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Soundwave on 10 January 2016
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Nem said:
DélioPT said:
Nintendo spent quiet for 1.5 years regarding Wii U projects or significant ones?

These are games announced at E3 that were released in the year or years after that E3:

E3 2013 - Mario Kart 8; Bayonetta 2; XC X; DKCR TP; Smash Brothers
E3 2014 - Yoshi; Kirby; Starfox; Splatoon; Mario Maker
E3 2015 - Animal Crossing and Mario Tennis

Nem, do you see the difference? And i'm not even including games announced/first shown outside of E3 like Hyrule Warriors, Mario 3D World, Captain Toad and FExSMT.

You don't hold back games for a console that has no 3rd party support. You show what you got because you have nothing more.
If Nintendo really had intentions of supporting Wii U until 2017, you would have seen them announced at E3 last year, yet, you saw pratically nothing. That, is a sign of a platform that has reached it's end and not a sign of a console that will last into 2017.

 

I love how you guys think that Nintendo is this powerhouse that is holding back this huge development power and are seeking external help cause they are totally focused on the next project. Nintendo is already pumping as many titles as they can. The external help is there because they can't cope.

But i don't deny that they are working on NX stuff already. What i deny is that if the NX is a next-gen console and it will be ready this year. Pretty much zero chance of that happening. Complete pipe dream. If it did the NX would rushed into the market with small or extremely rushed titles that couldn't possibly display its potencial. A complete disaster.

Even if its the next-gen portable, it will be unlikely it will be ready in terms of software. But at least its more likely than a next-gen console.

AKA, Nintendo never even hinted at a 2016 release, and anyone that looks at Nintendo's last 5 years knows the mere sugestion is wishful thinking.

They not only hinted at it they said it directly. Iwata said a new definition of video games was something they were working on and it would take 2 years roughly to realize it. That was in May 2014. So that's false. Whether or not they make that time frame we don't know but to say they have not even hinted at it when they out right said it is false. 

Next-gen portable doesn't matter .... console whatever. It means no Wii U support in a serious way once development begins. They can't just "ease" into a launch, the next-gen portable is arguably the most important hardware product in Nintendo history. If that fails, then the company is pretty much done for as a hardware maker, period. 

So probably the main Nintendo teams are all working on next-gen portable games and have been for some time already (probably since a year ago if not earlier). 

Either way Wii U is done for. Sure it'll get some middling support from here on out but not much. Fact is it's been given largely a fair shake by Nintendo already anyway. They gave it all their big gun franchises -- Mario Kart, 2D Mario, 3D Mario, Wii Sports/Fit Smash Brothers, it will get Zelda (maybe not exclusive but still), and it got Splatoon, Nintendo Land, Bayonetta, and Mario Maker which makes up for a couple of missing IP (every Nintendo console is missing something). 

I think they can launch NX because it is a unified platform which means after Wii U and 3DS, their dev libraries are no longer split. As such they can combine their full software resources behind basically one platform and just scale games up or down a bit and call it a day. Throw in some Wii U projects that they held back (like the real Animal Crossing) and some shared projects (possibly the next Zelda) and it becomes fairly easy to launch NX this year to be honest. 

Nintendo's known for a long time that the Wii U was a bomb and it wasn't going to be saved, so they've had a long time to prep IMO. Once the 2013 holiday was over and the sales for the system were brutal, they knew then that there was no saving it and they started to brainstorm the NX concept IMO. They knew that the casual audience that drove the Wii to success had abandoned them, it was no secret then, and dropping the price wasn't going to save a floundering console because they've gone through that with the GameCube already (couldn't even hit 25 million despite being $99 for half its life cycle).