Yves MakhoulWill Nintendo answer your plea?
April 19th 2009 07:57
Rumour has it, Nintendo is going to release something for their core demographic by the end of the year.
Given so much of their business is based on selling to casual buyers, this comes as quite a welcome surprise to their long time fans, who've been most hurt by their lack of interesting content.
Wii music, wii sports, cooking, brain training and fitness. Where did all our adventuring go?
From a business standpoint, it makes sense. Make games that don't cost much, sell them like hot-cakes and you stand to make a fair bit of cash. And Nintendo has, for a number of years now. They sort of tried to bypass the bad taste in the core's mouth with Gamecube rehashes with Wii controls, but given they ARE the core, they'd clearly have already played these games.
Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata recently spoke to ABS CBN news about the PS3 beating the Wii's sales in Japan for the month of March. He wasn't happy. In fact, he thinks the Wii "...is in the most unhealthy condition since it hit the Japanese market.The current condition in the Japanese market is not the one we want."
Maybe it's time to cater to the crowd that got you to where you are in the first place, ay?
Which leads us to the latest rumour making it's happy way round the mill.
Apparently Nintendo is awaiting e3 to announce a triple-A in house title. Considering Wii-Motion plus is on it's way (1 to 1 motion sensing for the Wii-mote), perhaps a new Zelda with realistic sword fighting? A new Mario/Luigi game? Kid Icarus? Metroid?
Maybe a completely new franchise to get the core's blood flowing?
All we know is Nintendo is GameStop's CEO Dan DeMatteo believes a big first-party game is coming because Nintendo has told them to reserve shelf space. In an interview with CNBC he says: "We think there will be a Nintendo key property coming out by the end of the year," said DeMatteo in. They haven't given us any insight, but they have told us to reserve [shelf] space."
Let the anticipation begin!
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