'Shin Megami Tensei' On Switch New Details Coming This October
New details on the upcoming "Shin Megami Tensei" game for Nintendo Switch will be shared next month. This is according to the game's developer and publisher Atlus, who announced it during the "Atlus Live Special #1: Megaton Feature" at this year's Tokyo Game Show.
After showing the same teaser image that it unveiled last March, Atlus shared another image teasing the arrival of fresh new details about the game. It's interesting that the date, Oct. 23, is also the same date when the "Shin Megami Tensei 25th Anniversary Live – Chaos Side" concert will be held.
Atlus teased the arrival of the hit post-apocalyptic role-playing on the Nintendo Switch at the console's reveal even back in January. At the time, the publisher revealed that they have just begun development on the project and cannot confirm if the game will arrive in Western markets.
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"Shin Megami Tensei" was released in Japan for the Super Famicom back in 1992 and has since seen multiple iterations on different platforms. It has also served as inspiration for a number of other games most notably Toby Fox's 2015 role-playing game Undertale.
It isn't the only game coming to the Switch as in the next few months for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS owners are going to be flooded with a wide variety of first- and third-party games in a number of different genres. During this month's Nintendo Direct presentation, details for more than 40 games launching for the consoles over the next several months.
Among the big third-party names coming to the Switch include "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim," "DOOM," "Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus," "FIFA 18," "NBA 2K18," and "Resident Evil Revelations." They will be joining Nintendo's own first-party releases including "Super Mario Odyssey" and "Xenoblade Chronicles 2" which will be released on Oct. 27 and Dec. 1 respectively.
