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Slownenberg on 03 September 2020
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MasonADC said:
Slownenberg said:

What does not announcing something yet or have gameplay trailer have to do with having it ready? Nothing.

Paper Mario wasn't announced till two months (or less?) before it came out. Mario Collection wasn't officially announced until 15 days before it comes out.

There is no reason to think they won't have a big new game for the holidays. If they didn't, they would be releasing Mario Collection in November, or 3D World in November. That's all the proof we need that there's big stuff for the holidays that we will find out about soon.

BotW2 has been in development for a while. They had enough to show a teaser trailer at E3 2019. It's using the same map (probably altered though) as BotW, and therefore can share plenty of assets as well, which means development time will be much shorter than if they were building a world from scratch. I'm not saying it is definitely coming out this holiday, but it wouldn't be surprising at all if it did. I'd be more surprised if a big game they haven't even teased yet comes out over BotW2 this holiday.

Holiday titles tend to actually have marketing to them. Paper Mario is not a huge title nor was it the holiday title. Also, we are coming out on that 2 month example that you gave for paper mario, so we should know sooner or later if they have one.

Botw is going to get a huge marketing push and tons of trailers. If Botw2 was coming out this year I 100% believe we would know it by now and have seen more than one teaser trailer. I really dont think we are getting a big holiday title coming out this year

Again, if they had nothing for the holidays, then Mario Collection or 3D World would be coming out this holiday, not in Sept and Feb. I don't see a world in which Nintendo just decides to skip an entire holiday season with nothing to show, especially with new systems coming out.

The Mario 35th anniversary is apparently a big deal to them as they just announced all sorts of Mario related things, and yet they did that two weeks before the main game of their anniversary celebration comes out. Clearly they don't think they need to have many months of advertising leading up to a game launch. I would expect they want to focus on the Mario Anniversary, and a bit after the Mario Collection comes out they'll focus on announcing and advertising their holiday lineup.

A few months ago people were trying to say Nintendo wouldn't release a single game the entire second half of the year. Then we got Paper Mario, then we found out about Pikmin 3 Deluxe, and now Mario Collection, Mario 35, and Mario Kart Live or whatever its called. That's an awful lot of games compared to "no games for rest of the year", and we haven't even gotten to any holiday announcements! As this shows, just because Nintendo hasn't announced what is coming out yet doesn't mean nothing is coming out, not sure why people suddenly decided in 2020 than Nintendo has stopped making games entirely unless they've announced games with their launch dates.

Take Sony and Microsoft. They have brand new systems coming out in just over two months and yet they still haven't even given a price tag for them! Hell Microsoft still hasn't even officially announced one of the two models of the system that we know is coming out. Considering these are brand new systems, that is a much bigger deal than Nintendo just waiting until a couple months before launch to announce its big holiday game, especially when they clearly wanted to end the summer / kick off the Fall by focusing on the Mario anniversary.

Also, major Nintendo games don't need a long advertising period. Major franchise AAA Nintendo first party games come out like two a year, so when one comes out they don't need like 6 months to advertise it because every Nintendo gamer knows about it soon after it is announced and every gamer knows its gonna be THE game to get for that time period.

Last edited by Slownenberg - on 03 September 2020