Nintendo confirms Media Sumit for NA: February 24th

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Bobbuffalo said:
I fear that most of the hype is coming from journalists to set a trap. I bet that this summiy will be just to confirm some release dates and some few tidbits and then journalists will go rampant saying that Nintendo is doomed and betrayed their fans and all those old lame stories.

I hope I am wrong

Its not so much that they're trying to 'set a trap' but more like Nintendo has both the most expectations of any company put on them...and yet on the same token they are scrutinized more than any other company.  In other words, the 'media' is never happy with anything Nintendo puts out.  And in many ways, neither is the fans.  Nintendo can even give fans EXACTLY what they want, such as Smash Bros Brawl or even the latest New Super Mario Bros, but in the end, half the people out there will scrutinize it as being 'less than it could have been' or 'more of the same' from Nintendo.  When they're also the same people who bow down and worship every Halo sequel or obsess over the next Final Fantasy no questions asked.

Now I'm not saying Halo or Final Fantasy are bad games, just that Nintendo has gotten to a point now where many people, both from the media and 'fans', put such high expectations on the games they make that its almost impossible for their games to ever meet those expectations.  While for other companies, it seems there's a different set of expectations...a certain level of understanding of what 'other' companies can and can't do.  Yet with Nintendo, there's these extra measurements for games that you would never find for even some of the most popular upcoming games like 'innovation' and 'nostalgia'.

Sure, its nice to expect that Nintendo makes some of the best games out there, but you shouldn't be setting the bar so high that everything has to be the epitome of amazing and new or else its 'average' and 'bad'.  In short, Nintendo is always expected to reinvent gaming with every title, and that's just not possible even for the company which has done that dozens of times now.  Not every game can be Ocarina of Time or Mario Galaxy.