| fatslob-:O said: @Bold Well that depends if those games are going to feature local multiplayer ... (the game mode is popular among families) I'd argue the opposite regarding PS4's first year. You had rereleases like GTA V, TLOU, Minecraft, Diablo III and new IPs such as Destiny, Watch Dogs, Middle-Earth, Driveclub and returning IPs like the yearly sports releases (FIFA especially grew this generation), CoD, AC, Far Cry 4, Infamous along with Dragon Age: Inquisition but my list isn't even counting games that sold below 2M units on PS4 such as Little Big Planet 3, The Evil Within, The Crew, Wolfenstein, Rayman Legends or Alien: Isolation ... I guess it would be bad idea to compare Sony systems to Nintendo systems in terms of releases since customers expect lot's of big 3rd party games on playstation while customers are content with a moderate amount of core Nintendo games ... Agreed with the last line ... (I think we could have a 2D Mario on our hands for this one since it's relatively one of the easier titles to develop) Rereleasing MK8 is fine since it's just a port so not much resources was spent to get an immediate gain (although this could affect the boost with future entries since Nintendo is getting some Mario Kart customers to transition already) What Nintendo needs IMO is a new big hit IP I think cause they really don't have that many options left ... (Once they've played, Zelda, Splatoon, 3D Mario, Animal Crossing and evntually in the future with Pokemon, Smash Bros, 2D Mario, maybe Donkey Kong and another Mario Kart they should be able to reach 50M units with the Switch but after that it gets a noticeably harder to break past that wall) I thought it would be Pokemon Platinum that would be remade since it's already the enhanced version for Diamon/Pearl but it seems a little too early for a remake right now since Game Freak is busy doing Pokemon Ultrasun/Ultramoon which are an alternate games of the original instead of a direct enhancement like the previous installments ... Would be interesting to see what Retro is doing, they could be producing another Donkey Kong game right now I imagine ... |
Well both games have been advertised pretty heavily as co-op games, *especially* Kirby which is literally called Kirby Star Allies
Ehh...I'm speaking for my own personal tastes. I don't think any of those games were that appealing and I definitely regretted getting a PS4 for a long ass time. I pretty much haven't regretted my Switch at all so far. Infamous was really good though. Of course, the difference is that the PS4's library had way more variety. And that's why I said there's nuances. The PS4's library was simply so big in it's first year that it was super successful, whereas I think Nintendo is banking almost entirely on appealing hardware and a few high quality games. Simply put, the PS4 sold well because of quantity, even Sony admitted they were shocked it was as successful as it was.
The problem with MK8 isn't really the effort(there was probably very little). More so I think Nintendo will hold off on a sequel even longer due to the rerelease.
I agree with you, they need a big new IP. And it's kind of horrifying. Splatoon 2 is really only big enough in Japan and some of the U.S. to be a console seller. We already have Nintendo covering so many genres that them trying to do something totally unique while making it a system seller globally would be very difficult. We've heard some people on this forum speculate that Nintendo is putting resources on new IP all the time since Splatoon. Personally i'd like to see less of Arms and more of a mature grounded experience. Maybe even two mature IP to get more gamers in from other consoles.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Too soon, maybe. It would be cool if it was Platinum, but a lot of people wanted Emerald and Crystal to be the remade 3rd and 2nd gen games, and aside from some missions that never ended up being the case.
