So the boss of Nintendo Canada recently said:

"We still have those great, big third-party partners like Ubisoft who continue to invest in our platforms. In the next few weeks at E3 you’ll be hearing about more big third-party partnerships."

And then

"You’ll hear in a few weeks about some interesting partnerships. We’ve already over the past year opened up and aggressively sought licensing deals in lots of different areas. In the video game space you’ve seen Nintendo characters appear in other game worlds. It’s also happening outside the game world, with the Universal Studios partnership that will bring Nintendo to fans and families through theme parks."

Assuming that at least some of these are explicitly cases of Nintendo shelling out money to get games of various sorts on the Wii U (and/or 3DS), what games might we be about to see? Who will Nintendo have partnered with? What games are about to get Nintendo characters appearing in them that we don't already know about?

Aside from the claim that Ubisoft "continue to invest in our platforms", which either means he's counting the two or three games that are being put on every platform under the sun, he means that stupid unreleased-but-complete party game, or there's going to be some Ubisoft titles announced for Nintendo platforms in the next couple of days, we also have the theoretical potential for other titles.

If we assume that he's not exaggerating, that there really are some notable third-party partnerships set up, some notable games set to be announced/released for Wii U and 3DS... what could they be?

Some theoretical possibilities that would cause meltdowns if they happened (I don't think any of these would actually happen)...

1. Half-Life 3.

2. Beyond Good & Evil 2.

3. Tekken X Street Fighter.

4. Timesplitters 4.

5. Starcraft: Ghost.

6. Call of Duty action-adventure game by Sledgehammer Games.

7. Shenmue 3/Online.

Keep in mind, the above is just there to get people thinking about what the reactions would be if such titles were revealed during the E3 Direct. It's fun to speculate.

You know, in the off chance that Half-Life 3 was indeed one of the games in these partnerships, the universe would probably implode.

Half Life 3... Sc2 Ghosts... Yea those aren't happening for the wiiu

They mean like Lego games or something lol

Perhaps read the rest of the post? Because your response sounds like you saw a list of games and went "nope" without bothering to look at the context.

You mean the ones releasing on all the systems, with no indication of any Nintendo involvement?

PR stunt as usual

Don't read too much into it

When has Nintendo ever said something like that, and not meant it?

Note we're talking about things just a "few weeks" away, not long-term stuff like the "unprecedented partnerships", etc.

Why would he say that there would be big third-party partnerships revealed at E3, if it wasn't true? How would that be beneficial, in terms of PR?

New transformers Platinum game Wii U exclusive confirmed.

Isn't the Transformers game confirmed to be multiplat?

Besides, I think that the boss of Nintendo Canada is probably refering to more crossovers like Hyrule Warriors or SMTxFE than multiplat games.