For all the manlove I pile on Reggie, he sure can be a slippery snake sometimes, no? Take these Metroid/Super Mario Galaxy delay rumors. What’s going on there? Are they going to show up in 2007 as he promised? One would think they’d have to, given how closely the success of a Nintendo platform is tied to first party titles.
But Google tells us otherwise. “Nintendo droughts” are real phenomena, and represent the vast swaths of nothingness between 1rst party launch titles on Nintendo systems. For Nintendo, a least, quality and quantity do not yet go hand in hand.
The delay rumors for Metroid and Mario Galaxy come from CVG, who, if you will remember, said they had a scoop of a Japanese Nintendo press conference this fall that turned out to be replayed footage of last year. That, in my book, places any “exclusive news” they report in the dubious column at best.
Reggie told N’Gai Croal of Newsweek in October to “read his lips” that Metroid was due out in “early 2007” and Galaxy sometime after that. Reassuring, I suppose, but you all remember what happened to the last guy who asked us to read his lips, right?
If one or both titles poopsky’s the bed for 2007, what do you think is capable of carrying the load?
I'll still be playing Twilight Princess for the next two years, so I'm all set. A full month of owning my Wii and I just started the 2nd dungeon.
Just finished the 2nd. I can see you point.
I think a drought may go a long way in helping 3rd party developers have some free space from Nintendo games. I mean, if Nintendo pumped out games like crazy, no one would ever buy 3rd party games. I bet you that's why Nintendo has been pretty slow when releasing Nintendo games on VC. They probably enticed 3rd party developers to jump on board by saying you will have a buffer zone for your games, and not get slammed by the likes of Super Metroid. So a drought, coupled with the high demand for the Wii in the 3rd party development area, is actually a good thing in my book. Hey, if it worked for Sony and Microsoft, it can work for Nintendo.
I will believe it when i see it… I am sorry Reggie but history i believe (drought is a coming) till Nintendo takes the bull by the horn and BRING it next yr. This is the first time in history that an under powered system has a great chance to make a killing.
I totally agree with David: I'll be getting Zelda TP this Holiday season, and that's pretty much what I'll be playing on Wii for all of 2007, given my gaming habits.I also agree with cronotrigger913: A Wii game drought can be good thing. Think of all the ultra-long DS games that have come out recently and will come out next year!"…and Galaxy some time after that"? That could be one year after that, you know!
Yea, great for you, but what about everyone else? I've been long done with TP, and even if i still played it, it wouldn't and shouldn't hold my interest by itself for that many months. If Nintendo isn't putting software out that makes every type of person want to buy at least a game a month (or once every 2 months), there's a problem of GameCube proportions.Then again, this is talking about franchise titles, which is not exactly the kind of software i have in mind (i'm thinkin the "Wii Generations" type of stuff, just plain new types of games). Or maybe this is news because nobody really expects (or wants) anything on Wii but Nintendo games. But any drought is never a good thing. If you can't wait to buy a game that comes out while you're playing another then you need to acquire some self control, but the rest of Wii owners won't suffer because a select few are still playing a launch game.
I'd understand if they'd pull Mario Galaxy out until late 2007, it looked quite incomplete and why release a game in september while you can hype it up for the holidays?But I surely wouldn't think they have the audacity to lift Metroid Prime 3, a game as good as finished, over for another 10 months! Still, a drought can also be 20 games spread over 2 months and they all suck balls. And let's face it, those are 90% of the multiplatform crap games. As far as I can see in Europe, from january till march see the releases of at least 7 games I want. With VC that's more than enough for me.