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padib said:
Tachikoma said:
Some issues with this theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmxvig1dXE - Shown 2014, expected 2016 or later (2 years from reveal to release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVDgpaTExnE - Shown 2014, expected ??? (1 - 2 years from reveal to release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1SvuuXBBw - Shown 2014, expected ??? (1 - 2 years from reveal to release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5-EIzDtKo - Shown Jan 2013, expected 2016 (3 years from reveal to release)

I have an issue with these examples. Project Guard and Giant Robo are projects, and were revealed as experimental developments.

Metroid Prime, if revealed, will not be an experiment, but a proper megaton. I think it's important to compare apples to apples in this debate.

A game like Zelda U, Mario U, Metroid Prime is comparable with TLG, FFXV, Shenmue III, FFVII Remake because these games compete on the same level for attention and expectation. Project Guard and Giant Robo are maybes in almost everybody's mind.

I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Zelda U will most likely be out in 2016, 2 years is relatively short span from reveal to release.

SMTxFE is your best example, but 3 years is little compared to how long the Sony games alluded to have been revealed compared to time to release.

both project guard and project giant robot are intended to be retail games, not just tech demos, they are games with anticipated releases, as such they are games that have been shown early before the titles actual release.

3 years is a considerable amount of time, and the thing is, were not "comparing with sony" were assessing whether what reggie said was true or not, which is relative to nintendo not anyone else.

All of these games contradict his statement, fair enough zelda u is down to delays but then, if you're going to give special allowances for games releasing a certain time after they were initially shown on the strengths of delays alone, most games on other systems with expansive time periods between reveal and release would qualify for this allowance too.



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padib said:
Tachikoma said:
Some issues with this theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZmxvig1dXE - Shown 2014, expected 2016 or later (2 years from reveal to release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVDgpaTExnE - Shown 2014, expected ??? (1 - 2 years from reveal to release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO1SvuuXBBw - Shown 2014, expected ??? (1 - 2 years from reveal to release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5-EIzDtKo - Shown Jan 2013, expected 2016 (3 years from reveal to release)

I have an issue with these examples. Project Guard and Giant Robo are projects, and were revealed as experimental developments.

Metroid Prime, if revealed, will not be an experiment, but a proper megaton. I think it's important to compare apples to apples in this debate.

A game like Zelda U, Mario U, Metroid Prime is comparable with TLG, FFXV, Shenmue III, FFVII Remake because these games compete on the same level for attention and expectation. Project Guard and Giant Robo are maybes in almost everybody's mind.

I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Zelda U will most likely be out in 2016, 2 years is relatively short span from reveal to release.

SMTxFE is your best example, but 3 years is little compared to how long the Sony games alluded to have been revealed compared to time to release.

you do understand reggie did not not beleive what he was saying right?  Don t try to defend his words when, if he was being intellectually honest he would not defend them himself-  Iwata even said at the stockholders meeting that they will reveal games further away when it suits their purpose and reveal games on a shorter time frame when it suits their purpose-  which is what any of the console makers will do-  the difference is they will not act like they don t and take a jab at the other guys for doing the same thing



binary solo said:
 

I don't agree with the slanting of the points made in the OP. The LoZ tech demo, for instance, is as good as an announcement of LoZ for Wii U, and that's what everyoine at the time was seeing it as "OMG LoZ on Wii U, instant win". If Nintendo hadn't wanted to effectively announce LoZ for Wii U their tech demo should have been of generic characters tpo show off the awesome power of WIi U. But also it's hardly a legit tech demo because LoZ U isn't going to look remotely like the tech demo, so it was giving false impressions. Therefore the tech demo was false advertising as well as misleading people into thinking a LoZ game for Wii U was less than 2 years away.

It's also not just the we don't announce games 4 years in advance thing that made Reggie look like a pouty bad sport. It was his series of statements after e3 that gave a lot of people a poor(er) impression of him being the voice of NoA.

Then on the one hand the OP says he's not taking a dig at the competition, and in later posts padib says he's pointing at the likes of TLG, FFVII and FFXV. That's having a dig at the same time as offering an excuse for the lack of exciting announcements. He should just get his house in order. The lack of exciting announcements is an indictment on Nintendo's development programme. They either wrongly thought that the games they were announcing would get everyone excited (which is a problem in itself) or they are very behind on games that they are trying to get far enough along to be able to announce. I expect they will bring some good news to TGS.

