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Frogger on 10 February 2014
Soundwave said:

People will kick and scream about it (well Nintendo fans) but I think the move has been made internally so that Zelda U, Mario Galaxy 3, and Animal Crossing U will be pan-platform titles for Nintendo ... meaning they'll release on Wii U but also another Nintendo hardware platform that's coming (probably sooner than people think). A portable one.

They are not going to let such high profile/expensive to develop projects simply rot so that 15 million Nintendo fans are happy when the sales potential for such games is much larger than that. 


They did it with Gamecube.



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Soundwave on 10 February 2014
spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

People will kick and scream about it (well Nintendo fans) but I think the move has been made internally so that Zelda U, Mario Galaxy 3, and Animal Crossing U will be pan-platform titles for Nintendo ... meaning they'll release on Wii U but also another Nintendo hardware platform that's coming (probably sooner than people think). A portable one.

They are not going to let such high profile/expensive to develop projects simply rot so that 15 million Nintendo fans are happy when the sales potential for such games is much larger than that. 


They did it with Gamecube.

To be honest times are more dire now than the GameCube days. The Wii U sells worse than the GameCube, and the 3DS is selling worse than the GBA at equivalent time points in their life cycles. 3DS may already actually be on a decline, and the Wii U seems like a coma patient that wakes up for a day or two before flat lining again. Software development is more expensive. 

As much as Nintendo fans try to put lipstick on this pig, something here is going to have to give. 



kitler53 on 10 February 2014
Nem said:

You have to understand why its a bad idea.

Nintendo cant rush the Wii U out or it will lose consumer trust. That is the only thing they have going for them now. If they lose that they will be going the way of SEGA and it will be impossible to release a sucessful sucessor.
Dont buy into the negativity. A Nintendo console only needs Nintendo games to be worth your money. No need to rush it out for another one that will probably repeat the cycle. Even with a console the same level of power as X1 and PS4 i still dont see Nintendo getting any worthwhile third party support. The GC didnt, so why would it be any different now?


yeah, you've said it best so far.  cutting early would hurt consumer trust and make the next console a hard sell to even the most diehard fans.

...i think nintendo should go just the opposite.  flood the wiiU with nintendo first party games.  don't worry about graphics for resolution or fps at all just get more games out there and as fast as possible.  make tons of smaller "indie" style games too.  make sure the consumer knows that a nintendo console is worth buying even if nintendo is the only developer making games for it.



TheLastStarFighter on 10 February 2014
kitler53 said:
Nem said:

You have to understand why its a bad idea.

Nintendo cant rush the Wii U out or it will lose consumer trust. That is the only thing they have going for them now. If they lose that they will be going the way of SEGA and it will be impossible to release a sucessful sucessor.
Dont buy into the negativity. A Nintendo console only needs Nintendo games to be worth your money. No need to rush it out for another one that will probably repeat the cycle. Even with a console the same level of power as X1 and PS4 i still dont see Nintendo getting any worthwhile third party support. The GC didnt, so why would it be any different now?


yeah, you've said it best so far.  cutting early would hurt consumer trust and make the next console a hard sell to even the most diehard fans.

...i think nintendo should go just the opposite.  flood the wiiU with nintendo first party games.  don't worry about graphics for resolution or fps at all just get more games out there and as fast as possible.  make tons of smaller "indie" style games too.  make sure the consumer knows that a nintendo console is worth buying even if nintendo is the only developer making games for it.


What consumers? 



Lyrikalstylez on 10 February 2014

Stupid is too well of a word to put it.....



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Pavolink on 10 February 2014

Zelda U will be at launch for the Wii U succesor.



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Prediction: No Zelda HD for Wii U, quietly moved to the succesor

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Nintentacle on 10 February 2014

Zelda U will be announced for 2015, delayed to 2016, and the next console will come in 2017.



Nintentacle on 10 February 2014
spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

People will kick and scream about it (well Nintendo fans) but I think the move has been made internally so that Zelda U, Mario Galaxy 3, and Animal Crossing U will be pan-platform titles for Nintendo ... meaning they'll release on Wii U but also another Nintendo hardware platform that's coming (probably sooner than people think). A portable one.

They are not going to let such high profile/expensive to develop projects simply rot so that 15 million Nintendo fans are happy when the sales potential for such games is much larger than that. 


They did it with Gamecube.

What?



Metroid33slayer on 10 February 2014
Pavolink said:
Zelda U will be at launch for the Wii U succesor.

Wii u's successor will have its own completely new zelda game in 2017/18. Nintendo said that they were trying to cut the developement time for LOZ games to 3 years. This means zelda u in 2014/15 and zelda fusion 2017/18. Like i said i hope nintendo is already  brainstorming ideas for the loz game that comes after zelda u. You may think i'm thinking too far ahead but they have been (rumour) working on zelda u since 2010 so if they want to stick to the 3 year dev cycle then they have to begin planning it somewhen this year.



justiceiro on 10 February 2014

Actually no. Nintendo should take the time to actually evolve somethings. Better online support, lower prices, make development easier, spread the variety of games they put out, get more in touch with what wersterns appreciate. This can't be done on one month, or one year. What the point of make another plattaform that still will have the same mistakes of the antecessor?



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Today most hardware design is left to other companies, but when you make hardware without taking into account the needs of the eventual software developers, you end up with bloated hardware full of pointless excess. From the outset one must consider design from both a hardware and software perspective."

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