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Dulfite on 04 November 2021
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RolStoppable said:
Dulfite said:

Telling someone they haven't thought this through is no way to have a polite discussion, first of all. Secondly, Wii didn't have a pandemic the previous year or more that caused massive delays on everything. Switch 2022 lineup is so good because many of it's games were originally planned for 2021, just as many 2021 games were meant to come out 2020 before Covid. If they have games to release, it's not like they just aren't going to release them. I think by mid 2022 the Covid delays should be mostly wrapped up and we will see a significant drop in major first party games coming from then on as most studios will be fully into making Switch 2 games.

If Switch's 2022 lineup is so good only because many games got pushed back due to COVID-19, then that would logically mean that Nintendo's next gen plans also got pushed back. Because the lost time doesn't get magically restored in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Games that take 4-5 years to make aren't being crunched on by a 200+ team the whole time. Years 1-2, sometimes even year 3 have a small team doing the big picture stuff. Not a bunch of coding going on. Those games meant to come out in 2021 that are delayed until 2022 were likely in their last year of development prior to Covid, so they had a lot of code/art/voice acting/etc. to do. Whereas games due on Switch 2 in 2023, if that happens, were only in years 1-3 at maximum as of 2020.