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Slownenberg on 08 February 2023
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Norion said:
Slownenberg said:

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.

Did you not read the bolded part? Your 2nd paragraph is acting like it's not there. I didn't expect a bunch of stuff for later in the year to get announced, I just acknowledged the lack of first party announcements and what that probably means and you're acting like I said that the Switch isn't gonna have anymore games announced for it. I literally said right there that 2023 will have a couple more announced and that 2024 will have at least a few.

haha. I mean I was just saying there wasn't a lack of new announcements. A ton of stuff was just announced for the next few months. Just like I'm sure a ton of stuff will be announced in future Directs for the second half of the year.

As far as first party specifically, Nintendo is only one company, they never have a ton of first party games coming out in any 6 month period. And we just happened to already know most of what was coming. First half of this year: Fire Emblem already came out, we already knew about Kirby, Zelda, I dunno if Bayonetta Origins counts as first party but if so then already knew about that, and Pikmin (technically second half since July), Advance Wars we knew about but its release had been delayed indefinitely since a year ago so it actually being released was a new announcement, Prime remaster was a new announcement, and then several new expansion packs were announced, as well as the next MK booster pack shown off which obviously was in the schedule, in addition to GB and GBA being announced and added. I would say that is a lot of things for first party in the first half of the year, so I just don't see the correlation between lots of stuff hitting this half-year but a lot of it was at least already announced if not release dates given, with the implication you were making that things are slowing down for the Switch - when they clearly aren't given all the stuff hitting this winter/spring.

Just pointing out obviously they've been having teams work on next-gen games for probably a couple years now (I would have to assume a next-gen 3D Mario and MK are well along in development at this point, in addition to other games), but there aren't any signs yet of slowing down Switch releases.

That's all.

:)

Cheers