I don't care about Zelda that much so a lot more?
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Polygon: Nintendo Switch will launch with fewer games than the Wii, Wii U or 3DS
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I don't care about Zelda that much so a lot more?
Nydius
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The Xbox 360 and PS3 didn't have a major games drought before coming to market. I'll go one step further, neither the 360 nor the PS3 had ANY game droughts whereas the Wii U was plagued with them from launch, even from its own creator.
Other than Zelda, ports of Wii U titles should have been ready to go at launch. MK8 Deluxe is going to be a great port, sure... but it should be launching beside the system because MK8 is a three year old game this May. Pokken Tournament should have been pushed as a launch port. Maybe even Hyrule Warriors, although I can imagine they wouldn't want to interfere with Zelda BotW - but a port of HW with all DLC would have likely sold ridiculously well side by side with BotW if available.
There's no excuse for such a pathetic launch lineup with many of the games being trickled out throughout the year when they all but abandoned their previous console a year prior. What the hell were they doing on the software side this last year? Not much, apparently.
OnionPowder
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Wii U will have a larger install base than the Switch for a while.
Rebel Leader
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I'd have honestly bet money that MK would outperform Zelda at launch. If MK and Smash were intentionally held back, it would have been for Zelda's sake, not theirs
edit: forgot the if, my bad
ãInaba Residentã
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I agree with Kart but they haven't even announced Smash
Nothing, if you own a XBO or PS4.
But if Switch was going to be your only console, then you've got no meat and potatoes to go with it.
Switch again is another 'supplemental' console from Nintendo, where it makes the absolute perfect addition, rather than replacement, to your existing console.
gingerbeardman
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Financial reasons dictated this launch timeframe.
DeuceGamer
Member
I think it will sell at launch regardless. It's better to make sure they have good content coming out consistently than to have a large launch lineup and then go quite for extended periods of time.
That said I think a game like Arms would make the launch a lot better and it would also probably benefit the game to be at launch.
That said I think a game like Arms would make the launch a lot better and it would also probably benefit the game to be at launch.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Is NCL desperate for cash?
falconxcrunner09
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What do you mean by that?
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Deleted member 752119
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I'll be playing Mass Effect then. Well 18 days later. 😀
I was happy this is coming the 3rd instead of the rumored 17th as I'd have skipped launch and played ME first. Now it's Horizon that is getting skipped for a while.
But yeah, it's a thin lineup for people who main or only play Nintendo stuff. I'm fine with it since it's my third platform behind PC and PS4. Zelda, MK 8 Deluxe, Splatoon 2 and Mario Odyssey were plenty for me to buy in at launch given all the stuff I have to play this year or the others. Even if a bunch more games end up coming out I'd probably only get 2-3 more max this year anyway.
I know you're being facetious, but there is far more diversity in those lineups for people who aren't into Zelda.
Yet to be determined. This is the problem with everything Nintendo. Objective reasoning goes out the window before they even put the product on the wood.
DeuceGamer
Member
『Inaba Resident』;228355805 said:
I bet Mario Kart could make launch but it seems their strategy is less at launch and avoid extended droughts in the post launch period.
Great, but this has nothing except a game that you can get on Wii U.
This.
it should have a pretty solid library by the time the holiday season rolls around and it seems like Nintendo is doing a pretty good job of spacing releases out throughout the year
Zelda at launch, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at the end of April, ARMS in the spring, Splatoon 2 over the summer, Mario during the holiday, and whatever else comes in between all those from Nintendo, 3rd parties/indies. and if Xenoblade 2 actually releases in 2017 outside of Japan which I am not betting on but if it does that's another solid title.
that sounds like a plan
And this is why Nintendo has been such a failure over the last several years.
That'd be nice.
Yeah, it's look pretty great. I would say I hope it has a healthy online userbase but I'm not even sure I'm going to subscribe to Nintendo's yet.
You mean the Wii U that nobody has?
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah, it's look pretty great. I would say I hope it has a healthy online userbase but I'm not even sure I'm going to subscribe to Nintendo's yet.
