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happydolphin on 23 January 2012
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HappySqurriel said:
happydolphin said:

Axumblade, it seems Nintendo will focus the Wii U's launch on casual yes, but also on online. Some of their known launch titles are Dragon Quest X (also on Wii) and Ghost Recon Future Soldier Online (will also be on PC), neither of which are Nintendo games. This tells me that possibly, yes, Nintendo may even have Smash or Mario Kart online ready for launch. I may be wrong, but that's my prediction. E3 will tell ;) But all in all, if that's true, there's much to be excited about. We are all looking forward to a deeper online experience on a Nintendo plat!

With a software drought on the Wii in BOTH 2011 and 2012, you know the software gears are turning hard at Nintendo under the veil. I say prepare for a massive launch tbh.


Even if you're right (I'm not sure either way to be honest) I wouldn't bet on this software strenght to necessarily be at "launch" ...

Nintendo is a very smart company and, while I'm sure they want to take advantage of being the only "next generation" system on the market, I would expect Nintendo to space out their releases quite a bit. For launch and the holiday season I would expect Nintendo to limit the number of major titles to 1 or 2, and to only be pushing one major title at a time throughout the rest of the year.

Hypothetically speaking, if Nintendo has an unusually large number of first party games that will be ready at launch, I would actually expect them to space the games out over the months following the Wii U launch to maximize software sales and the impact it has on hardware sales.

I can't disagree, and Reggie has said it many times it's about momentum in the industry so at least the higher ups believe it. So I'd predict either a Smash or  a Mario Kart at launch, one or the other, and the other releasing half a year to a year later.