well,they only have one console to work now,this should be expected.And yes,koizumi,you guys do have a number of ips left,so how about a new wave race and a f-zero huh?

Remakes: as long as it's just a coupke per year, with 8-10 new games, no biggie. with this more aggressive release schedule, why nit smash 4 in 2018 and 5 in 2019?
Unannounced games? How about DK, Paper Mario or Fire Emblem? i want to see a new IP, too

Smash 4 is on Wii U and 3DS. It is literally on both a home console and a handheld already. Asking for it a third time is just stupid. If there were so many good Wii U titles worth porting, the why the fuck wouldn't people just buy a Wii U? Ughhhhh.

Regardless, I do not want two Smash titles on one console just as I do not want two Mario Kart titles on one console. One title is enough to last four or five years - a generation. Smash 4 is finished at this point. I do not want one out tomorrow, I already have one to play right now. Get me a new one with that Smash quality. I can wait and so can you.

A step down from this year is hardly unworkable as long as they don't step down to a point the years big holiday release is a HD version of Kirby's Air Ride. 

I also want to add that people have gone from complaining that every game is too similar to asking for the same game three times in one generation. My how times have changed.

Not a single new third party game? Only ports of games already released?

Just as i thought, they were never going to leave luck to heaven, i wouldn't be surprised if they always planned a stream of steady games deep into 2018, they wanted to make sure this thing would attract consumers as well as third parties.

Wouldn't it make more sense to release melee on VC first, then release a full-fledged smash 5? (crash bandicoot, elma from XCX, and of course, arms characters)

This was my primary concern as I saw this year being packed-in with the biggest first party IPs Nintendo could offer - Zelda, Mario Kart, Splatoon and Mario.

They launched with all guns blazing and now I fear they might dry up or rely on low-tier software to sell their console. Pokemon hasn't seen the light of day and Metroid, let's be a little honest here, is nowhere near a system mover.

I recall the 3DS' year 2, after they went all out with 3D Land and MK7.

Those were the biggest releases: Kid Icarus Uprising, Resident Evil: Revelations, New Super Mario Bros. 2, Kingdom Hearts 3D and Paper Mario. And... yup. Nintendo better take full advantage of merging their businesses.

I hope they will, but do they even have anything announced for next year? I don't know of anything past Xeno C 2, wich is actually january for europe and like last week of the year for the US.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your wording, but Nintendo did not put out all their biggest series this year. Animal Crossing, Pokemon (which you later acknowledge making this more silly), an original Mario Kart, and 2D Mario are still available, plus Zelda and Odyssey are undoubtedly going to see sequels. No way it'd suddenly dry up considering they have so many unused series and are actually getting semi-decent third party support. And you can't just have big name games but with months of nothingness inbetween. The smaller titles are very much necessary for keeping hype n momentum.

Nintendo had to bring a lot of the big guns the first year because they couldn't afford a slow start after the Wii U, but now that they've gotten great momentum they don't have to have 4 huge guns every year, just 2 or even 1 can suffice as long as there are plenty of other games releasing each year.