Yes and the pandemic has likely thrown a wrench in how and when they planned to market their games, development etc. The closest we have to go on is that they said it hasn’t impacted them but that’s a debatable claim to begin with considering the context of the place they said it in.
This year has had been a mostly bad year for games in general with lots of delays and companies struggling to work with the situation. Nintendo has always been behind the times so it’s not surprising they’d be hit hard by it. Anyways my point is that the situation is different than during the Wii U era. I understand the comparison since we’re in a drought for info but the explanations behind it are different
@link3710 there is ONE system to develop for. They used to have two. There should be a more healthy stream of games coming out. Sorry I wrote NO games coming out the week of paper Mario. My comment I guess would be relevant next week. I hate that this community thinks I don't support Nintendo because I don't see them as the perfect company.
@Magician I am making the assumption that xbox knew the last year or two of xbox one was a right off, has abandoned ship, but there will be series x games. I honestly don't know what's up with Nintendo. Again I own 4 switches. Have owned every Nintendo console. But I am disappointed with how few new games are being released from a company which used to have to develop for multiple systems. If there isn't enough man power outsource the ports and buy some studios. Clubhouse 51 is the only game I bought in 2020.
I do think that a Direct wouldn't hurt at this point. They don't have anything after Paper Mario. Even if the virus delayed their games by a month or so, that wouldn't rule them out from revealing them. We'll have something to look forward to at least.
@sixrings Uh, no I just think you're a rager who always wants to be upset since you post 100% negative posts and are never happy.
But that aside, I was just correcting the facts, no duh there's issues. Them having nothing announced is just as much an issue as them having nothing coming out. You just see me stating facts that contradict your narrative as me calling them perfect, when instead I said that they were making a different mistake.
Also, most people around here are regularly upset at Nintendo, they're just also able to acknowledge they're doing a lot right this gen as well. So please just stop with the pity party already, no one is out to get you or anything.
As for the one system thing... All I'll say is try adding up the actual number of exclusives from the 3DS + Wii U era, and only count dual releases once and compare it to now. You might be surprised just how few unique games really were coming out back then. Again, not that they don't need to step it up, but the issue is they need to step up development group growth and replace lost devs like AlphaDream and Skip Ltd, not that they've suddenly fallen back to making less games for no reason.
@link3710 I just love games. Listen last night my family had a lan party. What were the games???? Splatoon 2 and then Mario Vs Sonic Olympics Soccer. That is pretty sad. One game is super old and the other game isn't exactly stellar
@sixrings You're tending to overreaction if you label a current gen game like Splatoon 2 super-old. I wouldn't even call anything last gen "super-old". By my definition dinosaurs are super-old.
@sixrings Well, if you're just looking for other local multiplayer games, there are plenty of great options other than those. Smash Ultimate, Mario Kart 8, Overcooked 1 or 2, Chicken Horse, Rocket League, NSMBU DX, Super Bomberman R, Death Squared, Sonic Mania, Minecraft Dungeons, Diablo 3, Darksiders Genesis, Snipperclips, Jackbox, Killer Queen Black, Moving Out, Cuphead, Super Mario Maker 2, Fast RMX, are all ones I've played.
Also MUA3, Super Mario Party, Clubhouse Games, Mario Tennis, and Luigi's Mansion 3 but I'd call those more good than great.
This year's been pretty single player focused though, only Clubhouse Games, Animal Crossing, Borderlands 1/2/pre-sequel, Mr. Driller Drillland (don't sleep on this one), Spongebob, Minecraft Dungeons, Shovel Knight Showdown, Zombie Army Trilogy, Jedi Academy, Darksiders Genesis, and Speedrunners released this year so far with notable local multiplayer.
Hope some of those help! There's probably enough variation here for you to find something I'd hope.
@Magician@sixrings The Xbox situation is pretty much a combination of issues from many years ago (e.g. cancellation of early XB1 era game announcements like Scalebound, closure of studios during the 2010s like Lionhead (the Fable devs)), Microsoft only started returning to bolstering 1st party studios in 2018 so it'll take time for those studios to have Xbox games and finally the case of saving games so the Series X launch window lineup becomes stronger.
All that aside, I would say that Xbox 2020 so far has been more interesting than Switch 2020 but really a lot of Switch 2020 so far comes down to whether Animal Crossing is your kind of thing or if you have time for Animal Crossing. GotY for me does go to Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition though.
@sixrings You're tending to overreaction if you label a current gen game like Splatoon 2 super-old. I wouldn't even call anything last gen "super-old". By my definition dinosaurs are super-old.
Exactly. I mean, geez, is a game old after a year now? What's the cut-off? Can we go back to when any game that launched new on a current-gen console is not considered "old," please?
@rallydefault I think it's because of Games as a Service, with lots of games having gone that route the setup seems to pretty much be once a game stops being supported it's old. So like every Nintendo game is old except Animal Crossing New Horizons, Smash Ultimate, Pokemon Sword/Shield, Tetris 99, Fire Emblem Heroes, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, Dr. Mario World and Mario Kart Tour.
That's my understanding of the situation, rather extreme but it's likely why seasonal grinds like batte passes exist. The grind keeps players playing the game meanwhile if the grind wasn't around they'd play other games. I miss when the only thing you'd miss by playing other games was some meaningless number like the ranking system in Halo 3 (the 360 version).
@Heavyarms55 In the X menu to the far right is the relationship page, that will show how friendly you are to each individual, including animals when you get them.
So something odd happened when I went on the wii u eshop yesterday. I noticed not as many nes, snes, n64, GBA games were on VC as there were before. I figured i would check it out later to see what games were possibly gone. Well I went to go grab one of the castlevania gba games and low and behold, they're all gone. The only one left is super castlevania.
I know this isn't switch related, but I wonder why they're gone. Are they possibly going to release another castlevania collection on switch with gba games? Or added to NSO? If this were the case, I still don't see why it would be taken down.
All and all, kind of stinks since I eventually wanted to grab all 3 of them at some point. Now I'm wondering whwt else was taken down.
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