@CalTonTheRobot What a reasoning. It's a completely different thing to make a new console and to not make a game. MK8DX is selling as if it's a new game (for a obvious reason) and Nintendo only releases one Mario kart per console, so they obviously aren't going to release Mario Kart 10 on Switch when they can do it on the next console as a launch title.
@rockodoodle I'm sure your contribution makes sense with how the switch and its software are selling for 3 years. Mario Kart is only per console and for most people in the world, this is a new game as 50 million had no wii u.
@WoomyNNYes No, it shouldn't. Mario Kart Tour gets a lot of characters because it's a gacha game and mobile games are constantly updated as live service games to maintain interest and spend. Mario Kart 8 DX don't need this as you can see for the sales of the game. All ideas Nintendo has for MK will and should be going on Mario Kart 10, which probably is on next gen.
@Tupin I love how everything bad on those games you put under Tanabe, even though he's just one person on a team of hundreds of employees and many other leads. Do you have any idea what a producer does? Even more a producer from a publisher?
@Mgene15 There's more new games from Nintendo on the Switch than wii u ports released by them, by far. Only 8 wii u ports counting with Pikmin 3 against more than 20 new games. And I'm not even counting digital only games from them like Boxboy and Good Job.
@zool Are you delusional? How are shareholders disappointed with Nintendo and nintendo having a bad year when they just broke records with revenue and profit plus with software and hardware? Seriously, it's freaking amazing how you guys love to make argument about finances of the company without even opening earnings from Nintendo to see how their numbers are.
And Paper Mario is selling well on the market and we'll see its numbers in october on the next financial results, which probably will get at least 2 million with shippment and digital sales.
@Lady_rosalina You have no idea what you're talking about. Nintendo released Kirby Star Allies, Sushi Strikers, Labo, Mario Tennis Aces, Super Mario Party, Pokemon Let's Go, Smash Bros Ultimate, Yoshi Crafted World, Fire Emblem Threehouses, Super Mario Maker 2, Astral Chain, Ring Fit Adventure, Link's Awakening remake, Luigi's Mansion 3, Pokemon Sword/Shield, Animal Crossing NH, Paper Mario Origami King and Clubhouse Games in that period without counting wii u ports. And even in 2017 you didn't count many other games outside of Odyssey. Don't be disingenuous just because you don't like those games, because they exist. Be fair in your arguments.
@ianl579 Aside from mario kart which they clearly are reserving a new entry for a new console launch, those others don't appear for very different circumstances.
DKC was developed by Retro, which in that mean time didn't release anything and we have no idea what happened. My theory is that they were developing a new game between 2014 and 2019 and something went wrong and was cancelled. Retro even before Nintendo bought it, always had problems with management and even bringing new ones with MP it still has some so no surprise. So with the developer being busy, DK had nothing. So not related to the port but to the developer itself.
In relation to Pikmin, people seem to have no idea but the same developers of Pikmin also develop 2D Mario. So in that mean time, Super Mario Maker 2 was developed and released, so they were busy with this game while also releasing NSMBUDX and now Pikmin3. If there's a 4, it's being done by a smaller team until most of it can be relocated to develop it but honestly, Pikmin isn't a priority in a group where they develop 2D Mario. Who knows, we'll have to wait and see for what will be their next release.
Lastly for Captain Toad, the team was developing Super Mario Odyssey in that mean time and now is developing a new 3D Mario. Aside from that, Nintendo Software Technology, which is a nintendo subsidiary in the US, was mostly responsible for the port of the Switch and 3DS version.
So yes, in all of those cases there's different circumstances and you only will know them if you know enough of Nintendo's structure and how many things affect others.
@SpaceKaren Metroid Prime 4 is still a logo screen because it was rebooted in 2019 and you know that. A game won't have content in one year, at all. This game only will even appear in something like 2021 or 2022. You have to understand that this game was cancelled and now a new one is being developed under Retro Studios.
@Anguspuss Your list is just ridiculous. lol You clearly have no idea how Nintendo EPD in its basic structure even works. EPD develop its own games and produce EVERY game that Nintendo funds. THey work together in production of external development games with planning, coordination and many aspects related to development. Why do you think that Nintendo has clout on Paper Mario? It's not because it's Mario as Paper Mario is an IP shared between IS and Nintendo but because Nintendo employees on production roles are on there and they obviously have their own takes and influences on coordination, planning, production and many aspects. If you knew anything about the structure of japanese development or Nintendo itself you would know that.
