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Nintendo-First Party Thread |OT2| New Year. New Mii.
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They did just say at the investors meeting that none of their announced (or unannounced) titles for 2019 would be delayed. I've never heard them say anything like that with such confidence before. We'll see!
I mean I get your points but I don't think they need to wait for the reveal of the possible revision to start talking about all the games that supposedly are coming out this year. Pokemon and Animal Crossing are big enough to support the launch of a new model, especially one of the rumored kind. But what about Luigis Mansion or Bayonetta 3, for example? Fair points, but not valid enough to justify Nintendo attitude towards PR in my opinion.
Except games (which I personally want) aren't coming. That's sort of the problem.
People love hearing about new games and info on an enthusiast video game website. Seems normal to me when this is the main driving force of information from Nintendo.
The lack of information regarding first party titles is deafening and frustrating at this point. I love to lurk in this thread and I am looking forward to Yoshi but yeah I am dissapointed about the lack of news. I dont want a repeat of 2018 ( first party wise).
A switch mini + plus animal crossing in April would benefit the other games coming out afterwards since they would release on a larger install base. So in a way, It does make sense.
At the 2014 game awards, aonuma said with strong confidence that zelda u would be coming out before starfox which was already set for later 2015. To the point he was laughing.
It won't be a repeat of 2018. We know more about new first party games this year compared to last year.
Nintendo doesn't like to make too many separate announcements. They don't want to have a big Direct in January with games like Luigi's Mansion followed by another big Direct in late February or early March announcing a revision and showing Animal Crossing. They want as many eyes as possible on their Directs, so splitting up announcements also splits the amount of people that pay attention to each.
At least this is how they've done things. I guess they could've done a mini in January like last year but for whatever reason chose not to.
Right, but it's one thing to say it about a game or two, quite another for your entire year's lineup.
Well if you wanna be a glass half empty person be my guest but I'm not like that, and 70% sounds pretty good knowing that she's also probably erring on the side of caution
The Metroid Prime 4 Direct WAS our January Direct. Nintendoooooooomed! ;_;
70% or higher is what she actually said.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ni...read-ot2-new-year-new-mii.90098/post-17521380
They chose not to do a mini because they have actual legit new games to show, I think. The mini had a ton of remasters and Mario Tennis I think was the only new one. When the direct comes it'll no doubt be big but it's just frustrating that it's taking so long
She obviously said 70% (Emily actually said 70% or higher) to cover her own back as plans change and if she said they are 100% coming and they don't then she would get all the usual harassment etc.
Insiders are being extra cautious for good reason.
They always can show a few screenshots or reveal a release date in a tweet, like they ve done with other matters, not necessarely they have to air a Direct. The good thing is we ll soon see if you are right or not :)
I think the "soon" from early January is kind of obsolete and probably based on old or erroneous info.
I personally doubt that it will be delayed, but I do think the concerns are justified based on how they treated New Leaf.
Thay was good news. They announced we will get an actual good prime 4 instead of bad.
I'm kinda hoping that's the case and they'll do a big Fire Emblem specific blowout a week or two later. That's assuming Three Houses is out in April/May though.
I was just responding to the notion that all those games are 100% confirmed for 2019, which they aren't. 70% or higher referred to the entire group of games, so maybe 3 of the 4 retail games are 70% and one game is 90%. 70% chance is good but not great.
If anything, with Switch Nintendo went with much less time between announcement and release,
don't forget Smash Bros Ultimate was announced in March 2018. (without title) and was released at beginning of December of same year,
on other hand Smash Bros 4 was announced 3.5 years before launch. Also Pokemon Lets Go was announced at end of May and it was released in November of same year, and Super Mario Party was announced at E3 and released only 4 months later, and those 3 were biggest Switch games of year.
Like people stated, Nintendo is quite sure that Pokemon and Animal Crossing will their biggest games of 2019. and thats why they announce them in 2018,
there was no need that Nintendo show Animal Crossing at September Direct with year of relase if they are not sure about.
When you have an enormous gap in your release window that's 2 1/2 months between your last games (ToV, TSA, NSMBU) and Yoshi in the very last week of March, and every other platform are getting gigantic blockbuster games left and right literally every single week 3 months straight:
"Why do you guys expect a direct? Come on guys, stop bothering about a direct. They never promised you one. Just appreciate what you have now on the platform like this one niche indie game! Or all these old games released months to years ago."
"Why do you guys expect a direct? Come on guys, stop bothering about a direct. They never promised you one. Just appreciate what you have now on the platform like this one niche indie game! Or all these old games released months to years ago."
Even if we don't get anything now, 2019 seems even now like a far better year than 2018 for me, mainly because it seems the focus this year will be single player games. I'm not saying last year games were bad, but I'm not really a fan of multiplayer games.
I'm looking forward to seeing the new gen 8 and if IS manages to write something decent for the new FE story.
I'm looking forward to seeing the new gen 8 and if IS manages to write something decent for the new FE story.
I took that as good and bad news, bittersweet. Upset we're not getting it anytime soon, but we'll be getting a better (and Retro developed) game for it.
Exactly lmao
Some arguments here to defend Nintendo are just silly.
No game is 100% confirmed for a particular date until it actually releases on that date. 70% chance or higher is an extremely high chance for games that haven't even been announced yet.
Some negative comments are just as silly if not more so.
As good as Smash was it didn't make me forget how dreary the rest of the year was. Q1 2019 will be remembered as bad no matter how good the rest of the year might be.
Anyway the 17M revision was an indication, I think, that they're done for this fiscal year and all their eggs will be in the April-December basket. They don't need new announcements before March really.
Anyway the 17M revision was an indication, I think, that they're done for this fiscal year and all their eggs will be in the April-December basket. They don't need new announcements before March really.
This is a sound theory but don't forget how convinced we were that they wouldn't launch NSO without a big online game to go along with it. Things never go quite so perfectly.
Hmm so far this year Nintendo has restarted development on one of it's most anticipated games, reduced its Switch sales forecast, offered only a Wii U port for the winter and a date for Yoshi at the tail end of Q1, while staying absolutely silent going into February now while major 2019 games remain with scarce or no details. Strange way to kick off 2019. Unfortunately makes me feel like I'm gonna set way too high expectations for the next Direct whenever that may come.
I wonder what EAD (EPD) tokyo is up too this year. There is very likely a few unannounced titles coming this year.
I agree, i read some people saying April is going to be packed but right now there's only Yoshi to look forward to.
Al those FF games I already played on PS2, PS3 and PS4. Dragons dogma is great but that's also going to be a game that got released on PS3 and PS4 leaving April quite empty as well.
There are new games in April. There's Super Dragonball Heroes, Mortal Kombat 11.
people could sell their switch if they don't see new announcements, especially after the metroid restart news while other platforms are getting tons of aaa games. not everyone is interested in animal crossing "2019". they need to show something ASAP
The console and games are still selling well, they don't "need" to do anything. We had periods of time on the PS4 without many games in the first few years of it's launch but people don't really talk about that now do they?
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if I was completely wrong, it just seems like as good a theory as any I've seen at the moment.
I think both things are valid criticisms (the lack of new almost halfway into the quarter and the lack of big software) but not necessarily connected. A first-party blowout in the next few days wouldn't really change anything about the Q1 lineup.
I wonder if the hinted at remastered Wii U game is Fatal Frame considering its inclusion in Smash.
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