Nintendo Provides Another Update About Its Development Schedule

Just give me Breath of The Wild 2, and whatever.

This doesn't surprise me really. I expected Nintendo to be impacted by the virus to some degree or another. While I would like to get some news as much as any other fan, I'm glad they're at least trying to take measures to keep their employees safe and even delay things to reduce crunch.

So does this prove that Nintendo didn't have many games planned for this year, even without Covid?

“I’m shocked, absolutely shocked! Well- not that shocked...”

I'm waiting for No More Heroes 3. And bravely default 2. And still want to play Fire Emblem Three Houses.

Man, this situation seems to really be hitting Nintendo way harder than PlayStation and Microsoft, who are still having competent game showcases. I've seen various reports saying working from home is less ideal in Japan because of lower internet speeds, et cetera; this seems like a poor excuse to me, though, since Sony is a Japanese corporation and they absolutely killed it with their PS5 showcase. I went from zero interest to seriously contemplating buying my first non-Nintendo console.

Obviously, employee safety comes first, and I'm not trying to insinuate Nintendo has no excuse. Just that I don't understand why they seem to be struggling the hardest and I don't think cultural differences in Japan is the chief issue. Sony and Microsoft operate on a much larger scale than just video game distribution, so I suppose Nintendo could just lack the resources since they are a smaller company. In a semi-recent Nintendo Voice Chat episode via IGN, they had Bill Trinen as a guest, who mentioned Nintendo is a much smaller company than many people might assume.

Either way, the Switch's lineup for the rest of the year is looking to be a sad state of affairs, but I know there are more pressing issues in the world today, and heaven knows my backlog is long enough as it is. (Why there's a record of my gameplay history on the other side of the pearly gates is beyond me.) Who knows, though, Nintendo may surprise us, as it seems to be a trend for the first half of the year to be a lull and the fall/winter months to host a treasure trove of games. If not, though, I think it's okay to simultaneously be disappointed yet understanding.

@Not_Soos I think the other companies had more planned to begin with, what with new consoles coming up and all...

Not saying Nintendo is wrong for prioritizing safety over productivity, but their release schedule does seem a tad... Meagre.

Did any of the shareholders ask 'soooo what games are you going to release this year exactly?' because currently Nintendo has nothing announced.

Nintendo is certainly taking a bigger hit than PS

Been looking at too many memes. As soon as I read, "In terms of production and shipping" my brain auto filled it to, "we have no production and shipping".

@RickD Groan.

The lock downs could have worked if people would have actually followed them and if politicians hadn't kept trying to open too soon. In my Province we got it down to having only four cases for a bit, but they keep letting people in from other Provinces and we're up to around 30 active cases now. We shut down in early March and honestly our population wasn't even that responsible. But if you don't try to pressure people back to work right away, and if you keep the bars closed the virus would straight up die out.

But all these politicians act as if the world will end if the rich people don't have workers throwing themselves into the breach to 'combat' a virus that they only make stronger by not staying home.

If this years games are unaffected then please tell us what they are.

With how things have been going, I hope it's already impacted. I really don't hope that their 2020 was to suppose to look like this.

@Not_Soos
PlayStation is basically an American company at this point (PlayStation's HQ is in California).

Nintendo is the only one of the three console manufacturers headquartered in Japan.

There’s a decent amount of product hitting switch each month, I’m in no rush as long as developers polish their games. Glances at Deadly Premonition 2

"game releases planned for this fiscal year are currently not affected"
And, yet, nobody knows what to buy from Nintendo from next month 😂

Nintendo never had many games ready for this year. But their loyal followers will always say 'thats ok...i still have a backlog of games'. Nintendo loves that.

@westman98 Yep that seems to be lost on people round these parts all the time.

@Not_Soos Nintendo don’t lack resources, they are a cash-rich company.

I have a PS4 and switch and find they compliment each other perfectly so recommend it!

Actually, I take this note as surprisingly positive. They said this year’s releases aren’t impacted, which is great!

