OutrageousFacts
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You were including 3rd party's earlier so I figured Gods & Monster's deserved a mention since it's a big 3rd Party open world game. Why doesn't count in your desire for Nintendo to have big open world games and 3 or 4 big games releasing every year? 3rd Party games are games too.
1.) This thread is about 1st-party output (and again: it's different for MS/Sony for obvious reasons.
2.) Frankly, I expect God's and Monsters to be trash until proven otherwise. And I don't count trash games for, again, obvious reasons.
... So you expect Nintendo to come out with 2 games that are some of the best games of all time every year?
So you do see a difference in quality between 2017 and 2019, yes?
And yeah, I expect at least 1 openworld/rpg game per year. Easily doable if better paced. Honestly, most people didn't expect Xenoblade 2 in 2017. Expectations would be different if BotW was 2017, Xenoblade 2018, and then, say, Xenoblade X in 2019.
Also... again, you used a 3rd party game.
Huh? No, I didn't.
I think we disagree on whether the medium and small titles have any value (especially Wii U ports) and whether Animal Crossing counts as a big title, because otherwise you'd actually be asking Nintendo to release more big games then what you're saying.
Small and medium games are fine. But they need to revolve around the release of a bigger game. Animal Crossing is a big title. The issue: it releases in late March. Then it's likely that Xenoblade DE releases late June. Technically that's 2 big games in the first half of the year. Practically, it's 1 game and the other releasing at the tail end of q2 which means instead of 6 months we'll 'only' be waiting 5 months and x days :/
If Animal Crossing released in February (accompanied by TMS and Brain Training) and Xenoblade DE in April (accompanied by Pikmin 3 and something else), the pacing would be infinitely better and I wouldn't be complaining too much about Nintendo's Q1/Q2 strategy.
And again: it's not just about 2020. 2019 and 2018 have been abysmal in Q1/Q2.