Not just that, but if nothing gets delayed, Wii U 2015 might be one of the best years for a Nintendo system ever as far as exclusives go.
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Nintendo: updated 1st-party and 3rd-party planning for Wii U / 3DS
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February - Yoshi Wooly World (known about it for a while, smaller title for so early in the year)
March - Mario Maker
April - Mewtwo/Smash DLC
May - Mario Kart 8 DLC 2 (already confirmed)
May - Splatoon (seems Nintendo is really pushing this title and it has some hype behind it, they tend to put a big title in May for the start of summer)
July - Mario Party 10
August - Xenoblade Chronicles X
September - Devil's Third
September - Mario vs. DK WiiU
October - Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (gotta have a game for younger audiences in the holiday window)
November - Zelda (gotta have it out for Black Friday)
December - Star Fox (the most likely one to slip to 2016, probably the one that needs the most dev time still)
2016 - SMT x FE
Hoping Fatal Frame 5 makes it state side. With as stacked as 2015 is i wouldn't mind if it was a 2016 game.
2015 looks real solid.
February - Yoshi Wooly World (known about it for a while, smaller title for so early in the year)
March - Mario Maker
April - Mewtwo/Smash DLC
May - Mario Kart 8 DLC 2 (already confirmed)
May - Splatoon (seems Nintendo is really pushing this title and it has some hype behind it, they tend to put a big title in May for the start of summer)
July - Mario Party 10
August - Xenoblade Chronicles X
September - Devil's Third
September - Mario vs. DK WiiU
October - Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (gotta have a game for younger audiences in the holiday window)
November - Zelda (gotta have it out for Black Friday)
December - Star Fox (the most likely one to slip to 2016, probably the one that needs the most dev time still)
2016 - SMT x FE
Hoping Fatal Frame 5 makes it state side. With as stacked as 2015 is i wouldn't mind if it was a 2016 game.
2015 looks real solid.
Certainly could. And Galaxy/MP3/Paper Mario in '07 was a hefty trio.
Sadly that's what I've been thinking, though I really still have hopes for an early 2015 release. After all, it was initially a 2014 game. I guess if they still polishing lots of things in that game, then middle of 2015 would be fine too.
People saying that Zelda games arent delayed are obviously forgetting the history of them over the years.
I waited YEARS for Ocarina of Time. It was delayed repeatedly and was in development for six years. Majoras Mask was an unusual prompt release, but used a huge amount of assets from OOT and was a smaller side project.
The oracle games were delayed numerous times, even to the point where one of the original trilogy was cancelled.
Twilight Princess was delayed by over a year.
Skyward Sword was delayed.
So yeah, Zelda U being delayed wouldn't be unprecedented at all.
I waited YEARS for Ocarina of Time. It was delayed repeatedly and was in development for six years. Majoras Mask was an unusual prompt release, but used a huge amount of assets from OOT and was a smaller side project.
The oracle games were delayed numerous times, even to the point where one of the original trilogy was cancelled.
Twilight Princess was delayed by over a year.
Skyward Sword was delayed.
So yeah, Zelda U being delayed wouldn't be unprecedented at all.
MadJackChurchill
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So, uh, where's the incentive to buy the New 3DS?
Nintendo of America need to acknowledge it exists first. That is not going to happen until the christmas season is over.
After that, its Nintendo Direct Time.
and majoras mask 3D
It is coming at nov 21. in Europe. You can even preorder it.
Miyamotos new projects. They were shown at e3.
Project Guard (E3 2014 - Wii U): http://youtu.be/6TkgRUaF_4A
Project Giant Robot Gameplay (Wii U - E3 2014): http://youtu.be/dVDgpaTExnE
They just want to give them a headstart. Gunman Clive 2 will outsell them anyways <3
Oh I see, thanks
Entryhazard
Banned
Monster Hunter 4 is missing tooAww, there really are no plans for new 3DS to come out in Europe before 2015?What a load of bums.
CentralScrutinizer
Member
I'm used to Zelda games getting delayed a full year later than their original announced date. NOT getting my hopes up.
It would be ironic if nintendo only made the N3DS for japan, and never releases in PAL/US.
That would mean AUS is getting shafted after all.
kamikazekoala
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Ctrl F: NES Remix Pack Wii U Europe
Nothing.
Oh, well, the 3DS one should be fine right?
Nothing.
Oh, well, the 3DS one should be fine right?
DaSorcerer7
Member
Never had any doubts.
protomouse
Member
It's still coming out November 21st, but why?
- It's a game for which hype has all but died.
- It's receiving zero marketing push from Ubisoft (it's less than a month away and we haven't heard or seen anything).
- It's releasing at the same time as every other game under the sun, including Nintendo's biggest holiday title.
- Ubisoft has confirmed that they won't support the Wii U version post release (which means no DLC, not even a port of DLC that has already been released).
- Even after 6 months delay, it will have no redeeming features or included content, and will likely command full $60 retail when every other version has already sunk to half that price.
For all those lamenting the absence of game x or the general lack of 3DS support, these lists have never been final, they're just recaps of the currently known release dates. They're not going to announce games in a PDF.
I bet we'll have a pretty big general direct coming in December or January with an update on all currently known titles and the reveal of some new games.
I bet we'll have a pretty big general direct coming in December or January with an update on all currently known titles and the reveal of some new games.
Starwolf_UK
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There has to be one of these things in the supplementary earnings (just to remind ourselves not to take them too seriously). remember the years of Hoshi no Kirby and Famicom Wars DS 2?
Looking at the most popular entries in those franchises I'm expecting some sort of stepchild of Person and FE:Awakening. But given we've seen nothing it could be anything.
