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[JWeinCom]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

JWeinCom said:

First off, Arms adds a shit ton of value. Arms is awesome. 

If we extend it 6 months, then Splatoon and Mario and Rabbids squeak in, and those are pretty awesome too. So in terms of 6 months, I'd say 2017 crushes this year based on what we know, but maybe they'll add something.

I'm just looking at everything in context. I don't see the point in comparing individual quarters in isolation. You can do that if you want, but I don't really see the purpose. Like... saying "well this is the best February 12th Nintendo had in years" would be kind of dumb right? Expanding that to a month is less dumb, but still kind of dumb. 3 months is better still, and so on. The more time you're comparing the more sense it makes. You have to drawn the line somewhere obviously, but a quarter is too short to be meaningful imo.

So, if you're point is that the first 4 months of the year look good to you, that's fine (we don't know anything beyond Snap to my knowledge so you can't say anything about 6 months). But, what I'm saying is that Nintendo's overall software output of late has been pretty bad. I think we generally agree and are talking past one another.

But it's really not that odd of a comparison because again, I'm fine with extending the comparison to 6 months. So just continuously saying 4 months is too odd of a comparison is missing the point. Especially when a 3rd of the year is not anywhere near as irrelevant a comparison as a single day would be (I know you are being hyperbolic, but it's particularly bad hyperbole). 

The issue with extending it to 6 months AND discounting January and February to account for Switch launching in March is that it means the only fair comparison is (because then Switch's first year would end in March 2018 then) with 2021's March - 2022's March. And the problem then is, we don't know enough about the schedule post April to make that comparison. Which was the entire point of what I said originally 

Either way, this is going in circles. I don't think I disagree with anything you're saying though, to be fair. I just think the output for the first few months/first 6 months (whichever criteria you pick) non-fiscally, is much better than that of 2018, 2019, 2020, even 2017. But I don't disagree that they could have compensated for the lack of games that came out last year better by being more immediate with gaming news, or even releasing more big titles in the first half of 2021. 

Yup. So we can end it here.