This will be the third time I’ve taken a look at the Switch’s line-up (assumptions, hopes and predictions very much used liberally here) following 2017’s incredible bounce-back and 2019’s much-needed variety which in hindsight resulted in another great year for Nintendo both on first-party and third-party fronts alike.Ģ020 was a strange year for Nintendo in retrospect.
But where 2018 may have had the excuse of understandably not living up to the enormity 2017 garnered, 2021 is a slightly different tale.
2021 is no different, in fact it can be argued that this year is even more unpredictable, even more “up in the air” than even 2018 was. And while Nintendo are too prone to providing “updates” on anticipated games (as Metroid fans know better than anyone currently), it’s why such a microcosm in our culture that lives for the up-and-down rollercoaster that annual Nintendo release schedules harbor, exists.
#Tales from the borderlands hollow point or old haven windows#
In an age of targeted release windows and subsequent delays, though similarly far from a refreshing concept it is, such moments remain welcome no matter the time and year. You ever wanted to see how a new game announcement should be handled? Well bam, there it is! The second was that it would be available in a little over a couple of months. A successor of sorts to the 2014 Wii U Zelda-oriented Musou was one - on top of the fact that it was pitched as a canonical prequel to Breath of the Wild.
The latter half aren’t entirely wrong though last year’s out-of-nowhere announcement on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity even existing was two-fold in its bafflement. You needn’t look far to find the two tribes already duking it out: “Nintendo Switch is doomed this year,” one party will profess “Nintendo have plenty in store, they just want to surprise us,” the other side answers back, regardless of how grounded or naive such optimism ends up being. Fake leaks this and self-professed “insider” rumors that (of which amount to little more than narcissistic attention-seeking that maybe gets lucky once or twice). One of Nintendo’s most attractive and canny traditions is their utter disregard for such in the industry a company so secretive, so conserved, so protective of their property (to the point friction with consumers and the very communities in awe of their work, arises) that guessing at what Nintendo have - or haven’t - tucked up their sleeve, has become a sort of game in of itself. But we’ve become rather accustomed to this manner of behavior from the Kyoto-based behemoth of video games, haven’t we? Or has it? If the fact the Big N even released their last home (yet even that moniker is up for speculation) console around mid-way through the “eighth generation” in 2017 isn’t any indication on the company doing their own thing, then nothing is. And while no one is exactly hinting that it’s coming to an end anytime soon, for what will be the start of its fifth year this coming March, it wouldn’t be a stretch to presume that the Nintendo Switch has safely past the figurative half-way mark in its own respective life expectancy. It might sound strange - maybe even a little unnecessary - to talk of generation’s end, given we’ve just seen two new consoles launch but a couple months ago. Taking all previous life-span’s into consideration, the average length of a console generation is around six to seven years.
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