Mihael Mello Keehl
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3DS has been since 2011 its 2013 and now gaining steam. I could understand your views because I am a bit puzzled by Nintendos motives lately too but everything takes time.
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Nintendo 3DS Direct 2013.2.21 - 8 pm Japan Time (11 am GMT, 6 am EST)
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That would be E3 2004 level of emotion and it would be awesome.
Personally, as with every ND since, I'm hoping for another betralytonne/megatonne like Bayonetta 2
illmatic22
Banned
Good point
They will probably have a new trailer for SMT4, announce the release date, and show the limited edition 3DS. They'll probably also have the new trailer for the 6th Layton game, which went online earlier.
MoogleWizard
Member
Great to see so much 3DS support. But I want to see some WiiU love, it feels so neglected, the poor thing.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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They're most definitely not leaving the Wii U to die. Most of their internal studios have shifted over to the Wii U, meanwhile 3DS titles seem to be handled by collaborative studios and subsidiaries.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon - Next Level Games + Nintendo
Smash Bros. 3DS - Namco Bandai + Nintendo
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate - Mercury Steam + Konami
Ace Attorney 5 - Capcom
Pokemon X and Y - GameFreak + Nintendo
Monster Hunter 4 - Capcom
Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins - Travelller's Tales + Nintendo
Donkey Kong Country 3DS - Retro? Port, anyway
Shin Megami Tensei 4 - Atlus
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team - AlphaDream + Nintendo
Mario Golf 3DS - Camelot + Nintendo
Nintendo's major internal branches are busy with Mario Kart Wii U, Super Mario Wii U, Monolith with X, Retro with who-knows-what-else, and the Zelda team with Zelda Wii U (and maybe the Wind Waker port).
When it comes to third parties, I think Nintendo's in the unfortunate position of just having to deal with the situation they've got. They're a limited company with finite resources. If third parties stop giving a shit, even if it's Nintendo's fault, Nintendo can't wave a wand and solve everything. They can only make X amount of games at any one time, and have Y amount of partnerships (see: The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2).
With the 3DS, the line-up looks good because it's doing well in Japan. Developers are interested it in now, so Nintendo doesn't really have to do anything. They'll make games as it is (arguably) the portable system of choice.
But I also think it's worth remembering that the 3DS is doing really well in Japan only. Sales are still fairly lukewarm in both the US and Europe and outside of a few spikes due to major titles I don't see them getting much better. Japan might love the 3DS, but the rest of the world doesn't.
That SMT IV boxart...
They have a trump card in the VC: if Nintendo lets publishers manage their release schedules and their own price policies, we could see great games from the past being available in DL form for cheap and in revamped form. I think that's one way to attract the customer. Also, they should ask more from major 3rd parties when it comes to ad hoc multi and online multi (see FIFA, CoD or Madden for example).
They're definitely hurrying to catch up in terms of HD development; they have the 3DS lineup for this year secure worldwide, and they're probably going to be releasing one or two of their most important franchises (Mario Kart, 3D Mario, Retro is what's feasible) while trying to maintain Nintendo quality.
I think they might also have a couple 3DS games for this year that are pretty big yet unknown. For one, we don't know what HAL is doing; they're probably working on a Kirby game for something (or both systems), and that fabled Zelda 3DS needs to come out (it would work really well as a title to go along with the Animal Crossing/Pokemon X and Y boost this holiday). Grezzo might have been given the chance to make an original game, and we haven't heard anything from them since OoT 3D.
To be fair they had a very strong Wii U direct only 4 weeks ago. The poor sales and negativity surrounding them..plus the PS4 reveal hype... just seemed to make everyone forget about that.
We need a third party Wii U direct to announce GTA 5 port or something.
Has DQ really become so unimportant that they'll reveal the next main entry in some random pre-recorded video?
Eh? These are far from random. Some of the biggest announcements for Nintendo these past 2 years have been on directs (see Megaten IV, all the Wii U games, Bayonetta 2)
It's only been a month since they had their Wii U Nintendo Direct. Give it some time before conjuring such a thought.
SMTIV wasn't revealed in Nintendo Direct, it was in Famitsu first. And that being said all the games you're talking about will not be muti-million selling games.
Samurai_Heart
Member
Wait this was real? 
Awesome anyway, hopefully these game also have the chance to leave Japan XD
Awesome anyway, hopefully these game also have the chance to leave Japan XDOn the contrary, the popularity of DQ only seems to keep getting higher. Nintendo did reveal a new Pokemon installment on one of these things, you know. But I seriously doubt it, Squeenix usually likes to build a lot of hype before a DQ announcement. But if it was DQXI, I would laugh my ass off at the timing of this. It would be such a mean move by Nintendo/Squeenix.
Or Dragon Quest X 3D with Wii U transfarring.
Glass Rebel
Member
A new mainline DQ entry won't happen today.... It's bound to come to 3DS though with SpotPass and all that jazz.
38min to go.
38min to go.
Maybe you don't know how DQ works in Japan, but when a new numbered DQ game gets announced, its a huge media event with a proper press conference hosted by Square Enix. It's not going to be something given to a platform holder just for their promotion stuff.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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I seem to have forgotten to go to bed.
I'm American though.
Fuck it, might as well check this one out anyway.
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I'm American though.
Fuck it, might as well check this one out anyway.
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Mariokart Wii U won't sell a 2 million copies?
You mean the game that Iwata said they won't show until they're at a major press conference?
FearMyWrench
Member
Can someone check NicoNico to see if they've updated with the event's length? Thanks
Ustream says it's 33 minutes long.
Good. No Nintendo + 33 minutes = good things can come out.
The one they announced during a Nintendo Direct.
That's a good sign
Glass Rebel
Member
33 minutes of Iwata playing Bravely Default while us non-Japanese people have to suffer.
I can get behind this.
lordfroakie
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Doczu
Member
Maybe they'll do a proper sequel to Trigger (no disrespect for Cross!)?
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
33 minuets of DQX online 3DS gameplay.
I will be wrong dont worry guys
I will be wrong dont worry guys
The one they announced that they're going to show. It's merely an announcement of an announcement.
- New Taiko no Tatsujin
- New Kanji Training with 3D effect
- DL games
- CastleVania
- a Tales game maybe
- how third party want to make use of the Nintendo App for iOS and Android
- Monolith Game, hum ?
Fixed. At least I hope.