Soriku said:
Gamerace said:
trestres is a little jadded imo but he's essentially correct. Nintendo has released nothing (except a mediocore S-E Mario Sports title) for the whole first half of the year. We know Cafe is coming and logic dictates that Nintendo will move all major resources to Cafe - especially because it'll require much longer development time than Wii games.
Gamecube was barren for games for it's last 18mths or so. When Wii launched Nintendo had a ton of games that were basically GC games they'd held back to support the Wii's launch year. I expect they are doing the same now.
Nintendo was always intented to be a five year system. It's going a little beyond that but not much. Nintendo's focus is now 3DS and Cafe.
The fact that NoE is talking about 2012 surprises when we're only in the first third of '11 and have the all important holiday season to consider IS very worrying. Why isn't he saying 'Wait for E3?', no he's saying 'wait for 2012'.
I'm sure something will be announced for Wii at E3 for 2011. But all the big guns will be held back for Cafe at this point. Zelda brought Wii in and will see Wii out but I don't expect to see another major 'hit' release for Wii except maybe Wii Relax if it's ready and if it's got mass appeal.
However, I'll be quite happy with Kirby and the other Japanese titles we all know about coming to NA at this point.
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He said there are more surprises in 2012 in regards to the Wii. But it's ridiculous to think 2012 is the big year for it when it comes to surprises when Cafe is releasing that same year and they have to have some things for 2011.
Also he didn't say "wait for E3" because he works for the UK and E3 is a NA event. Also remember EU usually gets their games later than NA.
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Nintendo might not be as sure about the next console as they claim, so they might have to push the Wii in case the next system doesn't take off. Perhaps the 3DS sales and the lost Wii momentum shook them up.
Not claiming that's certain, but it would be a reason to push the system even with a new one coming.
