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

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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. 

It seems like you are jumping through all sorts of hoops to try and make it seem like the 2018 lineup is bad.

 

"Kirby, Yoshi and Mario Tennis are all smaller franchises."

What does this have to do with anything? Even if that was relevant, they are all franchises that almost always sell over 1 million and have each done over 2 million.

 

"And Labo, well, it really doesn't add anything of value for people who already own a Switch."

What is this statement based on? How do you know the ~15 million people who own a Switch at the moment don't see value in Labo?

 

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

From Feb-July (6 months), Nintendo has/will publish 9 games 1st/2nd party games on Switch. Even if we exclude the Wii U ports, that is still 5 new games in 6 months. Thats like the exact defintion of good schedule planning.

 

 

You have been pretty negative on all things Switch related since before it was even released and have been wrong about pretty much everything so maybe if you stop being so negative, you can be right for once.