Big announcement from Nintendo's Indie/eShop guy. Yes, this is still big
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Nintendo: Big Announcement on Monday
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TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
It's not on 3DS.
Mikey Jr.
Member
TwEE-N-Toast
Banned
Great news. Now just announce Tetris and I think the Wii U could really take off.
EatinOlives
Member
This was not a "big announcement". This was some thing mentioned on a podcast and revealed via Twitter. I continue to be baffled why people were seriously expecting a legitimate megaton through twitter on a random Monday in December.
daTRUballin
Member
Oh wow. Okay. So everybody was right. It's Minecraft ._.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Not everybody, some predicted they'd release a press statement going in-depth on the NX's specs.
GreatNumber
Unconfirmed Member
Because I personally love the idea of any part of any company coming out of the woodwork at random times saying a megaton or a large bomb. It never happens but I would love it if some dev that is working on Crackdown tweets Halo 5 is coming to PC, or a Community manager said that Uncharted 4 actually ran at 4k 60fps somehow. All of which being immediately backed up by hardcore facts and videos that were officially posted and the announcement that it is coming out tomorrow.
Again, in the end it never happens but it's fun to think it might.
what part of "We will not talk about NX until 2016" are people having a hard time grasping?
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
I lol'd hard.
Fiddled hard.
Fiddled hard.
Yup. When I saw it was Minecraft it actually surprised me. I predicted it, so I shouldn't have been, but my initial thought was "oh, so it actually was quite big news".
It's a good get for Nintendo, especially right before Christmas. There'll be a lot of activity on the eShop during the Holidays (the crashes previous years has proven that), so having Minecraft there for kids (and others) looking for stuff to buy it's a really good thing.
Microsoft is putting minecraft on anything that will take it. Shouldn't be a surprise really. The decision to buy it was large enough that it was done above the xbox brand. For microsoft, Minecraft is an investment in the mindshare of today's kids.
Yes, on japan aparently
Can't understand why people are so shocked....what exactly were you expecting?
It seems every time Nintendo have some sort of announcement people are shouting Mario Galaxy 3 or Metroid Prime 4!!!!
Guys, you're getting no big games for Wii U that hasn't already been announced. It's all NX now. You just have to play the waiting game for six months.
It seems every time Nintendo have some sort of announcement people are shouting Mario Galaxy 3 or Metroid Prime 4!!!!
Guys, you're getting no big games for Wii U that hasn't already been announced. It's all NX now. You just have to play the waiting game for six months.
DrunkShogun
Member
Makes complete sense. Anything that would be seen as a megaton would either be in a nintendo direct or have moderate build up. This announcement seems appropriate to the amount of build up they did.
bumpkin
Member
Except that even Nintendo's president has said they aren't abandoning the Wii U yet. And let's face it, Nintendo doesn't typically show something until it's substantially far into development. They don't do the half-baked drip-feed BS nearly as bad as some other devs.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Yeah yeah, that's just PR. Starfox, FExShin and Zelda U will be the last Wii U games, I'm 100% certain of that.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Oh man...
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Wait minecraft was the announcement?? Holy shit and to think I got snacks for a potential NX press conference full unveil.
I got two tattoos to commemorate the day of NX reveal along with a side of Metroid Dreadd.
Way to go nintendo...
If only Nintendo had plans for a Smash related broadcast in December
I'm voting for Trump
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Every platform owner says that about every platform and yet it's always the same story: there may not be numerically 0 titles for Wii U after the NX launches, but it will not be an ongoing piece of hardware. Use your insight here. NX launches, it does well, people are happy, they're buying software, whatever. And then what, 6 months later when there's a drought, like there will be, Nintendo releases something desireable on their old, failed system just to tell their new, happy customers they made the wrong decision and shouldn't have early adopted? Of course not.
Here's the platform transitions from the Iwata era onwards--
N64 titles released after the GameCube by Nintendo:
...
GameCube titles released after the Wii by Nintendo:
Twilight Princess (also released on Wii)
Wii titles released after the Wii U by Nintendo:
...
The counterexample in handhelds is that the GBA got a year of support after the DS. Here's why that's unlikely today. First, because software risks more now than it did then so it's more and more important not to kneecap it by releasing on old hardware. Second, because software now is written using middleware and thus far easier to port and less hardware-specific. Third, because the GBA was a success and the DS cratered at launch.
I really don't believe anyone can take seriously the idea that the Wii U will have major support post-NX launch.
Did you even read the OP? There has been chatter of a big announcement for the past couple of days.
Something legitimate was expected because that was the way it has been teased.
wow confirmed
Bonen no Max'd
Banned
But what about Thracia 776 coming out on the SNES in 1999!?
Yeah I don't expect any Wii U games after the NX comes out either, and would prefer Nintendo focus on not flubbing this.
MisterHero
Super Member
That's cool. Wasn't very interested in MC: Story Mode but I might try the game that inspired it
rokkerkory
Member
wow MS went 3rd party now 
good, more peeps get to play the awesome game
good, more peeps get to play the awesome game
So this afternoon I looked for the announcement found nothing. This evening I looked for something, again found nothing, but hey Minecrafts coming to the WiiU that's cool, wait that's not the announcement is it? It couldn't be Minecrafts on everything. Came here to confirm and yup it's Minecraft.
DAREALGUMMY
Member
No it hadn't.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
its easy to see why Nintendo doesn't like their employees going on podcasts...
More like this is why no industry employee likes to tease anything. Minecraft Wii U is big in its own right, but people expected NX or other crazy announcements to be made.
If it was for GAF, no employee would talk about anything...or show anything...or wear anything.
If they tease at something in a podcast? This thread.
Crash Bandicoot shirt? That thread.
Uncharted 4 Nadine debacle? Another thread.
Everything is blown out of proportion. And then they jump to some weird conclusions not only to overreact to things, but later to blame it on the companies...and justify their idiotic stance.
I know you're joking, but honestly I will consider the Wii U a failure if it's Nintendo's first system that fails to get an official Tetris game, and releasing a half-Tetris game only in one country doesn't count.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
Was I wrong?
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
I feel like folks poo-pooing this don't pay attention to NPD threads and as such don't notice how Minecraft has been in the top 10 forever.
The Abominable Snowman
Member
Because it's on every platform already besides Wii U and 3DS. People were expecting something new. Minecraft hasn't exactly been a huge success on platforms like the Vita, so it's not like it'll really make tons of waves on the Wii U either.
I thought sales for minecraft on vita were actually good.
SirPenguin
Member
People keep repeating this ad nauseum in this thread and others, but this is silly
It's popular because it's available everywhere. How many WiiU owners don't have a device that has been able to play Minecraft for years? Surely single digits
This is as important as WiiU getting Angry Birds, Tetris or Solitaire