We've seen this ever since the Switch reveal in October 2016 with the (highly unrealistic) crowd watching people play Splatoon 2, and have seen similar settings being portrayed with every Splatoon 2 advertisement afterward. Then, of course, there's ARMS, and now Pokken Tournament DX, the latter literally nobody asked for. (Although ARMS and Pokken have been shown with less competitive settings.) I really don't get what they're trying to do; although Nintendo hosted little tournaments at E3, the prizes weren't much more than "bragging rights", which doesn't convince me that they're interested in supporting a competitive scene (other than slapping on a logo on a livestream...) for these games at all, and instead hope they just magically come together. Super Smash Bros Melee did just that, but the difference is that these games don't appear to have any sort of competitive foundation. I watched the entire Splatoon 2 tournament, and maybe I'm giving myself too much credit, but none of the players look much, if any, better than me, which doesn't look good. Quite frankly, Splatoon just is not interesting to watch at all either. I watched the ARMS tournament too, and I was even less impressed. I can't comment too well about the game, as I've never played it, (However, the writer of this article commented largely on what I observed; just wait for your opponent to throw out an attack and punish https://nintendowire.com/news/2017/06/2 ... k-playing/) but even watching the producer of the game repeatedly beat the champion, it was more boring to watch than Splatoon 2. I never watched Pokken, and I don't ever plan on it. People just interested in playing these games with family for fun could care less about tournaments or whatever, and anyone interested in esports will likely and avoid these games due to their lack of complexity to appeal to a wider audience. However, time and time again, I've been proved otherwise (eg. Overwatch), and fighting games, which likely have the highest skill ceiling of any of the video game genres, are often underrepresented in the esport scene, which is one of the many things that lead me to think the esport scene is a joke overall.