ARMS 2 Hopes and ideas

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TheMisterManGuy said:

curl-6 said:

Nintendo are not really that big. This year, the only games EPD have put out so far are Labo, Sushi Striker, Warioware Gold, and Dragalia Lost, all low budget products, one indie tier, one a port of a Wii U party game, and one an iOS title, and nothing big since Mario Odyssey last October. Their resources and manpower are quite limited.

I'd say that has more to do with Nintendo not really deciding on what Switch's post launch year would be yet internally. Anything EPD was working on prior to the Switch's launch was strictly for the console's first year, and new titles green-lit afterward were only done once the console became a success. As Nintendo likes to take their time with games, next year will be when more big EPD projects come out, same for 2020 onward. So in a way, you're correct that Nintendo burned through a lot of their resources, but that's because they were entirely focused on making the Switch's first year the best it could possibly be. That included getting BotW and Odyssey out complete and on time. 

Oh yeah, they definitely fired a lot of their big guns last year, leaving this year somewhat light on big releases as a lot of their key studios "reload" to fire again in 2019 and 2020. Even so, they have to be careful how they allocate their finite resources as compared to MS or Sony they have to do more of the heavy lifting for themselves in terms of driving hardware sales.