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News from the other thread on this subject: IGN's new article on the E3 situation corroborates Nintendo skipping E3 over a quiet second half of the year

IGN understands that Nintendo and Xbox were initially interested in having a presence at the event, but that both had to pull out for reasons unrelated to the show itself. VGC has since reported that Nintendo opted not to take part in the event due to a light second half release schedule not justifying the event space — information that IGN can corroborate.
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GhostBolt said:
i love both btw!
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I do too and I want Golden Sun to return to enjoy the wonderful turn-based battle system, dungeon puzzle solving and Djinn customization.

However, its characters and story were never anything remarkable (and the overwrought writing didn't help matters). I do wish the series evolved in a way that lets you explore more of the world to compensate and who knows, maybe even focus on little stories like Dragon Quest does.
 
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News from the other thread on this subject: IGN's new article on the E3 situation corroborates Nintendo skipping E3 over a quiet second half of the year
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Seems that Christopher Ding of GamesIndustry.biz who said Nintendo did not have much after Tears was maybe right after all. We are officially heading into the lull before the successor next year.
 
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Shadowrun said:
Seems that YouTuber who said Nintendo did not have much after Tears was maybe right after all. We are officially heading into the lull before the successor next year.
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idk what YouTuber you're talking about, this rumor started with the owner of gameindustry.biz. Given that Emily has talked an oncoming deluge of legacy rereleases, it's clear they're reaching into their back catalogue to fill out the rest of this year
 
The people who know Nintendo's H2 release schedule right now is limited to their executives, the teams working on the games, and certain divisions like Treehouse. That information is not available for IGN or VGC to report on, period. And I'm baffled that people believe Nintendo would disclose that as their reason for skipping E3, to the point it could be reported on. I won't even get into the absurdity of that justification for skipping E3 in and of itself.
 
Paxie said:
idk what YouTuber you're talking about, this rumor started with the owner of gameindustry.biz. Given that Emily has talked an oncoming deluge of legacy rereleases, it's clear they're reaching into their back catalogue to fill out the rest of this year
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Sorry. Thank you for the clarification! I misremembered it as a YouTuber. I edited my post.
 
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LiC said:
The people who know Nintendo's H2 release schedule right now is limited to their executives, the teams working on the games, and certain divisions like Treehouse. That information is not available for IGN or VGC to report on, period. And I'm baffled that people believe Nintendo would disclose that as their reason for skipping E3, to the point it could be reported on. I won't even get into the absurdity of that justification for skipping E3 in and of itself.
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This info may be coming from event organizers at ESA rather than Nintendo themselves, Dring did say this was based on bookings and all
 
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Shadowrun said:
Seems that Christopher Ding of GamesIndustry.biz who said Nintendo did not have much after Tears was maybe right after all. We are officially heading into the lull before the successor next year.
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Based on Dring's position (I believe he's associated with the company organizing E3 this year) and his stated reasoning, he seems to think Nintendo has a weak lineup because they aren't doing E3 and not the other way around. It's not a very strong or sound argument. I continue to doubt journalists with similar rhetoric because it doesn't track very well with Nintendo's historical approach to E3, but does track with the frankly ridiculous dooming that tends to surround Nintendo with respect to E3, specifically.
 
The only way Nintendo telling E3 organizers "mmm, sorry, we'd love to come, we just don't have anything worth bringing" makes sense to me is if it's a bullshit excuse to avoid burning bridges so they can see how this year goes from the sidelines and keep their options open for the future, but that explanation just raises more questions than it answers
 
Here's my list of things that outlets like IGN and VGC have gotten right about Nintendo's software plans in the past. Hopefully I can fit this all into one post. Here goes:

  • Some Mario 35th anniversary games

Phew! Sorry for the wall of text.
 
Maronic03 said:
I haven't watch this new Arlo video and I certainly won't. I have learned my lesson, the best way to not complain about Arlo is to not watch Arlo.

