Conegamer said: Probably just a placeholder. Better than Q2 I guess... |
Definitely a placeholder.....because June 30th is the last day of Q2.
Wind Waker will likely be August or September, but wont be their big holiday game. Mario and Mario Kart will be playable at E3 so one of those will most likely be the heavy hitter for the holidays, if not both of them. Also, whatever Retro is cooking up. It was supposedly supposed to be shown last year at E3, but it was pulled which is why NintendoLand was so heavily featured.
Nintendo really doesn't like to show off games before they are far enough along to be shown at least visually. Even then they usually reserve that for Smash Bros and Zelda. I don't know why we haven't heard anything on Pikmin though.....if they hadn't of said "Launch Window", we probably would have had less of a problem with it releasing before the end of June too.
W101 is also listed as "Coming Soon" on the eShop, if it releases before the end of the month....awesome. May seems a little bit more likely to me and Pikmin needs to come out before E3. It just does. Both games have been showcased at events lately so letting people play those games if they weren't releasing until after the end of June would cause too much backlash on Nintendo.
I don't get where people (none in here, but elsewhere on the internet) are saying that Pikmin and W101 are releasing this fall....that's just ignorant.