| RolStoppable said: This was a packed Direct where the first party content was so good that it makes one overlook how mediocre the third party software was. But lacking third party is what I've come to expect from Nintendo Directs, because the games they highlight usually differ from the ones I end up buying. The Mario Kart 8 DLC tells us a couple of important things: Mario Kart 9 won't release on Switch, unless Nintendo goes the Game Boy Color route of an excessively long generation. Switch's successor will definitely not launch by the end of 2023. It has to be said again, the first party lineup is great. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 marks the cutoff as a September 2022 release. Switch Sports isn't quite as packed with different sports as one would have hoped, but it's still miles better than how they treated the Wii U. I suppose this was the teased "sequel to a casual game" we've heard about recently, not a 1-2-3-Switch which didn't make sense to begin with. Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes isn't quite the Fire Emblem game I expected to hear about, but I'll take it nonetheless. Mario Strikers isn't something that I am interested in, but it's a good business decision to bring back football. All in all, the first nine months of 2022 could hardly be better from a quality and sales perspective. But... Where's my Atelier Iris HD trilogy? I guess I have to direct myself to the second sentence of the first paragraph for that one. Or will 2022 be the first year since 2017 (0 Atelier games) with less than two titles from the Atelier universe? |
2017 had an Atelier game though. It was 2020 where no Atelier game released in the west.
