To those who say NX isn't coming this year

[Soundwave]

bigtakilla said:

Soundwave said:

I don't really buy this train of logic because really EAD Tokyo could have made say Mario 3D World and then Super Mario Galaxy 3 in the same time that instead were working on Mario 3D Land and then Mario 3D World. 

There's no rule saying you can only make one Mario game just because you have a unified platform. 

You may not get quite as many Zeldas, but who needs that many freaking Zelda games (7 in one generation?) to play? Let those Zelda teams work on (gasp!) new ideas, you may just stumble upon the next Splatoon or GoldenEye or Pokemon if you let one of these teams do something original once every decade. 

I'm not buying your train of logic that 3d Land and a Galaxy 3 would take anywhere near the same time to develop. Especially if you had to make sure the performance Nintendo is known for holds up on two seperate devices.

Also, the fact that there were 7 LoZs is not the point. I'm saying instead of 4 games now you get two because everything would have the development time of a home console game.

EAD Tokyo's pretty consistent in being able to release a Mario game in about 2- 2 1/2 years if that's what they want to do. 

The bottom line is a unified library will always be strong than a segregated one. And a unified platform gives Nintendo freedom to be more creative in trying more new ideas of broadening the range of franchises they offer. 

You're not under the gun so much to have to deliver one of the same 4-5 franchises over and over and over again every Christmas to sell systems. You can have 1 or 2 teams satisfy that need, but then 2-3 other teams are free to make new games or revisit lesser known IP.