Or maybe their 3DS teams are still getting used to developing HD. You can get the training but you gotta develop the games. Games in HD or higher take time and with Nintnedo’s philosophy, they want to make sure the gameplay works out then make sure the graphics get up to speed with the console they’re dealing with. Look at AlphaDream. They’re trying to get recruitment now as they probably got something going gameplay-wise for a Switch game.

And Monolith Soft just got a third studio. But games aren’t gonna pour out of that studio right away.

I am a current Wii U owner, and I’m still overwhelmed by what the Switch offers. Maybe you have the time and money, but I don’t. Plus, I love Hyrule Warriors on Wii U and I hope to play the complete package of Wii U/3DS on Switch. 

Thanks. I don't know if they bought Next Level, but they at the very least have them under exclusive contract. And we know that Retro expanded, but they've been entirely silent for over 4 years now. There are a lot of studios Nintendo work with on an exclusive basis, even more than there used to be.

The shareholders meeting was on June 27, the Investors Relations meeting is on Juli 31

ill be the first to admit that Switch lacks any really big sellers from Jan-Oct, i have said in multiple different threads that it seems like Nintendo has been coasting on a steady output of small-medium sized titles for most of the year but still just because games arent big sellers doesnt make it a drought unless the original statement was specifically talking about a lack of multimillion selling titles or individual system sellers or big budget, AAA titles.

But ya i admitted to him that i probably over reacted in my responses to him, you know as well as i do that there are certain users who will take any chance to bash Nintendo's lineup, i dont believe he is one of them but i let my annoyance of them get the best of me.

They dont own Next Level but a few years ago they did say that they are working exclusively with Nintendo, they released Metroid Prime: Federation Force in August 2016 and dont have much experience with HD games, the only HD retail game has been a mediocre Captain America game like 7 years ago so i dont think a Switch game in 2017 or 2018 was ever very likely, hopefully we hear something from them next year.

As for Retro, ya it seems weird that its been over 4 years and all they have done is a port of the game game from 4 years ago. A bunch of weird rumors about them, some say there is internal strife going on and some say they have a weird Star Fox racing game so who knows, again hopefully we hear something from them later this or next year.

But ya alot of the studios Nintendo works with are small and have limited HD experience, studios like Alpha Dream & Grezzo have stuck back and continued to make 3DS games that are remakes & reuse assets and i assume (hope) they are also beginning to work on Switch titles concurrently.

That's perfectly fine. Personally I don't think you overreacted that much. But I can understand where you're coming from in general. It sucks that there are a lot of people who are entirely negative towards a console. I think though that a lot of the people critiquing the platform are people who like the product and just wish for more. 

Realistically by your arguments that is kind of what a drought means. You used the argument that if someone was going to say that these months were a drought for them then they should emphasize it was for them. That implies that they are an outlier and that the general market decides what droughts are. If that's the case, it's not really true that the Switch isn't going through a drought, since a majority of it's users probably aren't going to be purchasing these titles. Essentially, they have no new games to play, it's a drought. Unless you are now saying that, no matter the sales, if a system has games release it doesn't have a drought. If that's the case, then I'm sure I can pull up a Wikipedia page for the Wii U. Oh wait, does there have to be a certain number of big releases?  Is that what makes the Switch different from the Wii U? Well, because indie games don't have as much competition on Switch they often sell as much as B-tier "big releases" do on the Switch. So could indie games indefinitely sustain the Switch? 

See, droughts have always been ambiguous as a meaning. People just didn't stop others from using the term because there was a universal feeling of disappointment. Now that feeling is a lot more divisive. 

I'll say that there probably isn't much of a drought in July ... but I'm not going to be buying a new game till the last three months of the year, and I have to wonder for how many Switch owners does that apply. 

Well the average tie-ratio is like ~10 games over the course of the entire generation so realistically the majoriry of consumers are buying just a few games each year so a few month stretch filled with a bunch of small-medium titles isnt really a drought outside of the minority of extremely hardcore gamers who buys dozens of games a year.

Nintendo is expecting 100m software shipped this fiscal year and LTD shipments of hardware to reach ~38m or in other words each Switch owner to buy 2-3 games this year.

To me a drought has always meant a complete lack of something, so like Wii U had where there was literally weeks/months of no quality releases.

That average is getting much bigger actually because of digital games and digital sales as well as subscription services.  And realistically it doesn't have to be a literal of majority of owners, just a majority of active users. Although again, my whole point was arguing from your basis (or at least the basis you came into the thread with). I certainly don't believe in that standard.

And again "no quality releases" is very much opinionated and semantics. 

I think you get my point by now though so I won't repeat it anymore. 

The problem with focusing on only first party titles is that it's basically saying that Switch is just a next gen Wii U. People got a Wii U just for first party titles. Obviously Switch is already selling a lot better than Wii U. I had a Wii U and I was very disappointed with it, because all it had was first party titles. I don't want a Nintendo console with only first party titles. That kind of sucks to me. Having good third party support matters a lot.

Some people on these boards make a big deal about graphics, but that actually isn't that important to most people, including all of these people who bought Minecraft. What does actually matter is having all the games you want to play on one console. Buying multiple consoles sucks. If I can get Nintendo's first party games, and a bunch of great third party games on the same console, then to me that is a win. To me NES and SNES were big wins because of this. Every Nintendo handheld is a win. Gamecube and Wii U were not wins, because I only got them for their Third Party library. Wii was like a half win, because it had a huge library, but I still had to buy a PS3 to play a lot of the games I wanted for that generation.

Switch is already turning into a win. There are already more games on it than I have time to play. To me that is a great problem to have. It is much better than having a drought.