FPBP. Nintendo is definitely doing it a lot, and many of them are poor quality. But the lowest low is Sony remastering The Last of Us 2 only three years after it first released. The entire industry is talentless and creatively bankrupt at this point.
Unfortunately the results of financial success. Why do something new when you know doing something old will prove more successful?
Nintendo had some motive to try new things at the begining of the switch but now with assured financial success they're back to playing it safe like during the Wii u
It can't be helped. Companies are too scared to invest in a new IP. People will always judge it to some other show/game/whatever so why bother make something new when you can just continue making the other thing that people keep comparing the new IP to? People hate change. It unironically scares them.
New ips can be largely successful. The problem is Nintendo refuses to take any influence from the industry. Most of Nintendo's new ips end up series they only keep alive because they're fond of them like Pikmin
You are now remembering the arcade port of Luigi's Mansion 2 and how it lazilly recycled all the assets and encounters of that 3DS game wholesale but simply added a peripheral and waggle mechanics
They're just throwing Switch owners a bone while majority of their effort is focused on making software for Switch 2.
2024 Switch is mirroring 2017 3DS down to the Luigi's Mansion Remaster
Nintendo wised up and realized that quality is good yes but massive gaps in the schedule kill interest and console sales so if they touch up or remake an older game to fill out the gaps.
GameCube had a dogwater release schedule barely propped up by Mario spin-off games. I love the GameCube, I was a GameCube kid but you're insane if you don't think Nintendo lost hard due to poor scheduling. Just like they did on Wii U. Quality also absolutely suffered due to lack of time, see WW, Sunshine, even Melee while great has several known cuts made for time.
Speaking of Wii U, it sold so poorly the ports are not so much double dipping as much as they are releasing to a wide audience for the first time.
>Switch is entering its 7th year and is pretty blatantly on the way out >just release some low-scale ports and small projects to pad out the release calendar while the flagship teams gear up for the next console
There's always going to be a palpable winddown because Nintendo doesn't want a PS4/PS5 situation. They want people on their new console ASAP because they're the only one of the console manufacturers that are actually dependent on people buying their games.
To be fair, while it wasn't QUITE this bad, there was also a pretty noticeable timespan (I'd say between like 2019-2022 or so) where the Switch's first-party catalogue was also bulked up with ports.
Gee I wonder why all of Nintendos development talent is working on unannounced games? Could it be a new console launch is imminent? Nah, it's the state of the industry
I'm willing to give them a pass on the current generation as a CHAD who never bought a Wii U, so I have enjoyed playing the definitive editions of a previous console's best titles. Switch 2 will apparently have backwards compatibility, so they are going to have to do more next gen than just rehash Switch titles
>nooooo you can't make games accessible to people that never got to play them they must remain on dead hardware!!! Help me Black personman
No you're just fricking stupid. Nintendo has had more new releases this gen than every other high profile company outside of the slop Capcom shits out
Most of their development teams have probably moved to the new system. What we're getting from now on are ports/remasters/remakes that Nintendo was holding back or smaller projects.
feel like that's a problem with the industry at large, not just nintenshart
I'd agree
It's the same way across all industries, just look at how all tv shows and movies from Hollywood are just new iterations of old IPs and remakes.
True. Entertainment industry is dead
This
Media nowadays relies more on remakes/well known ips because those tend to bring in the cash more easily vs creating a new ip
FPBP. Nintendo is definitely doing it a lot, and many of them are poor quality. But the lowest low is Sony remastering The Last of Us 2 only three years after it first released. The entire industry is talentless and creatively bankrupt at this point.
Unfortunately the results of financial success. Why do something new when you know doing something old will prove more successful?
Nintendo had some motive to try new things at the begining of the switch but now with assured financial success they're back to playing it safe like during the Wii u
It can't be helped. Companies are too scared to invest in a new IP. People will always judge it to some other show/game/whatever so why bother make something new when you can just continue making the other thing that people keep comparing the new IP to? People hate change. It unironically scares them.
New ips can be largely successful. The problem is Nintendo refuses to take any influence from the industry. Most of Nintendo's new ips end up series they only keep alive because they're fond of them like Pikmin
No.
Name ten switch games that aren't ports or remakes that are fantastic
You are now remembering the arcade port of Luigi's Mansion 2 and how it lazilly recycled all the assets and encounters of that 3DS game wholesale but simply added a peripheral and waggle mechanics
That wasn't a port. It was an arcade on rails shooter that reused the assets and wasn't a console game. It's not comparable
They're just throwing Switch owners a bone while majority of their effort is focused on making software for Switch 2.
2024 Switch is mirroring 2017 3DS down to the Luigi's Mansion Remaster
Probably true
200 IQ post.
Nintendo wised up and realized that quality is good yes but massive gaps in the schedule kill interest and console sales so if they touch up or remake an older game to fill out the gaps.
GameCube had a good release schedule and good quality. Feels like anymore we get a ton of smaller games with a real great one coming only nle and then
GameCube had a dogwater release schedule barely propped up by Mario spin-off games. I love the GameCube, I was a GameCube kid but you're insane if you don't think Nintendo lost hard due to poor scheduling. Just like they did on Wii U. Quality also absolutely suffered due to lack of time, see WW, Sunshine, even Melee while great has several known cuts made for time.
Speaking of Wii U, it sold so poorly the ports are not so much double dipping as much as they are releasing to a wide audience for the first time.
>Switch is entering its 7th year and is pretty blatantly on the way out
>just release some low-scale ports and small projects to pad out the release calendar while the flagship teams gear up for the next console
There's always going to be a palpable winddown because Nintendo doesn't want a PS4/PS5 situation. They want people on their new console ASAP because they're the only one of the console manufacturers that are actually dependent on people buying their games.
That's a fair point.
To be fair, while it wasn't QUITE this bad, there was also a pretty noticeable timespan (I'd say between like 2019-2022 or so) where the Switch's first-party catalogue was also bulked up with ports.
It's a good thing I mean who the frick thought they would be playing Jet Force Gemini in 2023? I was genuinely really happy when I saw that pop up.
It was in rare replay
Gee I wonder why all of Nintendos development talent is working on unannounced games? Could it be a new console launch is imminent? Nah, it's the state of the industry
Name 10 games that came out this year that weren’t remakes/remasters
I never liked the handheld experience, Switch would be perfect for this.
>Remakes
Super Mario RPG and Thousand Year Door much?
>Ports
How many times have they re-released Mario Kart 8?
I'm willing to give them a pass on the current generation as a CHAD who never bought a Wii U, so I have enjoyed playing the definitive editions of a previous console's best titles. Switch 2 will apparently have backwards compatibility, so they are going to have to do more next gen than just rehash Switch titles
>nooooo you can't make games accessible to people that never got to play them they must remain on dead hardware!!! Help me Black personman
No you're just fricking stupid. Nintendo has had more new releases this gen than every other high profile company outside of the slop Capcom shits out
Most of their development teams have probably moved to the new system. What we're getting from now on are ports/remasters/remakes that Nintendo was holding back or smaller projects.