Nah, it's that they didn'tg et their shit together and release it on the Wii as otherwise the Wii U lineup would've been even more barren than it is now.
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Nintendo's VGX reveal is fucking Cranky Kong!!!
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Nah, it's that they didn'tg et their shit together and release it on the Wii as otherwise the Wii U lineup would've been even more barren than it is now.
Air Zombie Meat
Member
And this is why I go nowhere near hundred page speculation threads.
X? Wonderful 101?
Smart man.
Chopper Dave
Member
What you're saying is they are showing a previously announced WiiU game at an event? You know what that must mean!? Something completely different than what was implicitly stated! yay! Time to set those expectations well beyond anything involving Mario Kart
fredrancour
Member
Smash, technically, which will sell better to the VGX target audience than DKC.
The unrealistic part was expecting nintendo to care about that.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
You answered your question in your sentence. We've already had 2 Mario platforming games on Wii U. We're getting Yarn Yoshi in 2014 as well. You know what the Wii U doesn't need? Another character platformer.
My post was about other people with those expectations for Retro ._.
I'm sure HAL is already working on a new Kirby game.
timetokill
Banned
Cranky Kong is awesome. Just look at that twitter dominance!!
Nightstick11
Banned
Uh, what? Nintendo makes and releases things that have no chance of selling a lot all the time. Have been doing it since the NES.
It's this new supersafe superscaredycAt Nintendo I don't like.
Pushmo? The Wonderful 101?
There are several levels of disappointment here:
Level 1: The people who legitimately thought that something like Zelda will be revealed.
Level 2: The people who thought that "upcoming title" meant Kart, Smash, or X were fair game.
Level 3: The people who realized that DK was going to be the game and are disappointed that they pegged Nintendo from the start.
Extra Sauce
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I know you're kidding but I got server maintenance messages earlier.
they don't count. Pushmo, harmo knight and dillion don't count eiher of course.
it's more accurate to say some people will buy a $300 console for metroid and more people will buy a $300 console for donkey kong.
first, metroid isn't much of a system-seller. the closest it ever got was november 2002 when it received the most critical acclaim of any game that generation and still wound up being outsold by xbox and splinter cell. second, nintendo's been desperately trying to make their console the place for families since around august. donkey kong plays into that, especially when the system already comes with two mario games.
they might not be buying a game for donkey kong, but they'll buy one for donkey kong and mario and lego and scribblenauts.
SporeCrawler
Member
yes. its just that no one cares. for example how high was the gaf hype for calciobit?
nckillthegrimace
Member
You fool. You can't answer rhetorical questions!
I'm Level 2 with Smash.
vagabondarts
Member
I can't wait for this game to come out and be an absolute joy to play. It will make reading these threads later truly glorious.
Also Reggie trolled you guys big time
Also Reggie trolled you guys big time
I don't want HAL making DK though. Retro's proven they understand how a Donkey Kong game should work. I don't want something like Jungle Beat again, even if it was a good platformer, it just wasn't Donkey Kong Country.
Besides, HAL has to do Kirby.
Welp, the Crankyton was dropped as expected everyone! Let's keep the train going!
But for those of you who didn't catch on, most people in this thread pegged Nintendo's unveil the second the DKCTF leak happened and we were jokingly making a party out of it. I have no doubt Tropical Freeze will be an amazing game for the Wii U owners in for a treat though!
But for those of you who didn't catch on, most people in this thread pegged Nintendo's unveil the second the DKCTF leak happened and we were jokingly making a party out of it. I have no doubt Tropical Freeze will be an amazing game for the Wii U owners in for a treat though!
Nintendo released Wonderful 101 and Pikmin 3 this year, both are far from games with a huge sales potential. One of their studios is developing a large-scale RPG with limited chances on the market. They are funding the development of Bayonetta 2, a game whose predecessor sold badly enough that the original publisher cancelled the development of the sequel.
It's rather easy to call a company safe, when you just ignore all of the risks they take.
I was surprised they even bothered to show up. I guess common sense isn't the majority.
Kacho
Member
hahahaha that's awesome
Game continues to impress and Cranky looks like fun to play. I'm excited.
SporeCrawler
Member
strange metroid prime games were sales flops and dkcr was a multi million seller.
The problem isn't so much that Nintendo is waiting to reveal something like ED2 or Metroid [or insert hardcore game that isn't one of Nintendo's biannual staples] until Nintendo Direct or E3, but that they're probably not making them at all.
Don't forget about Sing Party either! That was a retail release with some marketing at least.
I wonder why other first parties bring out some more ambitious original IPs and all that Nintendo has in stores for Wii U is Wonderful 101. And X.
Has Nintendo ever announced something mindblowingly amazing at one of these generic gaming media events that isn't E3?
People just hyped themselves up to be disappointed. Game looks great, can't wait to hear the music on the bramble level.
Continuing to complain about the lack of Metroid is stale at this point, we know this is the game coming from Retro. As much as I want a new Metroid the series simply doesn't sell very well and anyone thinking the typical "VGX audience member" would care are kidding themselves.
People just hyped themselves up to be disappointed. Game looks great, can't wait to hear the music on the bramble level.
Continuing to complain about the lack of Metroid is stale at this point, we know this is the game coming from Retro. As much as I want a new Metroid the series simply doesn't sell very well and anyone thinking the typical "VGX audience member" would care are kidding themselves.
PixyJunket
Member
Off the top of my head? And from just the last couple of years?
Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, Pandora's Tower, Zangeki no Reginleiv.
Pushmo, Freakyforms, Dillon's Rolling Western, Sakura Samurai, Kersploosh, Bone Thugs and Harmonight, Fluidity.
X, The Wonderful 101.
Was it?
Outtrigger888
Member
Reggie knew of the Amazon cover leak showing Cranky Kong days before this aired. Do you guys think that Metroid pin was added as a small tease, since Reggie expected the backlash?
Don't do this to yourself.
Except they never hyped it.
Why is this lost in all the madness?
Nintendo only tweeted about it an hour before it started and specificly said that it was a previously announced game. The only hype came from you guys.
It isn't like this e3 and they went "YO WE GOT ALL DAT NEW SHIT SON GONNA BE HYPPE".
You only have ourselves to blame
Ninja Scooter
Member
No I just think Reggie lives in a bubble where this is huge news.
ShironRedshift
Member
It was hardly hyped up though. The vast majority of the hype came from the Internet itself.
And it's not like any of the other announcements are hype-worthy stuff either. Nothing that's being announced at the VGX is really a super big-deal. But people get upset at Nintendo for treating the VGX like everyone else are and just using it to try and build up interest for their next upcoming game (since it, being the closest to release, would be the thing that would need any amount of hype and attention it can get right now).
I'm just not getting why people are so upset or bothered by this. Nintendo's treating the VGX like everyone else is, yet they're being treated like they just committed some unforgivable sin. I just... don't really get it.
Green Mamba
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So, I missed it--is there any video link? What's Cranky play like? Is he a partner character like Diddy and Dixie or what?
StreetsAhead
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Pushmo and Dillion got sequels so it's just Nintendo doing something with existing characters now. Of course.