State of Play - Oct 27 (3rd party updates + a few reveals; 20 mins)

[Dulfite]

DonFerrari said:

Dulfite said:

I'm not disputing that Sony spends a lot more money on game development than Nintendo. I'm disputing why they (and many other companies, including third party ones that release on Nintendo devices) feel they have to market games years before they release. If they announced Spiderman 3 and released it in two months, it would still sell tens of millions of copies. Same thing with Final Fantasy 7. You don't need 2-5 years of marketing, especially if you anticipate delays. Announced it 9 months (or less) out. In the meantime, just tell people you are working on something. Then no one gets prematurely hyped up and disappointed by how long it takes.

To make you invest on buying the HW.

Then why does Nintendo not fail since they tend to announce things within 9ish months of release? Are we Nintendo buyers just that different from the rest of the industry?

Anyway, didn't mean for this to become a thing. Hopefully the State of Play has lots of fun things in it for the near future!

Last edited by Dulfite - on 24 October 2021