| friendlyfamine said: Idk, I mean 2018 already looks better than 2017. You sound like you need to broaden your interests. Third party support is already stronger and we've still got E3 and another (at least) 2 full Nintendo Directs to go, I'd say first party is arguable. Whilst nothing this year (from Nintendo) should top Odyssey and BOTW, the sales of Smash and (maybe) Pokemon or another title should compensate for that. This year we will see more Nintendo games i.e. Kirby, Yoshi, Smash, Fire Emblem, Mario Tennis, Pokemon(?), Pikmin 4(?) and it will be more of a quantity year than a quality year. |
I think people on this site are in love with being negative.
After the January event last year that highlighted most of the main software, people complained that there was almost nothing coming out. Then a year later the same people are saying it was one of the best to the best year for releases on a Nintendo system ever. Last year was also mostly ports or remakes, and people ended up praising the fact that the Switch was the best platform to play these games on - I am guessing 2018 will end up the same in the end; and lots of last years software is going to help tremendously with sales for this year (and likely next year as well, since Zelda is such a unique and sought after experience, and Mario Kart traditionally sells millions for years).
Cut off Mario and Zelda, and 2018 is already stronger than 2017 (Wolfenstein, Dark Souls Remastered, Undertale, Kirby, Smash, South Park, Crash remakes, Little Nightmares, Mario Tennis, Okami HD, No More Heroes, Atelier Lydie, DKC: TF, Hyrule Warriors, Shantae, War Groove, YS VIII, Pillars of Eternity 2, Bloodstained, the World Ends with you, De Blob 2, Yoshi Switch, Bayonetta 1-3, Valkyrie Chronicles 4, ); it is unlikely that Nintendo just happened to not have any software for this Christmas, and more likely it is going to be announced this Summer when it is closer to that time (Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Metroid, Dragon Quest, Diablo, and a new Monolith Soft game have already been teased).
And saying Nintendo needs a Breath of the Wild caliber game every year to be worth it is unreasonable, games like that generally come around only once every few years, and it is amazing that we got two in one year; there are basically 3 dev teams in the world capable of making such games (Mario team, Zelda team, and Rockstar North), they can only work on one thing at a time, and a game like that takes a half a decade or more. Only 8 games in the entire history of video games have scores that high - they are all within the Mario, GTA, and Zelda franchises. So unless Rockstar has GTA6 coming to Switch, it’ll be years before we can expect another Breath of the Wild or Odyssey caliber game, because those are the only three franchises in that top tier; and guess what, everyone with a Switch - and everyone who will get one this year - has access to playing two of them already.
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