| reverie said: Consider that Nintendo won't release all of these games within 12 months and the whole thread is pointless. |
DING DING DING!
I'm not sure if anybody else commented on this (but with three pages of replies, I don't doubt it).
Either way, Reverie has the EXACT point. Just because they're working on 134 concepts doesn't mean that even half of those will release as individual ideas.
Much of the time, a large number of those games get dropped before any real funding has gone into them. The idea is pitched to the higher-ups, and they decide that it's not worth pursuing at this moment in time.
So, the concept gets saved onto a disc and thrown into a vault somewhere. A year or two down the line, a new idea is thought up and they decide it goes well with this older concept that was dropped a little while back, so it's revived. And you know what? That's likely the case with the vast majority of the videogaming concepts we see every day. As far as we know, Trauma Center likely was an idea that someone thought up for the GCN or something, but the control scheme wasn't good enough. Then, here comes DS and Wii, and BAM! Best idea evar.
Or, there's another of the 134 games that looks like it isn't good standalone either, but hey! Couple it with this first mediocre idea, and it's superb! That happens a lot, too.
So, sure, there are 134 games being developed. But I'd be shocked if we see any more than 50 or 60 of those hit shelves within the next year.
