Nintendo Is Hurtin' In Japan, NX Really Needs To Be Out Sooner Than Later

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Cobretti2 said:

Soundwave said:

To be honest, launching a platform isn't some monumental task. 

You really just need 3 big games properly spaced out over the first 5 months or so with hopefully one bigger scale third party title. 

Any combination of Zelda U/NX, Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion 3, and Mario Galaxy 3 should do it. Space these out over the first 6 months. 

Sprinkle in a couple of smaller scale titles like an F-Zero NX, third party ports like FIFA, Call of Duty NX Ops, and voila. 

Having one central platform to develop for rather than two will be a large game changer for Nintendo, they will be able to deliver far more content. 

Nintendo was arrogant with the 3DS and Wii U launches, they figured because NSMB and Nintendogs so well last gen they could just crap out sequels to those games with minimal effort and ride that evergreen wave for the first 7-8 months. 

I would normally agree as this strategy has worked for Sony. But look at Nintendo. Beyond the launch window there is no light at the end of the tunnel. No one can predict what will happen. With Sony and to a degree Microsoft you know that there will be 3rd party backing the system till the end of its life cycle, so it is a safe gamble to jump in early.

With Nintendo hardware there is no general gamer confidence. Which in turn shows devs that gamers have no confidence in the system so a catch 22 scenario. Hence why I think the next system NEEDS a huge launch a a regular old launch will no longer be enough to get gamers to jump on the Nintendo bandwagon.

2-3 big launch titles is enough, it's the post-launch output that needs fixing. 3DS & Wii U each had decent (not amazing) launch lineups and sales. The problem they faced was both had barely anything release for the next 6-9 months. Ocarina of Time 3D/Star Fox 64 3D & Lego City Undercover/Pikmin 3 were the only major Nintendo-published titles for 3DS/Wii U in the 6-9 months following launch. They both ended up having pretty decent holiday lineups. Nintendo's output for 3DS in 2012 was alot better but still not amazing, 2013 was excellent but 2014/2015 are back  to 2012 levels and Wii U has had constant delays/droughts for going on 3 years now.

With a unified platforn, realistically every year can be like 3DS had in 2013.