The Road to 160m+ for Nintendo Switch

[Shtinamin_]

zorg1000 said:

Shtinamin_ said:

All of those mentioned have done the following: made a game within the year (2022-2023), made DLC within the year, or are no longer making games (EPD11 with the dissolving of all the apps like Fire Emblem, Dragalia, Mario Kart Tour). The only developers that could make a game for the Switch maybe would be Sega with Mario & Sonic, EPD4, Retro Studios with Metroid prime 4, a Rhythm Heaven, and Nintendogs.

The developers are looking to the future, the Switch is old-school now.

I’m not disagreeing with your overall point that developers are focusing on Switch 2 rather than Switch but I don’t think your point about the currently announced titles is relevant considering a few months ago people were saying the same thing.

Before the June Direct, Pikmin 4 was the only game scheduled for the second half of this year, then the Direct happened and Detective Pikachu, Mario Wonder, WarioWare & Mario RPG were all announced to release in the next few months.

This has been a trend the entire generation, people complain about Nintendo having nothing coming up then they a Direct and announce a bunch of stuff releasing in the next 6 months.

I'm glad we understand.

I'm just explaining my thought process for myself, and yes I agree most people think that Nintendo has nothing coming up. I didn't say that there are no games coming up, for there a couple of developers that haven't produced anything regarding their usual releases. See bolded assumptions for viable games still possible for 2024 in the quote above. There are at least 5 AAA games that could be made, not even including the ones already announced like Luigi Mansion 2 Re-make, Princess Peach: Showtime!, and the Mario vs Donkey Kong re-make. And that's just for the beginning of 2024. And of course they will announce more games for the summer, and fall (most likely with the next console too). There could easily be 8 AAA games for the Switch alone for this summer, we'll never know until they announce them. But it sure is fun to make guestimations.

Those games (Detective Pikachu 2, Mario Wonder, WarioWare) were "due".
- 1-Up Studio, part of EPD10, usually comes out with a games every year or so (thats been the average since they existed), and their last game was Super Mario 3-D World + Bowser's Fury back in 2021 it seemed logical that they would announce a game near 2023 or 2024. And we got Super Mario Bros Wonder.
-Creatures Inc., part of GameFreak in EPD1, usually makes a game every 4 years. Their last one was Pokémon Scarlet and Violet in 2022, and before then was Detective Pikachu in 2018. Creatures Inc. doesn't get too involved with mainline Pokémon, so either a sequel to Detective Pikachu was approaching soon 2023-2024 or a new IP related to Pokémon.
-EPD7 develops the WarioWare, Rhythm Heaven, and Metroid series, and produced usually a game every 1.5 years. Ngl I wasnt expecting another WarioWare (Movie It!), I was expecting a new Rhythm Heaven. Maybe they are gonna develop one for summer? I like being optimistic.

Sorry for my rambling, I guess I have a lot on my mind.