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

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Shaunodon said:

VideoGameAccountant said:

It doesn't justify Nintendo's action. Both Sony and Microsoft are both releasing titles and new hardware in 2020. Both Sony and Microsoft have shown their line up for at least the near future, even if everything doesn't have a release date. That's more excusable when you have a new generation. Nintendo's issue is they can't even get one title out for the rest of the year. Nintendo had three years of strong earnings and cash flow and is only making for a single system, so they're inability to produce anything makes them look bad. Nintendo can't even do the bare minimum. 

Also, we're 5 months to the end of the year. If Nintendo doesn't know what they can or can't release now, than they have way bigger problems than the virus. 

It's not hard to know what Sony and Microsoft have in the near future, when it's literally one game each. For Sony, just a standalone-expansion even. For Microsoft, it may get delayed anyway. So if Nintendo just announced one game you'd stop losing sleep at night?

Stop talking about their inability to produce anything for the rest of the year, as if it's already set in stone. We're barely over half way through the year, and their current pattern has been to announce games shortly before release.

The games they've released so far this year have already been more than satisfactory. Most people already have a huge backlog on Switch to begin with. The Switch keeps selling out everywhere for a reason.

The only 'problems' are the ones you're creating for yourselves.

As I said on the outset, launching new hardware is far and beyond more difficult. Numerous systems have had a few releases early one and then the bulk of the new games people want come the following holiday. So their situation is more forgivable and they've actually announced other titles beyond 2020. Even still, Sony and Microsoft still have more titles than Nintendo has right now, which is none. 

And of course I'm going to keep pointing out their inability to release anything this year because thus far they have yet to prove me wrong. We are 5 months till the end of the year and 4 months till the start of the shopping season and we have nothing. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, we knew what titles Nintendo was going to release in the end of the year by this point. So sitting here in 2020 and Nintendo has nothing to show this late in the game, my assumption is going to be "they don't have anything." Why would I think otherwise.

Lastly, most games sell the most close to their release and that is true of Nintendo's games as well. Animal Crossing has likely sold most of what it will sell. All of Nintendo's other titles wont do  better than they did last year. 

And this brings me back to my initial point. If you are an investor, and you want to know what products the company plans to release in the fiscal year, and management just shrugs, then there is a problem. Saying "We're just going to keep selling Animal Crossing" isn't going to build confidence that management has any plans to keep the Switch selling. So they're just going to sell off. This is the reason Nintendo has to announce something, to show there are some future prospects. Right now, there aren't any prospects for the Switch and its looking more and more like Nintendo doesn't have any plans to change that. So no, it's not a me problem, it's a investor problem, and a problem for senior management. 

Last edited by VideoGameAccountant - on 01 August 2020