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Activision Eric Hirshberg: Nothing formal for Wii U/Skylanders Giants Confirmed
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Cosmonaut X
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Black Ops 2 was supposed to be in development, wasn't it? There seem to be a lot of games missing from the currently-announced lineup that we know/suspect are in development, so why are they not being announced?
Gamer @ Heart
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Separate event maybe?
Pretty much. Even major "well-duh" PS360 games that could be ported for this fall are question marks. What the hell?
Don't they always have another show planned. That is how they have handled the DS for the past 3 years or so. They started doing it with the Wii as well near the end.
Yes. And FIFA was confirmed on Eurogamer I think.
Cosmonaut X
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But - as I asked with the Vita at other events - why not announce these games now? You can see the effect the announcement today have had. Good as some were, there are gaping holes and stuff like Black Ops 2 - if it is indeed coming - should have been mentioned.
This is very odd.
Maybe Microsoft is the problem. It was shown at their conference and maybe they have an exclusive on it as long as E3 is taking place.
That very well could be.
Shalashaska161
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That might also explain why Sony didn't show off Blops for Vita. Either way you'd think if it was coming Nintendo could of at least bothered to mention it.
But published by Nintendo - pretty damning that Acti won't even take a punt on that.
They'd definitely be allowed mention it, put it on lists etc. Dunno what's going on there. Maybe it's being planned for later or is pending agreements with Nintendo.
Gamer @ Heart
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I dont get this. Did Nintendo ask people not to announce anything that isnt playable or something?
Not really , I mean over the past few years E3 is not as important as it once was. There were even articles this year about publishers wanting to pull out.
With the internet the way is and social media, you can pretty much have an E3 at any given time if you invite the press.
The core gamers who are the only ones emotionally invested in E3 will come to any summit and intensely watch any trailer. So just like we learned in 2008 and Nintendo and MS reemphasized this week E3 apparently is just for getting some general info out for those who might not follow the game world on a 24/7 basis.
After seeing this conference I would expect there will be a Wii U event or conference same as they have done with the DS to make any big reveals
I imagine they'll have an event around September to talk about Launch and Launch window details. I doubt they'd wait to announce launch games until then though, it'll be at E3 still or not at all I think.
brochiller
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Why no comment.
Surely they know by now whether they're making it for it or not.
Surely they know by now whether they're making it for it or not.
Treyarch was supposedly showing it to local press a month or so ago. Not sure what happened there.
It's probably co-published like Lego City with WB.
Cosmonaut X
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Well, here's the thing. There are a lot of people missing who provided the Wii with decent support - even past its prime - who are absent. It's the big question coming out of E3 for me: what the hell happened?
They've said for a while that they had other events planned soon. I think we didn't know the launch lineup and price of the 3DS until two months from launch in NA.
LegendofJoe
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The industry in general wants the market to be two consoles only. As long as that is the case and Sony/MS are still kicking it Nintendo will always get the shaft. The big pubs simply do not want three consoles on the market and Nintendo is the odd man out.
maquiladora
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Because if they are not making it, and he says that they are not making it, then the question is why aren't you doing it etc. & it puts the Wii U in a negative light.
What I'm hoping though is perhaps they are waiting until tonight to say something. They are suppose to be going over the Miiverse. Nintendo's online system has likely I'm sure to be integrated into that on a deep. They are going to show off how it works with NSMBU I think as well. So if they talk about it at E3 it might be there. At least I hope it is.
Should be interesting to find out who is in that room.
Should be interesting to find out who is in that room.
LegendofJoe
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They did it to Sega before, what's so shocking about it?
Shalashaska161
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Sega wasn't coming off one of the fastest selling consoles of all time for one.
I think it had to do with them trying to cover all fronts. In doing so, they've lightly padded some and abandoned others. Unless Nintendo had a three/four hour event, I think they were going to embarrass themselves with something.
I do think this was poor, though. They lost me after NSMBU and I never came back. That was the second thing they showed.
walking fiend
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somethings REALLY fishy about this;
I get no BOps, but thinking that EA won't be there without 'any' of their sports game is like smoking weed.
I think there's something major preventing both Activision and EA to announce the games [or make them to begin with]
I get no BOps, but thinking that EA won't be there without 'any' of their sports game is like smoking weed.
I think there's something major preventing both Activision and EA to announce the games [or make them to begin with]
what codemaster?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Codemasters barely exists anymore. I guess you can be disappointed that there's no Turd Showdown port?
Yep, even if they don't have time and wanted to just show Nintendoland for some reason, they could have at least flashed a slide up of the EA games and Activision games coming down the pipe.
But this is a new console reveal, they always try to assure people it'll be heavily supported by third parties even if there's nothing to actually show yet. That's why these E3 conferences always have huge screens showing 50 developer logos and whatnot.
Cosmonaut X
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Yup.
I think the hope has to be that they are planning on staggering announcements over the rest of the show or in the weeks and months ahead. It's that or they are going to be launching a console with less support than the Wii, which came off the back of the GameCube when the whole industry was basically looking at Nintendo as a distant third to Sony/MS, and I find that hard to believe.
bigtroyjon
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Peter Moore flat out said there wouldn't be EA Sports stuff at the launch window. The only thing preventing them is probably that they don't think diverting resources to get WiiU stuff out early is worth it.
It's an optimist's view, but Reggie has harped on building momentum for a year now. They might have some grand plan of announcing games over the coming months to build interest up to launch.
Cosmonaut X
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LegendofJoe
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The situations aren't at all similar, there's no doubt about that. But there is precedent for EA dropping all support for a console that's all I was saying.
This is what I think is going on if EA and Activision's support for the WiiU is really this lackluster, especially after the emphasis Nintendo put on EA's support at last year's E3. MS or Sony have paid them to pull support.
EA will put their games on ANYTHING.
The fact that they don't have a Madden or Fifa coming out near launch blows my mind.
walking fiend
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he did? really, when?
that's 'really' disappointing; considering all the stuff they did for Kinect voice command support.
we are in a really fucked up industry if not only you can pay to 'get' support, but to 'pull it off' from competition; I mean, it's a multiplat game already, then the fuk?
bigtroyjon
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he did? really, when?
that's 'really' disappointing; considering all the stuff they did for Kinect voice command support.
When Geoff interviewed him earlier today.
My guess: They don't want to divert resources from the major PS3/360 BLOPS sellers. So they'll work on the Wii U version once those games are out and release it sometime next year. At the same time, they don't want to announce the Wii U version because it might take away from sales this holiday.
It's just better to deny it exists at all at this point. If it does exist I guess.
Well when you put it like that... :-(
walking fiend
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Not really, that doesn't say anything; it actually makes it more complicated lol
why would it matter to them on which console their game sell?
Cosmonaut X
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Except - as noted elsewhere - Treyarch were supposedly showing the game off to press recently.