Yeah, I wished we could look into the alternate dimension where e3 happened to look that up.
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Yeah, I wished we could look into the alternate dimension where e3 happened to look that up.
As far as we know it could mean that they have only 2 games for the year and need to spread the release dates.
This feels a bit disappointing tbh, like Nintendo had such good momentum in 2019. I hope we get BoTW2 and some good Zelda ports next year because this year of Mario has been a bit disappointing.
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I think E3 getting cancelled and Nintendo not confirming as much as a whisper of a replacement speaks volumes.
The power of assumptions let us ignore that though.
It would've had Zelda, the Mario Stuff, Pikmin, and a lot of 3rd party things though.
Yes, let's pile on people disappointed to have only one game to look for and it's yet another 60$ port with two 5 minutes long missions added and a menu.
But Sony did it too right?
But Sony did it too right?
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Hints and more confirmations about earlier hints + Pikmin 3.
Yeaaaaah going off of the announcements for Clubhouse Games, Paper Mario, and now Pikmin 3: two months definitely feels like the minimum amount of time that they will allow between a game being announced and released.
Given that, I think the Mario Anniversary September dream might be over. Still think November is a possibility though!
Given that, I think the Mario Anniversary September dream might be over. Still think November is a possibility though!
Pikmin 3 Deluxe got announced via tweet, noted insider has voiced concern that this year's release schedule was the plan all along and that they have no idea what Nintendo is doing
Bringing over the Wii U Zeldas might just not be in the cards at all. It's not like Wii U ports are necessarily trivial. They might just bring over the Gamecube versions sometime down the road with the emulator they have.
2020 can be disappointing, but show some of the big 2021 games and I'm hoping getting a Mario direct will do that
2015 all over again thanks to Bakugan and WWE Battlegrounds.
Like E3 2018 where everything was Smash and 2019 titles.
"Mario + 2021 titles"
I get it, it's a rough time to be a Nintendo fan but clearly none of these delays and lack of 2020'games are their fault. No one knows how to work through a global pandemic and are all just doing the best they can.
I've long since written off most good things happening in my entertainment hobbies until summer 2021. Next gen console launches are a nice surprise but have been in the works so long, and game development for games scheduled summer - holiday 2020 were likely impacted by COVID significantly.
i think we can all go 2020 without a Nintendo first party lineup like 2017-2019. It will be nice if games make it out, but as is Im fine waiting even if we only get Pikmin 3 and Mario Collection.
some of you seem like you forgot about the dreadful first party output after Splatoon 2 (Yoshi, Star Fox which bombed, #FE and Paper Mario over like 15 months) and the 18 month wait between "were making NX" in March 2015 and Switch reveal in October 2016. This feels like nothing compared to that imo
I've long since written off most good things happening in my entertainment hobbies until summer 2021. Next gen console launches are a nice surprise but have been in the works so long, and game development for games scheduled summer - holiday 2020 were likely impacted by COVID significantly.
i think we can all go 2020 without a Nintendo first party lineup like 2017-2019. It will be nice if games make it out, but as is Im fine waiting even if we only get Pikmin 3 and Mario Collection.
some of you seem like you forgot about the dreadful first party output after Splatoon 2 (Yoshi, Star Fox which bombed, #FE and Paper Mario over like 15 months) and the 18 month wait between "were making NX" in March 2015 and Switch reveal in October 2016. This feels like nothing compared to that imo
Yeah...probably not a general Direct, but I could see another partner showcase and/or a Mario-centric Direct.
I wonder when the next smash dlc trailer will be up. Maybe we'll just get the next one end of the year and a bunch next year or 2022.
I 100% doubt all of you would have quietly agreed with my post if I'd moved my projection forward by two days, so I'm going to go ahead and say I was right on that one.
Again.
I don't want no Deku scrubs
Give us that sweet release Ninty
No offense meant but I completely disagree with your take, at least on a personal level.
I love love love Nintendo. I love video games because of Nintendo. No other company gives me the sense of childhood wonder like Nintendo does...and I'm almost 40.
Rather, I want Nintendo to be the absolute best they can be. And 2020 Nintendo is just about the worst side of them.
Pikmin 3 is frustrating for a few reasons
1. Its been finished for a while
2. Its a WiiU port
3. It isn't coming out until October 30th
4. Nintendo literally has nothing else scheduled
5. Their communication has been awful since September 2019
While I am excited for Pikmin 3D I am also justified in my frustration with the company.
The announcement could have been icing on the cake. Instead its like Nintendo handed us a small jar of icing and told us to go make our own cake & be happy they gave us something to put on top.
Now I understand that there's a reason why they didn't do a June Direct.
Don't worry, the other 2 games coming later this year are ports too.
I withdraw the statement. *eats candy bar*
I don't know how I forgot Paper Mario! I'm actually playing through it and enjoying it quite a bit. Even still, 2 original games still isn't great (and no, I don't count clubhouse games because it's a collection of games that already exist).
I don't know how I forgot Paper Mario! I'm actually playing through it and enjoying it quite a bit. Even still, 2 original games still isn't great (and no, I don't count clubhouse games because it's a collection of games that already exist).
As much as I'd love this, we're not getting any 2021 announcement until 2021.
