Nintendo Looking to Release 20 to 30 Indie Games on Switch Per Week - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 August 2018 / 2,092 Views
Nintendo senior executive officer Susumu Tanaka (this was before Tatsumi Kimishima stepped down) during the Q&A portion of Nintendo's 78th annual general meeting of shareholders revealed that the company wants to "release around 20 to 30 indie games on the Nintendo Switch per week."
"We started working with indie developers during the Wii U generation," said Tanaka. "For Nintendo Switch, we set up a development environment that supports Unity middleware, which is used on smartphones and other platforms.
We are also actively engaging with indie developers at video game-focused shows and other events in different regions. We also had a Nintendo booth at the BitSummit indie game event held in Kyoto, where we showcased some games. Some of the indie games already released have gone on to become million sellers worldwide.
"In the future, we are looking to release around 20 to 30 indie games on Nintendo Switch per week, and we definitely expect to see some great games among them."
Nintendo representative director and president Tatsumi Kimishima added, "We are currently working towards reaching 1,500 software titles developed for Nintendo platforms using Unity. I think that will give you an idea of how much it has grown."
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You'd have to be scraping the bottom of the barrel to accomplish that properly.
Haven't you seen the upcoming launch of "scraping the bottom of a barrel simulator"?
Nintendo should not do that, that would flood the market. That wouldn't give a lot of time for a game to be successful if you have 29 more choices to pick from weekly, 10 is even excessive imo. They should focus on quality control rather than just approving shovelware, even for indies.
EShop needs a massive upgrade for this load. I feel like this mostly means a shit ton of low tier not actually fun or worth playing indie games. They don't mean fun indie games like Stardew Valley or Slime Rancher. Although they could actually mean Slime Rancher since it isn't on the console yet, and I would love to see that come soon, such an amazing indie game.
But this will lead to a lot of shovelware, and make it harder to find the good games that don't have marketing or word of mouth on their side.
agreed man, there is 3 "different" games from a group called things like... energy balance, energy sequence and energy redirection or something like that, all made by the same dev, all look to be the same game more or less just minor variations and yeah they're about 2-3e each.
Just give us an option to hide certain games permanently so they're not always showing up when listed as being "on sale" but that's really the price those games should be from the start, or it's 10% off a 2e game... so a massive 20c saving.
I doubt that number. Just make sure they're good games.
That is going to be hard to accomplish, especially if they want to mantain certain level of indie quality. Fortunately, indies on the system sell like hotcakes, so many quality old indies can be ported and still get great results.
They are not all going to sell like hot cakes if there are that many new releases per week. With that many a large amount will likely fail.
Perfect. All the fake expert (RGT 85, Spawn wave, etc...) are already telling on youtube that this is bad, the action of Nintendo will continu to decrease...
People have just forgotten that out of the 5000 PS2 games, there was 200 strong one and 4800 garbages. How many already ? 157 millions ?
Time to open them floodgates.
Exactly! I just bought four games from the e-shop, and I had to manually enter every games' name.
