Why are Sony and Nintendo so quiet? What are you waiting for? - Nintendo Direct

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Your silence may be frustrating, but there is a method for your madness.

Sony and Nintendo fans are currently upset. This is actually seen immediately if you have contacted the video game community in recent weeks. Every time, when Sony or Nintendo tweet or publish a video on your YouTube channel or do this ETWAS fans are in droves and demand information. Message Boards on the Internet are filled with thousands of posts from Sony and Nintendo fans who are involved in loud speculation, which are desperate and faded from day to day.

However, there is a good reason for the restlessness of the Sony and Nintendo fans. In a game marked only as a cruel game with chickens, both companies have decided simply ... not much to communicate with their fans. At least not the information that your fans have wollen.

For Sony fans, this information is more details about the PlayStation 5. PS5 will come to the market again this year, which normally requires more information. And yet Sony was almost frustrating quiet: You have shared some details on the technology that you will use in your next-generation console, and you have shared the logo (which is absurd boring), but that's really boring), but that's really it. We officially do not know how the console looks like the controller looks like the technical data is when to start how the startup might look like or what they could cost.

And this is not too unusual situation. After all, we are removed months from the expected introduction of the PS5, so Sony does not really have to show his hand. For fans, however, the situation is tightened by a number of circumstances that increase the uncertainty in relation to the next-generation PlayStation console and the entire company: contradictory reports on the technical data of the console (and how they are compared with the series X be able) ); Sony admits that there has not been a price yet and is waiting for Microsoft to come first. the very real possibility that the global outbreak of the coronavirus can lead to a delay in the start of the next-generation consoles; And Sony himself cancel that they will skip E3 again this year, and do not terminate any concrete alternative plans, as they want to communicate with fans, which leads to a feeling of anxious uncertainty, not only about what the PS5 is, but When we could learn more about it. At least in the past, we had to mark E3 or TGS as a clear, concrete labeling to search for more information - at the moment Sony fans do not even have them.

Nintendo fans are similarly baffled by Nintendos stubborn silence. We are currently in the longest gap between two Nintendo Direct broadcasts of all time, and this is actually a pretty big problem. This is a problem because Nintendo normally strives for shorter announcements for the publication of cycles. That would be fine, but will be supplemented directly by a pretty predictable schedule for information losses (typical of the Direct videos): Nintendo will exchange information for four times a year, with a direct at the beginning of the year and one in autumn plus E3 and some information against End of the year (usually at the Game Awards).

As long as Nintendo complies with this schedule, things are okay as they always know what is on the program. As soon as the current release schedule is scarce, further content is announced in a new Direct.

This does not happen this time. The last Direct was last last year. Nintendo has not given any information from the Game Awards. And at the beginning of this year, there was no direct - although of course it gives a chance that they still have one thing in the coming weeks, which would be later than any previously comparable Direct, which normally has took place in January or early February.

The situation gets worse because we literally do not know what the switch expects us this year. Animal Crossing and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon come this March, but what about it? Is the continuation of Breath of the Wild this year? Is Bayonetta 3? Metroid Prime 4? Shin Megami Tensei V? When will Xenoblade definitely start Edition? How about Bravely Default 2?

The problem gets worse because Nintendo communicates ... just not about the things people want. She announced a direct in January ... for Pokemon Sword and Shield, which was started less than two months earlier. The last Fighter Pack for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was described in detail only in a random video. So the last Fire Emblem DLC package was. And Meanwhile, there are rumors about upcoming games and reports on production delays thanks to the Coronavirus (yes, again) and general uncertainty about what Nintendo has planned for the year, in which two consoles of the next generation are published, of course, the sustained and not very irrational fear that we could go to a drought of major versions, which were so widespread in the past on Nintendo platforms, but the switch has previously avoided.

In both cases I'm frustrated and can even feel more information in the desire for more information. But in the end, Sony and Nintendo have managed to develop successful gaming consoles and ecosystems with the PS4 and the Nintendo Switch, and they did, because they know what they do. And it's not that lacking on both systems at this time. The PS4 has just got Dreams, which could be one of the highest rated games of this generation, when early reviews are signs for that, and Heavy-Hitter like NiOH 2, persona 5 Royal and Final Fantasy 7 remake are only a few weeks away. Switch fans have just received thronebreaker and Tokyo Mirage sessions, and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and Animal Crossing: New Horizons are only a few weeks away. Both systems also benefit from a steady stream of publications and announcements of third-party providers. It's not that there has been nothing.

The thing is, ultimately, Sony and Nintendo can afford to remain quiet and take time to align the things exactly correctly and reveal them to their own conditions - because they have earned this advantage of doubt. For years, they have been delivering great games for years and proved to be as the pulse of the industry.

The silence of Sony and Nintendo ultimately proofs for their success and trust they have in what they have achieved so far. You have nothing to prove, so you do not have to be constantly noise to make yourself popular with anyone. At some point we will receive the PS5 announcement and the next directance, and it will not be interested in anyone that both had happened a few weeks later than they had hoped. Because when the last years signs are there, both Sony and Nintendo will supply the goods - and in the end it is what matters.

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