Nintendos 2018 Line up is pretty boring for me, so far

[Kai_Mao]

DélioPT said:

Kai_Mao said:

I don't know if we can say this is a bad year, even with personal tastes aside. A lot of these ports are games that fans haven't played before because it was on Wii U or it was on other consoles and its a good opportunity to port them and showcase the portability factor with the Switch. Not saying its a legendary year, but its hard to say its a bad year at this time.

2018 has Kirby, Yoshi, Smash Bros., Mario Tennis Aces, and Labo so far in terms of first party titles (or concepts with Labo in mind). Then you have Fire Emblem confirmed for 2018 and potentially Pokemon. And its not unprecedented that Smash and Pokemon could release in the same year as ORAS and Smash Wii U released on the same day in NA, albeit on different consoles.

As for why Smash was announced, tough to tell. Nintendo will announce games when they're ready to show them or tease them.

But that could be said for every single game: there's always people who haven't played it.
Portability might give them a second life, but it's still ports and more ports... and Indies.

Honestly, so far, it's a bad year.
This is pretty much what people expect for the first year, not the second.

Kirby, Yoshi and Mario Tennis are all smaller franchises. And Labo, well, it really doesn't add anything of value for people who already own a Switch.

Pokémon might come, but that's a big "if".
It will depend on what kind of Pokémon game we are getting. If they are going for a new game and full HD, i really doubt they can pull it off.
Don't forget that they have had no meaningful experience in HD development. And if it took Nintendo 3 years to develop  New Super Mario Bros U... who knows when they can get that game out. Again, it will depend on what type of game we'll get.

Even if Pokémon and Smash release in 2018, that will most likely happen in the last 4-3 months. To me, that's not a good schedule planning.

 

Now that you mention it, they could have actually shown footage for Fire Emblem or Pokémon.
I don't want to jump to conclusions, but teasing Smash before showing footage of two big names, is not irrelevante. 
But... wait and see. 

I don’t know. It’s just hard for me to believe it’s a bad year. There are a lot of games announced that I haven’t played before so maybe that factors in as it probably factors into your opinion of the vice versa.

and you mentioned the issues of little games being expected for the first year. The first year was almost unprecedented. Not often do you see a console launch with what the Switch had: 2 all-timers in BoTW and Odyssey, new IPs in ARMS and Snipperclips, great sequels in Splatoon 2 and Xenoblade 2, a Deluxe port in MK8 that will eventually outsell its original version’s LT sales, Fire Emblem Warriors, and a plethora of indies and decent third party support (including Mario + Rabbids). So what else can Nintendo’s software teams come up with the match Zelda and 3D Mario? That alone is a tough act to follow.

but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad year, especially when we’re only 3 months in (and the start of Nintendo’s fiscal year) and with Kirby just about to release. 

As for fire emblem and Pokémon not showing up, they’ll show up when Nintendo and their respective teams are ready to show them. I don’t think we should speculate too much on those projects as Nintendo nor any of those teams promised anything besides 2018 (or 2018 and beyond if you’re talking about Pokémon). No need to be cynical about it.