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Nintendo has zero games scheduled for release in November 2020

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Empyrean Cocytus

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With today's Mario 35th Anniversary direct, it was confirmed that Super Mario 3D Allstars will release in just a few weeks, and Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury will be launching in February 2021. Together with Pikmin 3 Deluxe launching at the end of October, this means that Nintendo will have zero games releasing in November of 2020, arguably the most lucrative month for games for the year. What's more, this will be one of the biggest Novembers in recent memory, with two new consoles launching and a glut of new games being released across HD platforms. But barely any will be released for the Switch, and zero from Nintendo itself, leaving the Switch in a definite conundrum especially as it remains the biggest-selling platform worldwide by a large margin.

There's an obvious explanation - Mario 3D World + was meant to be the major holiday release, until COVID-19 happened. But with zero games this holiday outside of a handful of ports, and going up against two heavily-hyped console launches, I can't imagine how Nintendo comes out of their Q3 doing well.
 
P-MAC

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They announced a game today that comes out in 2 weeks time. Paper Mario was announced less than 2 months before it came out. It's way too early to say they don't have a game in November.

Of course they might not, what you say about 3D world makes sense and we can discuss that then, but right now nobody knows that.
 
Etrian Darkness

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I'm sure they'll announce something 2 weeks before it comes out just like the 3D All Stars collection.

3D World is filling that Jan slot that the other Mario game port came out in Jan.
 
Gay Bowser

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They announced Paper Mario about two months before its release.

September is still young.
 
VitalitySensor

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They have a collection including their three of their biggest games of all time and Animal Crossing is still doing well.
Before today, I would have agreed, but there's no way they're not gonna come out of this poorly.
 

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Empyrean Cocytus said:
With today's Mario 35th Anniversary direct, it was confirmed that Super Mario 3D Allstars will release in just a few weeks, and Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury will be launching in February 2021. Together with Pikmin 3 Deluxe launching at the end of October, this means that Nintendo will have zero games releasing in November of 2020, arguably the most lucrative month for games for the year. What's more, this will be one of the biggest Novembers in recent memory, with two new consoles launching and a glut of new games being released across HD platforms. But barely any will be released for the Switch, and zero from Nintendo itself, leaving the Switch in a definite conundrum especially as it remains the biggest-selling platform worldwide by a large margin.

There's an obvious explanation - Mario 3D World + was meant to be the major holiday release, until COVID-19 happened. But with zero games this holiday outside of a handful of ports, I can't imagine how Nintendo comes out of their Q3 doing well.
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It's bc there is a November game and we don't know what it is yet.
 
Jahranimo

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3rd party November 2017 blitz is finally going to receive its sequel.
 
Snarfington

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I think they got hit pretty hard by COVID but I also think they're smart enough to know that what they can release in the coming months is probably best kept away from PS5/XSX launches, since so far there are no real heavy hitters (3D All Stars is one, kinda, but not really). You don't put Pikmin 3 Deluxe up against a next gen console launch.
 
jeelybeans

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I'm surprised if this ends up being the case between BOTW2, Metroid, and Bayonetta...I think they are giving this holiday up with the launch of the other consoles and will focus these more mature games for a beefed up Switch in 2021.
 
Yahsper

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How often does this thread need to be made. Nintendo had been announcing titles to be released in a matter of weeks since Covid happened. We'll see what happens. No need to make a thread on this every single week.
 
GuitarGuruu

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Is it totally unreasonable for them to announce and release something in the time frame they just did today?
 
Cookie

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Watch them drop BOTW2 on November 18 with the announcement on November 3. Nintendo doesn't give a fuck.
 
Mr.Adele

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The overreacting threads are coming, I see

They are going to announce new games, we have 2 months until November
 
Loud Wrong

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P-MAC said:
They announced a game today that comes out in 2 weeks time. It's way too early to say they don't have a game in November.

Of course they might not, what you say about 3D world makes sense and we can discuss that then, but right now nobody knows that.
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A collection of 3 ports is hardly the same as a major release.
 
TheIdiot

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What everyone else said. They're not going to go into holiday season without at least one major release.
 
RailWays

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I don't think they've revealed all their releases for this year yet. I'm sure there will be some holiday slated title.
 
Rust

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Pikmin comes out on October 30.

Apparently it only sells for two days, then evaporates.
 
RochHoch

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Nintendo completely gave up on this year a long time ago

They probably won't get their shit together until like, March
 
Mendrox

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After what they've shown today I am absolutely sure that Covid didn't just make things more difficult for them, but it made many things completely impossible because they weren't able to get everything up that quick if at all if I look at the Covid Japan situation where many people are not able to work from home.

The whole Mario Collection looks like a quick and easy cash in and setting a date will make sure that many people will have FOMO so that they will surely buy and play in that time, because there is nothing else so they try to maxmize that timeframe.

Even that collection cover was very...quickly done.
 
maximumzero

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The worst thing to me is that all their currently scheduled releases outside of that Mario Game toy/game are literally ports.

As someone that generally doesn't rebuy games I already own, practically every major announcement from the today means absolutely nothing.

What a bummer. This might be Nintendo's worst holiday in recent memory.
 
P-MAC

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Loud Wrong said:
A collection of 3 ports is hardly the same as a major release.
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That doesn't really change anything I said. OP said Nintendo has zero games, we don't know that is true. OP also suggested Mario 3D World was originally going to be November's major release, which is closer to this collection than it is to a new major release. If that would have counted then another one can too.
 
Oregano

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Remember when there was going to be no first party releases between Paper Mario and Cadence/Pikmin 3?

Feels like yesterday
 
Simba1

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Empyrean Cocytus said:
this means that Nintendo will have zero games releasing in November of 2020, arguably the most lucrative month for games for the year.

There's an obvious explanation - Mario 3D World + was meant to be the major holiday release, until COVID-19 happened. But with zero games this holiday outside of a handful of ports, and going up against two heavily-hyped console launches, I can't imagine how Nintendo comes out of their Q3 doing well.
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I wouldn't be so sure, they just announced Mario Collection that will be out in 2 weeks, so they could announced November game in November.

I wouldn't worry about sales of Switch and Switch games, Switch is selling like crazy hole year, and Mario Collection will have quite boost to sales.
 
eseqko

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Discussion around Mario Game and Watch is going to interesting mid November.
 
Bonejack

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As we've all witnessed today, you can start worrying 2 week before November is over. ^^
 
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