No, I feel it Curl. I really could use a Direct right now and it has been unusually long. Nothing would make this easier than having some glimpses of future projects to discuss.

There are actually a few games I'd get on PS4, like RE7 and Horizon, but I'm not so financially well off that a few hundred dollars is an insignificant expenditure, so I should hold off until I hit the end of my tether.

Hopefully some of Switch's undated games arrive in the next few months to hold me over.

It's as much a matter of lacking excitement as lacking stuff to play. I know it may sound sad, but hype is a powerful antidote to anxiety and depression; feeling excited about upcoming release dates and games makes the future feel brighter and less terrifying. It's a positive distraction from the constant threat of cancer and covid-19.

I'm aware. I don't own any of those, and it's been promised for a system I do have.

Nintendo is the only company I can think of that has people getting angry, depressed and sad when they aren't trying to sell them something. People even beg them to be advertised to. They really are marketing geniuses.

I don't even know if Nintendo employees are even permitted to come back to their respective offices in Tokyo or Kyoto right now.

Koizumi and Takahashi usually host the Directs from a green screen, which is likely in their offices. Can they do that at their respective homes in a professional manner?

Plus, as Sakurai even described, trying to talk and meet with third party developers is tough right now as no one can travel to other offices. If Sakurai can't even get Fighter Pass Vol. 2 done as scheduled, how could Nintendo get confirmed release dates and progress of games from their studios and their third party partners in a timely manner? Hell, pretty much all of the indie games from Indie World (which was all voice overs and people mostly outside of Japan presenting from their respective offices) had release windows. And that presentation was probably done before Nintendo of America allowed their staff from California and Washington to work at home.

Who honestly knows at this point. Nintendo systems historically do tend to be extremely front loaded with their game lineup. Maybe they’ve plateaued already, and their exclusive output will be very sparse from here on out until their next system

Believe it or not Japan is not taking this pandemic thing seriously at all. Other than people with a lowly job such as myself, everyone is going to work as normal. People are still having large parties in public and going cherry blossom sightseeing. Of course there are significantly less people due to the tourists from Asia disappearing. I go to the gym and it is just as active as usual, if not more. So while the western/ 3rd party side might be more difficult, the Japan side isn't.

It's usual for Nintendo to announce their big games in late spring around E3. It's unusual for them to announce them 3 months earlier than that. And fans aren't starved, they're literally buying up games and consoles in record numbers, despite a pandemic occurring.

If you're satisfied with a barren schedule fine, but don't expect me to be happy with having nothing concrete to look forward to.

But that's not true. There are almost 50 games scheduled on the EShop for the next week alone. And Nintendo reveals between 30 and 70 new games every week. There has never been a point in Nintendo's history when their schedules have been this rich with content.

While you may not be looking forward to anything, that doesn't make the "barren schedule" statement true. If we're looking at things objectively, not only do we see this Q4 with perhaps the largest lineup of games ever for a Q4 of any Nintendo system, but also, potentially, the highest Q4 sales for any Nintendo console ever; the standing record is Wii with 34 million set in both Fy10 and 11. And while Nintendo hasn't revealed most of Q1 Fy21 schedule, it's certain that several hundred games will release in the period, and that software sales will potentially break Nintendo's previous record set by the Wii Fy11 of 31 million software units sold.