No. It costs £35 and has less content than NES Remix 1+2 (which cost £18 total on the eShop). Given those circumstances plus the busy time of year it could bomba down to £15 but don't support it at full price as that price point is just absurd (in America both cost $30 so I';m not being unreasonable here).Ctrl F: NES Remix Pack Wii U Europe
Nothing.
Oh, well, the 3DS one should be fine right?
POWERSPHERE
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I have a bad feeling about Zelda because my hopes are too high. Mario Maker should be renamed Boner Maker though because I think it will be a boner machine.
I like that they still stick with 4 games for 1st half of 2015. As Captain Toad is January in Europe, that means practically 1 game per month. Hopefully they stick to the plan.
Another interesting thing is that they have separate schedule for Project Giant Robot and Star Fox, I thought the other 2 projects of Miyamoto will be somehow bundled with Star Fox.
2015 looking very good for Wii U.
Another interesting thing is that they have separate schedule for Project Giant Robot and Star Fox, I thought the other 2 projects of Miyamoto will be somehow bundled with Star Fox.
2015 looking very good for Wii U.
digoutyoursoul
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I hope Star Fox is good, most of the others don't interest me
Mango The Magician
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At this point I'm so tired of worrying about Zelda that it could come out tomorrow and I'd still feel like it was an eternity away.
WrenchNinja
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Whoa, there's a new Tetris? Weird. Wonder how different it'll be from Axis.
Maybe we can put some teams on these games to see what other teams within nintendo are without an announced project?
Captain toad (EAD Tokyo 2)
Art Academy (Headstrong / SPD3)
Kirby Rainbow Curse (HAL/SPD)
Mario vs Donkey Kong (NST)
Mario Maker (EAD 4)
Mario Party 10 (ND Cube / SPD)
Project Giant Robot (??)
Project Guard (??)
Splatoon (EAD2)
Star Fox (?? - maybe partly external as miyamoto strongly hinted at this)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Monolith)
Yoshi's Wooly World (Good Feel / SPD)
Legend of Zelda (EAD3)
Devil's Third (Valhalla / SPD)
Shin Megami tensei x fire Emblem (Atlus / IntSys)
Xenoblade 3DS (Monolith)
Code Name STEAM (IntSys)
So that leaves the following team without current known projects:
EAD1 : (Mario Kart Team) Since may. I assume the DLC is done by a small team while the rest should be working on a new project.
EAD5: Wii Fit team. Wouldn't be surprised if they were mainly on QoL at the moment
EAD Tokyo 1: Might be co-developing star fox and/or one of the project robot/guard games?
Retro: Last known projects are DK:TR and helping with Mario Kart 8
Next level games: (not 1st party but known to work mostly for nintendo in recent years). Last project was Luigi's mansion 3DS
Indies Zero: Did they port the NES remix thing to 3DS? Of not they could be working on SNES remix vol.1 or something else
1-up: helped on fantasy life with level 5, but they could be working on something for 3DS
Monster games: helped on DK:TF and did the DK3DS port. Maybe another game in the excite entry? Or another port for 3DS/N3DS?
Skip: last known project was Chibi robo photo finder, but that was released in japan mid 2013.
Tose: last known game was "planes" for disney in 2013
Treasure: should be working on Gaist Crusher God for 3DS according to wikipedia
I assume Grezzo is doing Majora's mask.
Any teams I forgot that might be working on something new? There 's a lot of smaller ones (Alphadream etc)
Captain toad (EAD Tokyo 2)
Art Academy (Headstrong / SPD3)
Kirby Rainbow Curse (HAL/SPD)
Mario vs Donkey Kong (NST)
Mario Maker (EAD 4)
Mario Party 10 (ND Cube / SPD)
Project Giant Robot (??)
Project Guard (??)
Splatoon (EAD2)
Star Fox (?? - maybe partly external as miyamoto strongly hinted at this)
Xenoblade Chronicles (Monolith)
Yoshi's Wooly World (Good Feel / SPD)
Legend of Zelda (EAD3)
Devil's Third (Valhalla / SPD)
Shin Megami tensei x fire Emblem (Atlus / IntSys)
Xenoblade 3DS (Monolith)
Code Name STEAM (IntSys)
So that leaves the following team without current known projects:
EAD1 : (Mario Kart Team) Since may. I assume the DLC is done by a small team while the rest should be working on a new project.
EAD5: Wii Fit team. Wouldn't be surprised if they were mainly on QoL at the moment
EAD Tokyo 1: Might be co-developing star fox and/or one of the project robot/guard games?
Retro: Last known projects are DK:TR and helping with Mario Kart 8
Next level games: (not 1st party but known to work mostly for nintendo in recent years). Last project was Luigi's mansion 3DS
Indies Zero: Did they port the NES remix thing to 3DS? Of not they could be working on SNES remix vol.1 or something else
1-up: helped on fantasy life with level 5, but they could be working on something for 3DS
Monster games: helped on DK:TF and did the DK3DS port. Maybe another game in the excite entry? Or another port for 3DS/N3DS?
Skip: last known project was Chibi robo photo finder, but that was released in japan mid 2013.
Tose: last known game was "planes" for disney in 2013
Treasure: should be working on Gaist Crusher God for 3DS according to wikipedia
I assume Grezzo is doing Majora's mask.
Any teams I forgot that might be working on something new? There 's a lot of smaller ones (Alphadream etc)
The last half of 2015 looks solid but the first half is depressingly weak and i don't really feel like they have any wii u system sellers outside of zelda next year.
They announced they'd be working with Nintendo exclusively in the future. They also mentioned that Nintendo were giving them better and better IP to work with.
It hasn't been officially announced, strongly suggesting they want to sell their current stock of 3DS/XL 's first in the west before doing so.
I recently heard the Mario Kart team was helping with Splatoon iirc.