When it comes to Nintendo products, E3 is not the best place to get a true assessment.\u00a0 The minimum age for E3 is 17, while the Nintendo audience leans heavily towards elementary and middle school kids.\u00a0 Luckily DFC Intelligence maintains a panel of 7-15 year old kids just for such purposes.<\/p>\n
First thing on the morning of the announcement, we immediately had some kids test out the new version of Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch.\u00a0 What surprised us most was that everyone reported the download was easy and quick.\u00a0 We thought this would be the first obstacle, but it appears the download is a relatively modest 2 GB.<\/p>\n
It should be noted that, with our group, \u00a0the mobile version of games like Fortnite are generally non-starters.\u00a0 Our testers did say that the Switch mobile version of Fortnite was not as good as playing on a large screen.\u00a0 However, what really excited everyone was the option to play Fortnite in the mobile version.\u00a0 The ability to quickly switch between small and big screen is what makes the Nintendo Switch so unique.\u00a0 This is a big difference between just an iOS or Android version.<\/p>\n
In terms of other major product announcements, Nintendo really had nothing new.\u00a0 The big title, as expected, was Super Smash Bros Ultimate.\u00a0 Luckily this is a very big title.\u00a0 At E3 2001, Nintendo asked me about the upcoming GameCube and what I thought.\u00a0 I said that Super Smash Bros Melee was going to be a monster hit.\u00a0 That took the Nintendo people by surprise.<\/p>\n
The first Super Smash Bros title launched in 1999 near the tail end of the Nintendo 64 lifecycle.\u00a0 As such it flew a little under the radar screen.\u00a0 However, in our testing, Super Smash Bros, along with Goldeneye 64, were the leading Nintendo titles for kids to play together.\u00a0 As we predicted Super Smash Bros Melee went on to be the best-selling GameCube title ever.\u00a0 Of course, overall the GameCube was a disappointment.<\/p>\n
Super Smash Bros Ultimate will launch in December 2018, a month before the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of the launch of the franchise.\u00a0 The original audience for this game is now in their late 20s and 30s.\u00a0 Pokemon Go showed how the right product can bring that older audience back into the Nintendo fold.\u00a0 To tap into that nostalgia, Nintendo will launch a retro GameCube controller.<\/p>\n Overall, Nintendo did not do a great deal to grow the Nintendo Switch base.\u00a0 There were no surprises or new titles outside of indie products and the quirky Daemon X Machina from Japan.\u00a0 In many ways, Nintendo\u2019s E3 2018 was notable for what was not shown.\u00a0 Not as much Pokemon, Yoshi or Metroid as expected.\u00a0 Limited news on online.\u00a0 No new major titles.<\/p>\n The Nintendo Switch is a system that continues to be a good first game system for younger children or a good second game system for everyone else.\u00a0 Given the E3 announcements we feel very comfortable with our recent Nintendo forecasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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