Can you give examples of this "confusion" among third party partners? Because it seems like the Switch 2 has an extremely solid third party lineup right at launch. It seems like Nintendo operated on a need to know basis and you didn't need to know. Capxom and CDPR did.
You sound like a whiny tendie. We knew the next console was coming. But they were still supporting and releasing games for the old one regularly. And remember that we know so much about Sony's lineup because of a massive illegal hack that blew open the doors to their entire operation. But even then some games we just had no clue existed before they got canceled like Bluepoint's God of War game that was stupid as hell.
It's really not that big of a deal.
They do Directs regularly though.
en.wikipedia.org
Ah yes, the classic combo — "you're a whiny tendie"
and the Wikipedia list of Directs. Truly the gold standard of thoughtful discourse.
Yes, Nintendo
technically does Directs "regularly." Like, if you average it out over a decade, sure. But if you actually read what I wrote (wild idea, I know), the point isn't about how often they show up — it's
what they actually communicate. You can have three Directs in a year that say basically nothing beyond ports, DLCs, and remakes. That's not a roadmap — that's just noise. And no, I never said third parties like Capcom or CDPR were clueless. Obviously the big players are kept in the loop. The
confusion is for the public, smaller devs, and media who are left chasing rumors and scraps because Nintendo's strategy is to say absolutely nothing until the last minute. That's not "whining," that's describing the reality of what happens when a company goes radio silent for months at a time.
Also love how people keep pointing to Sony leaks as if that's their PR strategy. No one's asking for a full dev diary. Just... you know... some intentional communication that isn't a total surprise drop or a hacked inbox. But hey, if the bare minimum — like the existence of a video with the word "Direct" in the title — is enough to make you feel informed, more power to you. The rest of us are just asking for a bit more clarity than "lol you'll find out when we feel like it."
Gotta love the binary mindset in here — as if the only two options are either
total silence until launch or
announce a game eight years early and pray it doesn't get canceled. No room for nuance, no middle ground, just pure 0 or 100. Apparently, asking for a little more transparency is the same as demanding a development diary, E3-stage demos, and a three-year hype cycle. Wild how suggesting
anything between "shadow drop" and "vaporware" gets treated like heresy.