Although it sucks for us, if that was the plan, I can't say it's a bad plan. Everyone is talking about Xbox Series X and PS5 so any game this Christmas is going to have a rough time on mindshare.
I'm trying to picture what Nintendo's E3 Direct would have looked like if it hadn't been for the pandemic - do we think Paper Mario, plus 3D World Deluxe and the Mario collection, and basically not much else? E3 would have been more of a Mario celebration than a general look at games coming out during the year?
According to Grubb, E3 would have had a big Mario theme for the anniversary.
I figure incurring losses and having limited profits during the Wii U era - as well badly getting HD development wrong before that - has repercussions that last through to today. The headcount is something like 1200 higher since early 2017, so the rate of expansion is notable but has also only accelerated once Switch was on the market. There's obviously no clear breakdown on how much of that is EPD recruitment, but it seems to me Nintendo only felt confident enough to hire more aggressively once they had transitioned to Switch and were confident it would succeed.
The other side of it is that even with partnerships with external partners and internal recruitment running at a few hundred a year, there's no way getting around the fact projects simply don't pan out sometimes. We've got proof of that with things like Prime 4 rebooting and the apparent cancellation of Ridge Racer 8. We know things like post-launch support have gradually ramped up, which takes up resources. Projects might be taking longer than planned even before Covid. It's easy for us to say "sort it out", but if we want the ambitious new stuff, then it feels like that classic streak of Nintendo doing things in their own way at their own pace will remain.
Almost 3 months tbh.
I doubt it. I expect the next character to be out on October or sooner. If they have a non-specific Mini Direct this month, trailer will be there. If they don't, I can see them announcing it during a Sakurai Presents video a week before release.
Thanks all.
Personally not invested in the Pikmin franchise, but glad that fans of it get the game - finally!!
Sounds like I'll need to go over some of the last pages...
Depends on what it is you want, really. If you want exclusives you'll be hard done by, but it's also the end of a generation on the other two major platforms. Some of the biggest titles of the year are internally developed for Sony (TLOU2, Ghosts of Tsushima). The few 3rd party exclusives that did exist on those platforms were either prestige titles with timed exclusivity (FFVII: Remake) or simply more suited to the more powerful hardware (IE: they wouldn't run on Switch in their current forms).
Outside of those 2020's still had the following for Switch owners to potentially experience for the first time:
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore
Kentucky Route Zero
Florence
Darksiders Genesis
Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition
Persona 5 Scramble (in Japan, but we're getting it eventually)
Metro Redux
Murder by Numbers
Exit the Gungeon
Doom 64
Panzer Dragooon Remake
Shinsekai: Into the Depths
Streets of Rage 4
Void Bastards
The Wonderful 101: Remastered
Bioshock: The Collection
Borderlands Legendary Collection
XCOM 2 Collection
The Outer Worlds (shame about the quality)
Burnout Paradise Remastered
Ninjala
Catherine: Full Body
Superliminal
Deadly Premonition 2 (shame about the technical and writing quality)
Carrion
Crysis Remastered
And we don't know what the rest of the year holds for 3rd party support. Doom Eternal is a thing that might still exist or might have been cancelled, but we at least know about it.
The 3rd party support HAS been there. Admittedly, these experiences might not be for you personally, or you might have already played them, but they'll still be new for a lot of people.
me: Nintendo should more aggressively expand their internal studios as well as form more partnerships
fools in these threads: nah, it's not necessary, you'll see
me, "seeing it" in August:
fools in these threads: nah, it's not necessary, you'll see
me, "seeing it" in August:
Great. Can't fucking wait. What a terrible year this has been for anyone not interested in Animal Crossing.
I love video games.
I love Nintendo.
but I just don't care if they have large gaps of empty release schedules. I'll give them money on stuff I want whenever they decide to release it lol. At the end of the day, that's it, just me waiting to give them money on some cool games. Pikmin 3 is nothing to me so I'll just wait some more lol. I can't get mad.
I love Nintendo.
but I just don't care if they have large gaps of empty release schedules. I'll give them money on stuff I want whenever they decide to release it lol. At the end of the day, that's it, just me waiting to give them money on some cool games. Pikmin 3 is nothing to me so I'll just wait some more lol. I can't get mad.
I get the feeling that Nintendo leadership hasn't really changed that much from the mentality of the Wii years. You almost get a sense of them being too overconfident. Like after the Wii U bombed, they had to act aggressive for the first couple years of the Switch so the output was great, people were happy. But now that they're a success again... it's almost like they're just patting themselves on the back and reverting back to the "we were always right mentality" or "people will always buy our stuff no need to go beyond what we're doing". Hopefully we don't see history repeat itself here.
I'm still hoping that this is all a gambit as they move towards a switch revision where they do another mini launch. So they're okay having an off year like 2020, because it lets them reorganize and better line things for the future. But who knows with them.
So the fall/holiday schedule is looking like this:
- September- ???
- October - Pikmin 3
- November - Bakugan
- December - ???
Well, alrighty then!!
- September- ???
- October - Pikmin 3
- November - Bakugan
- December - ???
Well, alrighty then!!
Nintendo deadass wants me to survive 2020 on an Animal Crossing diet, huh? I'll take a bit of Xenoblade, Deadly Premonition 2, and Smash news sprinkled here and there, but yeah, this could be 2016 Wii U-levels of bad, personally.
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