Bunch of bad news for Nintendo already and this is only January:
- Will not meet 20m sales target, stocks likely to drop
- Metroid Prime 4 started from scratch and only started development recently, when it’s supposed to come out this year
- No news whatsoever for Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Supposed to be out last year
- No Direct this month which was long overdue. Even in January last year there was a Direct and hype early and we all know last year lineup was poor. This year doesn’t look any better and absolutely barebone first half again
- MK11 Switch version delayed in Europe. Song of Memories, WWE 2k19 etc. Switch versions cancelled. Third party relationship continued to be awful
- Nintendo’s head of partner management joins Microsoft. Keep losing people left and right
- Nintendo president hints company may stop making games console in the future in a recent interview
Can this year get even worse for Nintendo fans?? We still have 11 months to find out!
Sources and data pl0x; also what analytic methods you used.
Shit console. Worth it for Zelda and nothing else.
Nintendo has been pulling the same crap for years. Diehard Nintendo fans will never admit it though. They’ll still buy SMB3 for the eighth time.
Hey man if the console ain't your thang don't grab it; are you going to tell someone they have a shit burger because it's not made with the same lean percentage ground beef you like?
I’ve owned every Nintendo system released in North America and what exactly is wrong with what I said. The only time I remember some kickass third party support was Capcom on the GameCube.
Indie games are great but they are also the same games released everywhere else.
There must be something fundamentally wrong with Nintendo’s relationship with third parties and I’ve heard the same song and dance from Nintendo since the N64 20 years ago. My point is why does anyone care at this point and who actually believed it would be different on the switch?
The Switch is what it is; a Nintendo console with Nintendo games and lackluster third party support, same as the last 4 systems.
Lackluster third party support? Can you provide direct factual evidence of this?
Not pointing at you in particular, but in this thread it's either "They have just a bunch of indie trash!" or "They have lackluster third party support!"
I don't understand how you can have a bunch of indie trash, but have lackluster third party support.
As we learned from Breath of the Wild Nintendo will delay for as long as needed to make a quality game, public opinion be damned. I'm not too worried so far I'm most excited for Luigi's Mansion 3, Fire Emblem (whenever that comes out) and the new Yoshi game actually caught my eye.
The real travesty and a missed opportunity Nintendo really needs to work on is the online service, the new releases are staggered at best, they have a huge backlog of amazing first party games waiting to be unleashed (across multiple generations) and theres no movement, no communication while we wait for updates, new announcements or a Direct.
So far I'm not seeing the pay off of them not releasing an N64 Classic vs. working on the online service. As a die hard Nintendo guy I'll admit at this point I am disappointed with the online service in specific the retro game lineup, it shouldnt be this complicated. The Wii Shop Channel flipped me better shit in 2008
Essentially this; though it's been speculated the reason why they shy away from online is because they can't control the experience as much. They're more of a family company, and they're trying to figure out a way to give the hardcore online services without allowing dumb person A to say a bunch of unarguable bad stuff.
Might be in direct contradiction of one another, I dunno.
It's better than recent gens, but compare the third party games from key studios like Activision, EA, UBI, Rockstar, Konami etc..... and Switch has hardly any of them.
Yeah you can TOTALLY keep Activision and EA and your horrendous abuse of microtransactions.
Ubisoft developed a game WITH Ninty, Mario Rabbids.
Also, the XBONE and PS4 both came out on in
2013 (Man that makes me feel old), while the Switch released in
2017; late to the party, yes, but even if you're late to the party all you have to do is catch up to have a good time! Take some shots and do a beer bong!
I don't think too many publishers and their employees from 25 years ago care about Nintendo tactics back then. Most of the employees probably don't even work at the third party company anymore or got out of gaming. 25 years ago is a long time. Lots of game studios didn't even make games for consoles back then, especially any game studio that is PC focused.
To me, it's all about system power. But Nintendo systems lately are so underpowered, it doesn't seem like devs care about doing a port. And gamers don't seem to care anyway and focus on first party titles. Unlike MS and Sony who crave a full ecosystem of everything, Nintendo seems happy with it's first party gaming focus.
Well I mean, you just said it yourself right there, "I like a product that has power," that's you. The average consumer isn't going to sit down and say to themselves "Ugh! The Switch has a Tegra processor over x86-x64 architecture? Perish the thought!" or think "Man this thing only has 8GB of RAM?! Dude my XBONE has more!"
Nawh dude, they're gonna wanna get the thing they want and just have it play the games they want; if everyone was absolutely concerned about power, they'd be on a PC because PC can out perform a console most of the time, as long as the game is optimized correctly.
Yeah, being able to sell multiple consoles and not have to rely on contracts and third parties would make me damn well happy too. Bring everything in house and don't deal with other companies unless you have to, saves money.
It was my understanding that this already happened. The Switch isn't a real next gen console. It's just a handheld that you can plug into a TV. The Switch is more of a successor to the 3DS than a real console.
Weirdly enough it was marketed as a handheld in other territories, and mainly as a console with portable features in the western market.
Saying it's not a "real next gen console," is false; it is a next generation console, it's just a different product targeted at a different demographic.
Small sample size, but I have 3 couples with whom I am close friends with, they own PS4/XBONES but never really played a bunch of games with their kids or anything until they got a Switch; they're just waiting for a more appropriate age to let them play those more hardcore games, but have less of a worry with the Switch and online. As far as a family device they've mentioned that they should have picked one up sooner.
Nice troll thread but it got people talking at least haha
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