Is that only me feeling like Ninty try to keep themself low profile?

[Sqrl]

fkusumot said:

Sqrl said:

I'm not doubting you at all but I have to ask...Source?

It's a list I got from last October (8 months ago). It was put together by GAF mostly from public info sources (gamasutra, kotaku, ign, famitsu, etc.) If you look at the fact that the list was put out 8 months ago and so far it has all been true then I think you can put a very good reliability factor on the list. For instance this E3 it was confirmed that EAD no.2 was responsible for the three big titles that Nintendo showed (AC, Wii Sport Resort, Wii Music).

So more interestingly, seeing as how one division (EAD no.2) was showing all the big Wii games what ARE all the other in-house developers working on? Earlier this year Nintendo said it was shifting support from the DS to the Wii so I would guess some of the teams finishing up DS projects are moving on to Wii titles. Obviously the teams are of different sizes but at least two of them (EAD no.1&2) can work simultaneously on three Wii games and the rest can work on at least 2 DS games at the same time. Seems like the Nintendo ninja's are very good at keeping secrets.

After todays confirmation of Pikmin I would suppose that EAD no.4 is working on that. It's long been rumored that EAD no.5 is working on Starfox Wii. NSMB2 is probably being worked on by EAD no.4. Zelda Wii would almost certainly be handled by EAD no.3. The Software Planning and Development Division did the Check Mii Out Channel so I assume they're still working on more channels. More sketchy, but also reportedly in development is a new Donkey Kong title. I still tend to believe the rumor that Factor Five is working on Kid Icarus. Beyond that it seems like pure guessing unless some new info has come up.

I'll go back to being a joke poster now. :)

Wow, thats awesome [insert your favorite TV Detective]!

Honestly when you sit down and think about it, it shouldn't be that hard to figure all of this stuff out and keep tabs on it but for some reason it just seems like the kind of info that would be extremely difficult to get reliable and regular updates on..perhaps that is why there are no VGDevTrackerz.com websites ?

Anyways, when you put things together like this its pretty clear that Nintendo was focusing on the casual at E3 but that in no way means they are ignoring the hardcore for good.  Of course some folks need that attention in true attention whore fashion...but hey what else is new?

Well if you make posts like that after every 500th joke post or so you'll be way ahead of most of the people on this site =P