞いて物持ちいいな…と感心したが草
- @akilin5142👍 112
Not just the big publishers, but covering underground stuff like Touhou too — that's just impressive range.
大手メーカーもだし東方みたいなアンダーグラウンドな作品も幅広く網羅してたのは流石ですね
- @jibakudyjin7516👍 58
The Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil remake, leading the charge of all these revived old veterans — I half thought it was some kind of Statue of Liberty figure.
蘇って来た歴戦の猛者たちを牽引し、殴り込んで来た東方紅魔郷リメイクは何処ぞの自由の女神かなっと思った
- @yosi-zu1rj👍 70
Come to think of it, the fact that all these companies are putting out games means Switch 2 has the horsepower for it. But mainline Touhou — that's going to change history.
よくよく考えたらこうやって色んなゲーム企業がゲーム出してくれる位にはSwitch2には性能があると言う事か、しかし東方本編は歴史が変わるぞ。
- @やまだ-h7p👍 201
The stacked lineup is great, sure, but what made me happy was realizing every publisher is dead serious — not the lazy "eh, we'll put it on Switch 2 too I guess" energy.
豪華なラインナップもそうだけど、Switch2にも一応出しますよ～みたいな軽い感じじゃなくて各メーカーとも本気なんだって分かったのが嬉しかった
- @Atcgqxmujnjtup👍 154
At the very least, Japanese game companies want to make Switch 2 their main platform — simply because it's selling so far ahead of everything else that, as businesses, they have to chase the profit.
少なくとも日本ゲーム会社はSwitch2をメインにしたいと思う 何故なら任天堂Switch2が余りにも断トツで売れてるので会社として利益を出さないといけないから
- @shiromas👍 326
It makes me happy that even with an event like this, Nintendo genuinely faces the Japanese market. You can feel that the old "expand the gaming population" philosophy is still alive in today's Nintendo.
任天堂はこういうイベントひとつとってもしっかり日本市場を向いてくれるのが嬉しい 「ゲーム人口の拡大」の理念が今の任天堂にも生きているのかなと感じる
- @爆ニューサイレンススズカ👍 159
Guess Square Enix and Nintendo have fully made up now? Never thought I'd see a new Kingdom Hearts get its first reveal on a Nintendo broadcast.
スクエニとはもう完全に仲直りしたんかなって まさかキンハの新作を任天堂番組で初出しとは
- @hazukisin381👍 49
I was already sure of it the moment Sora made it into Super Smash Bros.
スマブラにソラが出演出来た時点で確信した
- @Maoh0824👍 66
It's not even really "making up" — up until 12 years ago Sony held shares in Square Enix, which limited how much they could supply software to Nintendo. Sony sold off those shares to improve its finances, and that dissolved the capital ties between them.
仲直りもなにもそもそも12年前までソニーがスクエニの株持ってたから任天堂にソフト供給するのは制限されてたからな。ソニーは財務改善の為に持ってたスクエニの株を手放したから両社の資本関係は解消された。
- @Poniki556👍 28
The sheer magnanimity of welcoming the Final Fantasy VII Remake onto Switch 2 — from the very Square Enix that left for PlayStation over Final Fantasy VII in the first place…
過去にFF7でプレステに行ったスクエニにその発端たるFF7のリメイクをSwitch2に迎え入れる懐の広さよ⋯⋯。
- @edypita👍 22
You could already see the reconciliation back with the Super Mario RPG remake, too.
あとスーパーマリオRPGリメイクでも仲直りを確認できた
- @いのかみ👍 65
The thing I was happiest about was the Ocarina of Time remake, but the biggest surprise was Kingdom Hearts. Dropping a first-reveal on the Direct like that — you can feel how badly they want to win over Switch players.
1番嬉しかったのは時オカリメイクだけど、1番びっくりしたのはキンハーかな。 ニンダイで初出しの情報載せるあたりなんとかしてSwitchユーザーを取り込みたいって感じる。
- @ptt9967👍 19
Hadn't really clocked it, but yeah, there were a ton of big third-party titles too. Never imagined the day Onimusha or Kingdom Hearts would announce a new entry on Nintendo hardware.
あんま意識してなかったけど確かにサードの大型も多かったな まさか鬼武者やキンハーが任天堂のハードで新作発表する日が来るなんてな
- @ms912game👍 137
FromSoftware: "Elden Ring's Switch 2 release date is locked! Oh, and we're running an online test for The Duskbloods." Me: "AAAAAAAAAAH!!!! (dancing in pure ecstasy)"
フロム「エルデンSwitch2版発売日決定！あとダスクブラッドオンラインテストしまーす」 俺「うおおおおおおおお！！！！(狂喜乱舞)」
- @acrisa2120👍 5
It's hilarious how all these companies roll up like "Congrats on the Switch 2 launch! Here's a little gift from us!!" and drop something insane. FromSoftware: "Did a Pikachu-inspired one (a rat geezer), oh and a little fan-service character too (a horny frog)."
色んな会社から「Switch２発売おめでとう！これウチからのお土産ね！！」みたいなノリで凄いの出してくるの草 フロム「ピカチュウイメージしてみた(ネズミ爺)、あとちょっとサービスキャラだすね(ドスケベ蛙）」
- @masakisrw👍 124
I've been curious about Muramasa forever but never owned the right console, so this port genuinely makes me so happy.
朧村正ずっと興味あったけど、ハードと縁がなかったんで今回の移植がマジでうれしい。
- @SyosyoKo👍 3
The main reason there was never a port until now is that Vanillaware is a tiny, elite team that just can't run multiple dev lines at once (though for Muramasa specifically there was also a contract with Sony involved).
今まで移植が無かったのも最大の問題はヴァニラソフトウェアってガチで少数精鋭で何本も開発ライン持てないからって理由ですからねぇ（朧村正に関してはソニーとの契約もありますが）
- @mk2takemika129👍 26
Personally the thing that grabbed me most was FF Resonance. Can't wait for the good old-school Final Fantasy feel to come back.
個人的にはFFレゾナンスが一番興味を惹かれた 古き良きFFが帰ってくるのは楽しみ
- @watarukomaki3812👍 17
I do like some Western games, but at heart I'm a Japanese-games guy, so a Direct that felt like a festival of Japanese games left me completely satisfied this time.
洋ゲーにも好きなのはあるんだけどやっぱり和ゲーが好きなんで和ゲーのお祭りみたいなニンダイで今回大満足だった
- @考え中-s9r👍 6
It's got the joy of theme-park parade floats, or festival floats rolling out one after another. I don't even play that many games, yet there I am grinning and laying down a picnic blanket.
遊園地パレードのフロートとかお祭りのだんじりが次々出てくるような楽しさがあるんだよな そんなにいっぱいゲームやる訳じゃないのにニコニコしてレジャーシート敷いちゃう
- @user-ragawa-maruru👍 8
Watching this Direct, I couldn't help thinking — maybe Nintendo was quietly working with all these companies, even at the absolute rock-bottom of the pandemic, to steer things toward where we are now… Seriously, thank god Nintendo is Nintendo.
なんだかんだ、コロナ禍の最底辺の時期にしっかりと今の状態に持っていく方向でニンテンドーが各社に働きかけてたのかな…と今回のニンダイを見て思っちゃったな… マジで、ニンテンドーがニンテンドーで良かったよ
- @ジョニー-s2b👍 42
Long, long ago, child… there was a thing called the Super Famicom… and it was simply taken for granted that you could play everything on Nintendo…
古の昔はのう…スーファミといって… ニンテンドーで全部遊べるのが当たり前じゃったんじゃ…
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