| Louie said: It was a decent video but I think it failed to properly identify Nintendo's challenges moving forward. For some reason everyone seems to think Nintendo's big obstacle will be the quantity of the software output: The video said games like Pokémon and Metroid "take years to make" and painted a picture in which Nintendo will have to rely on third parties to sell their console next year. I think this is entirely wrong. Nintendo publishes 25+ games per year (actually, it's more around 30) and all their resources are now focused on the Switch. They'll have absolutely no problem to release big games like Pokémon, Metroid, Animal Crossing and 2D Mario relatively close to each other. I doubt their plan is to release Metroid and Pokémon in 2019 (but of course, games could get delayed). Nintendo's bigger problem has been the quality of the software they released in the past. Nintendo always seems to get lazy once they have some financial success. They then release games that have less appeal and less selling power and seem more focused on developing the games they like to make internally, instead of the games the consumer wants. Or they put less energy into the stuff that actually sells hardware (it's one thing to go through the motions of making a 2D Mario title - it's an entirely different thing to make a great 2D Mario title). Software quality - not quantity - will be Nintendo's big challenge over the next few years, because right now they are in a good position so they don't feel as much pressure anymore. That's my opinion, at least. Software sells hardware and people know the difference between a decent game (most of their Wii U output was decent but not exciting) and an amazing game like Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey. |
I dont think that Nintendo problem was quality of games, evre past Nintendo system had quality games, but in some cases like in case of 3DS and especially Wii U didnt had them on time ready, but later even Wii U had quality games even Nintendo had divided resources for 3DS support also. But like you wrote, this time their all resources are focused only on Switch, so they will easily have quality and quantity.
