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Miyamotoo on 09 March 2018
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Kairos said:
Remember last Playstation E3 conference where everyone was dissapointed because they showed the same games they showed on previous events ... well, that's how I felt about this direct with the difference Sony was showing new games not ports.

I'll give points to Nintedo becaused they had a very good pace, but, as someone who isn't interested on smash, tennis or splatoon there was nothing new appeling to me.

I was expecting something about Bayo 3

This was a 6 out of 10 for me

E3 and Direct are not same thing and Sony were showing same games for couple of years on E3, while most of games from Direct were announced couple months ago, so totally different things.

 

The_Liquid_Laser said:
Flilix said:

They barely showed us anything for August and beyond yet. The second half of the year is when most of the big games get released, So far, I think 2018 looks just as good as 2017, which was Nintendo's biggest year in a long time.

Let me be clear that I mean that Switch hardware sales will be disappointing this year.  Kimishima will fall short of his hardware sales goals.  In 2017, Nintendo released 4 games that are selling extremely well: Zelda, 3D Mario, Mario Kart, and Splatoon 2.  This year the only game we know of that is off similar caliber is Smash Bros.  The first party library of 2018 pales in comparison to 2017.  Unless they have another big game ready, then hardware sales are going to be disappointing.
The_Liquid_Laser said:
zorg1000 said:

Such an odd stance to take.

They passed their launch forcast by 38%

They had to increase this year's forcast by 50%

Now they will all of a sudden sell millions less than expected next fiscal year based on what exactly?

Based on first party lineup.  2017 had several great first party games.  2018 has Smash Bros and everything else is minor by comparison.

You offcourse do realise that Switch is still selling good from start of year without almost any bigger release, and that sales with games from Direct that are coming in next few months (April, May, June and July have much better lineup than January, February and March) sales can be only better. Also you do realise that last year Switch had huge stock problems and that sales would be higher than they were and that this year stock situation is much better. Also we still barely know anything about second half of year for Switch except Smash Bros, almost all games from Direct are coming in next few months.