| Hyperion said: @shanobi Because their releases have been VERY lack luster the past year. Punch Out finally came out, but I'm not crazy over it. I guess that's my fault, though. I didn't say I would give up on the Wii...I'll still buy all the great games coming out for it. It's just that Nintendo's secrecy (I dream it is this) is CRAP. Worst idea ever. They don't show us anything and haven't released any "big" games since last year. |
Nintendo considers themselves to be the great inovators of the gaming industry (and I agree). They feel they absolutely must keep their secrecy because the novelty of their ideas is their greatest asset.
I get that their are a lot of people who have a real desire to hear about games far in advance. Me, I'd rather not. Maybe I've just been burned too many times, but its been a lot of years since I have cared at all about what companies have to say about a game that is a year or more away from release. With over a year to go till the release of a game virtually any feature they might announce publicly could yet be deemed unworkable or too costly. With over a year to go virtually any pics or movies that are shown of a game have to be suspect. Even the release date itself can't really be known more than a year out (unless we're talking about one of those companies that will release on the planned date, no matter how buggy it might be).
So if you can't really know what a game will be like, what it will look like, or when it will be out, then what exactly are you learning from hype far in advance? Nothing. But then you weren't meant to learn anything, you were meant to consume an advertisement that cost the company far less than traditional advertising channels.