Totally disagree with the bolded, a Tech Demo is just that, a demonstration of a machine's capabilities otherwise such things are called trailers if that is a game in development and intended for release at a later date. Did most of us salivate and wish that was what the next Zelda would look like ... well yes.  I for one thought they were very up front about it just being a tech demo and not what was in development for the next instillation in the Zelda series.


That aside I think Reggie is kind of an ass. The only points he really scores in my book are for not always taking himself too seriously.



padib said:

No I agree with you, if Zelda is delayed then you have to paint everything by the same stroke. Problem is Zelda is expected to release in 2016, making it 2 years distance from reveal.

About the project games, they may or may not get retail releases. Both are projects and as projects their likelyhood to release is always in question.

But surely you see that 2 years is still a sizeable duration between a games reveal and its release, regardless of who is actually making it.

Lets take TLG for an example here, it's expected next year, the game was rebuilt from scratch in 2014 with an expected 2016 release, the original title for ps3 never saw the light of day, and was essentially a studio tech demo since the game never ran at a playable state.

This puts it directly in line with the Zelda tech demo from 2012, that never saw the light of day and they ended up making a new zelda wiiu title instead, the only difference here is that they stuck much closer to the original vision with TLG.

I'm not saying that Sony don't have their fair share of games shown well in advance of actually releasing, or Microsoft too for that matter, but rather, all three companies do it when it suits them, so Reggies comment was inaccurate.

As for Binarys point, when people saw a fleshed out Zelda running on WiiU at the hardware reveal, can you really blame potential buyers from assuming that was a taste of games soon to come for the system?, it's essentially a reveal in itself, even if presented as a tech demo, the same happened with the PlayStation 3, everyone made it clear that the FF7 tech demo was exactly that, a tech demo, but people in their hundreds of thousands took that as proof that a FF7 title would eventually appear on the system, in effect making it as much of a game reveal as if it were really an actual game to be released.



padib said:
Wonktonodi said:

Fils-Aime: “Look, we know that the fans want a straight Samus Aran game. We also know that the best way to launch a game like that is to surprise and delight them, to give them a launch date, in an environment like this let them play it vs. what other companies do which is to announce a project that you may not see for five, six years. It’s just not the way we do things. We know the community wants to see a straight-up Metroid game. We know it.”

His quote is a judgment statement on what other companies do, since they are saying that their way is best.

It's also such an exageration, other companies implies far more than the select few that have titles that were anounced a long tim ago, and 5, 6 years has pretty much been just a few square-enix titles that they tease people with way too soon with not even plans of the games being out that soon. TLG was supposed to be out 2 years later. Had he just said 3,4 years he would have been right about a few more devs but even then most games are faster from anouncement to release than that.  had he said 2,3 years more acurate still, but even then while it would need to be checked I still think most games come out faster. Though several big titles from this years e3 will probably fall in here.

I think it goes without saying that the way a company does this is the best way to them. Otherwise they would be doing like the others. I don't think that's something you can consider a judgement call except to the most extreme of interpretations.

@bold. And I think that's part of why it was mentioned. It's true that most games by the competition come out 2-3 years from reveal, but this e3 contained a fair amount of megatons which were either a long time in the making or are in very early stages of development (Shenmue III, FFVII remake).

That's why I think his comment is fair, and explains why Metroid proper was not at e3 this year.

Then again, he may be lying about it and Metroid really hasn't even begun development, but that is a whole different question.

if it goes without saying, what does it mean when it is said? Without saying "best for us", It was a judgement staitment of we're not anouncing a metriod game now becuase it's not best to tell you now, like other companies do with their games.

even ShenueIII and FFVII remake will probably be out in less than the 5,6 years he said. Had he said a much shorter timeframe he'd have gotten less flack.

If we werer to put the 5,6 years just in the context of Metriod does that mean the next one is that far away? because I think there are very few games that ever have that long of a developement cycle planned, that's a console generation right there.



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People bash him now because of the negative e3. It was the same when the Wii U was launched and Nintendo got a lot of crit.

They need to get their E3's done right because the after shock of a poor E3 show is a huge dose of negativity and ridiculously bad interpretations of perfectly reasonable statements.

