Nintendo is silent for a reason

[Aielyn]

happydolphin said:

Aielyn said:

Which doesn't change the point that the Wii U has a similar level of "core" first-party gaming to the Wii at the same time period.

Also, Wii had Super Paper Mario within its first year, which, like Pikmin 3, was "geared towards gamers in its design and level of quality".

Noo, I meant hobbyists. Super Paper mario is not in and of itself a hobbyist-aimed game, though it may attract them (imho).

And the Wii wouldn't have had the same core focus as the U will have by the time Pikmin 3 is out. It would have Pikmin 3, Bayonetta, Wonderful101, and then assuming OP is true, some more core games to counter the PS720 launch.

I'm not quite clear on how you delineate "hobbyist-aimed game", then. I'd argue that SPM was targetted more at the "core" than Pikmin 3 will be. Note that I'm not saying this of all Paper Mario games, just SPM.

And I don't consider the Nintendo-published third-party games to be part of Nintendo's direct focus, but part of their effort to get third-party support.