Kai_Mao said:
Ultimately, it is as you said, there is more to be announced. Nintendo hasn't put everything out there yet and we'll probably know more of what's to come later on in the year and beyond when they're ready to announce more. Nevertheless, I have to say that seeing what's going on this first year for the Switch in terms of first party, I don't know what launch year first party lineups of consoles' past matches up to that. Sure some have great launch lineups, but for the whole year? |
Yes, more will be announced.
But, besides all the praises that can be sang about 2017, if you compare Switch with Wii U in their first 10 months (Switch's almost full year), you'll see that, in terms of 1st party efforts, there isn't a difference.
The big difference lies on Switch having 3 ports (so far!): Zelda, MK 8 and Pokken. And two of them are big names!
friendlyfamine said:
By that logic, Xbox is the epitome of that problem. Honestly, why does it concern you so much that only 2 first party games have a 2018 release date? We're only halfway through this year (2017) and you're already jumping to the conclusion that there's a "problem" with 2018? We've seen already that Nintendo will eventually deliver on first party IP, as all their studios are pretty much working together to make games for this system. Out of the blue, there could be an Animal Crossing game, a Smash port, Mario Maker 2/port, the list prolongs. Pikmin 4 and Fire Emblem 2018 are definitely going to be for 2018, as Pikmin 4 has been "almost finished" since 2015. It's likely going to be revealed in a Nintendo Direct. Just wait, please. This discussion is way too early. You're probably too exercised by Sony's 2018 delays to have such discussion. Nintendo doesn't operate like that, sometimes they announce a game a few months before release. Sony doesn't do that. |
Their isn't a problem with 2018, but there can be.
First, Pikmin 4 isn't a garanteed 2018 title. Nintendo hasn't confirmed and the "it's been in development since 2015" means nothing.
We don't know how the development process is going, and if i'm not mistaken, Starfox Zero was in development since the Wii days and it came out in 2015.
Out of the blue there can be many things but no one knows that.
What we know is that by the end of E3 we have 3 games announced and instead of using their E3 time to announce more games for 2018 they wasted two perfectly good announcements of non 2018 games.
They could fill you with a remake every month if they wanted to. But that's not the point, is it?
I checked Sony's E3 2013 and 2016 conference, and to my surprise, the majority of games shown were for the current year or the next.
I don't know if SOny announces games a few months from reveal or not, but that really changes nothing.
