The Wii U is floundering. Last Janurary we got a massive Nintendo Direct, and this January we didn't even get one. Sales forecasts are abysmal. Nintendo needs to act. They need to reveal big stuff. Last year everyone kept saying that they were just waiting to reveal stuff until the holidays were over. So the holidays are over, and now we're an entire month overdue for a Nintendo Direct, and now, more than ever in the console's life, they need to give it to us. All over the internet people are making the same old threads we get every time an ND comes around, listing not only their hopes, but their expectations. They list many reasonable things, stating games and services that Nintendo would be stupid not to be working on. We all hold our breath, waiting for the big stuff...
For the 3DS we get some meh stuff. For the Wii U, nothing. New trailers, but no announcements. Not a single piece of information about any new (retail) Wii U games that we don't already know about. Not one.
The sad thing is, I went into this expecting nothing. Literally nothing. And that's what we got. So I ask, why do people still have expectations? Nintendo has delivered before, but since last E3 it's just been garbage. "They've got to reveal something even slightly new, don't they?" Nope, nothing. "They've got to at least give us a release date for that game that was announced a million years ago, right?" Nope, not even that. "Well, maybe they'll--" Nope. Whatever you were just about to say, they won't do it.
Will there come a time when people just stop? And I'm not even saying Nintendo will never deliver again; just that until they do, we've got no reason to expect it. They don't listen to their fans, and they don't use logic. Why do we all pretend that they do? It just sets us up for disappointment.
Currently playing:
Bloodbath Paddy Wagon Ultra 9
