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Will it be Nintendo Direct in February?

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Ljink96 on 22 February 2018

I sure hope so. The well is drying up in terms of Nintendo content that we know dates/existence about. Would be nice to see a Wolfenstein 2 date too.



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LipeJJ on 22 February 2018
Green098 said:
We will definitely have one by least April. (they had one last year in April after having a presentation in January, and a spotlight in July. Also any big Pokemon related announcements would get their own direct also which even if it releases early 2019 should be revealed before E3.

I 100% agree with this. I think we'll get a Direct on the second half of March, a Pokémon Direct revealing the game in May, and the main thing on June at E3 (which will feature Pokémon reappearing on the spotlight even as well as on Treehouse. They will give it full exposure if it releases until March 2019.



Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

Miyamotoo on 23 February 2018
friendlyfamine said:
Miyamotoo said:

January is always slow month for releases. Fact that Bayonetta 2 is not exclusive dont change nothing beacuse was only availible on Wii U that had very limited user base (Switch already has bigger install base than WiiU), not to mentione that Switch offers full handheld mode. In February alongside Bayonetta 1/2 and plenty of Indie games, we also had Dragon Quests Builders. Porting requires time, plenty devs started devolping games for Switch after become obvious that Switch will be quite successful and that 3rd party games selling good on it, so we probably talking about past several months. Switch dont need huge releases curently to keep momentum, it won NPD for January despite had only Indie games. Offcourse that FighterZ and MH topped charts when they are multi platform games released on much bigger install bases, fact that only 3 exlusives in top 10 are Nintendo games is very impressing in any case. At end like I wrote, Switch lineup dont have anything with Wii U droughts.

I was only using the NPD as evidence to exemplify what software sales can do for system sales. NPD isn't the only monthly sales reports that matter, ultimately the Switch still lost overall for global sales in January from what we can speculate as the PS4 has been selling better in Europe for every week so far, along with the MH dominating the Japanese charts on media create for both January and February. There's no doubt that MH absolutely detracted Switch sales for both months, and the lack of software probably magnified this as well, as there was nothing to even try and compete with MH. Speaking of, Bayonetta failed to make an impact there, and while I'm optimistic it faired decently in the west, I am inclined to believe the title failed to redeem February from otherwise being a mediocre month for Switch software. The Switch could've won in overall global sales if there were more games. Nintendo can't really afford to have these consistent "no huge releases" months if they want to sell 20 million units. Right now, half of the 12 available months need to have major titles that push at least 2 million units collectively, and the holiday season can do its wonders to exceed that as an included month (maybe doing 4 million). But again, this all isn't looking likely as we're almost 3 months in- or am I missing something? January probably pushed almost 800k units WW, and unless January will be the worst month for Switch sales, they need to up their game or have something good under their sleeve. Or is Labo meant to carry it all? :/

And while it is true that "porting takes time", devs have openly stated that they are still not interested in porting games to the system, such as Blizzard and EA. The rest is all but quiet, besides Bethesda. 

Yeah, but thats a point, despite PS4 had MHW that become huge game and Switch had only Indies, Switch sold more in January in US. Offcourse that Switch would sell better on evre market with some bigger games, but that goes for evre console, and January is always slow month for releases (MHW was exception, huge title with January release). Bayonetta 1/2 is medium size title and it will do quite well in West. Switch don't need huge releases currently to keep momentum and sales proves that. Talking about projected 20m, thats for FY 2018, that starts from 1. April 2018. and ends on 31. March 2019, and in April Switch have Labo that will be quite big and it definitely move some Switch consoles, and after Labo we will definitely have some other even bigger heavy hitters in second half of 2018. for instance Smash Bros is almost certain at this point.

"devs have openly stated that they are still not interested in porting games to the system". Thats not true, if you were paid atentione last few months, most of 3rd party devs said promised much stronger Switch support than they gave until now and most of them said they are satisfied buy sales of their games on Switch and thats why they bringing more games, and that totaly make sense beacuse how Switch continue to sell good and install base rapidly is growing Switch is getting stronger support, this year we will see much more 3rd party announcements in any case than we had last year. Last related news was just from few days ago, where Panic Button (team that ported Doom, Rocket League and i porting Wolfenstein 2 for Switch) said they are overwhelmed buy requests for Switch ports in degree that they are forced to choose on what project they will work, they also said: "In the games we have published we’ve seen more sales on Switch than on PS4 and XBox One combined during the same period. Now every developer wants their game to be on the Switch.”

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/314795/Drinking_from_a_sprinkler_Thats_me_How_Switch_has_impacted_devs_in_the_game_porting_biz.php

Also onother fresh news is that Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy is confirmed for Switch.

 

And again, Switch lineup and situation dont have anuthing with WiiUs, and thats actualy main reason why I replied to you on first place.