New game releases won't be affected if there no new games to release this year.

@RickD Erm, look at Sweden in comparison to its neighbours. They have had more than twice as many cases as Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland put together...

@datamonkey Relative to Sony and MicroSoft, however, they have less resources. Just from publicly disclosed data, Nintendo would be a moderately sized division at either of the other two companies.

That said, I think there's a confluence of factors coming into play here. Japan has had an up-and-down policy re: staying at home which I'm sure had a stop-start effect on development, but also as a less technology-focused company I suspect their business processes were also geared towards in-person collaboration, so the transition to remote working was more disruptive than at their competitors.

Finally, I think marketing has been much lower down their priority list than development. They're been making money hand over fist this year, and Switch is selling like hotcakes. They don't actually need to fight for walletshare right now, they just need to preserve mindshare going into the holiday season.

As long as products are released in the coming months, shareholders will be happy, and let's be honest - does anyone really think that Nintendo has/had NOTHING planned for 2H 2020? @boredlizard?

I think it's more the lack of communication from Nintendo that's the most frustrating thing. Sony and Microsoft are not only releasing a tonne of games this year, but new consoles, yet Nintendo continues to be completely silent.

If they even said we had games X, Y and Z planned for this year but they'll likely be delayed until 2021 due to Covid it would quell a lot of the discontent Nintendo fans are currently feeling.

The reason Nintendo is not announcing games early is because they're already struggling to supply enough hardware to meet demand. Announcing big titles normally leads to a big bump in hardware sales, but that's not going to happen at the moment. I suspect they'll announce further in advance when the hardware is less supply constrained.

@RickD It's not really been hiding anywhere though has it? It's still out there, but lockdowns have no doubt prevented deaths by protecting the vulnerable and lessening the burden on healthcare services by reducing spikes in infection.

@RickD Was lockdown the best way of dealing with Coronavirus?

If the UK government had acted sooner and put measures in place back in February then the outcome could well have been better, even without a full lockdown being necessary, but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

@Not_Soos Internet is much better in Japan on the whole than the US. One problem is company servers were not initially ready to deal with a lot of people working from home. And telecommuting is not common in Japan so companies were not really prepared to deal with personnel management. That said, Japan has been more like Sweden and there was never really a lockdown. The Japanese gov't could not lock down the country because it violates human rights.

We are one week away from August. That's roughly 90 days from November and the full-bore holiday season where most major releases are targeted. And as of right now, there is zero, nada, zilch in terms of first-party announcements for the remainder of 2020 by Nintendo. If a full Direct is coming, one would think it must be imminent simply from a marketing standpoint.

@Not_Soos My stance on this certainly mirrors your own. Interesting that you brought up NVC. Peer Schneider gave his take on that podcast about why Nintendo will be hit harder.
I've just tracked it down for you. Episode 507 at the 22 minute mark.

If Nintendo say all they have for the rest of the year is Mario 64 remastered and that’s it I will be happy. But no announcement is making me twitchy I can’t relax! Xxx

@Not_Soos You should absolutely get a non-Nintendo console as well as your Nintendo one if you have the time to play.
I don't know much about Xbox it's never had much that appeals to me (though the latest showcase actually did!) but Playstation has some fantastic titles, and they're not all the grey and serious, gritty games some would have you believe. I mean The Last of Us and Blooborne are and they're both fantastic. But then you have games like Dreams, Horizon Zero Dawn, Concrete Genie, Ratchet & Clank, Spider-man, Tearaway etc. And games that sit between in their colourful and creative presentation but with a more adult theme like Uncharted and God of War. But then the PS5 is reportedly backwards compatable, so unless you can get a 4 cheap you might want to wait a little longer. Or get a PS3, that had an amazing library too!

@Hobbesyall Nintendo is certainly taking a bigger hit than every other company.

Fixed XD

@SwitchplayerJohn Very true, at first game sales rise due to lockdowns... But as time goes on and jobs are lost games sales may decrease as priorities change...

I'm good. I have Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem, I need nothing else.

