| Aielyn said: You say they "do nothing". Have you considered that maybe there's one already well into development, but not set for release until, at earliest, end of 2016? The point Reggie was making was that they're not going to announce something like this well in advance without good reason. |
For some reason this idea eludes many people. It's pretty obvious to me that the reason he said that with respect to Metroid is because they have a game in development that they don't want to announce too long before release. I guess reading between the lines is really hard or something.
| KLAMarine said: I think people are seeing things that aren't there: some seem to think it's a jab at The Last Guardian but I don't understand how. |
I don't really see it either. Maybe if he had said two or three years instead of five or six people wouldn't take it as a jab. If anything I think it would be more likely to be a jab at Square-Enix, who really enjoys announcing games before they've gotten very far in development. He's just saying Nintendo prefers to have some kind of general release period in mind when they announce stuff, and a close one at that.
There's a lot of focusing on the exceptions rather than the rule. But Zelda! But Xenoblade! But SMTxFE! Okay, there were a handful, now how about the dozens of games Nintendo released this generation under a year after being announced? Anyone want to talk about Fire Emblem Fates being announced earlier this year and already being available in Japan?
