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Soundwave on 03 January 2016
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Nem said:
zorg1000 said:

 

Well if the successor of Wii U and 3DS are one in the same, just available in different form factors than Nintendo can certainly provide adequate support for the device with a holiday 2016 lineup thru 2017.

Zelda U could very well be a cross-gen release for both Wii U & NX.

EAD Tokyo release a console 3D Mario every 3 years (Galaxy-2007, Galaxy 2-2010, 3D World-2013) so a new 3D Mario available for holiday 2016 is possible. They typically release a smaller title between mainline console Mario titles (NPC: Jungle Beat, Mario 3D Land, Captain Toad) so a smaller title for holiday 2017.

Miyamoto hinted at Pikmin 4 releasing next year without a specified platform, it could be Wii U or it could be NX or perhaps both.

Monster Games releases a game roughly every 2 years (2011-Pilotwings Resort, 2013-DKC Returns 3D, 2015-Xenoblade 3D) I could see them releasing a Tropical Freeze port since the game underperformed by being on Wii U.

Retro Studios releases a game roughly every 3 years (2004-Prime 2, 2007-Prime 3, 2010-DKC Returns, early 2014-Tropical Freeze) so a new title at some point in 2017 is very likely.

EAD Group 1 releases Mario Kart roughly every 3 years (2005-DS, 2008-Wii, 2011-3DS, Wii U-2014) so an NX release in 2017 is possible.

Hal Labs releases a new Kirby title every 1-2 years (Nov 2011-Return to Dreamland, Jan 2014-Triple Deluxe, Feb 2015-Rainbow Curse) so a new Kirby is 2017 is possible.

ND Cube releases 2 games roughly every 2 years (late 2011/early 2012-Wii Party/Mario Party 9, 2013-Wii Party U/Mario Party 3DS, 2015-Mario Party 10/Amiibo Festival) so at least one game in 2017 is likely.

EAD Group 2 release 2-3 games every 2-3 years (2005/2006-Animal Crossing DS/Wii Sports/Wii Play, 2008/2009-Wii Music/Animal Crossing Wii/Sports Resort, 2012-Animal Crossing 3DS/Nintendo Land, 2015-Splatoon/Happy Home Designer) 1 game in 2017 and one in 2018 is very possible.

Game Freak releases a new Pokémon Gen every 3-4 years (1996, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2013) so a new one in 2017 is likely.

Something like this is certainly possible considering these teams typical dev cycles.

Nov 2016-Zelda+3D Mario

Dec 2016-Pikmin 4

Feb 2017-Tropical Freeze Port

March 2017-ND Cube Party game

May 2017-Mario Kart

June 2017-Kirby

August-Retro Studio's Project

October-Pokemon Gen 7

November 2017-Splatoon 2

December 2017-EAD Tokyo title (Captain Toad 2?)

 


How do you propose to port a game that isnt finished yet. It takes a year of development to port a game.

This is exactly the problem i have with these theories. You think this is all easy and trivial to do. Games development takes a long time. Bringing out a system require alot of resources. This isnt done over night. Retro is the only studio i can see would have enough development time to come up with something. But if you think that NX development kits cant have been ready any earlier than in the last couple of months, you are sugesting again the development of a game in 1 year.

The Mario team did Tresure tracker last year. They have 1 year development. Time. The Mario Kart team did DLC until last year, they have 6 months development time. Pikmin 4 was announced for the Wii U. Again we are in the ports of games that aren't complete yet. It will be rushed, poor quality.

And we are still ignoring that Nintendo is not the most efficient HD developer yet. Delays all over the place. It takes a bit of a jump to think that from delaying most HD titles they will jump to next-gen in 1.5 development cycles.

Everything points for 2017 the earliest. You are forcing this preparednes for this year they just can't possibly have. Besides the fact it all comes from the assumption that the portable and home system will run the same architecture. Have you pondered that this means the portable would be more expensive than the portable system?

There wasn't a single new Wii U announced in 2016 from EAD, Retro, or any of the core Nintendo teams. Not at E3 and not at the Nintendo November Direct or at the Game Awards or nothing. Not. 1. 

All we got were things were Wii U projects from farmed out developers ... Pokken Tournament (developed by Namco), Star Fox Zero (developed by Platinum), Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival (ND Cube). This is a pretty telling tip off of where the Wii U is going (nowhere). 

The portable is going to be close to the Wii U in power no matter what.

Iwata even said in 2014 they were working on a "new definition of gaming" and it would take 2 years for them to realize it. 

They have been working on NX for a while IMO, since 2014 at least it looks like. They knew then the Wii U was a dud.