If anything, Nintendo EPD is more similar to Sony Worldwide Studios in which they oversee and manage all games released by Sony than anything, as Nintendo EPD got the functions of Nintendo SPD when it merged with Nintendo EAD in 2015, so there's of course development groups but also production groups with employees entirely focused on working with external contracted companies. I'll give you a chance to learn more looking at this: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-first-party-thread-ot3-internal-x-external-x-publishing-whats-cooking.116419/
@Anguspuss You have no idea what you're talking about. Nintendo didn't release 50 games on Switch. You're mixing up Nintendo titles and third party titles for some reason. Look at Nintendo earning reports before talking about what you clearly don't know: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2020/200806_2e.pdf Here's with images for you to understand
And this argument of "the published" is ridiculous when Pokémon, Smash Bros, Fire Emblem, Kirby, Paper Mario and tons of games were never developed by Nintendo per se since the beginning. Which doesn't matter, because those games are funded, produced, owned, and released by them, much like Sony for years had with Ratchet and Clank with Insomniac Games before they acquired them in 2018.
@nessisonett Without those ports, you would have much less games from Nintendo on Switch. Those ports are side projects done to give time on the developers to create the new games while at the same time it gives a release on months where Nintendo wouldn't have anything.
There's 8 Wii U ports from Nintendo between the 30 games releases they had.
@Anguspuss what he heck are you even talking about? 80% of the software sales on Switch are from games published by Nintendo. The success of Switch is due to Nintendo itself, not to third party. Don't talk about what you don't know, which clearly isn't business.
@SpaceKaren It's not an excuse. Those games are out because they are side projects done in the mean time while the development team are developing new games. There's no infinite resources or teams, so a smaller team with support from contractors can do it while also giving content.
@PALversusNTSC @TheFrenchiestFry None of that is "nintendo fault". Between 2000 and 2010 there was like 7 games and none of them sold that much. Metroid Prime had one hell of marketing and only as able to sell 2.8 million while other games on GC were surpassing millions. It's just appeal.
Metroid also has much more games than AC and only mainline games sell that well, not the Animal Crossing spin-offs.
@BenAV There's no handheld market anymore and the Switch is on all research tracks and by Nintendo a home console that also can be a handheld. It's why it's 60$, it's why it's more expensive than a 3DS, etc.
@Hobbesyall First of all, Furukawa was never part of TPC as an employee. He was the Nintendo representative of the board of directors since 2011. He never got out of the company and has been on there for years as executive, much like Iwata and Kimishima were before they became CEO.
Also, all the games from 2018 to 2019 has nothing to do with Furukawa but Kimishima's time. We only will see games from Furukawa in 2021 and beyond.
And I have to read twitter comments every day about how Nintendo is doomed because a bunch of random says. lol those same people said that this quarter would make switch lose steam but it clearly won't.
It's absolutely insane that Switch already surpassed the total software sales of the 3DS in just 3 years by far.
And I have to see here and in the internet that Switch will get ***** by PS5 and Series X and that Nintendo need to be cautious around it when the console, games already available and price will do it already.
@Not_Soos They don't need to "combat" PS5 and Series X. It's honestly insane that I have to read these kind of posts in the internet when the demand for the Switch has been insane for months. Even if Nintendo had absolutely nothing on the next months, the console still would sell greatly with its bundles, gaming catalogue and the marketing it has.
Switch isn't competing with those two consoles and it doesn't need to sell more than those but to continue to perform well, which it will.
And why do you even care and comment in that way when you obviously don't have any sense about finances?
@nessisonett What? None of that has anything to do with Chibi Robo, which already was a miracle to even get 5 different games when all of them bombed. People who think this franchise will get new games when it never sold even above 100k are being delusional.
Aside from the fact that Bandai Namco, Nintendo and Skip owns Chibi Robo, of course. Nintendo just has its publishing rights.
Also, Skip don't work with Nintendo for 5 years already. They were working with other companies in that meantime.
@westman98 Exactly. If the Switch existed on the Wii era, at best we would get one New Super Mario Bros, not 2. Same for others.
@gojiguy You're ignoring the initial argument you made yourself and also ignoring the new titles.
@StevenG I'm talking about the total over the years, not specific years. Nintendo have a bigger share of new titles than remasters, which of course exist due to being developed with less resources and time than a complete new title, obviously done to allow the overall teams of those titles (like Odyssey team doing Captain Toad remaster) to continue development cycle for their next title while also giving titles to the monthly schedules that would have no title on it.
