MCV: Zelda, Mario, and Pokemon games due out for NX within first six months

[JEMC]

Soundwave said:

JEMC said:
I can see Nintendo trying to have those games ready for the launch of NX. But c'mon, it's Nintendo, there will be delays.

Zelda is pretty much a given, I'd bet that game has been sitting almost finished for a while, Nintendo purposely has refused to release it because they didn't want to waste it on Wii U alone. 

Mario ... like I said the EAD Tokyo team that made Mario 3D World is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overdue for a new game even by Nintendo's standards. By June 2017, it will have been 3 1/2 years since Super Mario 3D World. 

So, to be honest, Mario + Zelda in the first six months at least are not really surprising at all. 

This is EAD Tokyo's release schedule 

Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat - spring 2005

Super Mario Galaxy - November 2007 

Super Mario Galaxy 2 - May 2010 (according to EAD Tokyo this game could've been released earlier, but Nintendo had NSMB Wii for fall 2009)

Super Mario 3D Land - November 2011

Super Mario 3D World - November 2013

Captain Toad - November 2014 (note: this game was made by a small offshoot of the main EAD Tokyo team)

Nothing - 2015

Nothing - 2016

Super Mario NX (?) - Summer 2017 (?)

Given that we don't know when Nintendo choosed the final specs of NX and that we don't know when Nintendo picked the idea for the next Mario game, that timeline of yours is useless.

And there's also the question of which kind of Mario game, it could be a 2D platformer again (unlikely after Mario Maker, but never say never).

Soundwave said:
Also did everyone miss the "graphics are somewhere between a PS3 and PS4" part?

That's kinda big news too. For a machine that you can take on the road with you that's an astounding amount of power.

I did notice that, but it doesn't say much. Wii U is between PS3 and PS4, and so is Tegra X1.

What this confirms, if true, is that multiplats won't be easy.