GameSpot: Nintendo's Plan to Quietly Kill the Wii U

[DevilRising]

lol @ the people saying "Yeah, that makes sense, I mean what is coming after Zelda?"

Considering Nintendo typically plays it very close to the vest (except with Smash announcements way ahead of time), we never really know much about WHAT is coming a year+ down the road on most of their consoles.

But just for argument's sake: Retro's next project(s), Monster Games' next project, Next Level Games' next project, just a wild guess but another Platinum Games exclusive (I think they'll keep that relationship going), a new Animal Crossing, a Camelot or Next Level developed Mario Sports title, another nd Cube developed Mario Party game, some type of Nintendo developed NFC related title, high probability of another console Paper Mario game, the possibility of whatever Sakaguchi's next big project is being Wii U exclusive, Monster Hunter 4 inevitably being ported to Wii U as well, etc.

There is still a strong chance (and a chance is better than nothing) that we see things along the lines of another Excite racing game on Wii U, maybe a Wave Race (long overdue), Miyamoto has mentioned wanting to see Nintendo make another F-Zero and Star Fox, we could always see something like an Endless Ocean 3 (which could be pretty impressive in HD), Treasure and Nintendo have had a strong relationship for years so we could always see another Treasure exclusive. There is inevitably going to be some kind of Metroid game on Wii U, it's just a question of whether it will be another Prime game, or if it would (hopefully) be another actual Super Metroid style game at long last. I think the relationship with Good-Feel will continue (or hope it will), so considering they made two Wii games, I'd say we could possibly expect to see them make another Wii U title after Yarn Yoshi ships. I would honestly expect them to come out with some other kind of Nintendo Land or Wii Play or Wii Sports type of title that makes greater use of the touchscreen/two screen development possibilities, etc.

I dunno. I just think people glooming and dooming now isn't all that different from when people were glooming and dooming back in the N64/GC days. Wii U may not be king of the jungle this gen, but there is no way that Nintendo's next console comes ANY sooner than late 2016, and honestly 2017 seems more realistic. Nintendo tends to like to get the most out of their console investments, and it's not as if they don't have a ton of first party, second party, and third party studios under their umbrella to continue handling both 3DS and Wii U development. In fact they opened a new, bigger main office in Japan just to facilitate more developers. Whatever this QOL stuff they do is, they have already strongly intimated that it will be a separate venture for the company to make money outside of just purely video games. And they also stated in the same speech that they would remain committed to making game consoles.

Neither they, nor the Wii U, is going anywhere anytime soon, so people need to just calm the hell down, and enjoy the games as they come.