What Nintendo's Developing: Internal and External Studios

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UncleScrooge said:

Soleron said:

Funny how every studio can be tied up and yet neither 3DS nor Wii U has anything coming out.

What are the plausible E3 games for this year? Mario Kart? Retro project?

I like speculation and educated guesses so here's my two cents for this e3 and potential 2013 releases:

EAD1 - Mario Kart U (very likely)

EAD2 - Wii Sports U (maybe early 2014 but a Wii Sports game doesn't take that much time to develop and they even showed a prototype at e3 2011 - alongside Wii Fit U and Mario U, both of which became actual games!)

EAD Tokyo - 3D Mario (possibly late 2013 as the team making 3D Land was probably smaller than the Galaxy team so Mario U would have a 3 year dev cycle)

Retro Studios - ?? ( some new project, we really don't know but their last game released in 2010 so they should be able to show us some footage at least)

 

Games for 2014:

EAD 3 - Wii U Zelda (this one WILL be out in 2014 - Iwata didn't ask them to speed up dev time, he commanded it)

Sakurai's Team - Smash Bros. (they will push to get this out by late 2014, as Smash is a long term seller)

Yeah it all seems pretty reasonable... But I could see Zelda in early 2015 as well since the series has a history of not making it to the launch date ^^