Confused gamer: Why is one of these situations better than the other?

[Onyxmeth]

Kasz216 said:

Onyxmeth said:

We all knew in advance going in to E3 that all of the teams, the Mario team, Zelda team, Metroid team, etc. are working on something. If they weren't they'ed be out on their ass in the streets. If they don't have anything substantial to show though, then how far along are these games really? Is Pikmin not far along enough to warrant a trailer? If so, that sounds 2009 to me easily. Nobody knows what's going on with Disaster: Day of Crisis now. It's either being developed unde secrecy, or it's not nearly as far along as we all thought it was. Wii Music is turning out to be a huge bust, and if this was created by Miyamoto, it just makes it all the worse to see this kind of crap come from the mind of a genius.

Also we knew already that these teams that did Mario, Metroid and Zelda were working on something. We weren't expecting anything soon from them, so vocal announcements are fine for now. What about the team working on Kid Icarus? How far off is Pikmin really? Where's teams working on Kirby, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, F-Zero and the 15 other franchises? Is Fatal Frame IV, Wii Music, Wario Land Shake It, and Animal Crossing: City Folks the entire fall lineup for Wii, with a maybe for Disaster: Day of Crisis? Weak by Nintendo standards. I think what really bothered everyone is they expected Kid Icarus for the Fall after six months of teases and had high hopes to see Pikmin this Fall too, which doesn't look lightly.

Nintendo has a lot of teams and I don't see them doing much with them at the moment. DS development is slowing down too. Nintendo's fall DS lineup is what now? Pokemon Ranger? Mystery Case Files? Kirby Super Star Ultra? Cooking Guide? Rhythm Heaven? Maybe ASH? I was hoping for something else on both platforms and don't feel good about either.

 

The worst part of Wii music is he was developing it for years.  I gotta think what he wanted to do and what the software and hardware would let him do wouldn't match.  He wanted a free roaming make your own music game... and instead ended up with what he has.

I just think he's taking this motto of "everyone playing" a bit too far. To have a game which requires no skill whatsoever outside of the ability to mimic a motion action and randomly press buttons is just going too far. Not only that, but the demonstration with the six executives playing sounded like crap, so even the software can't pick up the button presses to make decent sounding music. I think this is just a small funk Miyamoto is in and he'll soon be back in top form. I hope he doesn't just try to recreate Wii Sports' success every year with another Wii branded game.