Japan Sales Week 48 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - November 26-December 2, 2018

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Miyamotoo said:

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Granted delays can't always be avoided, but they should have planned ahead better and more big games for the first 10 months of the year instead of leaning so heavily on re-releases, so that there were games to take the load and maintain momentum. Betting the house on Labo was also a bad call, they should have had enough core games in place to make up for its possible failure.

Most important is to have killer 1st year, and they deliver that, they couldnt have stronger games until years end of second year and they thought Labo will have stronger effect in first half of this year, so its understandable, espacily when 2019. already looks strong. Saying that, Switch keep momentum despite didnt had big system games until November, that shows how healthy platform is.

Having a killer first year and a strong second year are not mutually exclusive. You can have both, you just have to plan properly and make the necessarily arrangements and investments, which Nintendo didn't because they bet on having another Wii Fit on their hands with Labo and neglected to have a backup plan in case it wasn't a megahit.