Nintendo: Core Games in Development… for 2009

Thank you for being the only site to recognise “not early 2009″ can mean “late 2009″ instead of “2010 and 2011″ like most other places stated with assurance. Why is it considered so cool to be bashing Nintendo these days? Are people that threatened by success? Nintendo can’t do any step in any direction without being attacked by everyone, media, gamers, and whatever.

Nintendo should just stop trying to please bitching idiots like that, shut up and move on with their plans without telling us, gamers don’t need to be told, they see the results just fine. I knew new core franschise games wouldn’t appear so soon since they appeared in the Wii’s early life and they take a long time to make. With them stating Zelda will be an all new title and not another Ocarina of Time style game like all the 3D zeldas have been so far, it is natural it will take a long time to get right with Nintendo’s dedication to quality.

They’re the Blizzard of consoles and I love them for it. Quality over quantity please (as far as core games are concerned, for casual you can have both), I prefer this over seeing a Twilight Princess 1.5 instead of a brand new sequel.

Well, yes, you’re wrong. And why would anyone think they have a 1:1 controller? That’s their fault for getting overhyped and on top of that overhyped for features never advertised. Nice going, casuals.

Back to the subject at hand, this is the response I’ve posted on most sites I visit, including Kotaku, since they all share the same senseless bitching:

They basically state you can expect such games in late 2009. Since, that’s what they state when they say they aren’t ready for early 2009. So, where does the 2010 and 2011 bit people have been sprouting out come from? They say games take 2-3 years total development time, not that they will take 3 more starting today, learn to read. Either way, this isn’t bad considering all the core games Nintendo have already delivered already, early in the Wii’s life. But people like forgetting even THIS YEAR’s first half because it’s “in the past” and say Nintendo abandon core gamers even though they’ve provided great service to them.

Who really expected a new Zelda or Galaxy caliber game before then anyway? Do you want a Twilight Princess expansion or the redefinition of the series we’ve been promised? That will take a long time with Nintendo’s dedication to quality and I’m sure people wouldn’t have it any other way. They’re the Blizzard of consoles in regards to that. Now they have an outlet to provide smaller casual games inbetween their big titles it’s a bad thing?! How many Zeldas did you see on the N64? 1.5. But people didn’t talk about abandonment then.

In the mean time, there are many third party core games to look forward to and more and more get announced all the time, the latest of which being Arc Rise Fantasia, Kizuno, House of the Dead and Cursed Mountain, all looking great from the media shown so far. Of course, reading sites who only cover the Wii just to “cover everything” instead of having people who would actually play it themselves, you wouldn’t know much about any of these. Sad, but whatever, google them.

As for games that are closer than Nintendo’s for release, there’s titles like De Blob, PES 09, Tales of Symphonia 2, Mad World, The Conduit, COD5, Force Unleashed, House of the Dead: Overkill, Fragile, Sky Crawlers, Castlevania Judgement, Little King Story, Deadly Creatures, Wario Land, Tenchu IV, Animales de la Muerte, Space Invaders Get Even, Megaman 9 and many many many more, most of them exclusives or at least with very unique Wii versions.

But hey, I guess people who say their Wii is gathering dust just don’t clean their homes much, and they don’t buy any games which makes me wonder why they own consoles.

As for the people who don’t want more Zelda, Mario, Metroid, F-Zero, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, etc, well, If you don’t want Nintendo’s franschises why would you buy a Wii? There are also third party games, but when people complain that Nintendo forsakes the core gamer, surely they mean they want Nintendo to keep making their games. They can’t “forsake” doing something they never did do after all.

Now they confirm such games are coming, people complain it’s not new games but it’s Nintendo games? What the heck, hah. People will always bitch I guess, just sell your Wii (if you even own one) and ignore all the related articles, you should have never bought it in the first place guys. Me, I love it and will keep doing so as long as great games keep coming either from Nintendo or third parties, so, for a long time yet.

Nintendo should just shut up, real gamers still buy their games and have been pleased with their core offerings so far and are looking forward to their future offerings which aren’t that far away (again, late 2009 is a year away, I certainly can wait far longer with the third party games I want inbetween) while everyone else will bitch and whine no matter what’s announced, shown or released.

Other than that, for not having trailers, eh, why overhype a game 1 or 2 years before release, just to take the thunder off their current titles? Nintendo spend all their marketing prowess for their casual games and that’s only natural, it doesn’t mean core games aren’t being developed and we have no reason to doubt them considering many of their usual studios weren’t the ones creating any of the casual titles, surely they aren’t on vacation. Was Sony’s showing of the God of War 3 CG sequence really all that assuring about the title’s quality? Or did people enjoy hearing about the PS3 killer app, Killzone 2, for several years, through several E3s? Where’s the excitement in seeing the same “upcoming” game @ every game show? Also, E3 is meaningless now. And again, why do people forget the third parties? New, great, promising franschises keep popping up for the Wii (refer to earlier paragraphs for examples). Sure, you can say you bought Nintendo console for Nintendo games, but, again, they’ve already offered many of their core franschises for the system. Why devalue their dedication to that, it’s the first system to have so many Nintendo core games so early in its life. Why ignore the last 6-12 months’ offerings just because there’s a 9, 12, or 18 month gap? Third parties fill in nicely.