| Train wreck said:
To be fair though I think we have seen the same song and dance before. Nintendo having all these titles coming mid stream is a nothing more than despriation moves and despriate nintendo can be iffy with their game quality. Its good for gamers but well have to wait and see. Iwata mentioned that the next zelda is still big budget (i.e. not learning anything from SS) and Nintendo games outselling the PS3 top ten doesnt matter, we had two generations where the same thing occured and the playstation still came out on top, by a fairly huge margin. |
When did that happen? When did Mario Kart pre-Wii sell more than 30m? I last honestly can't remember. When did Zelda sell almost 9m copies (Twilight Princess, true shared with cube, but 6.7m extra sales on Wii when Cube already sold 1.5m?)
The low sales of SS aren't due to big budget. Sales of 2nd Zeldas on any plat always sell less (Majora's mask, TP on cube) and the swordfighting wasn't loved by all. The music is one of the most praised scores for a Nintendo game, after Galaxy.
What you could call "desperation" is WW HD, and that's because they are filling gaps during the waiting periods. But it isn't desperation, it's common sense, and Sony did it too with all its HD remasters.
And what of these announcements tells you they've been rushed? I don't have the same facts as you it seems like they are all landing after their expected development time, and Nintendo has become a much faster production house, better at re-using their talents instead of wasting effort re-inventing the wheel. I expect the next 3D Mario and 3D Zelda to be of utmost quality, same goes for the next Mario Kart and Smash bros.