@gojiguy Look at my comment above you, check it on other sources and say that again. This is talking about Nintendo output, which is a lie because most of their releases are new games.
If you (and others) did a minimal job and looked into the output, you would see that most Nintendo games released are new and not old instead of making arguments with no basis. You're in the internet, and clearly has time to comment and discuss on a forum so you could have done that.
Only counting retail games and not counting regionally published titles (DQ, Octopath, Fire Emblem Warriors, which are third party titles).
2017
Breath of the Wild - Nintendo EPD
1-2 Switch - Nintendo EPD
Arms - Nintendo EPD
Splatoon 2 - Nintendo EPD
Super Mario Odyssey - Nintendo EPD
Snipperclips - SFB Games
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Monolith Soft
Remasters
Mario Kart 8DX - Nintendo EPD
Pokkén Tournament DX - Bandai Namco Studios
2018
Kirby Star Allies - Hal Laboratory
Nintendo Labo - Nintendo EPD
Sushi Striker - Nintendo EPD/indieszero
Mario Tennis Aces - Camelot
Super Mario Party - NdCube
Pokémon Let's Go - Game Freak
Super Smash Bros Ultimate - Bandai Namco Studios
Remasters
Bayonetta 1+2 - PlatinumGames
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - Retro Studios
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker - Nintendo EPD/NST
2019
Yoshi's Crafted World - Good-Feel
Super Mario Maker 2 - Nintendo EPD
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order - Team Ninja
Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Intelligent Systems/Koei Tecmo
Tetris 99 - Arika
Astral Chain - PlatinumGames
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Greezo
Ring Fit Adventure - Nintendo EPD
Luigi's Mansion 3 - Next Level Games
Pokémon Sword and Shield - Game Freak
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo EPD/indieszero
Remasters
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe - Nintendo EPD
2020
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Spike Chunsoft
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo EPD
Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - NdCube
Paper Mario: The Origami King - Intelligent Systems
Remasters
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore - Atlus
Xenoblade Definitive Edition - Monolith Soft
That's extremely idiotic. Just because Nintendo don't have now two platforms doesn't mean that they should have double games into one console.
For one point, it would be like Sony putting out as much PSP and PS3 games on PS4 on this generation. It's the same reasoning with 3DS/Wii U and now Switch. Thinking that Nintendo will publish as much games as both platforms is insane because only one was HD, while the other was cheaper, non-HD, with less staff, less development time, etc while an HD release which is what the Switch has will get much more. Aside from that, many developers which aren't from Nintendo transitioned to HD, with some not being able to do it like Alpha Dream while others were able to have the resources and capacity to work on it.
Anyway, point is, Nintendo won't ever release as many games as they did before on two different platforms of different size of games but they still release a lot of games on Switch to the point where they are one of the companies with most releases in the industry. And like any company, there's resources and staff for all of this and they aren't infinite to pump out games so they need years to pump out others depending on the division, company or contractor as some teams are 1 project per time.
@Cevil Lego is a license which they have nothing to do. It's a product sold by the company. Your comparison is ridiculous.
@Moonlessky No, DeNA only supports Nintendo mobile releases. All of those releases on their partnership are developed by Nintendo or in the case of Fire Emblem, by Intelligent Systems.
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Re: Mario Kart Tour's Pirate Tour Adds King Bob-Omb And Pirate Bowser Jr.
@CalTonTheRobot What a reasoning. It's a completely different thing to make a new console and to not make a game. MK8DX is selling as if it's a new game (for a obvious reason) and Nintendo only releases one Mario kart per console, so they obviously aren't going to release Mario Kart 10 on Switch when they can do it on the next console as a launch title.
Re: Mario Kart Tour's Pirate Tour Adds King Bob-Omb And Pirate Bowser Jr.
@rockodoodle I'm sure your contribution makes sense with how the switch and its software are selling for 3 years. Mario Kart is only per console and for most people in the world, this is a new game as 50 million had no wii u.
Re: Mario Kart Tour's Pirate Tour Adds King Bob-Omb And Pirate Bowser Jr.
@WoomyNNYes No, it shouldn't. Mario Kart Tour gets a lot of characters because it's a gacha game and mobile games are constantly updated as live service games to maintain interest and spend. Mario Kart 8 DX don't need this as you can see for the sales of the game. All ideas Nintendo has for MK will and should be going on Mario Kart 10, which probably is on next gen.
