One of the biggest promises of Nintendo Switch, is Nintendo combining their Home Console and Handheld worlds into one. In theory, allowing them to concentrate almost exclusively on a single platform, and thus them to produce more titles in a single year than before.

We have the launch of Nintendo Labo, which is technically launching with 2 games in April.

Followed by both Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

Hyrule Warriors Legends

Sushi Striker and Mario Tennis Aces in June

Captain Toad and Octopath Traveler

I imagine Nintendo is going to continue to challenge themselves to produce as many games for a single month as they can.

Who says they all have to be AAA games? They can just be small, experimental oddities like 1-2 Switch, Snipperclips, and Sushi Striker. It'd be similar to the DS, where you had big name releases, but also lower budget experiments like Electroplankton and Master of Illusion releasing in the same month often times. Point is, there's no reason games like those can't come from Nintendo on the Switch, especially since the system was designed to be as easy and low-cost to develop for as possible.

I know what you are saying and I agree. But there’s that lingering thought in the back of my mind that says”what’s Nintendo gonna do when ps5/Xbox Zero comes out?”

probably a switch revision ion but I grew up with Nintendo power so I always hold out hope for real power and possibly some room for gratuitous violence and sexual implications from otherwise family oriented game developers. 

I mean Nintendo can take their time with Open World AAA games so long as we get handheld style games, casual focused oddities, and niche experiments in between them. 

But GameCube did have 1-2 heavy hitters per month and it still wasn’t enough. GBA and 3DS had so many titles produced by endless sources and that is what switch needs. 

I wish people understood the difference in resources necessary to make a 3DS game and an HD game.

Needless to say, it's not a 1 to 1 ratio.

HD games take at least 2 years to develop. Nowadays it's creeping up to 3. Nintendo is trying to get alot of games out by porting the Wii U library, but it's starting to lose steam.
We'll see if they got anything at E3.

But, i do think that the Switch is a bit barren atm for people who owned a Wii U at least or want fresh new experiences.

I figure that pokemon will make a huge difference if it's a mainline game though.

No, it's not the same. You increase the resolution, you have to increase the detail, wich means more work to create every piece of asset... or you can deliver a blurry mess. You heard it here first folks! Lets just strech out those 3DS games and put then on the Switch. It's gonna look amazing on 720/1080p!

Cmon now... i'm not gonna repeat this again.

I seriously doubt that as they're heavily recycling assets from already existing games, and are often the same resolution. Those Wii U ports had to have been made in a year, maybe less. I could see something like Yoshi Switch taking around 2 years to make, but It does not take 2 years to make an enhanced Wii U port. 

The amount of games Nintendo outputs if all other things remained equal... Will remain the same. - But what would increase is the amount of games on a singular platform if Nintendo didn't change any development studios around and such that is.

But the other side of the coin is... What if developing for the Switch, As it pushes higher fidelity visuals than any Nintendo platform that has come before it, takes longer? You will still end up with less games.

The other caveat is that... Your entire hypothesis rests on the idea that Nintendo will NOT release another device, be it a portable or home console.

Nintendo's never been a company who's cared about pushing the limits of their hardware, nor have they cared about bleeding edge graphics. Granted a game like Super Mario Odyssey will obviously require more time and resources to make than a game like 3D Land. But the point isn't so that we get Odyssey and 3D Land on the same system, it's that we'd get Odyssey, plus some random small project the team also decided to make. 

Wasn't Labo an overpriced colossal failure?

It wasn't. This narrative that Labo is a failure is complete BS. It's been in the top 5 in Japan since launch, and was one of the best selling games in April according to the NPD. That doesn't sound like failure to me.

Isn't that just a re-release of an old game?

Yes, but let's face it, nobody played the Wii U.

Are they really big AAA console sellers though?

Not the point, point is we can get things like one big release in June, plus some oddball niche game or two accompanying it. 

Of course they will. Just like water is wet. Nintendo is a business, it makes a substantial amount of revenue from games.

Yeah, they're possibly the most prolific major publisher in the industry at the moment, and the majority of their revenue comes from the amount of games they release exclusively for their hardware. 

If the games are priced at a similar level as AAA games on other consoles, they better offer the reproduction values to match.

I mean yeah, but Nintendo can release these smaller games at a sub-$60 price, or drop them on the eShop. Just like with 1-2 Switch, Snipperclips, Sushi Striker, and Captain Toad. 

I posted this is another thread

2018 1st party 3DS titles

March-Detective Pikachu (localization of a 2016 game)

June-Sushi Striker (also coming to Switch same day)

July-Captain Toad (also coming to Switch same day)

August-WarioWare (compilation of existing minigames)

2018-Luigi's Mansion (port of 2001 Gamecube game)

I think people are blowing the 3DS support out of proportion.

Nintendo have always pushed the limits of their hardware. Mario Kart, Smash, Breath of the Wild and so on were all examples on the WiiU.

Nintendo games look great because they're backed by strong art direction and aesthetic design. They actually don't try to challenge themselves to make the most bleeding edge graphics possible, but rather make great use of the relatively limited hardware.

Understandable, I'm just saying that Labo isn't a failure. In fact, it's far to early to say anything about it really. Christmas should really be its true tests in the market.

You'd have a point if these were re-releases from a console people loved. But this was the Wii U, a console nobody wanted, and most have never heard of. As far as those people are concerned, these might as well be new games, even if they are just re-releases.

The Switch is a very different market from both traditional mobile gaming and mainstream home console games. It's unique hardware and power allows it to do stuff phones can't do, at least not nearly as well, such as Nintendo Labo. So letting developers toy around with the Joy-Con and Switch to make lower budget releases can be a good way of diversifying the catalog and audience. And besides, Nintendo is already making strides to be more successful in the smartphone arena.

I have a firm understanding of how game engines and their accompanying rendering pipelines work and how games achieve what they do on the visual front.
If you think Nintendo pulls what it does off merely by having strong art direction and aesthetic design, then you are sorely mistaken, it's a big part of it, sure.

I seriously doubt that as they're heavily recycling assets from already existing games, and are often the same resolution. Those Wii U ports had to have been made in a year, maybe less. I could see something like Yoshi Switch taking around 2 years to make, but It does not take 2 years to make an enhanced Wii U port. 

Whilst what you say is technically true it is misleading as far as trying to establish Nintendo's productivity, as a big chunk of that list are wii u ports. Even botw spent a large part of its development as a wii u game. To more accurately peg N's output capabilities, we should take the ports out, at which point we're left with a significantly less impressive games per year rate. 

Bringing over these ports was absolutely the right thing to do as they made the best of a bad situation with a solid library that launched on a failing system, but they're going to run out of these ports soon which means to maintain this volume of releases they're going to have to step their game up big time.

They are sitting on a tonne of money from the wii days, which is only getting bigger thanks to switch, so I really hope they invest a good chunk of it on increasing capacity and/or bankrolling projects with 3rd party devs a la Mario + Rabbids! 

Pemalite said:

Isn't the typical sales trend norm where sales decreases over time rather than increases?