@boredlizard yes. Unless there is a news blowout by September, I’m not expecting much.

@the_beaver And a very good correction thank you

Just give us a Direct with interesting NEW games and not just re-makes / HD versions

I've just been getting games I wanted to pick up for Switch, but never did for whatever reason, and extending my backlog in the process. Astral Chain, Collection of Mana, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, LEGO City Undercover... I got so many games that at this point I might be collecting/hoarding.

I’m convinced we are going to hear quite soon what 1st/2nd party games are in store for the end of this year. I reckon Nintendo have been frantically adapting to COVID and trying to sort out console supply issues while also watching the competition before planning and revealing their hand. They have to tell us soon even if it’s just one or two smaller games and not any big hitters. I reckon in the next 2-3 weeks we’ll get a full Direct. Yes I’m a blinkered fanboy.

Say what you want but Doug Bowser and Furukawa are making this company seem dumb because they previously said they were not affected...

@KayFiOS Same here, I've been working through games I started but set aside to play 'the next thing'. I still have an indie I got at Christmas and only played 30 minutes, an entire Batman game, and about 7 others I haven't loaded. And I'm in the middle of 9 other games. I still have to fight Calamity Ganon...

@beazlen1
I hope that you are right. I mean, it makes sense. They must have at least two 1st/2nd party games planned for the holiday season. Probably smaller games, but they still need something. And they are going to need to announce them soon to take advantage of marketing.

I am glad that Everyone at Nintendo are safe but as a gamer and a stock holder.... we need a direct! We know you have something, so announce it already, you were my portfolio heroes, I want you to go back up!

There are three games with release dates on Switch for the rest of this year that I am interested in and all three are multi-plats that I'll be getting on PS4 instead.

At the moment, all I know about in development is the new Zelda and Metroid and they could be a year away, they could be three years away.

I need announcements for this holiday season and we really should have heard by now.

@FoxMcCloud FE 3 houses is an awesome game. I didn't think the graphics were very good, but the story, voice acting and strategy gameplay are outstanding

@Shepdawg1 Nice to finally see some level headed responses. Nintendo has struggled to give any news they can, and yet so many fans are enraged that they don't have more Directs and new games announced. If anything, I'm impressed they've managed to put out six games in seven months even amidst the virus.

@Not_Soos You're forgetting that Japan was one of the last countries to institute a shutdown. They were making changes to daily activities to try and curve the spread, but it didn't work and the entire country implemented an immediate shutdown. Which made everyone slam on the brakes since it happened abruptly.

Japan just started reopening procedures last month, so I would expect many things Nintendo had planned to "announce" was affected, but development was still on track. What Nintendo chooses to share versus what they're actually developing are two totally different things. They are one of the most secretive companies in the world, they could have 2 game or thousands in development, I doubt the latter, but we don't know until they tell us.

While Sony's global headquarters is listed in Japan, they have shifted much of their operations to Europe and the US. It also explains why Japan runs toward Nintendo rather than Sony due to the restructuring that happened about a decade ago that sent most of those jobs out of the country.

Microsoft, everything happens out of Redmond, WA and their infrastructure is way bigger than Sony and Nintendo combined. So, I'm not surprised they saw little interruption since they could resume business as usual for much of their stuff from home.

While I feel disappointed in some ways, it doesn't overshadow my concern over the pandemic.

@Not_Soos I've seen people make this claim the Microsoft and Sony apparently are doing just fine. But.. what exact metric is being used to determine that? Game showcases? First of all, a lot of the PS5 stuff had already been largely finished and waiting for fall release, but we have no idea how much was pushed back. Literally no idea. And we don't even have any release date for literally any games or even the console itself.. so.. making this determination that somehow it's all well and good and unaffected is insanely meaningless.

Not to mention that Microsoft has shown off very little of note. 95% of the games they've shown are third party multiplatform titles. They've shown a few Microsoft owned properties now, but they're all stuff everyone already knew was in development and virtually nothing actually new. And also, like Sony, no dates in literally anything or info on what may have been pushed back. And all of their games are available on PC anyway, so the excitement for the new console isn't exceedingly high for many.