Re: Paper Mario Producer Says "It's A Necessity" To Change The Combat System In Every Entry
@Tupin I love how everything bad on those games you put under Tanabe, even though he's just one person on a team of hundreds of employees and many other leads. Do you have any idea what a producer does? Even more a producer from a publisher?
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@Mgene15 There's more new games from Nintendo on the Switch than wii u ports released by them, by far. Only 8 wii u ports counting with Pikmin 3 against more than 20 new games. And I'm not even counting digital only games from them like Boxboy and Good Job.
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@zool Are you delusional? How are shareholders disappointed with Nintendo and nintendo having a bad year when they just broke records with revenue and profit plus with software and hardware? Seriously, it's freaking amazing how you guys love to make argument about finances of the company without even opening earnings from Nintendo to see how their numbers are.
And Paper Mario is selling well on the market and we'll see its numbers in october on the next financial results, which probably will get at least 2 million with shippment and digital sales.
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@Lady_rosalina You have no idea what you're talking about. Nintendo released Kirby Star Allies, Sushi Strikers, Labo, Mario Tennis Aces, Super Mario Party, Pokemon Let's Go, Smash Bros Ultimate, Yoshi Crafted World, Fire Emblem Threehouses, Super Mario Maker 2, Astral Chain, Ring Fit Adventure, Link's Awakening remake, Luigi's Mansion 3, Pokemon Sword/Shield, Animal Crossing NH, Paper Mario Origami King and Clubhouse Games in that period without counting wii u ports. And even in 2017 you didn't count many other games outside of Odyssey. Don't be disingenuous just because you don't like those games, because they exist. Be fair in your arguments.
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@ianl579 Aside from mario kart which they clearly are reserving a new entry for a new console launch, those others don't appear for very different circumstances.
DKC was developed by Retro, which in that mean time didn't release anything and we have no idea what happened. My theory is that they were developing a new game between 2014 and 2019 and something went wrong and was cancelled. Retro even before Nintendo bought it, always had problems with management and even bringing new ones with MP it still has some so no surprise. So with the developer being busy, DK had nothing. So not related to the port but to the developer itself.
In relation to Pikmin, people seem to have no idea but the same developers of Pikmin also develop 2D Mario. So in that mean time, Super Mario Maker 2 was developed and released, so they were busy with this game while also releasing NSMBUDX and now Pikmin3. If there's a 4, it's being done by a smaller team until most of it can be relocated to develop it but honestly, Pikmin isn't a priority in a group where they develop 2D Mario. Who knows, we'll have to wait and see for what will be their next release.
Lastly for Captain Toad, the team was developing Super Mario Odyssey in that mean time and now is developing a new 3D Mario. Aside from that, Nintendo Software Technology, which is a nintendo subsidiary in the US, was mostly responsible for the port of the Switch and 3DS version.
So yes, in all of those cases there's different circumstances and you only will know them if you know enough of Nintendo's structure and how many things affect others.
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@SpaceKaren Metroid Prime 4 is still a logo screen because it was rebooted in 2019 and you know that. A game won't have content in one year, at all. This game only will even appear in something like 2021 or 2022. You have to understand that this game was cancelled and now a new one is being developed under Retro Studios.
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@Anguspuss Your list is just ridiculous. lol You clearly have no idea how Nintendo EPD in its basic structure even works. EPD develop its own games and produce EVERY game that Nintendo funds. THey work together in production of external development games with planning, coordination and many aspects related to development. Why do you think that Nintendo has clout on Paper Mario? It's not because it's Mario as Paper Mario is an IP shared between IS and Nintendo but because Nintendo employees on production roles are on there and they obviously have their own takes and influences on coordination, planning, production and many aspects. If you knew anything about the structure of japanese development or Nintendo itself you would know that.
If anything, Nintendo EPD is more similar to Sony Worldwide Studios in which they oversee and manage all games released by Sony than anything, as Nintendo EPD got the functions of Nintendo SPD when it merged with Nintendo EAD in 2015, so there's of course development groups but also production groups with employees entirely focused on working with external contracted companies. I'll give you a chance to learn more looking at this: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-first-party-thread-ot3-internal-x-external-x-publishing-whats-cooking.116419/
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@Anguspuss You have no idea what you're talking about. Nintendo didn't release 50 games on Switch. You're mixing up Nintendo titles and third party titles for some reason. Look at Nintendo earning reports before talking about what you clearly don't know: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2020/200806_2e.pdf Here's with images for you to understand
And this argument of "the published" is ridiculous when Pokémon, Smash Bros, Fire Emblem, Kirby, Paper Mario and tons of games were never developed by Nintendo per se since the beginning. Which doesn't matter, because those games are funded, produced, owned, and released by them, much like Sony for years had with Ratchet and Clank with Insomniac Games before they acquired them in 2018.
