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[JWeinCom]

Wyrdness said:

JWeinCom said:

Yes, whatever is announced will not be released until June or July.

But, there is a big difference between, "something I may or may not want will come out at an indeterminate point in the future" and "something I really want to play is coming out at a specific point of time".

Call it impatient or irrational or whatever, but perception matters. That's why Nintendo has a whole marketing department. And right now, either something is going horribly wrong on the development side, or the marketing team is doing a really bad job. And that's part of why you're seeing negative stories get so much traction. Cause right now there's no hard evidence to point to, just a vague "well they're working on something".

This is kind of proving his point though the is no way a bad job is being done just because of a select group's impatience, negative stories have always gotten a lot of traction stretching back over 30 years now we can go back to the run up to and the early years of the SNES for reference. No one can look at the past nine months and think a bad job is being done as the line up is one of the strongest for any console in general let alone a platform still in it's first year, the current approach is far more healthy for Nintendo going forward and the long run because the balance gives even spotlight to all types of titles in their pipeline as opposed to relying on E3 style hype generation alone, it's more based on the substance of the titles about to release.

This is better for a consumer rather than waiting for a hyped title for four to five years.

Not really. Those stories always exist, but there is a reason why they are becoming so much more noticeable now. They were significantly less prominent during the Switch's lifespan, because it's hard to argue with success and reality. Some people will always manage to find a negative spin, but they'll be more easily dismissed.

If the narrative is that Nintendo is doing a bad job, then there is one of two possibilities. They are in fact not doing a great job developing games or they are doing a bad job at marketing the great job they're doing developing games. I would argue the truth is somewhere in the middle.

As for consumers waiting for a hyped title four to five years, that is a pure strawman argument. I believe the latest release date we know about is now Yoshi, which is releasing in May. Nobody is asking for them to reveal everything they have coming out for the next five years, but wanting to know what will be released in the next 4-6 months does not seem unreasonable.