Nintendo E3 shows that this is a transition year

[JEMC]

MohammadBadir said:

JEMC said:

MohammadBadir said:

JEMC said:

I have to agree with you.

The lack of any kind of news of what EAD or even Retro is doing, and both those studios have had time enough to work on something and show it, speaks for itself.

Retro studios are working on a new WIIU engine, not an NX engine, lol.

If they aren't developing a WiiU game, why are they working on a new engine for it?

Rumors said that they were working on a WiiU engine, but with no game to show it, they could have changed the development of that engine for NX (because I'm going to assume that Nintendo knows what hardware will be inside), and are using it to develop a NX game.

Maybe it just wasn't ready? :|
Though I do have to say that even though this is a WiiU engine, Retro's gonna use it for future platforms (Why are people so stubborn about NX being a homeconsole? lol), just like how the Metroid Prime engine of 2002 was used for DKCTF in 2014.

I also thought that NX would be a handheld first, home console later, but after this E3 I'm not sure anymore. Nintendo didn't show any game that says "hey, I'm a BIG Nintendo game", they only showed spin-offs and games that were revealed years ago (like SMT x FE, in japanese :facepalm:). Any big new project from Nintendo have been moved to NX, expect Zelda because even they know that not launching Zelda on WiiU would be too problematic.

And Retro could use the same engine of the Prime games since the GameCube to WiiU because the insides of the machines didn't differ much. The Wii was a GameCube on steroids, and WiiU in a lot of things is a Wii x3. It will be really, really hard for Nintendo to do the same thing with their next console.