Switch-The platform of ports and shovelware

[nemo37]

curl-6 said:

KLXVER said:

Well if you don't like Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Xenoblade or Mario Kart, there wasn't any big reason to get the Switch in 2017 either... Maybe Kirby was what you were waiting for. Maybe Mario Tennis is what you wanted. Who knows? Cant have big system sellers every month or two. Also we don't know every game that's coming to the Switch in the first 6 months. I don't think this Direct was everything that's coming. I would rather have several good smaller games than a big game or two in half a year anyway.

2017 had 6 big or at least moderately significant games in 9 months; 1 every 1.5 months on average. If 2018 doesn't get more big new games announced for Q1-2, then we're looking at 2 big games in 6 months, which is on par with what we were getting in the Wii U days.

There could be strategic angle that Nintendo is taking here. They are expecting to ship 16.78 million units in 2017 (which for them technically ends at the end of March), if they are close to those numbers now and targeting 20 million for the next fiscal year, it might make sense that they would announce or release some of the bigger guns until after the fiscal year has ended so as to not inflate their 2017 number and deflate the 2018 number. While I don't expect Pokemon and Metroid this year, I would imagine they have some stuff up their sleeves if they are targeting 20 million. If we do not get more first-party announcements by the March/April period then I would be more worried, but for a Mini Direct that covered most of Spring and a bit of summer I think it is okay.