"I think [demand for] the Wii could slow down to the extent that Nintendo may want to cut the price," he says. "Nintendo has it within its arsenal to do that. The component costs have come down considerably. They used to break even on the Wii, but now they're making a considerable margin."
He also revealed that Nintendo has tipped him off about something big coming at the end of 2009:
"We think there will be a Nintendo key property coming out by the end of the year," he says. "They haven't given us any insight, but they have told us to reserve [shelf] space."
While this comes as no surprise, its the first rumbling that weve heard about Nintendo planning a major holiday game release. Well surely hear more about this at E3 in June, but the phrase key property seems to indicate a title based on one of Nintendos major franchises.
I feel like the days of Nintendo's big Christmas console games being Mario/Zelda are over. It's going to be stuff like Wii Music, Animal Crossing, and Wii Fit from here on out. I think they'll be tossing out their "core" titles during the year, like they did with Brawl and Mario Kart Wii.
Dumb question... and I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but...
Why is everyone assuming that "clear some shelf space" means *one* game?
We know the Mario and Zelda teams are worrking on stuff. We know about Pikmin 3. We've got the Wii FIt Plus rumors. We know about the new DS Zelda. We're being teased about E3 this year.
While I don't expect Nintendo to abondon the new-market customers, the fact is, they already have them. How ironic that they now could be considering how to expand into the "hard core" market.
I feel like the days of Nintendo's big Christmas console games being Mario/Zelda are over. It's going to be stuff like Wii Music, Animal Crossing, and Wii Fit from here on out. I think they'll be tossing out their "core" titles during the year, like they did with Brawl and Mario Kart Wii.
I feel like the days of Nintendo's big Christmas console games being Mario/Zelda are over. It's going to be stuff like Wii Music, Animal Crossing, and Wii Fit from here on out. I think they'll be tossing out their "core" titles during the year, like they did with Brawl and Mario Kart Wii.
Why do you assume that? It was only this year where they did that, the previous year we had Mario Galaxy.
At this point though, there are too many possibilities as to what Nintendo could release so I don't even want to speculate. I don't want to risk getting my mind set on something which isn't going to happen.
Why do you assume that? It was only this year where they did that, the previous year we had Mario Galaxy.
Why do you assume that? It was only this year where they did that, the previous year we had Mario Galaxy.
I say that because I think that the Nintendo that launched the Wii with Twilight Princess and developed Super Mario Galaxy is very different from the one that exists right now. That Nintendo wasn't 100% sure that their strategy was going to work (they did by the time SMG was released, but SMG had already been in development for years). The rules have changed. Nintendo now knows that the core market will be there all year, and that they'll buy core titles all-year round. They aren't entirely "Christmas-driven", so to speak. The non-gamer market, on the other hand, is almost entirely Christmas-driven. I'll grant that we might get one "core" franchise game (and thank goodness it won't be Animal Crossing) along with an uber-casual game, though.
I'm hoping it's a console Zelda built for Wii from the ground-up.As much as everyone wants this, I think that Nintendo's Zelda offering this time around is just Spirit tracks for DS. A new Zelda with a reworked gameplay structure and WiiMotion Plus would be nice
What's wrong with Animal Crossing: City Folk? I consider myself a hardcore gamer and I love the game. I've had it for about 4 1/2 months and still play it every day.
