Mr Khan on 22 January 2013
| trestres said: OK this Nintendo Direct was timed at 1 week before the investors roundtable and earning briefing for the last quarter come out. This is Nintendo in panic mode trying to create at least some confidence in investors mostly, as if had the briefing come out without any new games announced, things would be getting terribly bad considering the dire state of the Wii U at the moment. Iwata will be telling investors "content will be coming, examples are XXX, XXX2 and XXX3" which will be shown tomorrow. However, if this exciting "new" content is anything like the RE: Revelations game, I think Nintendo will be in deep trouble. I've just seen screenshots for the Wii U version and the game looks like a GC game. I don't think this will move any significant amount of hardware or create buzz among players, this is a port of a year+ old game coming from a much weaker machine. Oh and it's also coming to PC, 360 and PS3. This game will nonetheless bomb. Hopefully tomorrow announcements will be different. Console needs big 3rd party support, no more ports or lazy products touted as great support. Nintendo has their last chance to generate big buzz before the next Sony and MS systems start to take the spotlight. |
Being a port from a handheld means that Capcom has to have restricted expectations for it. Small budget and a 4-platform spread, it might do better on 360 or PS3 (merely because of a lack of overlap with the 3DS fanbase that might have bought the game already), but it will not be a "bomb" in the sense of falling below Capcom's expectations, unless Capcom is insane (which is quite possible).
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
