Soma is not giving an opinion. He is giving a fact. Whether people likes it or not that's what is happening. There's no reason to be pessimistic with Nintendo because they know what they are doing. They have proved it.

There are many people (like myself) that noticed that since 2005 Nintendo has been focusing less and less on the "Hardcore" fanbase at E3 ... Since some time in 2007 they have also cut back on really pushing their "Hardcore" titles at press events at all, and have tended to announce their games soon before they released them; and for the most part it has really worked out for them, being that almost all of their titles on the Wii have soon become one of the best selling versions in their series.

At there press event in October will they announce a "Hardcore" title? Probably, they certainly will have Disaster: Day of Crisis on display as well as their holiday line-up, but it is highly probable they will have a game that is supposed to release before March 31st 2009 to announce. Will this be a major announcement that people would expect? Probably not, it could be a well known series like F-Zero, Starfox or Punch-Out but it is unlikely that it will represent one of Nintendo's top tier games.

I wish I could name a publisher that brings out a game I want every 5 months.

Well I could tell that it is right now, my last thread already proves it. The title was: "Ninty did it again! Advertising Wario Land by giving free gas X3". And I thought Nintendo let this game just sell by itself without any advertisements or promotions guess Im wrong. I think they will do this too on Disaster

I know.  I have trouble naming good 3rd party publishers for the Wii as well.  If I could I wouldn't be waiting on Nintendo for most all the really interesting titles.

I have to admit that the Nintendo fanboys reaction was kinda annoying after E3.

I much rather be surprised to learn that Kid Icarus or a new Zelda releases in 3 months than years in advance like Twilight Princess.

well, if that's the case, then I retract my statement

@Godot: Haha, i think you nailed it. If Nintendo would announce they have a game coming years in advance, people would complain the same way when Nintendo wouldn't announce the release date and call it vaporware. Too bad we don't have a single example to prove i'm right.

Nice... but I guess you knew I wasn't talking about the Wii only.

With the huge budgets of PS360 games it's taking 2-3 years just to bring out a new game, never mind enough that everyone will like at least 1 game every 5 months.

Regarding Nintendo: I have bought and enjoyed 8 of their games in less than 2 years, and if I had the money I could have bought and enjoyed at least 8 more. 16 games in 2 years is perfectly fine for most people, so either you enjoy fewer genres of games than me or you stop playing games after you had them a month for some reason... and therefore any sizable gap in games you want results in no playtime at all. I meanwhile am still playing Mario Kart and Battalion Wars 2 (both bought in April).

Regarding third parties: I probably could name 16 games I want from the past 2 years of third parties too, admitedly the fact that a number of third parties can't grab my interest much more than Nintendo alone does prove they haven't been great for the Wii, but there are still some excellent games out there.

I'm glad you have such broad and diverse tastes and it's also nice that you're still enjoying games that came out last October and April.

If you're fine with waiting 6 months to a year for games then more power to you.  I'm not and I'm not into buying bad games and convincing myself they're good because there's nothing else to buy either.  >_<