Miyamotoo said:
What you wrote dont make sense if you look current sales, Switch is still very good despite it had only Bayonetta 1/2 until now, and this year sales will most likly sell more than last year ones. Games like Bayonetta 1/2, Kirby, Labo, DKTF, Hyrule Warriors, Captain Toad, Octopath traveler, Travis Strikes Again, Mario Aces...are quite different compared to last year games and they are actually expending variate of Switch game offers and they automatically expanding intrest in Switch (espacily with multiplatform ports), sales proves that beacuse Switch is still seling very good. Its hard to have something huge evre quarter, but Labo have potential to be huge for 2nd quarter and Smash Bros is most likely 3rd quarter game (September release). Fact that Nintendo from February will have every month 1-2 (Nintendo or exlusive release) releases means that they prepared they self like they should to continue momentum without any droughts. You sound like Switch is not selling and like its loosing momentum, but sales proves that you are wrong and you dont see that. |
Your idea of variety is: any kind of variety = great variety.
The games you mentioned are mostly ports, smaller franchises and unproven ones like Octopath and Labo.
When people say they want variety, it's implied they want the best possible scenario. And companies do strive to offer the best kind of variety. Sometimes they achieve that, sometimes they don't.
The first half does not offer the best type of variety it could offer. Plain and simple.
Just to give an exemple, a scenario where instead of ports and more ports, we had more multiplats, that would be a better type of variety.
Personally, i don't hold much faith on Labo for the long term.
Honestly, i think it's going the way of the amiibo: something really cool to have at first, but then it becomes obvious that, in the case of Labo, all time and money spent
on it doesn't equal a great experience.
Still, i could be dead wrong.
Just curious, why do you assume Smash is a September title?
"Nintendo from February will have every month 1-2 (Nintendo or exlusive release) releases means that they prepared they self like they should"
So, you think a well crafted, well balanced, release Schedule is one where Nintendo gives it all in one year and in the second year you're left with a bigger number of ports, smaller franchises and a system seller - so far, that is - reserved for the latter half?
If you really want to grade Nintendo's strategy, go back a few years and analyse it for what it was, before the Switch a success. Because that's what i'm doing.
And that's why you are saying - again - that i sound like the Switch isn't selling or losing momentum.
I'm not saying neither.
I was surprised to see Switch doing so well (specially in Europe) this time of year. Which is great. But this isn't a race, it's a marathon. And to me, a better scenario would be if Nintendo hadn't invested so heavily last year.
But that was their plan, Switch success or not.
So you don't read what i didn't write, my concern, just like in previous conversations we had, is that Nintendo had means, more than ever before, to do something better and they don't seem to be doing.
Doing better will almost always equal selling more, making more money. This is a business after all.