And then Nintendo.. oddly upfront and transparent about dealing with delays, and yet they've put out six major first party games in seven months. Meanwhile, how many has Microsoft put out this year? Have they even released one? What about Sony? They've put out two and while both are good games (seemingly; I haven't actually played Last of Us Part II yet, but Ghost of Tsushima is good), they were also both massively delayed. Neither company has done much else this year and so if all their work has been on their new launch this fall, they better have something to show for it after mostly taking the last 18 months off.

It's also worth noting that Microsoft is worth about 30 times as much as Nintendo and Sony is worth about twice as much. So..to say they have more resource potentially is a disgusting understatement, and yet Nintendo always puts out a much larger number of new software titles than both. Usually more than both combined, in a year.

@Kilamanjaro Thanks for the reply, after finishing Paper Mario i'm gonna buy FE 3 Houses. That will get me through the winter.

honestly im just a kid and i dont really care that the 2020 lineup is small try replaying games you have or take a look at your backlog and stop whining all the time these days adults have no attention span well not all adults some people are grateful for what they have but a good chunk of nintendo "fans" don't really care about the companies well being and constantly want new games in times like these im ashamed to be a nintendo fan

Nintendo claims that games still planned for this fiscal year ending March 2021 are still planned to be released this fiscal year.

That doesn't mean delays are impossible - it just means any game initially planned to release by March 2021 will still be released by March 2021. So if a game was supposed to launch in November 2020 but was delayed to February 2021 due to Covid, then it is still technically launching during this fiscal year and thus hasn't been "affected", even though it has actually been delayed.

Excuses, excuses

Hopefully this message penetrates the brains of all the man-babies crying about first party titles and Nintendo Directs.

@vikgamer168 Right? It’s like people forget that we can replay games we own, or browse the eShop. We literally are surrounded by more games than we can play in our lifetime, but people get greedy and impatient because Breath of the Wild 2 or Metroid Prime 4 aren’t our yet.

Good take, and from a kid, too! Made my day. Hopefully others listen to you and try to enjoy what they already have. Have a good one!

@Not_Soos This makes a lot of sense, and I’m surprised that so many people are jumping down your throat, but fan boys will be fan boys!

@Deltath You’re comparing two consoles that are at the literal end of their life cycles to Nintendo, which is in full stride and in the middle of a booming console cycle.

I mean, what do you want? What exactly are you asking for, and can it wait? The level of fanboy on this site is reaching a fever pitch...just let Nintendo do what they do, and be patient until their next game releases.

The thing of note here is Nintendo is continuously reiterating that games releasing this year are unaffected. It's future year's pipelines they're saying are delayed.

Think about that a moment. In July 2020 we are unaware of a single Nintendo game releasing in 2020, or for Holiday 2020. At all. And they claim 2020 releases were not affected by delays.

That means two things. It does mean they have one or more games they intend to release this year. It also means they can't have much in the way of games they're releasing this year - and that's all according to the original plan and not affected by the lockdowns.

The lack of games NEXT year, will be because of the lockdowns. The lack of games THIS year is because Nintendoes Nintendo and this is the actual planned situation from before the lockdowns.

Now, we all knew in a year Sony and Microsoft were releasing a new console, Nintendo would have to lay low. Not to mention, Nintendo needs to give third parties a chance to prosper before the PS5SeX comes out because the third parties will bail hard after that. So we should expect it....but between that and the lockdown the omen is a really bumpy ride for the remainder of Switch's life, and a Wii-to-WiiU and WiiU-to-Switch type transition from "we haven't had many games for years" to "oh there's a new console next year to wait for and the games will go there.

@Gus_Campos Lol, BOTW 2 can wait, give Nintendo time to adjust to the pandemic, this stuff doesn’t happen over night, especially for giant corporations.

