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Norion on 09 September 2020
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Cerebralbore101 said:
Norion said:

Nintendo's first party games are developed in Japan and I have seen people saying that Japanese companies are being hit harder by corona since their workers are far less capable of working from home and if that is the case Nintendo will be hurt by this more than Sony and Microsoft. This isn't to say it excuses things completely but it is something.

Well they should have quickly invested by buying the equipment required for their workforce to work from home effectively. I mean, they have record profits right now, and are sitting on a pretty huge pile of money. Or is there something preventing Japanese workers from taking computer towers and equipment home from the office? Serious question, not rhetorical.

I do agree that investing at least a bit more would be nice instead of sitting on a lot of cash. I've heard that Japanese homes are on the smaller side so having space for that equipment could maybe be an issue. Now I don't actually know for sure how much impact it's having on Nintendo but from what I've seen and read it's a possibility to me that it's impacting them worse than the other two.

IcaroRibeiro said:
Norion said:

Nintendo's first party games are developed in Japan and I have seen people saying that Japanese companies are being hit harder by corona since their workers are far less capable of working from home and if that is the case Nintendo will be hurt by this more than Sony and Microsoft. This isn't to say it excuses things completely but it is something.

Japan is back to "normality" since mid May. They didn't even stopped working completely. West, specially USA, was far more damaged by Covid than Japan 

Nintendo is just delaying their games because they are confident on their selling power without big new releases. They are stretching Switch life as much as they could. The teams working on BOTW 2, Odyssey 2 and etc are probably doing their last efforts for Switch ecosystem and will then work in the enginee for Switch sequel for 2024/2025/2026 games.

So Nintendo needs to delay the release of those big IPs as much as they can to provide a lasting support (unless they want long droughts periods), as much as getting the best 3rd party support they can get

I'm 99% sure all Mario releases were supposed to happen this year, and they are just delaying it because they can 

Hyrule warriors though, I think it was always planned to be released this Q4 as a damage control for BOTW 2 being released next year 

In mid May Furukawa said covid is having a large development impact in Japan since they didn't already have a remote development environment in place. I don't know how accurate he was being when saying that but if he was being truthful then it means there's more to it than just them delaying because they can. However it won't be possible to know things for sure till 2021 and how big the lineup for Switch is that year.