During 2017, Nintendo released several of its big games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade Chronicles, Fire Emblem, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and so on. The company’s pace was excellent, even more so considering that 2017 was the console’s first year on the market.
In 2018 things changed; we are not being blessed with as many important releases. Nintendo is still releasing games on the Switch, but these games are on a smaller scale, some of them being versions of Wii U games. The only big releases this year are Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Pokemon Let’s Go. Regarding this lack of big releases, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa spoke out in a Q&A session with investors. He said:
“The previous fiscal year was the first after the launch of the Nintendo Switch, and during that time we released a succession of major first-party titles that helped sustain the success of the Nintendo Switch. If we compare this year to last year, we are still releasing new titles, but the sales volume of each title is smaller than last year. That is true. Software development takes a long time, so there will inevitably be periods during the hardware’s life cycle when we won’t be able to release major new titles. During those times, what we should do is use a variety of different methods to fill the gaps between the times when we have major title releases. We do this by continuing to promote the sale of titles released in the previous year, releasing additional content, and highlighting the appeal of the hardware itself.
I understand that, in the end, there will always be periods when the company cannot release as many games as before, because that’s how software development works, and Nintendo, in the end, is still just one company. With that said, I sincerely hope that 2019 will be much better for the Switch from a software perspective than 2018.”
Source: GamingBolt
SavePoint Team
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