I'm loving the upcoming Wii U lineup

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HylianSwordsman said:

All I'm saying is that you can't always tell how "big" a game is or will be before it releases. Again. Pokemon. The company making it almost went bankrupt, the game was almost cancelled, people worke without pay. Now it's one of the biggest franchises on the market, and the first game was one of the best selling of all time. As for things on the scale of what I think you're talking about, Fire Emblem x Shin Megami Tensei has been in the works for years, and while FE is done before, we don't really know how it will interact with SMT, or what game it will resemble more. Rodea was in the works for years, but apparently it doesn't matter because it was delayed and believed canceled for so long that everyone forgot it. Bayonetta is new to Nintendo and that was about on your scale. Hyrule Warriors was sort of new too. All of those are mostly efforts of third parties working with Nintendo while Nintendo publishes, so second party essentially.

As for new Metroid games, I want them too. I do genuinely believe they're coming, but I think we'll see them 2016, for the 30th anniversary. Development on them probably only started recently. That's not entirely baseless speculation on my part either, just me looking at when those articles came out about considering how to go forward with the series, which implied that they were in the first phases of developing two different games, one for the Super Metroid style and one for the Prime style.

Splatoon is NOT like de Blob. That was more of a platform puzzler. Splatoon is a shooter. The fact that both involve colorful ink in some way does not make them the same. Know why de Blob didn't sell? Because no one gave a shit about it for even a second. I remember precisely zero hype surrounding that game. Splatoon already has hype, and has had hype since its announcement. It's also a completely different game mechanics wise. Give it a chance.

Pokemon did take off, but before it launched people thought it was going to be amazing.

Splatoon........it's got hype on forums, but not so much the general audience. Nintendo just isn't what it used to be in the 90's and early 2000's. I mean compare 3DS to GBA for instance, it has so much less going for it. GBA had 3 Fire Emblems, 2 Advance Wars, 5 FF remakes + a Tactics FF game, and well so much. 3DS just doesn't have the same thing.

What WiiU has looks great, XenoBlade, Zelda and Starfox all look amazing and make owning the system legit, but it's not what it used to be like. Nintendo is living in a shadow of its former self, there is less innovation and risk taking them before, and it's getting to the point where it's all sequels. I mean compare WiiU to SNES, on SNES Starfox, F-Zero, Mario RPG, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, Yoshi's Island, and Earthbound (outside of Japan) were all new IP's. Plus Nintendo got exclusive FF support, Dragon Quest, etc.

As for SMT x FE, I just don't like crossovers & SMT very much.

So overall, I'm feeling WiiU is another Gamecube. What is has is great, but on its own it's not enough. I need more.