| Aielyn said: Just because I want it emphasised again, here it is, once more: Why did they spoil it all NOW? Why now, in January? |
I'll try spelling it out one more time: because the holiday season is over and people are dooming the Wii U, sales are somewhere between middling and disappointing, they just delayed a bunch of titles, people are carping about no gaemz, etc., etc. Obviously, no one here can give you a definitive answer because no one here knows. But there are a lot of factors at play that don't point to Nintendo having an embarrassment of riches. To put it another way, knowing that virtually every franchise that Nintendo has actually given a shit about over the past decade is already in the works for the Wii U, what else would you expect? The only thing that's obviously missing is whatever Retro is working on. I'm not sure why that wouldn't be enough of a surprise.
If you really don't think that the mainstream gaming media picked up on yesterday's Nintendo Direct announcements, you are spectacularly wrong. It doesn't matter where an announcement is made. If it's big, it's going to get coverage however it's made. In fact, it's much better for Nintendo to announce stuff when nothing much is happening than to try and fight for some share of the spotlight at E3, where everyone is assuming that the PS4 and new Xbox are going to be unveiled.