Whats more they’ve completely stopped making games this year

I think Ninty are milking it a bit. They had no games left anyway.

@TG16_IS_BAE "I mean, what do you want? What exactly are you asking for, and can it wait? The level of fanboy on this site is reaching a fever pitch...just let Nintendo do what they do, and be patient until their next game releases."

I literally can't figure out what in the hell you're talking about. I haven't made a single comment asking for anything. I'm not even vaguely a Nintendo fanboy. I haven't in any way, shape or form interfered with Nintendo and I certainly haven't been impatient about even the tiniest thing.

I can't tell if you accidentally replied to the wrong comment or somehow read a comment I wrote and didn't understand anything that was being said, but the only comment I made was in regards to someone claiming Nintendo is somehow more impacted by the pandemic than Microsoft or Sony. The entire point of what I said is that despite the pandemic, Nintendo has done an excellent job and put out a ton of products and that we don't have enough information about Microsoft or Sony to have any idea how they've been impacted.

If anything, I was saying be patient and appreciate that good games have still come out. What did you think I was saying?

@Deltath Haha, the way your post was written it came across like you were saying the exact opposite.

@TG16_IS_BAE I'm not sure if you read the post I was replying to, but he was saying Nintendo had no excuse for not putting out more games because Sony is in Japan too and if they can put out a good games showcase, Nintendo surely can as well. I was just pointing out the lack of logic in his determination. Sony has been working tirelessly for the last several years to focus on this fall specifically, because they had a new system coming. They already had many finished products in the pipe. And they also haven't acknowledged any development issues, so we have no idea if they've been hit hard and had to internally delay any number of titles. We do know that the two games they did put out this year during the pandemic did both get delayed twice. So the only evidence we got showed they were impacted.

But Nintendo met all of their release dates that were announced pre-pandemic (Mystery Dungeon, Xenoblade and Clubhouse Games). As to whether or not Paper Mario was intended for earlier, we'll never know. Anyway, point is, they've released as many or more games than previous years of the Switch despite the pandemic so they're clearly doing a pretty good job of trying to get stuff out to fans. It's just people like to complain anyway.

I think Microsoft and Sony are trying their best, too. They're all businesses. It's in their best interest to work hard and get products out. The idea that some fans think somehow Nintendo or any company would be holding out on games that are ready to show off is silly. It doesn't help them. The fact that Nintendo has publicly said they might experience delays says volumes to me though that they're actually having real problems from the pandemic because usually they don't say anything. So.. I say let all these companies just take the time they need. There are tons of games out and Sony and Nintendo both have pretty good games on sale for their summer sale. I just picked up Resident Evil 2 remake and Control for PS4 yesterday then Resident Evil Revelations 2 and the Capcom Beat 'Em Ups Bundle for Switch.

I also, like most gamers, have a good handful of games in my backlog. I haven't even started FFVIIR or Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition yet, as well as some others.. so honestly, I wouldn't mind if nothing gets announced for a good while for any system. Got lots to play and I'd rather these folks just stay safe and get what they can done.

Doesn't mean I don't like gaming news, I just don't think it's more important than anything else, you know?

@Deltath You bet! Thanks for clarifying!

Ever since The Game Awards 2019, the expectations of some major reveal from Nintendo has risen up to the point where I believe no future Nintendo Direct would easily satisfy fans.

Where a BotW 2 trailer sits with no SSBU Fighter reveal, there would be backlash. Where a Super Mario 35th Anniversary game sits with no BotW 2 trailer, there would be backlash.

As for those comparisons with Microsoft and Sony's events, I'm surprised the reason for the massive presentations isn't as obvious as it is. The only reason Microsoft and Sony went all-out with their presentations is to ensure success of their consoles, considering how small console libraries are within the first two years of their life. Otherwise, I would've expected Microsoft and Sony to be in the same position as Nintendo.

@Not_Soos There's also the usual anti nintendo bias. Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman and Demon's Souls are considered as a revolutionary games while Paper Mario, Pokemon or Xenoblade are considered as rehash. Be careful about the narrative the big wallets are trying to force into your mind.

