| Screamapillar said: Not as bad as droughts for Xbox One or PS4... (first-party, obviously) Seriously, though, I think that the news about smartphone games and last night's update about Zelda further cement that Nintendo is planning something big, and we're just all in the dark about it. A) They needed to update us on the unfortunate news about Zelda when they did, because by the time E3 comes around, people will have accepted and gotten over it, and will be judging E3 by what is there, instead of what isn't. B) The smartphone/ DeNA alliance news is good to know now, because had it come out at or around E3, it's all anyone would be talking about. It really is enormous news. It would have over-shadowed Nintendo's software lineup. It is true, that Splatoon, Star Fox, Mario Maker, and Yoshi's Wooly World alone are NOT enough for a full year's worth of Wii U software. Not by a long shot. All of those game + two E3 surprises, though, and that's an entirely different picture. My point is, I'm glad Nintendo has gotten all of this "house-keeping" out of the way now, because at this point, probably all we're going to get between now and the rest of the year is games, games, games. I'm actually very excited to see what Nintendo has planned for the rest of 2015. I assume it's something big, because Zelda was originally the tentpole release for holiday 2015. Perhaps something else has gotten moved up in the production schedule to fill the hole? Paper Mario? Luigi's Mansion? Metroid? All I know is, I'm excited. |
Unless it's Metroid, and it won't be Metroid, or Pokemon, and it definitely won't be Pokemon, there's nothing filling the spot Zelda left. I've already made an entire thread about why the DeNA partnership is a big deal, but that doesn't make this any more acceptable. For all intents and purposes, neither the DeNA news or the Zelda news have anything to do with Nintendo leaving their consumers in the dark about the immediate future of their products.
Even if E3 has the biggest games ever releasing this year, and everyone forgets the delay, it doesn't even come close to excusing the six months of nothing, only Splatoon, leading up to it.
