Not as much as the Wii U Thread though! This is the place where all the Nintendo news comes together.

I partially agree Spurge. THQ is in financial trouble though I do expect the company to remain operational till mid 2014 at the earliest bankcrupcy. THQ is taking tons of steps to cut costs and reduce its debt.

Udraw was a huge success on Wii. But THQ was stupid and tried to launch it on the HD twins. Not only did they try launching it they manufactured millions of units which now sit in a warehouse and THQ can't give them away.

Dropping War hammer as an MMO was smart. It would have made a good MMO but their isn't room for more then a dozen MMO's in the industry and it seems everybody is going MMO. I think another reason the MMO genre was dropped is because the game is scheduled for release in 2014, my bet is THQ is on schedule but fears that future cuts between now and then could see the game scrapped. So to ensure the game is finished and brought to market they are ditching the MMO genre and likely starting to wrap the game up. I suspect by spring 2013 the War Hammer title will be complete. The question is will THQ maintain the 2014 release date or push it up to 2013?

I think THQ can make it assuming they do not make the jump to NextBox/PS4. Their upcoming games all look incredible and I am positive their high quality approach is capable of saving the company.

I'd say THQ should put everything its got behind Nintendo. 3DS should start receiving some THQ high quality titles based on either new IP or existing THQ IP. Nintendo WiiU should receive THQ's full support every single THQ game should appear on WiiU and THQ should provide a few exclusives including titles like WiiUdraw, enabling the remaining staff from the Udraw teams to scrape together one last game. THQ could have a team of ten working on future Udraw software for WiiU a lot of it could be DLC for the WiiUdraw title.

THQ has some amazing stuff coming up. If they face having to cancel any further games they should resort to putting out of use IP up for sale and selling any and all licenses that aren't currently being used.

THQ should liquidate any nonessential intellectual properties before making any further cuts. If further cuts are required THQ needs to shed support staff and not developers they cannot cancel more games or cut corners on the quality. They need the 2013 lineup to be huge and for the remaining 2012 lineup to sell well as well.

But I do have hope for THQ!

Mario Party 9 won't reach 1mil copies because the Wii system is dead, let's face it.
Also it was nosense imo to create another Mario Party after the effortless MP8, and Wii Party.

Wii is dying and is full of party games! No wonder MP9 won`t be a "success".
I think it will reach a million. If a bundle comes along for the game it might do even better.

That could happen, that is, if Nintendo decides to push the game during Christmas.
We can also dream about a special Wii U version adapted to the Upad... SquareEnix is doing it with DQX (2 versions of one game). A new packaging, change some mini-games. It could work!

Let´s hope that this time Nintendo does put the Nintendo seal of quality to good use.

It'll reach a Million. I don't care if the Wii is dying, it'll still get there.
Once the holiday comes people will start buying it up like crazy. Remember how DS SW still sells even though the 3DS's HW is selling like crazy? Yeah, the Wii U is also backwards compatible so it will do the same.

I'm not talking about this year I'm talking about last year. They sold far above 3DS games even after SM3DL and MK7 came out.

Namco Bandai has filed two trademarks, one titled All Star Battle, and another titled Project X Zone (Project Cross Zone). It sounds quite possible that either of these aforementioned trademarks could be related to the mystery game that Sega, Namco and Capcom are working on together. The full reveal for the mystery crossover game is expected sometime next week.

What do you mean by "not Nintendo handheld enough"? If you're trying to say that it isn't Nintendo-like enough then I get where you are coming from, the 3DS, even with the few great first-party releases, still hasn't had enough "Nintendo" pumped into it. This year looks like it'll really make it popular like the DS though, since we have Animal Crossing, Luigi's Mansion, Kid Icarus, and 2D Mario coming out.

I agree wholeheartedly with the need of 2D games, that is indeed one of the things that Nintendo is strong at and it is one of the things that distinguishes them from the other developers/companies. The only thing is is what will they do to the games you mentioned above to make them the slightest different from their predecessors? They can't go too different or it won't be what we know and love but they have to go different enough to where there was a purpose of making a new one on a new console. What do you think they could do to 2D Mario, Donkey Kong Country, or Yoshi's Island to make them different? Other thanthe different items of course...

Another thing Nintendo needs to do is hit all the bases. If Nintendo just release 2D games then they would upset some people who like 3D games more. The other way around too. They need all different genres for all different people.