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wfz on 13 June 2012
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M.U.G.E.N said:
wfz said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Funny thing is people actually believe this PR nonsense from Nintendo smh. I swear their PR reminds me of an Apple commercial.


Nintendo's always been a more secretive company when it comes to unveiling their games, so it doesn't surprise me at all that they want to be even more secretive when both of their competitors are looking to announce new hardware before the end of E3 2013.

I'm sure they have something or the other to reveal for the wiiu for certain..I mean if it's just the current line up it would suck imho. I do have a bad feeling that 'trump card' might be something to do with Black Ops tho. 

My opinion was more aimed at the way put things into working in their PR statements. Even this, let's be real here. If it's something that can be used draw in crowds, the competition will follow. Same applies to Nintendo as well. having few months of difference between the reveals is not going to make much of a difference. It sure as hell ain't the real reason. If they said they are holding back to get a bigger hype train going closer to launch or something then I would agree 100%.


Nintendo might be worried for the following reasons:

1) S&M creating new hardware revisions based on what the Wii U is capable of. The longer Nintendo holds out on releasing that new information, the less likely their competitors are to do a good job incorporating a similar thing into their hardware, assuming it's a good innovation.

2) As far as software goes: Nintendo can't stop people from copying their game design. By holding out on information, though, they can prevent competition from creating clones and releasing them within a certain time-frame of Nintendo's release, preventing them from crowding the market with clones around Nintendo's game.

Those two points may not happen to extreme conditions (I doubt many developers are actively thinking "oh! Let's see what Nintendo is up to..and copy them fast!") but it does happen in more subtle ways. I think that's what they're trying to prevent.

 

I understand the worry of BLOPS2 being part of Nintendo's big reveal plan this summer, but realistically I think it's taking a second-seat to the real show: The Nintendo Network. You can bet BLOPS2 will be there, but I think (I hope) it will be used as merely a title in a list of games, not the big showcasing of the NNetwork. On that similar topic, I wonder how much Activision is going to:

1) Tout the Wii U BLOPS2 version as the best version

2) Advertise it regularly amongst the PS3+360 version

3) Shove it under the covers and release it more incognito like the Wii versions.