mZuzek said:
It's not about behaviour, it's about having limited resources and having blown out most of them in 2017 with four major high budget titles in Zelda, Mario, Xenoblade and to a lesser extent Splatoon - and then to a lesser extent, Arms. In any case, calling Smash Ultimate "one big game" is quite an understatement. It's shaping up to be the biggest fighting game ever made, and by a long, long, long margin. I'd go as far as calling it the best game ever period, but there are many different qualities you could use to call a game that. Edit: I mean, just look at next year. We already have Fire Emblem and Yoshi confirmed, and one megaton confirmed in Pokémon 8th gen. We don't know yet whether Bayonetta 3 and/or Metroid Prime 4 will release next year, but it does sound likely. Given we probably also have Pikmin and Animal Crossing in the horizon, besides whatever the hell Retro Studios spent the last 57 years on (if it even exists), it's looking like another potential great lineup. In the meantime, biggest game ever will do. |
Smash is still just 1 game. The only big game for the system in all of 2018.
End of last year people were saying 2018 would be huge, that we'd probably see Prime 4, Bayonetta 3, Animal Crossing, Retro's game, Pikmin 4. And here we are. 2019 could go the same way, nothing but regurgitated leftovers and throwaway fluff until Pokemon at year's end. This year has shown Nintendo will do the absolute bare minimum they can get away with.
