| Kresnik said: Can't believe how much momentum Nintendo had going into this conference all just to ruin it with that reveal. |
Did they really have momentum? I've been hearing that a lot since coming back, but I just don't see it. It seemed like there were high expectations because they'd been so quiet for so long that they must have been working on something SUPER GREAT, but what has Nintendo done in forever? The Wii U was simply dire, just as the 3DS nearly was until they put all hands on deck to salvage it. They can't release a game in a timely fashion to save their lives. Zelda looking like a good game is pretty much a given and therefore not much of an achievement. They finally decided to go mobile, which could be just as much an act of desperation as an example of them getting smart, and the result so far is underwhelming. Although they've benefited from it, they had nothing whatsoever to do with Pokemon Go or its success. And now they seem to be in the process of Wii U-ing their handheld business instead of DSing their home console business as they'd hoped.
Honestly, the last brilliant move I remember from them was stealing Monster Hunter six years ago to kill the Vita right before it launched... and Splatoon, I guess.
I didn't even think the conference was that bad in terms of content. The problem is that the Switch just seemed like another Wii U from the start (only worse because now it's their handheld, too) and so it needed megatons that were never going to happen.
