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Slownenberg on 08 February 2023
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Norion said:
Mar1217 said:

 Not necessarily. It's obvious that Nintendo will release other first party games during the 2nd half this year.

Trying to use the pattern behavioral argumentation for a company that is known to break said patterns whenever they feel like doesn't mean much either.

Not only that but Nintendo has increasingly kept the announcement of said new games to their release date closer and closer so it goes to say, they don't feel the need to rush announcements out when we prolly have a summer Direct to go through this year,which will detail the 2nd half new releases.

Yes it's obvious, it's not like I said there's no more unknown games coming. The 2nd half has Pikmin 4 so far and I expect it to also have Metroid Prime 4 and a couple other things that are currently unannounced. 2024 will also naturally have at least a few things. I'm just saying that the lack of new announcements combined with the Switch's age is a sign they're transitioning to the successor currently.

Well yeah of course they are transitioning to the successor. Whether the successor is 12+ months out (2024) or 24-33 months out (2025) they no doubt have numerous next-gen games well into development at this point.

But that doesn't mean they aren't working on finishing up a bunch of current gens games this year and next year. There was no reason to expect them to announce a bunch of stuff for later in the year, as they will use later Directs to do that. They just announced a ton of games for the next few months.