To those who say NX isn't coming this year

[zorg1000]

Aeolus451 said:

zorg1000 said:

 

Are you just talking about Nintendo-published games & exclusives? If so, it would make no sense to launch with 18 games, even 10 would be stupid for that matter, they would be cannibalize each others sales.

If you're talking about multiplats than its still stupid because it would just be padding out the launch lineup with late ports which would sell terrible and do nothing for hardware sales.

 

Those numbers (10 and 18) were just examples. Anyway, it's not like I'm saying to launch NX with 18 platformers. If the launch games are from various genres. they wouldn't compete with eachother a great deal. The main thing is that would make the NX more appealing to consumers (not just nintendo fans) and it would give gamers plenty to play right off the bat. Not everyone likes Mario's Adventure 15: Wario's rampage and Zelda: The Link that never gets old. Variety is the spice of life.

In regards to third parties, who says that any ports to NX have to be late? Can't nintendo woo some 3rd parties to porting a a few games to the NX, when those devs were gonna release the game in nov '17 anyway. At the very least, nintendo can pay for ports that release right along with the PS4 and Xbox one.

What helps hardware sales is people being interested in the console and games are the only things that will get people interested. 

 

Ya variety is great, still 10-18 Nintendo games would be overkill and would hurt individual sales, regardless of when it releases 2-4 Nintendo exclusives in the launch window is what we will get and that's a sufficient amount. Nintendo is constantly criticized for droughts, blowing their load at launch would just cause a large post-launch drought.

As for 3rd parties, go back and read ur previous post, "Ok let's say that NX releases in this year in november and it launches with (for example) 10 games and 8 more games were released throughout the rest of 2016 and up to November of 2017. Why not wait to launch til November of 2017 to have a stronger launch lineup with those 18 games?"

Ur saying holiday 2017 will have more games because they can release games finished from Q4 2016-Q3 2017 all in Q4 2017, hence why I said it would just be padding the launch window with late ports.