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Lonely_Dolphin on 04 September 2016
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Luke888 said:

That doesn't change the fact that as Games like Amiibo Festival and Ultra Smash wouldn't sell anyone on NX neither Pikmin 2D would...

 

Nor does that change the fact that more games is always better than less. No single game can sell many systems, only a collection of games.

 

Asriel said:

That is a fair concern to have, but like I said, the support they're providing for 3DS is absolutely minimal in terms of resources. Grezzo are a small and surprisingly productive studio, having worked on (developed and co-developed) Ocarina 3D, Majora 3D, Four Swords Anniversary Edition, Flower Town, Legend of Legacy, Tri-Force Heroes and finally Ever Oasis over a 6 year period, which is quite impressive, really. Add to that Pikmin being outsourced to the Yoshi New Island studio and two titles being ports etc, it is a very minimal investment so it shouldn't have much impact on NX software. Nintendo need to have teams working on a cycle, so these teams will be free to launch new games any time in the next two (at most three) years as they wrap up their final 3DS projects. The vast majority of EPD's staff (the combined EAD/SPD studios, somewhere near 1000 staff) will be working on mobile and NX products, with only the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild and the latest Mario Party (which we can assume is wrapped up or just about wrapped up) not targeting mobile or NX. 

On top of that, NX is the first system to benefit from Nintendo's internal restructuring. We don't yet know how that will work out, but the theory and the intention is more Nintendo software, more often. I think your concerns are rational, but--and I stress this--in theory, if NX is a single system taking advantage of the restructuring at Nintendo, there's some room for optimism. The proof will be in the pudding, of course, but in the face of their business model falling apart, Nintendo have restructured their company and their development practices. That should change things. We just don't know until NX is revealed, and even then, Nintendo could (presumably will) keep the lid on some software. In theory, the majority of Nintendo's development resources will have NX projects either close to completion (teams like Retro, who haven't released a game since early 2014) or under way (like the Splatoon team, who largely wrapped up development last year). 

 

Telling me what I already know isn't gonna change my mind. :L

 

TomaTito said:

These past few months? I've been MIA most of them if you haven't noticed.

Actions speak louder than words. Let's see what Nintendo does, because they can obviously say anything.

 

You expect me to be paying attention to your site activity? I do however expect you to have been following Nintendo's activity if you're going to come in here and claim what they've done isn't surprising.

Said and did, namely the games they've been announcing. Both Wii U and 3DS were getting a minimal amount of games with most them being asset/engine reusing sequels/spin-offs. Just see E3 2015. Their words definitely weren't going to be ignored while their actions lined up with them.