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Kai_Mao on 29 January 2018
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twintail said:
pastro243 said:
Well, you can't release a new mario or zelda every year. Having those two first year was one of the benefits of launching midgen, helped them build a userbase big enough to attract 3rd parties, and WiiU being a failure makes old ports viable when reaching to the NS expanded audience.

True. Though Im sure many ppl speculated that collating their handheld and console teams would result in more output of their IPs for a single system (switch)

It's still gonna take some time, especially for the software development teams who have been working on handheld titles. Not sure how much they learned about HD development at the same time as the teams who were making HD games. They still have to get used to actually programming, engineering, and designing under more expensive and more complicated hardware compared to the 3DS. And new HD games are still gonna be in development for at least a few years. When you look at upcoming PS4 games like God of War, Spiderman, and The Last of Us 2, it will take them about 3 years of development (about 4 if TLOU2 releases in 2019) before they eventually release, even though they were officially announced a year or two earlier from their release. Who knows how long some of these new games on the Switch have been under development.