At the very least, it'll have a healthy community at its launch, as the online subscription doesn't go into effect until Fall.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
The launch is underwhelming. I will play Zelda on my WiiU and wait to see if they build up a quality library in a year or so. I am pretty much betting that Mario and or XC2 will not make it in 2017 and while I like Splatoon, I don't want to maintain an online sub just to play it sparingly after the first couple of weeks. Just about everything about the system spells WiiU level failure to me and I am not going to buy one until proven wrong.
Hardly. With a Zelda game at launch (particularly this particular game), they would be killing off anything that attempted to launch against it. All of those other games would sell like shit and be counted as failures, and they'd all in the bargain bin in six months.
It's like trying to have a big opening weekend in the theater by releasing your movie the same week as Star Wars.
I've already got a pre-order in for the console, and exactly one game. And I'm good. So are many, many others. My eventual Switch library will probably be tiny compared to other platforms, with a handful of exclusives and a bunch of older VC titles.
Maybe more choice if you're not a Zelda fan?
Synless
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So did the Wii. I think their point still stands.
metalslimer
Member
Have we forgotten how much games like Splatoon have sold?
I'm willing to bet that ratio of Zelda will be much more even between Switch and Wii U than TP was for Gamecube and WIi
probably why Mario Kart is in April instead of at launch. I'm sure they could've swung it.
DeuceGamer
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True, but Nintendo probably knows that Zelda is enough to sell out at launch. It's better for sales if they then have games like MK8 and Arms release a month or two after launch the hope is it will get more attention and help move more systems.
Jon Carter
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I was surprised that ARMS wasn't a launch game. I felt like their big second game was either going to be that or Splatoon. Nobody cares about 1-2-Switch. That said, ARMS requires four Joy-Cons to play with someone, right? I'm interested in the game but $80 for what is just one extra controller for this game is insane.
gow3isben
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Thats 2 weeks worth of gaming, maybe three if you take your time, and then what?
If you are a Nintendo fan you probably have a Wii U already so play it on that that I say. I just don't see people who never bought a Wii U actually going through with buying the switch for 300 plus dollars. You really have to love the Nintendo brand names like Mario or Zelda to sacrifice all that third party support for the exclusives. Unless you are rich and have multiple consoles.
orthodoxy1095
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Then maybe if you're Nintendo, you could wait before you put out an image like this and let a narrative form:
And we we're thinking this console will have RE7 and FFXV on release... hahaha
But Zelda tho. N64 launch vibes. Few games and one phenomenal huge ass game such as Zelda to launch your console seems excellent to me. Then Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in April among Snipperclips, then Splatoon 2, then E3... 2017 fully covered in terms of games for Switch.
But Zelda tho. N64 launch vibes. Few games and one phenomenal huge ass game such as Zelda to launch your console seems excellent to me. Then Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in April among Snipperclips, then Splatoon 2, then E3... 2017 fully covered in terms of games for Switch.
Nydius
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Only one of those games you mentioned is an actual LAUNCH game. The other three are late April, "Summer", "Holiday", respectively. You didn't buy into four launch games, you bought into one and preordered three others, two of which have vague release dates.
This is some dumb bullshit to say. Now that said, sadly, it's all I ned to get me to preorder. Not because I'm in love with Zelda games. I just think it looks that good.
metalslimer
Member
Then maybe if you're Nintendo, you could wait before you put out an image like this and let a narrative form:
THat's a really sad image lol. I can't even imagine how bad things would have been if it had launched in November. It seems like Nintendo rushed this thing out once Wii U's failure became apparent.
Also how the hell is Skyrim not ready? No one will care about Skyrim this fall.
OrbitalBeard
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Hopefully Snipperclips can make launch (It's just "March" as of now), because it looks great.
Has to be. ARMS is new age punch out.
Kingpin Rogers
Member
Nintendo really should have canceled the Wii U version of Zelda. It would have shut all these kinds of comments down.
It really is, that should be the first 2-3 months rather than the whole year.