It does appeal to the Wii Fit crowd because its a video game with benefits. No matter how hardcore it is, it's a fitness game first and foremost and the rpg elements are there to make it fun and get people into the genre. You won't see people that like Xenoblade or Bravely buy this game because its a good rpg. The sales trajectory is also typical pf an expanded audience game. Its going to keep selling for a long time from word of mouth.
On the N64 NSO app to be announced in two years with one game every 3 months.
What does the release of LOU2 have to do with Nintendo's mini direct?
So because games are delayed and release schedules are uncertain, suddenly people who were disappointed with the Mini Direct...should be happy with the Direct? Because publishers delay games?
I still think it was a mediocre/bad direct and can't wait till the Mario news will be officially announced.
I get your point but I absolutely understand the disappointment of the people here. Its one thing that a long awaited, presumably very good game gets delayed for a few months at the very end of a console life cycle. But its a different thing when the Switch really is at the peak of its lifetime and there's not a single concrete game announced for it. I can't stress enough how strange this situation of not knowing anything for after Xenoblade is, and that is after the longest period of time between Direct presentations ever. Also, the direct mini had a disclaimer that some of these games might get delayed due to the virus.
Does everything needs to either black or white? None of the games appealed to me
I mean, it was a Mini, so it was pitched as not having big news - and it didn't. But I don't see how it would change things for people whose tastes aren't being met by the current software support. Sony delaying a major release because of the logistics of shipping and selling enough physical copies in late May doesn't have much bearing on what Nintendo have done so far, or on any of the small announcements in the Mini. Now maybe they've internally delayed some other big titles, but we have no evidence for that.
maybe it would be best the mental health of this thread to not consider unannounced game announced.
I hear ya. I still play 64 and BlueStorm every now and then. They hold up, but I'd love a new one.
We're in a pandemic. Projects that haven't even been announced officially will be the first ones to be pushed back. You can't "delay" a game that wasn't ever actually announced, so it's the best course of action to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
2019 was decent (FE was incredible, LM3 was good, but SMM2, Astral Chain and Pokemon were all disappointments), but nothing exceptional (I'd argue that Nintendo's last exceptional year was 2014), and it can easily be beaten by a good Paper Mario and a 3D Mario collection.
As someone who utterly hates Xenoblade 2, I can say that Xenoblade 1 is a masterpiece - and part of the reason why Xenoblade 2 sucked was that it attempted to emulate Xenoblade 1 without any understanding of what made it so good.
Except we've had the French source who was one of the leakers for that Direct say that the Direct Mini had the content as planned and wasn't changed or cut down due to Covid-19. That's what I was referring to.