I'll never blame people that do complain about him though, even after all this time. The stuff he said in the past...
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What exactly did he say
 
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The people who know Nintendo's H2 release schedule right now is limited to their executives, the teams working on the games, and certain divisions like Treehouse. That information is not available for IGN or VGC to report on, period. And I'm baffled that people believe Nintendo would disclose that as their reason for skipping E3, to the point it could be reported on. I won't even get into the absurdity of that justification for skipping E3 in and of itself.
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I mean, Emily knowed about the year’s line-up beforehand. IGN probably also has a good source. Probably.
 
I know there's probs a direct coming, so there will be even more games on my backlog in not too long, but does anyone else have an inability to play any games when they've got so much to play?

I managed to finish what I want to right now of NieR Automata the other day, but now I can't seem to pick up the controller for more than a few minutes.
 
LiC said:
The people who know Nintendo's H2 release schedule right now is limited to their executives, the teams working on the games, and certain divisions like Treehouse. That information is not available for IGN or VGC to report on, period. And I'm baffled that people believe Nintendo would disclose that as their reason for skipping E3, to the point it could be reported on. I won't even get into the absurdity of that justification for skipping E3 in and of itself.
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So enough people for this to leak outside of the company.
 
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MusicProposition said:
I mean, Emily knowed about the year’s line-up beforehand. IGN probably also has a good source. Probably.
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Knowing about certain titles in development is not the same as knowing a whole release schedule. Even when there's actual insider reporting on specific titles, they often specify they don't know when the games will be revealed or released. And they don't know about every game, either. I've never heard anyone (who has any legitimacy) make an absence-of-evidence claim, like, any games they haven't heard about must not exist. Even recently, Emily said she had no idea if there was a DK game in development, but she believed other sources who said there was.
 
quelseydilla said:
I know there's probs a direct coming, so there will be even more games on my backlog in not too long, but does anyone else have an inability to play any games when they've got so much to play?

I managed to finish what I want to right now of NieR Automata the other day, but now I can't seem to pick up the controller for more than a few minutes.
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I’m in the same boat, tons to play and slowly getting through the games already launched. Time is limited but it’s always nice to see what’s on the horizon.
 
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MusicProposition said:
I mean, Emily knowed about the year’s line-up beforehand. IGN probably also has a good source. Probably.
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For the most part, what insiders know is either stuff in the immediate future (stuff that's getting ready for marketing, leaked by sources close to that) or stuff that we may see at an indeterminate time in the future (stuff that's in development, leaked by people close to developers or cast). Nobody's walking around with a release schedule detailing July 23-Dec 23.

It's also why the Reddit post from earlier was an obvious stinker; no singular source is in a position to know both immediate marketing details from Redmond and high-level manufacturing negotiations from China
 
Have we reached the "doomy" part of pre-directs?

I think the line of "light second-half" seems out of context and a bit misleading. Take Xbox 2022 second half as an example, they technically had a couple of games (Grounded 1.0 and Pentiment) so I would say that's a light second half.

I do not expect Nintendo to throw 2 games from July to December, whether those games are "big" (kinda of dumb wording that's been going around) depends on individual taste.
 
I mean for me I have Zelda and also the Harvest Moon wonderful Life remake, so the year is virtually impossible to be disappointing imo.
 
RealUncleNintendo said:
I’m in the same boat, tons to play and slowly getting through the games already launched. Time is limited but it’s always nice to see what’s on the horizon.
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I didn't really start playing many games until I started dating my boyfriend who's supportive, because my ex kinda sucked and made me feel bad about being bad at games (since I didnt grow up playing them except like Mario Kart 64).

So now I'm trying to catch up on years worth of games I wish I had played back then. But there's never enough time and I'm like paralyzed right now with even picking up my Switch.

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D36 said:
I can definitely see Nintendo releasing Prime Remake and 4 this year, or at least in the same fiscal year. I'm not really concerned or convinced that releasing them close to one another would be problematic in some shape or form.
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Why would Nintendo intentionally set up their release schedule to have two FPS Metroid games releasing within a couple months though?

If you can release Metroid Prime 1 Remake at any time after September 2021, the worst time to do so would seem to be like 5 months prior to the release of Prime 4, lol.
 
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