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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT4| The Sequel to OT3 is Now in Development.
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I feel you. I'm really starting to hate Smash and Pokemon :\
We have Animal Crossing for the first half of the year. Isn't that enough usually?
No, I think we're back to the Despair part of the cycle, where wanton negativity spreads for dozens of pages until people calm down.
Soon we'll get theories on how Nintendo are moving away from the Direct format; how 2020 is going to be a weak year; how Switch software support is actually worse than Wii U support; how Nintendo haven't shared any news whatsoever for months; how the first half is absolutely the worst first half in the history of first halves, and so on.
Then we'll get to cycle through the other Thread Stages, with universal concerns such as "What is the commercial appeal of Donkey Kong?", "Why must people always speculate/request/ruminate/desire an F Zero/Wave Race reboot?", "Why are all the Nintendo EPD games delayed?", "Won't the Switch successor launch in 2022 because I personally want a more powerful system?" and other classics. The topic I'm most looking forward to revisiting is the "Objectivity/Subjectivity Chestnut: Why A Nintendo Software Line-up I Personally Dislike Is Legitimately Equal To An Objectively Poor Software Release Schedule".
By the time we've run through all those hits, Nintendo might have announced a Direct.
Mmmm TMS + AC is not a lot, but I expect some games to be released on April/May/June and the games/dates need to be announced soonish.
I don't think that their management changed in that regard. Its just better to have less events with more to show. The quality of the Directs was much higher since Sep 2018 and Feb 2019, even if Sep 2019 was a little disappointing compared to the other two. I think they want to do 2 general directs and one e3 showcase, which is a good concept.
You know what ? I could go with a new Nintendo Warriors game this year or next year.
Hopefully not Hyrule Warriors 2 or Fire Emblem Warriors 2 (even tho they expressed interest in making Fire Emblem Warriors 2)
Dreamland Warriors would be so dope.
Hopefully not Hyrule Warriors 2 or Fire Emblem Warriors 2 (even tho they expressed interest in making Fire Emblem Warriors 2)
Dreamland Warriors would be so dope.
To be fair.... you're right, as of right this moment : P
They are just saving it for the direct, will still have over a month when they reveal stuff.
Captain Falcon Warriors or Animal Crossing Warriors and I am there day 1.
Why should we doubt that a direct is coming February 6th or 13th? Fits in perfectly with their typical direct schedule(s) and would likely follow last year's February/E3/September pattern. We also definitely need more info on Animal Crossing before it's too close to release, and pre-orders still have not been opened in Japan. I know everyone's in panic mode because it's Tuesday with no announcement, but there was never going to be a direct this week.
they know nothing that's why there are saying march. But i know for sure that the direct will be in february . Nintendo have to give information about the line up. When the spring games coming. And what is the summer line up. And what the fall line up is.
No shit. Their marketing for the game is dumb. People are out there try to decipher details from fucking stickers. They switched the official AC twitter over from Pocket Camp to New Horizons and went quiet for a month.
Fans aren't "starved" of content, people who get on forum threads just to wait are feeling starved of content
Eh not really dumb just they feel no need to talk about the game yet.
Disaster: Day of Crisis Warriors
Think of the huge amount of big hamburgers we could have.
Nah it won't be dumb. All it takes is one day of info and everyone is happy. They already know the game will sell 10+ million no problem. They're confident
I hope the Director gets to present the AC Direct with Nogami.. She's super cool and my missus is mildly fascinated by her.. the OCDers OCDer :D
It won't be, but right now it is. We don't even know if there are hardware bundles or anything. I'm assuming at this point there aren't.
It still isn't right now, I doubt them saying things 1-2 weeks before they are is going to have an impact on sales.
They are leaving it a bit late if they do have an animal crossing switch though.
Did I say they would have an impact on sales? No. I'm saying everything about the way they've handled AC from announcement until now has been weird and continues to be. That's literally it.
I don't see how it's weird though considering the ultimate goal is to sell as many copies of animal crossing as possible.
It was announced with a logo. It wasn't revealed until E3, then they went radio silent on it. Nintendo is usually out there tweeting or dropping little videos non-stop about their big (and small) releases for months, but with Animal Crossing we've had zero new information since the brief E3 reveal and Treehouse segment. It's weird because it's not normally how they play their cards.
I also don't get why you keep bringing up sales, because I didn't say shit about sales even once.
I know I'm just bringing it up because we are talking about marketing.
Wasn't Mario Maker similar? I feel like they didn't talk about the game much before the direct a month before.
The 3DS themed Animal Crossing that released with Happy Home Designer was revealed only a month before release.
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Did it underperform?
I thought it was doing quite well but I don't keep up with sales numbers that much.
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I mean it didn't sell badly, but I don't think it did as well as Nintendo wanted. NSMBU outsold it in December NPD, for example. Also think it missed the top 20 for the year, while NSMBU port made it.
Yeah, but Animal Crossing has a huge following that's been waiting for a proper new entry since Amiibo Festival. The game isn't going to underperform even if they really don't give us more info before it's release.
I dunno if that shows it underperformed just that more people prefer a 2D Mario to a maker game.
Yeah but the marketing was criticized by multiple influencers and journalists.
I remember Jonneh recently saying it could had sold so much more, that Nintendo fucked up the marketing, they were too confident in it and while it sold very well, it could have sold so much more. It wasn't the phenomenon Nintendo wanted it to be.
I have no problem imagining that Animal Crossing will be fucking huge, and while it has a very large fan base... So far the marketing has been 100% aimed toward the fan base. People who aren't fans of Animal Crossing keep saying "what else could they show ?", people legit think there's nothing more in this game than what we've seen. I'm sure they'll market the game very hard soon enough, but maybe a bit more of marketing aimed toward people who aren't sold on Animal Crossing before february would have been good.
Do people who don't know Animal Crossing and that don't watch Direct really had the chance so far to know that this game exist and will release in like a month and a half ?
I think it's fair to criticize their marketing plan, even if it obviously suffered from the delay.
Nintendo have been incredible this gen in marketing, but for Super Mario Maker 2 and Animal Crossing imo.
I'm sure the marketing will be fine from now on, but I just think that they should had marketed the game a bit more toward people who aren't already sold on it.
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Just checked the thread. In December MM2 was outsold by Pokemon, BotW, LA, NSMBU, LM3, Smash, Super Mario Party and even Ring Fit Adventure.
In 2019 it was outsold by new release Pokémon, LM3 and NSMBUDX as well as evergreens Smash and MK8D. It's not on the top 20 of the year.
I don't know, it just seems like they would've expected more from the game.
The fact that it was outsold by a remake of a 2D Zelda, that released 3 full months after Mario Maker 2, was the proof that it underperformed for me lol
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