I don't know entirely if SpawnWave has inside sources, or if he is just going off of the investors meeting (I think he has inside sources, or at least im pretty sure he does), but he claimed that within the next two weeks something big regarding Nintendo would be happening.
Reference:
https://youtu.be/7O3GwUEVeeQ
Everybody thinks something big is happening and then it doesn't. I've given up really even checking this thread to be honest. I still don't know what the eff is going on in Nintendo
It's almost as if this year was kind of a planned drought. Those were super common in the Wii U era, but people forget they were common for the GameCube and the Wii as well. Nintendo just used the more plentiful third-party support to patch up all their gaps. One theory that's quite depressing but completely possible is that Nintendo stacked 2017 with the intention of dropping all these big games early in the system's life so that they could have time to produce other stuff quickly, but then it hit them how horrible they are at developing for an HD console, and due to their fear of delays they have just been totally silent to try and save face. It doesn't help that they've also made a crap ton of money this year on pretty much one game so they are not learning their lesson. I said this earlier in the thread, but they have been releasing first party games for the past 3 years now that seem lacking in content and polish. You may disagree and that's fine, but I'll point to Sword and Shield, Super Mario Party and Links Awakening as my examples. Pokémon infamously lacked polish for a modern game and was riddled with glitches, several which still have not been patched out. Super Mario Party was extremely lacking in content and even though there was the promise of DLC it's never been produced. And Zelda, which went on to sell millions like the other two games I listed, was a bare bones remaster of a Game Boy game sold at full price, with minimal new content and a very simplistic art style which, while attractive, doesn't scream modern full priced mainline Zelda on a console.
At some point around 2018, Nintendo made a comment that they wanted to shift their focus to their evergreen titles. Mario Kart, Mario Odyssey etc would fall under the umbrella. But even those have not received DLC, at least any more than any other game. At this point Nintendo is chugging along hoping that Animal Crossing, sales of their older releases, and DLC will carry them until they figure out a plan of action for 2021. There are a lot of great rumors and speculation out there about what they could be coming up with and I do believe most of it. But I think we need to accept the fact that Nintendo still remains ill-equipped to be a modern major video game publisher and developer. They have not changed and this has been their pattern for the past decade. So don't point the finger at me for being a naysayer when they come up with a big direct this month or next and make us all feel better, because they're just going to pull this crap again. I can guarantee it.
I'm going to make a radical proposal here and now, but I think Nintendo would be far better off if they either started licensing out their IPs to up game production so they could focus on pet projects (which seem to get their attention most of the time anyway) or they make a deal with the devil and start working with one of their competitors and/or merge with another large Japanese developer, like Namco. I think those are the only ways we can stop this cycle of droughts