| Carl2291 said: Alongside a cut and MK Wii U, this will work winders. |
I don't think they are going to cut the price , but will instead bundle games like crazy. I fully expect MK to be bundled with the Deluxe when it launches. Rumor is they are bundling NintendoLand with the basic version too.
I kind of don't see most of this as surprising considering Iwata has said several times that they were planning to release software in the second half of the year, and with the goal of having 100bn yen in operating profit, they would need to have a ton of games ready. The whole advertising bit makes sense too....why throw tons of money at advertising when nothing was coming out for the system and when it wouldn't see dividends from the ads until the next fiscal year? There are several games releasing this month, VC releases weekly (even if it is only 2 a week), and soon they will roll out one of there "several Nintendo Directs leading up to E3" which will likely begin the hype train. They have sold about half as many Wii U's in 4.5 months as Microsoft sold 360's in the first year, so they could easily have a similar, if not larger lead by the time the PS4/720 launch.
The Mario game will absolutely be ready this fall and I can see October as well. The Mario 3D land team was likely smaller than all of Tokyo Dev 2 seeing as they worked with 2 other smaller dev teams. The majority of people were working on this. Pikmin was delayed likely because the team was split between NSMB2, NSMBU, NSLU, NSMB2 DLC and Pikmin.....that's pretty well spread thin if you ask me. Retro's game was supposedly supposed to be shown at last years E3 so I expect it will be ready by Christmas, and no...they haven't been working on Mario Kart. The hires they have made all have some pretty wicked backgrounds in terms of tone. They also developed their own engine that puts out visuals above Killzone 3 and runs at 60fps according to rumor. Even if it doesn't do exactly that....it's still going to be gorgeous.
Exciting times.