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@nessisonett Without those ports, you would have much less games from Nintendo on Switch. Those ports are side projects done to give time on the developers to create the new games while at the same time it gives a release on months where Nintendo wouldn't have anything.
There's 8 Wii U ports from Nintendo between the 30 games releases they had.
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@Anguspuss what he heck are you even talking about? 80% of the software sales on Switch are from games published by Nintendo. The success of Switch is due to Nintendo itself, not to third party. Don't talk about what you don't know, which clearly isn't business.
Re: Video: The Switch Is A Wii U Port Machine, And That's A Good Thing
@SpaceKaren It's not an excuse. Those games are out because they are side projects done in the mean time while the development team are developing new games. There's no infinite resources or teams, so a smaller team with support from contractors can do it while also giving content.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Has Sold More Copies Than The Entire Metroid Franchise
@PALversusNTSC @TheFrenchiestFry None of that is "nintendo fault". Between 2000 and 2010 there was like 7 games and none of them sold that much. Metroid Prime had one hell of marketing and only as able to sell 2.8 million while other games on GC were surpassing millions. It's just appeal.
Metroid also has much more games than AC and only mainline games sell that well, not the Animal Crossing spin-offs.
Re: Talking Point: So, Where Does Switch Fit Into Sony And Microsoft's Next Gen Landscape?
@BenAV There's no handheld market anymore and the Switch is on all research tracks and by Nintendo a home console that also can be a handheld. It's why it's 60$, it's why it's more expensive than a 3DS, etc.
Re: Nintendo's Net Profits Reached $1bn In The Last Quarter, A 541% Rise Year-On-Year
@Hobbesyall First of all, Furukawa was never part of TPC as an employee. He was the Nintendo representative of the board of directors since 2011. He never got out of the company and has been on there for years as executive, much like Iwata and Kimishima were before they became CEO.
Also, all the games from 2018 to 2019 has nothing to do with Furukawa but Kimishima's time. We only will see games from Furukawa in 2021 and beyond.
Re: Nintendo Switch Sales Surpass 61 Million, Equalling The Mighty NES
@retro_player_77 That's because Square Enix (Enix) only put DQ on successful consoles in JP
Re: Nintendo's Net Profits Reached $1bn In The Last Quarter, A 541% Rise Year-On-Year
And I have to read twitter comments every day about how Nintendo is doomed because a bunch of random says. lol those same people said that this quarter would make switch lose steam but it clearly won't.
Re: Nintendo Switch Sales Surpass 61 Million, Equalling The Mighty NES
It's absolutely insane that Switch already surpassed the total software sales of the 3DS in just 3 years by far.
And I have to see here and in the internet that Switch will get ***** by PS5 and Series X and that Nintendo need to be cautious around it when the console, games already available and price will do it already.
Re: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Has Sold Over 22 Million Copies
Aya Kyogoku queen
Re: Has The Chibi-Robo Studio Skip Pulled The Plug On Development?
@nessisonett As lead no, but they worked on outsourcing for other games in that time period.
Re: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Version 8.1.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
@Not_Soos They don't need to "combat" PS5 and Series X. It's honestly insane that I have to read these kind of posts in the internet when the demand for the Switch has been insane for months. Even if Nintendo had absolutely nothing on the next months, the console still would sell greatly with its bundles, gaming catalogue and the marketing it has.
Switch isn't competing with those two consoles and it doesn't need to sell more than those but to continue to perform well, which it will.
And why do you even care and comment in that way when you obviously don't have any sense about finances?
Re: Has The Chibi-Robo Studio Skip Pulled The Plug On Development?
@nessisonett What? None of that has anything to do with Chibi Robo, which already was a miracle to even get 5 different games when all of them bombed. People who think this franchise will get new games when it never sold even above 100k are being delusional.
Aside from the fact that Bandai Namco, Nintendo and Skip owns Chibi Robo, of course. Nintendo just has its publishing rights.
