@FragRed Smash 4 port around April would be enough on that front. Could be something like:
February - Bayonetta 1+2
March - Kirby Star Allies
April - Smash 4
May - Fire Emblem + 3rd parties
June - Yoshi
To promote the new Fire Emblem, the Smash 4 port would have a main character from that game as 1 of the extra playable fighters.
@Grumblevolcano A Smash port though will sell systems again isn't enough to sell the kinds of numbers the Switch will need to on a month by month basis for the first half of the year. Obviously Nintendo are looking at fiscal year not calendar year for sales, but I still feel there is something more to announce for first half.
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Man, axiom verge is such a beautiful game to play. Especially on handheld, the colors are so vibrant. Sometimes I forget the switch is also an HD handheld
@FragRed Well the only way I see other big games for the first half on the 1st party front is if some of the already announced games listed above are not coming out until the second half. So like if Yoshi was July and Fire Emblem was fall 2018.
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It is worth remembering that the Switch is the first home console that's also a portable console. Nintendo has always had to support two systems, with the Switch doing well and the 3DS on its last legs those days are gone.
I think of 2013 when the Wii U was struggling to get a regular flow of games. That was the same year the 3DS got Fire Emblem, Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing and Zelda. If the 3DS didn't exist and the Wii U had got some of those games instead? It would have been a very, very different first year for the Wii U.
@skywake If the Wii U and 3DS were instead 1 console with the combined libraries, Nintendo would've moved around release dates (including delaying some to 2014) to reduce gaps rather than overcrowd certain months. I believe the Switch era will have more games overall but not to the point where months have like 3 big 1st party games releasing.
On another note, there's a rumoured Direct date being January 11th which sounds about right especially with the Amazon placeholders.
Which, it seems about as reasonable a guess you could make. Unless Nintendo hears wind of it and then purposely set it back a week to throw people off. Companies love trying to discredit leaks.
Anyways, with steady sales and the fiscal year coming to an end, I think it's fair to assume we won't be seeing anything too big until FY2. They'll probably coast through to March. Give us Kirby, Lost Sphear, Bayonetta 1/2 ports, and let that be that. Close out the year out with 15 million sold and a gang of games ready to boost sales for Fiscal Year 2.
I am so excited for this direct. I am hoping for a date on Octopath and that its still scheduled for spring. Next Im hoping for an official Animal Crossing announcement for my gf... Third, I know its going to be more than 1 big surprise and Im just dying to see whats up.
@skywake If the Wii U and 3DS were instead 1 console with the combined libraries, Nintendo would've moved around release dates (including delaying some to 2014) to reduce gaps rather than overcrowd certain months. I believe the Switch era will have more games overall but not to the point where months have like 3 big 1st party games releasing.
I wasn't saying that there would have been three big games all in the one month. Obviously they will shuffle them around and fill in the gaps a bit more. But even so if the Switch is becoming effectively the sole focus of Nintendo? There will be months where we get more than one game. So I don't think it's as simple as saying "we know of X games therefore there are only 12 - X unknown games for this year".
To put it simply, I pointed to 2013 where the Wii U had huge gaps. In that same year Nintendo published ~16 fairly significant games in total. There was just under 1 game a month for the 3DS and about 1 every two months for Wii U. But if the Switch gets the full 16 or even 12-14? There will inevitably be months where we get more than one Nintendo published game. Especially if they leave spaces for third parties.
Just because we know that Kirby game probably fills that space in March/April doesn't mean that they won't have a January Direct where they surprise announce Super Mario Maker for the same month.
I love how everyone is super convinced that there will be a January Direct. It's basically considered fact at this point even though Nintendo has said nothing. I believe it too, of course, but I would laugh so hard if Nintendo announces a Direct for February 1st.
Unlike the Wii U era, Nintendo has a successful system that needs to keep selling, since all of their proverbial eggs are in this one basket. They brought a rapid fire onslaught for 2017, but as of yet, we really know nothing about 2018. Leaving fans in the dark the entire month of January, including the millions of people who just got a new system for the holiday... would be poor form indeed.
It's gotta be January. Anything less would be foolish.
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Well if you count the number of months between non-game specific and non-region specific Directs the median gap is about 2 months. Even during the Wii U era where there wasn't much to say we were getting them at about once every 4 months or so. The last such Direct was in September so I think it's fair to say we're due.
aside from the pokemon, smash, metroid, animal crossing news everyone has been waiting for.... I feel like this direct is going to have some big ass surprises.
I'll honestly be surprised if we don't get a Smash 4 port next year. Although I would also need them to add in all of the previous DLC content as a part of the $60 price tag.
I don't think we'll be getting another Smash this gen, though. And, honestly, we don't need one.
@YummyHappyPills I'm sorry but I don't understand why Nintendo would decide to not release a game like Animal Crossing that they would have been working on for three to four years and would be a great system seller especially at a time when they are wanting to hit 20 million additional sales, simply because it may affect the sales of an indie game.
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@YummyHappyPills and who cares about you? how many console gamers bought a Wii U? oh but lets not port it because @YummyHappyPills doesnt want to buy it.
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