It could just be traditional Nintendo secretiveness, but i don't think we've seen enough on Spirit Tracks to really know if it's actually going to release when it's supposed to (i.e., sometime before the end of this year). I mean, they still claim Spirit Tracks as a working title, something that certainly shouldn't be for a game who's release is supposed to be two months away at maximum.

Of course, NSMBWii has been getting similar treatment, they haven't revealed anything new since E3 (i remember hearing that the PAX demo was nothing new, either), but it just seems like Nintendo is at least trying to hype NSMBWii, while they barely give Spirit Tracks a passing mention when they talk about their holiday lineup, that coupled with the fact that they still claim that the name itself is a working title, and the utter silence we've been getting about it, sans the media at E3, makes me wonder if it's just not in the cards for them at this point.

What do you all think?

Well...they did have the nerve to Annouce Captain Rainbow 3 weeks before release....

they are waiting for the M&L 3 hype to die down before they start hyping another of their DS games

I severely doubt it.

Perhaps, I have already accepted that it is inevitable. So I shall not be dissapointed and if it is not delyaed then I can be happy. Being a pessimist is a win-win situation.

Nintendo doesn't hype their games anymore. After The release of SSBB, there hasn't been any game which received much media attention.

I don't know why they do this, but in the case of smaller titles they have all bombed in Japan. Maybe it's time for them to care a little about their games as well.

I think Nintendo only plans to hype the " Everybody can play games" like NSMBW(aimed at a broader appeal)...they will rely on internet hype and word of mouth for Core games

This. Why advertise to an audience that is already fully informed by the internet?

@Soleron: Then they get terrible results.

Examples:

Disaster: DoC (Bombed in Japan and Europe, and didn't get released in the USA allegedly because of the poor sales in the other regions)

Takt of Magic (Bombed in Japan, isn't even planned for a release outside)

Trace Memory R (Bombed in Japan and Europe, isn't planned for a release in the USA)

Excitebots (Bombed in the USA and isn't planned for a release outside. Australian retailers said they don't think the game is worth occupying shelf space)

Punch Out (Bombed in Japan and Europe, did decent in the USA. Only 1 Australian retailer showed interest in selling the game)

Metroid Prime Trilogy (Bombed in Europe and in the USA it's beeing severely overtracked. Sold less than 50k according to NPD (because it's outside the top 20 and the 20th game sold about 50k))

Captain Rainbow (Bombed badly in Japan, not planned for a release outside)

Fatal Frame 4 (Although it sold on par with the previous entrances in Japan, the game barely had any ads. Not planned for a release in Europe or the USA)


There could be more cases.

that is just sad, no wonder nintendo reaches for the casual audience now.