@HobbitGamer don't worry bro ganons a pushover and I'm not even that great.

Well, if there is not going to be any Nintendo Switches available in the future, I'm going to riot. I want one again so bad, but now that movie theaters are being pushed back to August and maybe more, I won't be able to buy one. Unless I can find a much cheaper one for $120. I don't care, if I can't be able to get my job back, I won't be able to pay for one.

@Not_Soos PlayStation operates out of the US

Wow so nothing has been delayed, yet they can’t do a direct or even a e3 direct because they have nothing to show.
Sounds like this years first party effort was paper and crossing the end.
I get the feeling that everyone is moving on from the switch as we’ve seem the lowest amount of releases from Nintendo and big third parties. We’ve got Zelda breath 2, bay 3 and Metroid 4 to come but bay 3 and Metroid 4 will be console year 4 releases.
We’re in yr3 and around end of yr4 they talk next console to release in yr5 We’re definitely on the downhill slope to the finish line.

@RickD Given that Sweden is 7th for most deaths per capita, I think it's pretty insane to say that they had a good strategy. Months in hospitals now have a much better idea of how to treat patients and lower the mortality rate.

Also, screw the economy. All the economy is is the rate at which people are buying and selling things from each other. THAT'S IT! It's complicated, but it's different from something like the great depression where nobody had money to spend and blah blah blah.

Whether or not the rich have a steady stream of income going in and out of their books ultimately doesn't matter. It only matters so much as they bribe politicians to do stupid things like reopening too early. If all the world leaders would have shut down air travel and ground travel in and out of China when this started, none of this would have happened. But they didn't want to do that, "because the economy". Meanwhile the economy would have been much better off if they had.

Once the virus got out of China, if they would have shut everything down for two months and limited travel to truckers, and people who had been cleared of having the virus by testing. They could have massively limited the spread, and there would be hundreds of thousands of people still alive.

If you think that wouldn't have worked, look at China. They quarantined Wuhan, when it got out of Wuhan, they locked everything down. Now they're only letting people into the country in a controlled manner. I don't like the Chinese government, I'm fully aware that they lie. But at least they don't lie to themselves. They understood what needed to be done to save their civilization and they did it. So why can't Western countries pull that off until a vaccine is available?

Answer, our rich people have too much control.

It's good news though, because all those Wii U games that were in development and quickly ported over to Switch after Wii U became a massive failure means we'll see more games next year- all those Wii U ones that never came out, and all the Switch ones that were in development too before Covid. We're going to get tons and tons of games in 2021! Why isn't everyone happy?

Just gimme n64 games so I can party like its 1999

@DavidMac If people can't work, they can't buy food. If they can't buy food, they starve.

@DavidMac Screw the economy? Spoken like someone who doesn’t work, have a family to support, or a 401k. Also, praising a government like China for how they are able to contain a virus is laughable. Of course an authoritarian government is able to control the spread of a virus.

@HobbitGamer I’m currently out of a job, but I’m not worried about it because I don’t live in a country that pretends we don’t have enough resources to temporarily take on some debt while we weather a once in a century problem so that we can come out stronger in the end.

Americans think that the mangled, brutal and cruel way you do your economic system is the only option. If you weren’t all obsessed with making your rich richer and your poor poorer, you’d all be doing a lot better. Currently your government is wasting trillions of dollars bailing out corporations who don’t know what to do with the excess money other than giving it back to their shareholders. Meanwhile the working class who will be taxed with paying off the artificial debt that your government took out, are the ones being left to starve.

@DavidMac Differences of understanding, but I'm glad you're going to be alright. I won't continue because it's not really the topic of the article, but stay safe.

@boredlizard they have already released games for this year and more to come.

I have no problem waiting for games or details on games if it means Nintendo is doing their best to keep their immediate staff, warehousing staff and affiliated employees safe and healthy. I don't care for BOTW2 if it means that people are putting their well being at risk. It's just a video game.

