I've been thinking about ARMS a bit since the last update.
ARMS released in June and since June we have had a steady flow of free content made available to us which included characters, stages, online events, new arms and an achievement system.
It was recently made public by Nintendo that the 5.0 update would be the last update the game would recieve (bug fixes and balance patches not withstanding).
This is interesting to me since they said Splatoon (Nintendo's other online focussed IP) would be getting two years worth of support. So why did ARMS only get six months? It sold over 1 million copies so it wasn't a complete failure, it'll still be selling now given the holiday season and the success of the Switch...
There was a datamine too which revealed unused code names for characters and stages, and as far as i know there are still code names that havent been lined up with the newly added characters from the updates we got which tells me therr is still unused content ready to be used...
So... what if ARMS is going to be annual?
ARMS released in June and had six months of updates, we're six months away from June 2018 so could Nintendo be funnelling six months of content into ARMS 2 to have it release in June 2018?
Will ARMS 2 have another six months of free content followed by another six month break and another release etc?
ARMS doesn't have a single player campaign like Splatoon so no tine needs to be taken in designing levels, hell, ARMS doesn't even have unique cinematics for any of its characters in the single player Grand Prix mode...
All ARMS 2 would need are perhaps a couple of new modes and it'd earn its sequel status...
Do you think ARMS could become Nintendo's annual IP?
ARMS released in June and since June we have had a steady flow of free content made available to us which included characters, stages, online events, new arms and an achievement system.
It was recently made public by Nintendo that the 5.0 update would be the last update the game would recieve (bug fixes and balance patches not withstanding).
This is interesting to me since they said Splatoon (Nintendo's other online focussed IP) would be getting two years worth of support. So why did ARMS only get six months? It sold over 1 million copies so it wasn't a complete failure, it'll still be selling now given the holiday season and the success of the Switch...
There was a datamine too which revealed unused code names for characters and stages, and as far as i know there are still code names that havent been lined up with the newly added characters from the updates we got which tells me therr is still unused content ready to be used...
So... what if ARMS is going to be annual?
ARMS released in June and had six months of updates, we're six months away from June 2018 so could Nintendo be funnelling six months of content into ARMS 2 to have it release in June 2018?
Will ARMS 2 have another six months of free content followed by another six month break and another release etc?
ARMS doesn't have a single player campaign like Splatoon so no tine needs to be taken in designing levels, hell, ARMS doesn't even have unique cinematics for any of its characters in the single player Grand Prix mode...
All ARMS 2 would need are perhaps a couple of new modes and it'd earn its sequel status...
Do you think ARMS could become Nintendo's annual IP?