Staring into the abyss of a world where Nintendo has no games scheduled for release. Edit: The Time of Darkness Has Arrived

[AngryLittleAlchemist]

Mar1217 said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

See when you make a list like that, it sounds really positive and makes me excited. But then I remember, wait, we knew about Xenoblade DE for a super long time. We knew about Bravely Default 2 for a while. Panzer Dragoon Remake has been known for almost a year. Catherine Full Body was leaked quite a while ago (I'll admit this is the coolest thing about this direct though). Bioshock collection was just made free on PSN. And Ninjala? I can't even bother with Splatoon, let alone Ninjala. 

Great for people who are Switch only (well, except Curl, because reasons), but it doesn't help that most of this stuff had been known about for a long time. 

But I consider knowing and seeing two different things. Yes, we knew about most of these games, but it's the first time we also see most of these games in action per say instead of a few seconds of cinematics.

Case in point, Bravely Default II, Ninjala, Xenoblade DE finally got some gameplay footage and extensive showingsfor the first time.

I mean, it's fair if you're not interested in the games themselves, heck I wasn't interested in Animal Crossing and I'm left waiting for the end of April to get my first big physical game since September.

In the end, there's still a pletora of other choices at your grasp. Other console librairies, indies (or as I call them Eshop title) which have ton of variety in what you can search for.

And then, we know for sure (implicitly) that we're gonna get the big full Direct in June with all the big announcements and showcase that some have been waiting for. The decisions rest upon about what you wanna do with it though in the meanwhile.

Xenoblade is a 10 year old game. An extensive gameplay showing of it isn't going to save a direct. Neither is one for Bravely Default II, which while it's cool to see that it's another graphically impressive title for some, it isn't really changing much or expanding massively upon what the 3ds games were known for (some good changes aside)..

I don't think the argument here is whether showing already covered games more extensively is bad or not. It certainly is great to see these titles in more detail, and you'll never hear me say something as ignorant as not wanting these games covered at all simply because they don't appeal to me. However I do think it's disingenuous to just, list a ton of titles we already knew about and say that's more consequential than showing new games because the list is simply bigger. That's the disagreement I think. Ultimately, new Nintendo games, especially ones that aren't late ports or remasters/remakes (let's not turn it into that please hehe), are always going to take priority in an ecosystem like Nintendo's. 

And I have more than enough stuff to play. I have a PS4, PC, and a lengthy Switch backlog. I just don't find it convincing that, because people have stuff to play, they shouldn't criticize or be disappointed with the information a company releases. That's not how people, or reality, really work. Nintendo wants us to judge them, if not they wouldn't be selling products in the largest economic system dictated entirely around the desires of the consumer. You can talk about the quality of a direct, without thinking that it controls your gamer livelihood for the rest of the year .