The competition has played their cards!

[Joelcool7]

twesterm said:
It's like you forgot that Nintendo doesn't start hyping things years in advance, they usually do it months in advance.

 

I'm sorry but that strategy is fairly new, in the past Nintendo has always been the company that announced games years in advance. The change in strategy is still fairly new. Infact many Wii games like "Disaster:DayOfCrisis" were announced back before the Wii was even availible yet have not hit shelves.

Nintendo's supposed new strategy of announcing titles only months in advance is so new it only really started last fall. I mean Mario Galaxy and Brawl were both announced over a year in advance!

Were still waiting on the TGS 2005 announcement of a new Donkey Kong as well as the announcement of Animal Crossing which was formally put on Nintendo's list of releases for summer 2008 in Japan. To say Nintendo waits until months in advance as a regular norm would be highly false.

Nintendo has always given us at least half a year before a major title hits the store shelves to get ready for it. Even with the likes of MarioKart etc...etc.... The only real shock ones where Nintendo holds off till they are just about to be released are titles like WiiFit which uses new technology Nintendo obviously didn't want Sony or Microsoft to get their hands on. Other casual games also don't get much notice.

But fact is this whole not hyping things up years in advance is very new. Also this fall is hardly years away its mere months away. If Nintendo waits till E3 (July) their will only be one month to hype the titles before the fall line-ups begin to make their way to store shelves in Sept!