I understand that compared to virtually nothing, Mario 35th, Monster Hunter, Steve Minecrafttale and Zelda Musou 2: Clam seems like a "news blowout" but it's really not. We're absolutely back to more of the same where they take one game and run with it for the whole month.
What type of expectations do you have? If all of these things were announced within a direct + Fighter 8 and some other games, people would be very pleased.
There is certainly a pandemic but that should not stop Nintendo from telling people what their plans are when it didn't stop Microsoft or Sony from telling people what their plans are, even if you can't provide a definitive date for it. With Nintendo it feels almost willful, and their increasingly iron defense over what they have in the works is somewhat worrisome.
Nintendo doesn't want to announce a projects with a release date and having to delay that multiple times, they've learnt from Prime 4 that they want to announce games when they know they're able to hit the release date, and COVID-19 has been things very uncertain, and therefore, it caused the delays as they weren't certain on if they were able to announce it yet or not, they didn't want to just announce a game and nothing else, and while we would of found it fine, they didn't.
It feels like you expect a business, whose primary purpose is to make money, to see that they're making money with little upfront expenditures and then decide "we need to spend more to make the same". Nintendo has found out that they can do nothing and make everything and that is how business works.
What... does this even mean? Nintendo has been hard at work on multiple projects, some unannounced.
Nintendo did not just stop working, they can not do that, that would legit cause even crazier delays then anything COVID can do, this is a very silly claim that can be debunked if you just understand business.
Even lowering your output can do harm, once again, lets look at Microsoft, they thought they could just sit down and when the generation with the 360 after Halo 3, but the PS3 had so much come out for it and it improved heavily then what it was at launch that the PS3 ended up winning that generation in terms of sales, and then Microsoft's next system was a absolute failure.
I'm not using the fact "We're in a pandemic" to excuse their lack of silence, they should of said to us directly "Hey, we're going through a lot of bull****, we're delaying a lot of stuff, we apologize".
That's on them and they should of made the drought the best it could be, but they didn't, and shouldn't really be excused.
But I'm saying what caused the drought is understandable and I'm really not that annoyed.
This year, while it was going to be big, wasn't going to be the next 2017 or even as good as 2019.
So let's take a already slow year + a heavy pandemic that caused multiple issues and that's how you have a year where they only had 3 mainline games in one year, and 2 of which came from the nicher side of Nintendo, being Paper Mario and Animal Crossing.
Nintendo was a hit a lot more harder then we all likely realize, more then some other companies like SEGA, and while they should of tried harder to make their output the best they could, once again, I'm really not that pissed off at them, and I do understand the massive drought they had, even though it was in their control to try harder with it.