Who Won 2019?
Winner: Nintendo
For us, Nintendo won 2019. It wasn’t necessarily a big win as it felt like both Microsoft and Sony were in transitional years as they gear up for big hardware launches in 2020. However, that doesn’t take away from what Nintendo was able to accomplish.
They have proven capable of utilizing their first-party studios effectively and efficiently to deliver a first-party lineup that alone would be enough to sate many Switch fans.
They have stayed on schedule from previous announcements in most cases and laid out an impressive slate of games still to come in both the near, and long term.
They have supplemented that effort with a renewed focus on third-party games both from smaller, indie developers and AAA franchises and publishers.
While it remains to be seen how the Switch will hang with the Xbox Series X, and the PlayStation 5 down the road, at least for 2019 Nintendo and their customers have a lot to be happy about.
