What will be Nintendo's big 2020 holiday game(s)?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

haxxiy said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

I think the original plan was BotW 2 for the holidays.  It's not going to happen though.  The pandemic is going to slow things down too much.  By the same token Sony and Microsoft will not release their consoles this year.  It's all getting pushed back.  The Black Widow movie is getting pushed back from May to November.  Do we really think the video game companies can stay on schedule when Disney can't?  Nope.  Not going to happen.  The only difference is we are seeing the movie delays sooner.  The video game delays are going to be felt for most of the rest of this year though.

Hardly a fair comparison, is it? Between cinema and hardware manufacturing and selling, I mean.

There are loads of open stores and supermarkets in every city, but just one movie theater open in the entire US the last weekend, according to BOM.

You are talking about the retail side, the point of purchase.  What I'm saying is that the actual production is being slowed down.  Even if every store in the world is open during the holidays, they still might not have anything notable to sell.  It takes time to make both movies and video games and both media require a lot of collaboration to make the high budget stuff.  That collaboration just can't happen effectively with the pandemic going on.

Now if you want to talk about indie games, or indie movies for that matter, they don't require nearly as many people.  I can see a lot of indies going forward without much hindrance.