You can't underpredict and overdeliver on public statements because that is a way to manipulate market.

You can at most after having the center of prediction and the margin of error announce your target as the lower margin for safety and work to achieve the higher margin. But when people talk about underpredicting is going lower than what they are "certain" they will achieve. To comply with the target and margins is why they reveal (even up) the numbers, if they didn't then on the FY closure they would have a very big overdelivery.

Have to remind you that a good plan/project is one you deliver in the right time, with the right budget the right thing... so if you make a project to take 18 months and cost 100M but achieve it in 12 months and 50M it just shows you don't know how to plan not that you have really outdone yourself (unless of course some technology or condition that was almost impossible to predict happened and made the project get done much faster and cheaper, and usually you would also review the project for these parameters).

sure, but last year we knew that a lot of teams hadn't released anything in a while and hadn't had any announcements. This time it's different. A lot of teams have now released something or had an announcement already, and the big hitters announced are all holiday 2018 at the earliest. The only system seller unannounced that might hit in the first half of the year is Animal Crossing. Aside from that, it's looking like KIrby and Yoshi and not a lot else for the first half of the year

Games like Bayonetta 3, No More Heroes 3, Wolfenstein II and Metroid Prime 4 will be system sellers for core gamers, while casual gamers will appreciate Pokémon and Animal Crossing. I can see Pokémon for Switch moving nearly 10m units alone.

If announced, Smash Bros will be a top mover. I can see Pikmin 4 selling really well.

I don't anticipate Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest 11, Yoshi or Kirby moving many consoles, but I do see them each selling well.

They're going to need to pick up the pace of the Virtual Console and Online experience if they want to keep momentum going.

Did they? (Serious Question) out of all 1st party made games that came out last year there were...

ARMS

Splatoon

SMO

BotW

XC2

We could still hear from the team that could be releasing LM3 as well as another wiiu port deluxe (like pokken/mk8d). Pikmin 4 ia basically ready (a summer title fits). Like you said AC. We have Fire Emblem, and potientially SSB that will be made by i think Namco like the previous entries. 

Either way Direct coming up will give us a clearer picture. Not to long now hopefully

The 4 games you first mention wont come out intill 2019 imo. (Well i mean not counting wolfenstein)

The other titles keep momentum going i agree with the big hitting AC/Smash/Pokemon.

I expect pokemon comong out 2019 but in .March

Well, hoping and expecting are different things.

I also hope to earn double the money next year, but I don't expect it. 😉

I'd say Pokémon is more likely at this point.

nah, gen 5 was just another gen

I mean starting again from gen 1 in a whole new perspective, upgrade Pokemon like they did with BoTW, scrap Ash, he's had enough traveling, start a new, dark era of Pokemon >.<

I don't know. With the 3DS essentially dead at this point, and all their resources being utilized for the Switch, I can see them pumping out first party content a lot quicker.

Game Freak always works quick, so I can see them meeting Pokémon deadline by Winter 2018.

The big hitters this fiscal year were Mario Kart Deluxe in April, Splatoon 2 in July & Mario Odyssey in Oct with a handful of smaller support titles in between.

Next fiscal year could very well look like

Smash Bros Deluxe-April

Animal Crossing-July

Pokemon-Oct

Then games like Yoshi, Kirby, Fire Emblem and a few other unannounced games to fill in the gaps.