It's ridiculous, really. Now anything might happen after launch window. Delays, droughts, franchises I'm not interested in, ...
I don't see the point of this strategy that's supposed to counter the 3DS problems. They held back finished games in favor of 3rd parties, wich was the mistake. But even after that, you at least knew that a good amount of proper productions are coming for certain in the near future.
For the WiiU however, there's barely any excitement or confidence for me because of this. The only thing that's for certain is that some of their teams might eventually release high budget games (which we've been waiting for since over a year...) at some unknown time in the future.
I'm already underwhelmed as a Nintendo fan, I find it ridiculous that they actually wanted to capture the XBox crowd with this whole situation, lol
Anything until now feels like a desperate attempt to bring the Wii Fit and Singstar crowd on board again, that might eventually try out that Assassines Creed and Batman game they maybe heard of...
1. Nintendo very well could tease at future releases on the 13th, as it is heavily rumoured that they had another game to show, perhaps Retro's at the end of E3, which was pulled at the last moment, which coincidentally would explain the awkward Nintendo Land fireworks in place of what seemed to be building up to a closing announcement of some sort.
2. Wii U is going to have a version of Black Ops 2, which should be at least par with the other versions at or very close to launch, which is much more appealing than the comparatively limited and ugly Wii versions, as well as quality versions of Assassins Creed, Fifa, and Madden, which are some of the highest selling games, and are must have for the "X-Box" crowd.
3. You may not like New Super Mario Bros, but it is one of Nintendo's absolute blockbuster system selling pieces of software, that IS a big gun, and it looks like lots of care has been put into it. Wii-Fit is also a huge hardware and software driver.
4. Pikmin is a huge franchise to core Nintendo fans, and should be of great quality given its development time.
5. Mario Kart and Mario 3Dland were announced, but took forever to come out, ditto to Paper Mario, which isn't even out yet. You keep saying "may be developed in the future", let me correct it a bit...-
A mainline Zelda title
WILL be released in the future for the console 100%
A 3d Mario Platformer
WILL be released in the future for the console 100%
A Mario Kart
WILL be released in the future for the console 100%
A Monolithsoft title
IS in development for the console
A Retro title
IS in development for the console
Nintendo IS and is currently going to throw it's development muscle behind the system
6. The system has a clear goal, which is as follows.
It has the appeal of core nintendo games, which guarantees a good amount of hardware sales as well as software.
It will get non-gimped versions of at least far more of the "big" 3rd party franchises than the Wii did, ie Asscreed/COD/Madden/Fifa/other 3rd party titles simply because the hardware is compatable, even if it doesn't get all of them there may well be many people who bought an X-Box for titles such as these, but also loves nintendo games and thus would be satisfied with the Wii-U as the primary system.
7. Compare the original Wii software at launch to Wii U
Call of Duty 3 (gimped compared to HD twins)
Elebits
Red Steel
Trauma Center
Wario Ware
Excite Truck
Wii Sports
vs.
Call of Duty Black Ops II (par with other versions)
Zombie U
Scribblenauts unlimited
New Super Mario Bros. U
Pikmin 3
Assassins Creed 3
Nintendo Land
P-100
Tekken Tag Tournament
And that isn't listing the superior port love the Wii-U is already getting, and discounting the fact that in all likelyhood there is still Japanese support being held back for a Japanese launch conference/ Nintendo Direct.
Wii fit crowd? Singstar crowd? Can you substantiate these claims? Sure Nintendo wants these people, so does sony and microsoft, but Nintendo's own software doesn't indicate this anymore than Microsofts support for Kinect, or Playstations own focus on singstar games.
Since when is a new HD 2D Mario platformer (one of nintendo's marquee games) and Pikmin (a long awaited sequel to a beloved core franchise) not giving love to Nintendo fans at launch?
I bet that they tease a few 2013 games at this conference, but even if they don't we know Nintendo stuff and Japanese stuff is coming, it isn't really a question, and the launch itself compares quite favorably to... well pretty much any console launch ever as far as software. The conference is in 3 days, seems like it would be best to save the doom and gloom until after that, at the very least.