MCV: Zelda, Mario, and Pokemon games due out for NX within first six months

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Soundwave said:

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One of Wii U's biggest handicaps was its painfully slow start; it didn't get its first true system seller until a year and a half after launch, and by then it was too late.

NX needs to come out of the gate firing on all cylinders; if it's plagued by the same Saharan game droughts that crippled Wii U, then it will fail. Ideally, either Mario Kart 9 or Splat2n should be their holiday tentpole for 2017.

The problem is, Nintendo keeps saying "oh, we've worked hard to make sure that this time we won't have game droughts like our last system", yet it keeps on happening.

A big part of the problem is effectively having to support two consoles (yes, Nintendo portables basically became their own consoles the moment they needed to have their own Mario Kart, 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Animal Crossing, Smash Brothers, etc. done by the main EAD teams). 

Now that that issue is put aside, they can probably have a lot more software ready. Taking Zelda: BoTW from the Wii U basically gifts them a free big launch title too. 

Let's hope so.

Breath of the Wild will help, but hopefully they don't try to ride out 2017 on the strength of that game alone, and have another big system-seller for the holidays to maintain momentum.