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NawaiNey on 30 June 2017
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Cloudman said:
NawaiNey said:

That's how Sports titles work...They get a new entry every year. MLB The Show is also arguably the best sports games out there.

It's amazing how they manage to make them so fast, while Nintendo will take years to make a Mario Kart and then port the same one over to their next console cause making a new game would be too much work and resources, and they'd rather keep that money in the bank so their fans can brag about how much money their favorite corporation has in the bank like they get a cut from it.

Is that a bad thing? New installments for certain games are fine releasing every couple of years, as some of them like Mario Kart have great replay value. Games that do yearly releases give me burn out, actually.

Yearly entries for sports games are the standard though. And the problem with the Switch is most of the library right now is just ports of games Mario kart, shovel knight, disgaea 5, Minecraft, Thumper, Binding of Isaac, World of Goo, Lego City undercover, I Am Setsuna, etc. all games we've played months or years ago on other consoles.

I never can wrap my head around why some people brag about how much money a company makes, and I mostly see this from Nintendo fans and sometimes MS fans, Only thing you as a gamer should care about is how much money these companies spend on making new games for us, not how much they save in their bank accounts (which is exactly the brag I've heard from Nintendo fans "OMG Nintendo has 15 billion dollars in the bank"). It's hard to defend a company that has 15 billion in the bank and keeps porting last gen games to their new console instead of investing more money in new titles, and when it does most of them look like cheap titles as if some indie team with no budget made it.

Meanwhile Sony's exec says that only 4/10 games they fund make a profit and they use those profits to fund the other 6 games they know won't make a profit or will lose money, and that they will continue to fund titles to support devs who make the type of games that other big publishers won't touch to please niche fans.