| DevilRising said: As far as I'm concerned, people rooting for NX to be rushed to market in 2016, are rooting for the system to fail. It's just not smart, no matter how you shake it out. And besides, as far as Wii U launch titles go, as far as any of us know, Retro's next game has had PLENTY of time to most likely be an NX launch game, as has the next 3D Mario also had plenty of time in development. That is certainly the case if NX doesn't launch until 2017. And I'd say that an epic 3D Mario, along with a Retro Studios title, along with possibly Pikmin 4 (though that may well be a Wii U game, and perhaps should be), as well as some third party titles....that on it's own ought to be a strong launch, without the need for another Twilight Princess type situation. With Wii U, part of the reason they ported TP in the first place, was because the motion control concept was so new and unknown, and they had no way of knowing whether or not Wii Sports would be a success, let alone a generation defining phenomenon. So in their eyes, porting TP was the "right thing to do", because otherwise Wii might have had a weak launch. With NX, while we have no idea yet WHAT precisely will be coming out for it, history clearly shows that 3D Mario games (and main Mario titles in general), ALWAYS outsell Zelda games, and are far more often "system sellers". So having a 3D Mario that hopefully backs away from gimmicks, and let's say, gives us some sprawling, massive HD Mushroom Kingdom levels to play around in? That shit is going to sell like hotcakes, and create far more hype than a port of a Wii U game will. |
2016. launch for NX doesnt mean it will be rushed launch, you forgeting we didnt had one single Wii U annucment for year and a half (from E3 2014) that isnt small project, port or spinoff. That means Nintendo is working on NX games from 2014 and you can bet that some unannounced Wii U project were moved to NX. Saying that, they can easily have new 3D Mario (Mario 3D World is finished in 2013, around 3 years of development for 3D Mario is more than enuf), Pikmin 4 (we already know that is almost finished) and Zelda U port prepared for this years launch, and thats are very strong launch titles.
In Nintendo eyes, Zelda U is our biggest project ever and there is no sense to leave it exclusive to Wii U, so we are porting Zelda U for NX, we will have killer app for launch of totally new platform and we will sell millions of copies of that games. Its win-win situation with basically no negative sides.
