If fucking POKEMON isn't worth giving a shit about, I guess literally every console/PC video game publisher should just fold it all up and go home? If the biggest media empire in history isn't worth a shit over a handful games in the insanely volatile mobile market, then I guess video games are fucked, huh? What are you trying to say?
For one I think you're exaggerating how badly people thought of the Direct when the prominent opinion seemed to be that the E3 presentations sucked in general outside of Microsoft. Plus if you're going to discount Fire Emblem and Yoshi than would any other game announcement really help if they were also going to be 2019 releases?
I have long imagined that Nintendo cancels projects way more often than most publishers do just because they allow their developers to kind of go nuts and be especially creative with what they do. That and they seem to be paranoid that other companies will copy their ideas too, I guess.
Na I'm fine with it.
Again, I would argue that those games releasing more than a year after announcement are the exception. Sure, we can expect Nintendo to do this in the future, but in general they do keep releases to within a year of announcement. As another poster pointed out, many of these announcements where the games were not announced within a year are due to other factors. BotW was announced early because the Wii U was bombing and they wanted to create some buzz. I already mentioned the delays. It could be argued that Bayo 3 was announced early due to the ports of 1 & 2.
I know this isn't the right place to have this conversation but I don't really see what's too worrying just based on what we've seen from Let's Go.
That's been Nintendo at E3 for a while now to be fair, they never seem to quite... get it. There will be some good stuff but overall not good.
They don't need to make one with 3DS graphics, but it doesn't need to be one like Star Allies either. There is an inbetween spot there where the Switch is seeing a lot of success.
I've said it and people laughed. I seriously think they're working on a successor to 3DS and actively developing games for it. It's the only thing that can explain the lack of first party games this year. Their output just doesn't add up.
Look at all of the indies and smaller titles succeeding on Switch.
Not just that, but why not having something like BoxBoy or Pushmo? Hell, Intelligent Systems was cranking out those Fire Emblem titles for 3DS. Why couldn't they make a lower fidelity Fire Emblem or Advance Wars for Switch this year? Why couldn't AlphaDream get their feet wet with Switch by porting Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga to Switch?
Is this confirmed?
They just had a giant 2017.
September has Xenoblade 2's Torna expansion and that game is going to be a mini Xenoblade Chronicles game. Meaning it's going to be meaty as hell. Plus it does have a retail release.
That's a take private. Basically an LBO. I don't know if these are common in Japan, and I don't know who would buy them (management vehicle?) or finance it.
What the fuck. No...