@boredlizard
That’s a good question
I mean, they still have to finish development on BOTW2 and whatever other projects they have going on so that would make sense to some degree

@Gus_Campos literally was announced in developement LAST YEAR you nintendo kids are the most impatient people on earth i hate this community

@TheBigK im good i have AC, Persona 5 royal finally at the end) FFVII remake.....im totally good for the year.

@NintendoPok everyone will say, they've had 3 years...and I'm like that team worked on the DLC until Dec 2017, and if you listened to the Nintendo Power podcast that month they were talking about maybe doing more, until that statement got redacted like a week later. Which means they had to plan it after that, and concept, storyboard, rough out some models and get approvals for the concept and the story, etc before they began doing anything on it. Even if COVID didn't exist, no way it'd have come out this year. They probably started on it in a mechanical/build sense in the beginning of 2019, then made that e3 trailer. Building off BotW will give them a headstart, but I've never thought it'd come before Holiday 2021. Community is also half full of people who will defend anything stupid and incompetent Nintendo does (literally had someone tell me once that Nintendo's online service is bad because Nintendo knows Online gaming is bad for people), then the other will literally get pissed about anything that doesn't meet their inflated expectations (which is everything) or rampant imaginations.

@Dirty0814 Maybe! Maybe no more games outside of Snap and weird things like Bakugan. I don't think they had their crap together heading into this year to start with...thinking 2019 wasn't a good year for them either development-wise, and is why we got that drought until the end of June 2019, pushed FE from Spring to July to fill a gap, then AC to this spring. I think they've been behind as it is, and with AC selling so far above expectations and becoming the huge new system seller they needed before the next gen consoles come out, they're probably taking it easy rn. Maybe they announce something Mario around the time they do the fall announcement for the theme park, like the rumored collection, or they toss us one of the fabled "already in the can" WiiU or Wii ports, Bravely Default 2 (they are publishing that) and another Smash character but I think it's totally possible they don't give us anything else.

@NintendoPok Calling me a "kid"..thanks for the compliment .

The most important thing is the employees' health and lives. I have no problem with delays whatsoever.

What does concern me is that Nintendo is effected more than Sony and XBOX and maybe a lot more.

Though that may be my incorrect perception

When the pandemic happened I said on this site I would be happy with a year of ports. Bring on 3D world, Pikman 3, Winemaker HD and then add in some Nvidia Shield stuff like Galaxy and PunchOut. That was basically asking for a port every other month. Is that really a BIG request. Just because you want games doesn't make you a manchild in your mom's basement. That's ridiculous.

While we want everyone to be safe; it is very odd that a tech based company is having such a hard time with remote work when placed in frame of Microsoft and Sony with their game tech schedules within confines of COVID. My one question would be so....why don't you guys reach out to the other two to seek direction/insight in how to better keep the ball rolling like they are doing? Makes me feel that they actually had no real plans except for more reskins of wii era games to allow them to catch their breath after frantic 2 years of releases.

It’s a combination of factors. But I think it mostly has to do with letting Sony and MSFT have the spotlight and then once they are clear, Nintendo makes its move. Throw in 35th anniversary, COVID, whatever development issues that normally arise, how random Nintendo can be normally, supply issues....

@rockodoodle What "35th anniversary" and what "COVID"?

(note: certain dictionaries appeared to have had the word "covid" defined as a certain kind of measurement)

@Mario500 I meant Mario's 35th anniversary.... That they are saving any announcements to build up to this, be it in September Release to comemorate or announce then.

@damien33ad Well, i wrote FE 3 Houses so...... 🤔

@Gus_Campos anytime dont act like one lol

@hitherehello I do have a big back log lol

My switch continues to gather dust.
My PS4 says hello we have AAA games just released.
And a PS5 on the way.
Hello third party studios here, we realise games as well.
Hello Microsoft here we are as well and new console this year as well.
Nintendo first party AAA studios, we gone on vacation. How many people do they have 10. Poor Nintendo, you are pathetic.

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