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Soundwave on 09 February 2023
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Jumpin said:
Soundwave said:

The lineup is more than fine, what are you reasonably expecting for a console in its 7th year?

Zelda: ToTK, Pikmin 4, Fire Emblem Engage, Metroid Prime Remastered are already 4 significant releases for the year, you got Advance Wars coming in April, another Kirby game too, and to get some boost from the Mario movie release, it's probable there is a Mario game coming in the fall or maybe a Donkey Kong Country game. At least the EAD Tokyo team is overdue for a game release. 

Exactly how much more is realistic to expect here?

The whining over the Nintendo Online Expansion Pak gets tiring too ... Nintendo is offering quite a bit of retro content on the Expansion Pak service, NES, SNES, Game Boy, GBA, Genesis, N64 is great. Cut deals with Microsoft to bring GoldenEye 007 and Banjo-Kazooie to the service, Switch is really a retro gamer's dream for content. It'd be really cool if they can add Dreamcast or Saturn to the service next. I wish they would offer controller customization with button layouts but otherwise it's a terrific service. 

I agree that the lineup is solid. But the Direct felt like a waste of 45 minutes when the most interesting thing was a list that can be easily read in 45 seconds. There wasn’t a lot shown about any of the games. Meagre details rarely enough to inspire interest in the games beyond pre-existing familiarity. Nintendo usually does better than this. I usually like their Directs, even when they focus on games I have little interest in (like Pokémon).

I agree the presentation of the Directs hasn't been that great for a while. Too much time spent on weird, nichey games, which OK I get it you want to give them some shine, and then they kinda just drop Metroid Prime in there and don't even mention that it's basically a full on remake of the game and not just a "port/remaster" lol and have a sort of bland Zelda trailer. 

If there isn't a new Mario platformer this year I have to wonder what exactly is going on. Even just looking at EAD Toyko:

2007 - Super Mario Galaxy

2010 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 (which they admit probably could've released in 2009)

2011 - Super Mario 3D Land 

2013 - Super Mario 3D World

2014 - Captain Toad

2017 - Super Mario Odyssey

2018-2023 - Nothing new but the Bowser's Fury section in the 3D World port?

Mario Odyssey will be six years old this fall, that's a 6 year window with almost nothing new if there isn't a new game from them. I suspect they have taken over the Donkey Kong IP as well since its getting a theme park section all to itself and DK looks to be prominently in the Mario movie, but still, like even if the Captain Toad team is now the DK team, what exactly is the main Mario 3D team there doing? 2011-2017 saw them release no less than three Mario platformers lol and Captain Toad even on top of that during a 6 year stretch and now 6 years of almost nothing is just weird. 

Either they are having some kind of internal staff crisis with development or they have been saving a new Mario to release loosely in the same year as the Mario movie orrrr they are basically waiting for the Switch successor to launch because they're overly cautious about making sure it has a dynamite first year.