The Last Story, Metroid, Zelda, Soul Silver...

I will be happy with Ninty this year.

You are not alone ^~

My point on the whole "leading" thing was them more acting *like* an industry leader. The Nintendo i'm seeing right now is the Nintendo i saw back in 2006, the Nintendo that was trying a little bit of everything in all segments of the market, making strange new stuff and awesome old stuff, and not so much the less energetic Nintendo that we've seen in the past few years

Not that i bought into all the "Nintendo is lazy" drive, just that there was a definite change in message from what they were making in 06, to what they were making in 08, to what they are making now again. The Nintendo that conquered the industry is back, instead of that lethargic 08-09 Nintendo that kinda reminded me of them in the late GameCube period, seemingly running on fumes and not really interested in wowing people.

I suppose this could just be a larger cycle of theirs, that Awesome Nintendo and Lazy Nintendo kinda move cyclically.

How about Dragon Quest X carl?

I agree, Nintendo never went anywhere. People just thought they weren't doing anything because they didn't see a new Zelda/Mario/Pikmin/Star Fox game for 6 months.

Frankly, as much as I'm all for them trying to encourage third parties to work on the Wii/DS, it also scares me as this is what made the GC fail. Focusing all their attention on pampering third parties and trying to ween them to their side, but ultimately they never cared and left Nintendo high and dry. All the while, Nintendo's internal projects like Star Fox/F-Zero/Pokemon/etc suffered. It doesn't seem like this is happening on the Wii, and 2010 seems to be quite the opposite with a monster line-up from Nintendo itself, but hopefully this won't be the scenario for 2011, 2012, etc.

Hopefully Xenoblade and The Last Story turn out good (and Nintendo actually funds their marketing) to a point that they help the third party perception on Wii.

Dragon Quest X is going to release 2012 at the earliest.

Nintendo never left...

Not really a fan of the series. Plus, i wouldn't be able to buy it this year either

I very well doudt DQX will come out this year.

It can happens Nintendo will need every single big title they can pull out this year, cuz you know ARC and Natal will come out ...

I meant it will do good to wii when it does come out :D  but I'm sure there will be more details of DQ X at E3 but will be released in 2011.