Ben Lindbergh

So, you know, the rampocalypse is upon us.

And given the price hike and the lack of those real headline games, Nintendo's stock price has been suffering, which, you know, is not my problem.

But clearly they're feeling the pressure here.

And Nintendo president Shintaro Furukawa said recently on an investor call,

we are preparing a variety of new titles for Nintendo Switch 2, regardless of whether they are so-called major titles or not.

In addition, we have new titles prepared for the second half of this fiscal year, in addition to those already announced, and we will provide details at the appropriate time.

Oh, good.

Yes, very cryptic, playing it close to the vest.

And for most people, the appropriate time would be now or months or years ago.

And you always have to wonder why doesn't Nintendo just take the easy way, just give the people what they want, not necessarily rushing games out.

But a lot of companies, I think, subject to these pressures would just confirm, yeah, we're making a Mario game.

You know, or yeah, we're making a Zelda game.

And then the investors would be reassured, which is silly because it's not as if there's any uncertainty surrounding whether Nintendo is in fact making a sequel in the age old 40 year old Mario or Zelda series.

But I think if they were to come out and confirm, yeah, definitely.

It's in the pipeline.

It's in the warp pipe.

We're working on it.

Then probably people would be temporarily appeased.

And in a way, you know, as inscrutable as Nintendo can be, I almost respect that they won't do that.

I mean, they have done that at times and maybe it's backfired.