Dear Master Malstrom,
E3 showed that Nintendo has definitely gotten lazy with the success of the Switch. I think one of the reasons for this is the huge glut of digital games now available on the Switch eshop. If not for the eshop, Nintendo would probably feel a lot more pressure to get more games out. I don’t mind too much as a good number of games on the eshop are far more interesting than the big releases (and cheaper, too). But Nintendo is foolish if they are counting on indie games to sell their hardware. And we know that Smash doesn’t move hardware, so what is going to provide momentum for the Switch?
Smash as the big holiday tentpole game is fine.
My problem is that Zelda: BoW “Wow!” established the Switch platform as an ‘open world’ platform. Some games helped fuel this fire such as Mario Oddity and Xenoblade “Big Pyra Boobs” 2. But that was 2017. There is absolutely nothing for these gamers except a Xenoblade “Bigger Pyra Boobies” 2 expansion and some Octopath Travelling.
People want games that push the frontier of gaming… such as Zelda BoW. Mario Kart, Smash Brothers, and Mario Party iterations does not do that. Octopath will not do that (as Octopath is almost retro).
What exactly is the Switch? Nothing more than a platform to port consoles games so you can play them portable?
Where is this additional software pipeline now that Nintendo only has one console to deal with?
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As for the rest of E3, I don’t get why Microsoft said that were working on a new Xbox. If you had just bought an Xbox One X last November, wouldn’t you be pissed off? Does anyone in the industry remember what happened to Sega? And the low point for me had to be the cinematic lesbian kiss scene from The Last of Us 2. Who in their right mind thought this will sell the game to the mass market? These game developers really do live inside a bubble.
Microsoft wants to assure everyone that they are going to continue the hardware business. There was much question due to the new CEO’s perspectives and Microsoft’s moves of putting all its games on The Cloud. You don’t need to buy an Xbox to play Xbox games now.
In the end, I was happy that we finally got an arcade port of Donkey Kong which I’ve been wanting for years. However, when I started playing it, I was shocked to discover how hard the game is. In the first very game I played, I couldn’t get past the first level despite having six lives! I felt pretty ashamed. lol
Noob.