| Soundwave said: I mean Nintendo knows internally what they have for 2nd half 2023 already, so I wonder if maybe they are looking at a holiday lineup that is just OK and not really top tier. Because if they had a slam dunk holiday title, the hardware AND software forecasts being down quite a bit would be odd with Zelda: ToTK in the same fiscal year. I wonder if most of their top end dev teams are on Switch 2 and have been for a while. |
Well, like I said I don't think it's going to be a slam dunk. But I think they may have a surprise or two up their sleeve to get to where they want.
For example, Metroid prime 4 in Q4 and a new donkey Kong game in Q3 would both push some units, but wouldnt be such huge software sellers that would make up for the natural drop. I also think that Nintendo notices how people are using new hardware more, so even third party indies and whatnot are experiencing drops in software sales due to people wanting to use their newer devices.
I think people expecting a new Mario or something are going to be disappointed. If it was a new Mario I think that Nintendo would be more confident in reaching their 15M goal.
I think that they are holding back some software a Switch 2 crossgen launch though. Guess we will know more when they give us a new direct