There is a lot of concern right now that there will be very little in 2016 for Wii U. They should have addressed that at the E3. I'm sure the bulk of the online hate is fed by non-Wii U owners though. Console war nonsense and stuff.



padib said:
Wonktonodi said:

if it goes without saying, what does it mean when it is said? Without saying "best for us", It was a judgement staitment of we're not anouncing a metriod game now becuase it's not best to tell you now, like other companies do with their games.

even ShenueIII and FFVII remake will probably be out in less than the 5,6 years he said. Had he said a much shorter timeframe he'd have gotten less flack.

If we werer to put the 5,6 years just in the context of Metriod does that mean the next one is that far away? because I think there are very few games that ever have that long of a developement cycle planned, that's a console generation right there.

It's very possible. It could be that Prime was worked on but then they stopped working on it and it morphed into Federation force. I'm not opposed to the idea that Nintendo really has nothing to show, because that really isn't what I'm trying to defend. I'm more than willing to admit Nintendo has nothing to show.

I just don't like Reggie being piled up on for no reason.

5, 6 years was applicable to TLG and FFXV, both very important games. True, he exaggerated but he still was not incorrect!

In comparison to TLG, FFXV, the upcoming Shenmue and FFVII Remake, Nintendo typically doesn't reveal games so early in development, and almost always offer a short gap from reveal to release.

Imho his statement was correct and fair.

Again though, "the way that is best for them" is tautological. He never said that it was wrong to do it the other way, he just doesn't think it's best for Nintendo and its saught audience, or best for their business. I think he's wrong about his approach (matter of fact Sony is very much winning in terms of reception), but I don't think he's incorrect or making a judgement.

I don't think of it as no reason. Some people might be more harsh with him from the combination of him managing to piss off both his fans as well as the competion for what he said.

TLG went through develoment hell and in that case as well as FFXV he's stll wrong. they are over 6 year from when first shown and not out yet :P KH3 is another that might get close to that.

He said one way is best, that leaves the way that other companies do it as not best. There was no qualifier "for Nintendo" It's very much in his right to say such a thing but backlash from fans of competitors is a reasonable and expectable responce. Though that backlash means little since fans of the competions weren't likely to buy what he's selling anyway. Pissing off the Nintendo fans was the bigger issue.



padib said:
Tachikoma said:

both project guard and project giant robot are intended to be retail games, not just tech demos, they are games with anticipated releases, as such they are games that have been shown early before the titles actual release.

3 years is a considerable amount of time, and the thing is, were not "comparing with sony" were assessing whether what reggie said was true or not, which is relative to nintendo not anyone else.

All of these games contradict his statement, fair enough zelda u is down to delays but then, if you're going to give special allowances for games releasing a certain time after they were initially shown on the strengths of delays alone, most games on other systems with expansive time periods between reveal and release would qualify for this allowance too.

No I agree with you, if Zelda is delayed then you have to paint everything by the same stroke. Problem is Zelda is expected to release in 2016, making it 2 years distance from reveal.

About the project games, they may or may not get retail releases. Both are projects and as projects their likelyhood to release is always in question.

Dunban67 said:

you do understand reggie did not not beleive what he was saying right?  Don t try to defend his words when, if he was being intellectually honest he would not defend them himself-  Iwata even said at the stockholders meeting that they will reveal games further away when it suits their purpose and reveal games on a shorter time frame when it suits their purpose-  which is what any of the console makers will do-  the difference is they will not act like they don t and take a jab at the other guys for doing the same thing

I'd be interested in seeing a link to that statement. Perhaps they are speaking from both sides of their mouths then, I am open to convincing arguments from anyone.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/metroid-prime-4-not-coming-to-wii-u/0208036

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-17-next-proper-metroid-prime-would-likely-now-be-on-nx



I wish we knew exactly what kind of power Reggie has ... Sorry Pabid I don't care for the guy, never really have. If he has real power over North American marketing and he thought what little marketing the Wii U got in the beginning was enough then I like him even less. I figure though he is little more than the mouthpiece to the west.



padib said:
Dunban67 said:

http://www.develop-online.net/news/metroid-prime-4-not-coming-to-wii-u/0208036

 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-17-next-proper-metroid-prime-would-likely-now-be-on-nx

I remember reading that actually. He is BS'ing, but it still doesn't make him incorrect in his statement.

This news say Metroid Prime mainline game, but what about the games that aren't Prime? Super, Fusion, Zero Mission.

Maybe Nintendo is making a Metroid game, just not a Prime one.