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Miyamotoo on 26 August 2015
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Scisca said:
zorg1000 said:

U must not know much about the type of game Nintendo primarily makes if u r using Halo 5 or Uncharted 4 as a comparison. The majority of Nintendo games focus on simple, lighthearted fun regardless of being on handheld or console. Nintendo isn't all of a sudden going to start emphasizing on big blockbuster style games out of nowhere. Look at the Nintendo published titled on Wii/Wii U, the most successful  ones are simple/casual friendly titles, not complex/hardcore focused.

For every Xenoblade/Bayonetta that Nintendo publishes there are five times as many Captain Toad/Splatoon/Mario Maker/Woolly World/Amiibo Festival style games that are just as suitable on handhelds as they are on consoles. These are the type of games Nintendo will continue to emphasize on next generation, not things like Halo or Uncharted.

But the number of games won't be equal to current Wii U + 3DS releases, all I'm saying. Thus they may still struggle to avoid droughts on their own without 3rd parties, especially in the beginning. After all, Sony and MS are still in the process of making the jump to this gen, it's not like their blockbuster 1st party games have been released already and they had a shorted distance to travel and a lot of time.

Merging will surely help, but with another jump in graphics they may still struggle if they get no 3rd party help. Ahh... 3rd parties

If Wii U had 10 games in one year and 3DS had 10 games in same year, that doesn't mean now we will have exactly 20 games for NX, but we could have around 15 games for only one platform which is much better than 10 games alone for only one platform.

Yes, Sony (especially Sony) and MS also have drouths of 1st party titles so far, but with very strong 3rd partie suport people do not notice that, also many 3rd party games are much bigger than all 1st party games on Sony/MS consoles (Minecraft, GTA, CoD, Batman, Witcher, Metal Gear..) so it not big deal if Sony/MS have 1st party droughts, on the other hand, on Nintendo consoles you almost never have 3rd party game that is nearly popular like 1st party game, the only exceptions were Rare games on N64 but Rare was 2nd party studio not 3rd party.

Of Course that merging will help a loot, Nintendo dont think they will solve all droughts problems with that, but that will make things much better than this gen, for completely solving this problem they need better 3rd party support than they have for Wii U, at least like they had it with GameCube. Announcing DQ11 and DQ10 port for NX is good sign for now.