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Nikkei : New Wii Fit this Fall and new Mario game this year.
- Thread starter Stormbringer
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AceBandage
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AniHawk said:
Except that a DSi game won't help Wii sales.
Cow Mengde said:
What? A year and a half isn't "just came out".
Developers do 2 year sequel cycles all the time. Gears of War, Call of Duty (the real ones) to name a couple. Both GoW2 and CoD4 were great sequels.
I'm hoping Nintendo finally realizes it's OKAY to do sequels. I want Galaxy 2. They can do a brand new type of Mario next gen.
Cow Mengde
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Yeah, that revealed turned out to be some kind of music CD...
There's still hope though since this year is the 20th anniversary of FE.
That's not how it works with Nintendo games.
AceBandage
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Cow Mengde said:
Isn't IS working on all those DSiWare games with Square?
Nightbringer
Don´t hit me for my bad english plase
My logic says to me this:
Which Nintendo core franchises are the ones that have sold milions and milions of copies in DS?
Some people will say to me that Animal Crossing isn´t a hardcore game but I am talking in Nintendo context where core market means their traditional market, the one that existed before DS and Wii were released. Animal Crossing appeared several years before NintendoDS.
Continuing with my logic we have seen tha Animal Crossing and Mario Kart has been ported to Wii with very succesful games:
The first time that Nintendo shown us Mario Kart Wii was in E3 2007, Animal Crossing appeared in E3 2008 and now E3 2009 is the time for the Super Mario Bros game. But it exist another reason under all this. It is Japan, a Super Mario Bros game in Japan is able to put the sales of the console to the top, they are more popular than the 3D ones.
Which Nintendo core franchises are the ones that have sold milions and milions of copies in DS?
Some people will say to me that Animal Crossing isn´t a hardcore game but I am talking in Nintendo context where core market means their traditional market, the one that existed before DS and Wii were released. Animal Crossing appeared several years before NintendoDS.
Continuing with my logic we have seen tha Animal Crossing and Mario Kart has been ported to Wii with very succesful games:
The first time that Nintendo shown us Mario Kart Wii was in E3 2007, Animal Crossing appeared in E3 2008 and now E3 2009 is the time for the Super Mario Bros game. But it exist another reason under all this. It is Japan, a Super Mario Bros game in Japan is able to put the sales of the console to the top, they are more popular than the 3D ones.
EmCeeGramr
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Be nice to loosus. You know very well he can't read.MoogPaul said:
Grampa Simpson
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What if it's two new platformers. One for the Wii and one for the DS. Heads will explode.
Grampa Simpson
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Not your head specifically. Can you imagine the chaos though? Two Mario platformers in one year? It would be like cats and dogs living together. Fire and brimstone from the sky. Real old testament stuff. The 500 errors might never end.AniHawk said:
EmCeeGramr
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Me too.AniHawk said:
rollingstart
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New Super Mario Bros 2 would kick ass and be the most trusismo
_Alkaline_
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A full-fledged retail 2D Mario on Wii would be orgasmic.
Cow Mengde
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_Alkaline_ said:
Fixed
Eteric Rice
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MoogPaul said:
Klonoa.
_Alkaline_
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MoogPaul said:
Sales-wise though all of them haven't exactly done too well, and the article suggests Nintendo want this Mario to bolster Wii sales.
The real question is can a 2D Mario on Wii perform to the same level, or even better, than Galaxy?
DeathbyVolcano
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Yeah, uh, how would a NSMB 2 help Wii sales? I'd love one but that's not what the article is saying. But who knows, maybe we get both 
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
Cow Mengde said:
Exactly.
The way Miyamoto works, there is a period of experimentation. And if the team isn't flowing creatively a lot of changes happen and progress is stopped, restarted, etc.
Basically if development is smooth we can get something every two years for as long as that remains constant, if not it will take longer. Unlike most companies Nintendo doesn't develop games in that technical manner with planning, building, debugging, etc. It's a very unpredictable process with them.
Don't assume anything with Nintendo, because they don't do it internally themselves. They don't know if they'll have created a franchise game at a certain time, if it's not working it will take longer to come to fruition.
ASSUME
ASS=U+ME
_Alkaline_ said:
If such a game basically did more to "remind people of what they loved about Mario/video gaming in the first place", not unlike what NSMB did on the DS? I could see it that way.
People will always have various opinions about 3D Mario, but I don't think you will find too much in the way of dissent when it comes to 2D Mario (beyond the notion of "which one you think is the best", but I'm not going there.
) Besides, I would think it would be right on time. Ninty know NSMB printed and continues to print money, and they have even other examples, like Mega Man 9, that all do more to prove that Ninty, and others who think along their line, were onto something after all.
Even if it was just another stylish remake/re-envisioning of something like Mario 3 or World, it would probably STILL sell like hotcakes, and we all know that.
Operations
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Another 3D platform Mario game for the Wii would break my predicting model, thus it must be for the DS.
EDIT: So it's confirmed for the Wii? Very unexpected.
EDIT: So it's confirmed for the Wii? Very unexpected.
Zoramon089
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Operations said:
Have people been ignoring the first post?! It was said to be a WII game from the very beginning! I still don't get all the talks of DS and DSi titles. It seems like some people are having their own personal irrelevant discussions within this thread
Flying_Phoenix
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Eteric Rice said:
Dragonball Wii.
Yeah Wii's bringing 2D back, even 2D graphics.
Aaron Strife
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I think people are just musing over the fact that a DS title would be less surprising than a Wii title.Zoramon089 said:
Really? The Mario Party games have never sold as well as the main platformers. Even Mario Party 8 (the best-selling game in the series) did about 5 million compared to Galaxy's 8 million.billy.sea said:
Stormbringer
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Zoramon089 said:
Wait, where did I say it was "confirmed" to be a Wii game ? I never said that because that's not what the article states.
However, we can speculate that it could be the case, on the basis that the the excerpt from the article on Nikkei Net mentioning Nintendo's strategy to provoke a surge in Wii sales could include both Wii Fit Plus and the new Mario game. But this remain speculation and interpretation on our part until any credible source shows up to tell us which platform this game is on.
eatyobeans
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AniHawk said:
DS has Zelda: Spirit Tracks and Pokemon Gold/Silver remakes, not to mention DQIX in Japan and M&L3 (which is apparently very good) still to be released in the west. No way would Nintendo release a new Zelda, Pokemon, AND Mario game within less than a year of each other. For us here in the US, I'm seeing M&L3 around September, Zelda around Christmas, and Pokemon remakes in the first half of next year. No new DS Mario anytime soon, and no indication that one is even being worked on.
Whatever this Mario game is, it's for Wii. Both based on the context of the article, release schedules, and the fact that Wii need software- so far, Nintendo has Wii Sports Resort and Metroid Prime trilogy on the schedule. S&P2 may not even see release stateside, and even if it does, they know it's a niche release. Nintendo needs something bigger.
SpokkX said:
Don't man, please just don't. This is Nintendo we are talking about. Please don't get my hopes up like that, do you know just how long its been since a 2D mario console game? Especially one that was AAA? I need to go in the press conference expecting Mario Recess mini games not an actual epic game now!
MikeE21286
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M&L RPG3?