"freakgamer" is cruising for a banning. I'm a bit surprised that he hasn't been banned already, he's violating the ToS quite severely, almost 40 times as of this post.

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I'm sure I was just one of many that reported him. Glad those pics are gone now.

I agree with this post, and consider the following two facts about Nintendo:

(1) They have a penchant for delaying games.  As Shiggy said, "a delayed game is eventually good."  They often delay games upwards of a year.  Internally, that could be even more.

(2) They haven't been announcing games as early lately. 

Couple those two with the fact that high end game development typically takes 18-36 months per game.  Nintendo would have planned out 2007/2008 releases by early 2007.  If some of those 2008 releases were delayed, Nintendo would have known it before the start of 2008.

That could explain why they delayed Mario Kart and Smash even though both games were rumored to have been complete.  They needed to fill in the 2008 gap.

If games aren't going to be ready for 2008, there's nothing Nintendo could do about it.  You can't just throw a high end game together in less than 12 months in a typical case.

There may be extra releases in 2009 because of delays from 2008, or there may be more games released in 2010.  Look at Sony's history with delays this generation: it has been far more public because Sony has used future games to sell consoles now (it's an odd concept, but it works with fanboys).  Almost all of their major games have been significantly delayed.  Nintendo has most likely ran into the same thing.

What pics were they?

A penis lol.

 that is quite hypocritical

then what is gears 2? Uncharted 2? Resistance 2? Mass Effect 2? Many of the big games HD gamers are hyped over are sequels to games already on the console, of course RE5, and FF13 will be the first, but Nintendo still could have a AAA Donkey Game up their sleave that could sell more that both versions of RE combined. Not to mention Starfox, Pimin, and Kid Ic.

I suspect we will see another Mario (almost certain), Zelda (certain), and Metriod (not prime, and defitily not for 2-3 years)

Obviously it's because Nintendo hates money.

if you call releasing most of the top ninty franchises in a short amount of time holding back then i shudder to think what all guns blazing is. maybe it seems like they are holding back because the ps3 n 360 are so "hardcore"

I sincerely hope they're holding back for a big year in 2009. Still, though, I think the main reason they were lax the latter half of this year was because they believed 3rd party companies would fill the void, which they generally failed to do.