VGChartz Gap Charts January 2020 Discussion Thread

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trunkswd said:

curl-6 said:

I really hope they don't as well, and after 2017 I was sure they'd learned their lessons, but with this year looking like a wasteland in terms of releases and feeling awfully like 2011 where we just kept waiting for news of more games and it just never came, I am growing quite concerned.

Animal Crossing is far bigger than any release the Switch had in the first half of 2019. However, second half of 2020 has nothing right now. With Pokemon Sword / Shield DLC there is no chance of a new Pokemon game this year. Also looks like BotW 2 and Metroid Prime 4 are still a ways off. 

AC is indeed huge, but that's literally their only big game for the whole year as of now. Insiders suggest BOTW2 is a 2021 game, Prime 4 is still hiring people and probably won't come out til 2022-2023. It's a very bleak outlook at the moment, and Nintendo's history of prematurely abandoning their consoles makes me quite apprehensive.