Also, Skip don't work with Nintendo for 5 years already. They were working with other companies in that meantime.
Re: The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo 3DS Games (As Of December 2019)
@Dman10 Nintendo only reports their own numbers dude.
Re: Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of June 2019
@Frontiersmann Read the text buddy. Only Nintendo titles.
Re: Talking Point: Is Nintendo Making As Many Games As It Used To?
@westman98 Exactly. If the Switch existed on the Wii era, at best we would get one New Super Mario Bros, not 2. Same for others.
@gojiguy You're ignoring the initial argument you made yourself and also ignoring the new titles.
@StevenG I'm talking about the total over the years, not specific years. Nintendo have a bigger share of new titles than remasters, which of course exist due to being developed with less resources and time than a complete new title, obviously done to allow the overall teams of those titles (like Odyssey team doing Captain Toad remaster) to continue development cycle for their next title while also giving titles to the monthly schedules that would have no title on it.
Re: Talking Point: Is Nintendo Making As Many Games As It Used To?
@gojiguy Look at my comment above you, check it on other sources and say that again. This is talking about Nintendo output, which is a lie because most of their releases are new games.
Re: Talking Point: Is Nintendo Making As Many Games As It Used To?
@SpaceKaren
If you (and others) did a minimal job and looked into the output, you would see that most Nintendo games released are new and not old instead of making arguments with no basis. You're in the internet, and clearly has time to comment and discuss on a forum so you could have done that.
Only counting retail games and not counting regionally published titles (DQ, Octopath, Fire Emblem Warriors, which are third party titles).
2017
Breath of the Wild - Nintendo EPD
1-2 Switch - Nintendo EPD
Arms - Nintendo EPD
Splatoon 2 - Nintendo EPD
Super Mario Odyssey - Nintendo EPD
Snipperclips - SFB Games
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Monolith Soft
Remasters
Mario Kart 8DX - Nintendo EPD
Pokkén Tournament DX - Bandai Namco Studios
2018
Kirby Star Allies - Hal Laboratory
Nintendo Labo - Nintendo EPD
Sushi Striker - Nintendo EPD/indieszero
Mario Tennis Aces - Camelot
Super Mario Party - NdCube
Pokémon Let's Go - Game Freak
Super Smash Bros Ultimate - Bandai Namco Studios
Remasters
Bayonetta 1+2 - PlatinumGames
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze - Retro Studios
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker - Nintendo EPD/NST
2019
Yoshi's Crafted World - Good-Feel
Super Mario Maker 2 - Nintendo EPD
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order - Team Ninja
Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Intelligent Systems/Koei Tecmo
Tetris 99 - Arika
Astral Chain - PlatinumGames
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Greezo
Ring Fit Adventure - Nintendo EPD
Luigi's Mansion 3 - Next Level Games
Pokémon Sword and Shield - Game Freak
Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo EPD/indieszero
Remasters
New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe - Nintendo EPD
2020
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX - Spike Chunsoft
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo EPD
Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - NdCube
Paper Mario: The Origami King - Intelligent Systems
Remasters
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore - Atlus
Xenoblade Definitive Edition - Monolith Soft
Re: Talking Point: Is Nintendo Making As Many Games As It Used To?
That's extremely idiotic. Just because Nintendo don't have now two platforms doesn't mean that they should have double games into one console.
For one point, it would be like Sony putting out as much PSP and PS3 games on PS4 on this generation. It's the same reasoning with 3DS/Wii U and now Switch. Thinking that Nintendo will publish as much games as both platforms is insane because only one was HD, while the other was cheaper, non-HD, with less staff, less development time, etc while an HD release which is what the Switch has will get much more. Aside from that, many developers which aren't from Nintendo transitioned to HD, with some not being able to do it like Alpha Dream while others were able to have the resources and capacity to work on it.
Anyway, point is, Nintendo won't ever release as many games as they did before on two different platforms of different size of games but they still release a lot of games on Switch to the point where they are one of the companies with most releases in the industry. And like any company, there's resources and staff for all of this and they aren't infinite to pump out games so they need years to pump out others depending on the division, company or contractor as some teams are 1 project per time.
@Cevil Lego is a license which they have nothing to do. It's a product sold by the company. Your comparison is ridiculous.
@Moonlessky No, DeNA only supports Nintendo mobile releases. All of those releases on their partnership are developed by Nintendo or in the case of Fire Emblem, by Intelligent Systems.