Nintendo Will Announce More Switch Games for 2021 When the Time is Right - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 June 2021 / 3,914 Views
The lineup of games for the Nintendo Switch past April is a bit light, however, that doesn't mean there will be no AAA releases from the gaming giant later this year. The company has shifted from announcing games years in advance to waiting until a matter of months before release.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa in a recent earnings call with investors revealed Nintendo has games that will be coming out next fiscal year they will announce when the time is right.
"Our software lineup for next fiscal year is a topic we will discuss at the appropriate time," Furukawa said. "We have already announced our plans to release Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury in February, followed by Monster Hunter Rise in March, and New Pokémon Snap in April. As always, we are preparing a variety of software titles for consumers in the coming fiscal year."
Some games that were announced in the past that haven't released include Metroid Prime 4, Bayonetta 3, and the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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"We'll say stuff when we want to" isn't news.
Maybe to other companies, which almost always seem to announce games years before they come out.
Nintendo historically announces games launching within 9 ish months. In the last 1-2 years it's become common for them to announce a few months away from launch. That is their pattern now so it isn't really news anymore.
Now, if someone like Blizzard both announced a game and said it was coming in the same year? That would be news.
That's just called confidence in their 1st party line-up... /s
Í'm still shook up that we didn't get more warning... Like in June 2020, Nintendo could have announced that they are planning to announce in February 201 that they will announce more games sometime in the future "when the time is right". They need to prepare peope for big announcements like this.
Fingers crossed for a new DK or Star Fox game! I gave up hopes on a new F-Zero game a long time ago lol but Nintendo needs to embrace all of their franchises as so many of them now have been shown so little love. It'd be awesome to get into the extreme sports games again with 1080 Snowboarding and Wave Race
I like this.. I'm tired of getting hyped for games that take atleast 2 years before they are released.
Nintendo did this for Metroid prime 4, Bayo 3 and BotW 2 and they are not even the worse when it come to this
I mean both MP4 and BotW 2 are special cases.
most other things nintendo announces realeses within a year of announcement these days.
Bayo 3 isn't being made by Nintendo so that one isn't their fault. Prime 4 was scrapped after being made by a third party company. It's only been developed by a Nintendo team (Retro) for 2 years. Bandai announced too early (like every third party does), and by the time it was Nintendo announcing their own developed game it was to update us on the new developer so not really them doing anything wrong. Botw 2 originally started out as dlc for Botw, and if it stayed that way it would have come out much earlier. I'm sure they announced that one early because it was a special situation and then people wouldn't be asking for more dlc for Botw 1.
Snap will sell millions!
How is this news?
"Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east."
pretends to be shocked
I miss the Wii U days when Nintendo gave us announcements 2+ years out from release.
Nice No More heros 3 , shin megami tensei 5 , mh rise , mh stories , Pokemon snap , bowsers fury they already have a year's worth of exclusives
And here I thought that they just stopped working out of a sudden and all went on vacation.
As a fan, I really would like something to get hyped about. It's been a bit of a rough time for us all with the current situation, and having a few big games on the horizon to look forward to is a small help. Last year was pretty lackluster in terms of first party software, and it'd be nice to see that they have a bit more planned for this year.
But, they're rolling in money right now, so I'm not saying their strategy is wrong. Just not what I want as a fan.
Hope that those are not lazy ports as it has become a trend with Nintendo those late years.
Anyway, there's nothing left to port from the WiiU games except XCX.
In Nintendo's defense (to an extent) the Wii U was such a massive flop that not many got to experience the great first party games that were on the system, so at least those games got chance at a second life. But now that the Wii U games are certainly done now, Nintendo better crank out brand new games only going forward.
This has left us with no first party tiltes on the switch. probably the poorest first party line up ever. I mean we've been keeping with the same mario kart since 7 years, the same pikmin since 8 years the same 2D mario since 9 fucking years and the same donkey kong since 7 years.
within those titles a lot of them are major arrows in nintendos arc. Those are not second range IPs, yet they got nothing new on one of nintendo's most successful systems. with an average of 8 years dont tell me that they got no time to develop new entries for the ones listed above. They went the lazy route that's all, and i am just fearing that they'll keep with it through the whole generation due to the success of those games on the switch and leave sequels for the next system. I am sincerely hoping that all my guesses are off and wrong.
They did port TMS#FE so there is hope lmao
There is literally 5 big games coming until May
