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Soundwave on 17 June 2015
Ninten78 said:
The Wii U will be ok (for Wii U standards,I mean no offence) Wii U will have a 3D Mario,Zelda exclusive to it,Star Fox and a plethora of quirky spin offs.I see Zelda Holiday 2016.Then 2017 is limp to new console with smaller games like Mario Party,but I still think NX is the 3DS successor in 2017 and Wii U successor 2018


Tanabe (producer director of Metroid Prime series) kind of let it slip when he called NX a "console" so at the very least the "NX" concept encompasses a home console (it may also be a broader product line that includes a portable). 

Wii U hasn't done shit to earn a 6 year life cycle either. That should only be reserved for consoles that are extremely successful like the PS2 or Wii, and even with the Wii it was probably a mistake letting it go that long. 



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Ninten78 on 17 June 2015
gabzjmm23 said:
Ninten78 said:
The Wii U will be ok (for Wii U standards,I mean no offence) Wii U will have a 3D Mario,Zelda exclusive to it,Star Fox and a plethora of quirky spin offs.I see Zelda Holiday 2016.Then 2017 is limp to new console with smaller games like Mario Party,but I still think NX is the 3DS successor in 2017 and Wii U successor 2018


Mario party again. They shouldn't release any new party game. If so do it in their next console.


Well I didnt mean MP11 but as an example some other smaller games to tie the wait untill successor



Soundwave on 17 June 2015
curl-6 said:

I'd bet my right testicle that it's either ported to or multiplat with NX.


Multiplat probably. Nintendo won't yank it outright. They still did give Twilight Princess a token release on the GameCube. 



Fusioncode on 17 June 2015

This is definitely an NX launch title but it'll be on WiiU as well.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

gabzjmm23 on 17 June 2015
Ninten78 said:
gabzjmm23 said:


Mario party again. They shouldn't release any new party game. If so do it in their next console.


Well I didnt mean MP11 but as an example some other smaller games to tie the wait untill successor


In terms of budget true but as long as no more party games for Wii u. This console would still get Ubisoft's annual Just Dance anyway



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Ninten78 on 17 June 2015
Soundwave said:
Ninten78 said:
The Wii U will be ok (for Wii U standards,I mean no offence) Wii U will have a 3D Mario,Zelda exclusive to it,Star Fox and a plethora of quirky spin offs.I see Zelda Holiday 2016.Then 2017 is limp to new console with smaller games like Mario Party,but I still think NX is the 3DS successor in 2017 and Wii U successor 2018


Tanabe (producer director of Metroid Prime series) kind of let it slip when he called NX a "console" so at the very least the "NX" concept encompasses a home console (it may also be a broader product line that includes a portable). 

Wii U hasn't done shit to earn a 6 year life cycle either. That should only be reserved for consoles that are extremely successful like the PS2 or Wii, and even with the Wii it was probably a mistake letting it go that long. 

Well regardless I hope it releases Holiday 2017



curl-6 on 17 June 2015
Soundwave said:
curl-6 said:

I'd bet my right testicle that it's either ported to or multiplat with NX.

Multiplat probably. Nintendo won't yank it outright. They still did give Twilight Princess a token release on the GameCube. 

Yeah, multiplat is most likely, a la Twilight Princess. But it won't be Wii U exclusive, I'm almost positive.



ihatefatkatz on 17 June 2015
PenguinZ said:

Reggie Fils-Aime: “It goes back to the statement i made earlier about how we view E3. We just fundamentally don’t believe in showing content at E3 that is going to be a long term proposition. We like to show content that typically will launch in the upcoming Holiday and maybe extending into the first half of the following year. And at this point, the new Zelda for Wii U is not a 2015 project.”

 

They showed Super Mario Maker last year and they've shown a variety of games in the past well before their actual release date, so I'm calling BS on this excuse. Given the sales situation the Wii U is in, I'm not sure if it's wise for Nintendo to be holding their cards so close to their chest. They probably should be trying to show content that will shine a good light on the Wii U in the future, unless of course they have something else planned.

This interview shows how far Reggie and the rest of Nintendo are off base.

To be fair to Nintendo, when they announced that Zelda was delayed, there was a vocal proportion of the fanbase saying they shouldn't have shown Zelda U at the VGA's and E3 if it wasnt coming in 2015. In particular, I can name one user here (which I won't).

Plus there is a lot of displeasure about the time between announcements of games and when they actually came out.  Bayonetta 2, Yoshi's Wolly World, Xenoblade Chronicles and Fire Emblem X SMT were announced before the launch of Wii U and it has taken years for them to see a release. 

You can sort of understand their apprehension about showing future titles. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't. With that said, the lack of known future titles for Wii U is a little worrying and does not instill confidence.



NintendoPie on 17 June 2015
Soundwave said:

Wii U hasn't done shit to earn a 6 year life cycle either. That should only be reserved for consoles that are extremely successful like the PS2 or Wii, and even with the Wii it was probably a mistake letting it go that long. 

I'm liking your no sugar-coating approach to the facts of the Wii U's failure. It's refreshing. 



Munchies on 17 June 2015
NintendoPie said:
Munchies said:
Collectivism fucking up with the world since ever. This just goes to show Zelda is only coming out around December. We're in for a long wait.

The fact that it's a Legend of Zelda title for a home console should've told you that. If you didn't think it would take forever for Aonuma to throw this one out there then you were fooling yourself.


I did, I just wanted to help create a depressive mood.



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