| badgenome said: I'll try spelling it out one more time: because the holiday season is over and people are dooming the Wii U, sales are somewhere between middling and disappointing, they just delayed a bunch of titles, people are carping about no gaemz, etc., etc. Obviously, no one here can give you a definitive answer because no one here knows. But there are a lot of factors at play that don't point to Nintendo having an embarrassment of riches. To put it another way, knowing that virtually every franchise that Nintendo has actually given a shit about over the past decade is already in the works for the Wii U, what else would you expect? The only thing that's obviously missing is whatever Retro is working on. I'm not sure why that wouldn't be enough of a surprise. If you really don't think that the mainstream gaming media picked up on yesterday's Nintendo Direct announcements, you are spectacularly wrong. It doesn't matter where an announcement is made. If it's big, it's going to get coverage however it's made. In fact, it's much better for Nintendo to announce stuff when nothing much is happening than to try and fight for some share of the spotlight at E3, where everyone is assuming that the PS4 and new Xbox are going to be unveiled. |
Announcing that there are more games coming down the line doesn't significantly boost system sales now, so "Wii U sales are currently middling or disappointing" isn't really an explanation, either. And Nintendo won't give a crap about people carping about "no gaemz". More importantly, if their intent was to bolster interest in the system, they could easily have focused more on third-party offerings coming in the next few months, rather than teasing some games that may not even be released this year (I'm referring to SMTxFE and the new Monolith Soft game). Why focus on first-party now, if that was their intent?
And you don't think any franchise that Nintendo has given a shit about is missing? Really? Let's go through a selection...
Metroid
Wii Sports/Play
Animal Crossing
Pokemon
Donkey Kong
Kirby
The Excite franchise
Mario Sports
Battalion Wars
Kid Icarus
Wario adventure (as opposed to WarioWare)
Endless Ocean (this is one I really hope shows up at E3)
Pilotwings
The Rhythm series (Rhythm Heaven, etc)
Paper Mario
And that's before any new franchises, crossovers (Mario vs Sonic, anyone?), etc. It's also before you factor in any franchise revivals - neither Wave Race nor 1080 showed up on the Wii. Neither did F-Zero, Star Fox, or the Brain Training series. Do you really think Nintendo has discarded them entirely?
And I'm sure that parts of the mainstream media did cover it. But they'll have covered it in an off-hand manner, a short blurb and that's it. E3 is where the mainstream media give significant coverage to things. Meanwhile, if the intent was to avoid having their products drowned out at E3, they could easily have announced Mario and Mario Kart a few weeks before E3, and made it a big deal, so that people are anticipating the chance to play them at E3. Instead, by announcing it in January, people will just go "Oh, that's pretty much what I expected", and move on.
