Topic: Nintendo hope to introduce Retro's new Wii U game in 'not so distant future'

[TJ Spyke]

Would it be possible that Retro's new game is one of the old games for GC they had to cancel at the moment? Raven Blade was it? Western RPG is something Nintendo has always lacked.

What other stuff they had to cancel?

An untitled football game and an untitled vehicular combat game.

[Nile Boogie Returns]

If retro's new game is not @ e3, then it's vaporware. HOWEVER, I believe that its based on the tech demo from e3.2011...and remember my hunches are always right.

[ThePerm]

the one with the bird and the cherry blossoms?

I was thinking maybe nintendo will do something very japanese like a Ninja game.

[EasyCure]

the one with the bird and the cherry blossoms?

I was thinking maybe nintendo will do something very japanese like a Ninja game.

Taka- whatever's Castle? Nintendo Land was hinting at it all along. Wii Dance will be next and it will star that Octopus thing!

[the asylum]

Please, not Wii U dance

It'll be 2008 Wii Music all over again

[EasyCure]

I can see the ad slogan now.. "Wii U Dance with me?"

[Mop it up]

Retro's new game: Instinct Killer

[Nile Boogie Returns]

The one I convinced myself was Shenmue 3, yeah with the bird and fish and such

[Oblivion]

**** YOU NINTENDO

[ShyGuy]

SON I AM DISAPPOINT

[Pixelated Pixies]

Please don't be Tropical Freeze, please don't be Tropical Freeze, Peas don't be Fropical Treeze...

[Oblivion]

For the last time, Nintendo's official twitter said that Retro's new game is Tropical Freeze.

[Soren]

Mercy? I'm afraid my condition has left me cold to your pleas of mercy.

[Pixelated Pixies]

Quick! Someone with photoshop skills replace the Diamond with a fruity tropical drink!

[ThePerm]

They set up the hype dissapointment train. They told us "you're not ready to see what Retro is doing, but it is amazing!" "we'll show you a year from now!"

and its a...... simalicrum.

had they just made an announcement 6 months ago as a tweet or press release there would be no hype baloon.

They really need to control their speculation causing aspects.


So we've been waiting 2 years for something as safe and unambitious as this? Are there multiple teams at Retro? Or is this it?

[Ian Sane]

LAME.  Though did Nintendo create the hype or was it the gaming media?  If this is all on Nintendo, they really are hopelessly disconnected with their fans.  How would they ever assume that something so conventional and predicitable would be worthy of such hype?

Well, Nintendo, another E3 has come by and I'm still not buying a Wii U... because there is no point.  You're not offering me anything in the near future that has not effectively already been done before.  I'm sure this new Donkey Kong will be good but I don't NEED to play it.  I couldn't give a **** if I never did because I played the DKC trilogy almost 20 YEARS AGO and am not really all that interested in new games in that style or at least not in such a way that I would buy a new console to do so.

NSMB was like a retro-revival... and now it's like Nintendo's thing.  DKC Returns was a similar idea and now it's the convention.  What the **** do I want to play so many sidescrollers in 2013?  Nintendo was ironically LESS proliferic in this genre when it was current.  These games are like what a shitty Nintendo would have released as N64 launch titles.  They didn't because they USED to be brilliant and ambitious and creative.  We're actually going BACKWARDS.  Retro's FIRST game is more cutting edge than their most recent one.  Think about how fucked up that is.

[ThePerm]

maybe Iwata wants to get bought by another company, because his stock would go up a lot and he would become one of the richest men on earth.

[Nile Boogie Returns]

This hurts and its not fair because I'm sure Tropical Freeze will be an awesome game. HOWEVER WTF? Thats what we have? A 2D platformer? Really? It's almost enough to agree with EA. (almost). Back to earth. it will be fine.

[nickmitch]

Almost no matter what, the hype was on Nintendo. They could've told us this and we'd be like, "Ok, that's cool, I guess." But the completely unnecessary secrecy led to build up and hype. Then they hyped it up. Ian's right that Nintendo is out of touch with its fanbase.

Never in a million years would I have guessed that Sony would learn the most from a console generation and Nintendo would learn the least.

[ThePerm]

so ps4 is only $50 more than wii u?

[Ian Sane]

Never in a million years would I have guessed that Sony would learn the most from a console generation and Nintendo would learn the least.

Sony dealt with adversity.  The PS3 initially was bombing huge and they somehow turned things around.  Nintendo, however, released a glorified last-gen console with virtually no third party support and it just printed money.  Success can make you lazy.  Nintendo learned the least because to them the Wii was such a financial success that they would assume that nothing needed to be learned.  The Wii U is so far a very conventional follow-up to the Wii, suggesting that Nintendo asssumed that the same formula would have the same results.

[MagicCow64]

I'm pretty sure Retro has to be working on something else as well. RTF must be mostly done, and I can't imagine they'd need all those high profile hires to work on another Donkey Kong platformer. But whatever this follow-up is, my guess is that we won't see it til next year, possibly next E3. Apparently all that stuff about Nintendo being waaay behind on HD wasn't exaggerated!

[Pixelated Pixies]

I'm pretty sure Retro has to be working on something else as well. RTF must be mostly done, and I can't imagine they'd need all those high profile hires to work on another Donkey Kong platformer.

It's funny, because I remember a similar sentiment arose when the first DKCR was released. I recall that some people had convinced themselves that because smaller indie developers (sometimes made up of only a handful of individuals) are capable of putting out quality 2D platformers, that surely Retro's full might was not being employed to produce a DKC game? And that they MUST, therefore, have been secretly toiling away on some unannounced mind blower.
 
It's wishful thinking perhaps, but in the case of Tropical Freeze I would be quite pleased if it were to be revealed that Retro had in fact been developing two games simultaneously.

[Shorty McNostril]

The question I have is this:

Is there ANYTHING at all new in this title?  Or is it the same damn game that we played a last time?

What a waste.  My thoughts echo Oblivion's.  Of all the title's retro can pick, they take one that has not evolved at all in 20 years?  Why?  They just want the easy road? 

[ThePerm]

I'm pretty sure Retro has to be working on something else as well. RTF must be mostly done, and I can't imagine they'd need all those high profile hires to work on another Donkey Kong platformer.

It's funny, because I remember a similar sentiment arose when the first DKCR was released. I recall that some people had convinced themselves that because smaller indie developers (sometimes made up of only a handful of individuals) are capable of putting out quality 2D platformers, that surely Retro's full might was not being employed to produce a DKC game? And that they MUST, therefore, have been secretly toiling away on some unannounced mind blower.
 
It's wishful thinking perhaps, but in the case of Tropical Freeze I would be quite pleased if it were to be revealed that Retro had in fact been developing two games simultaneously.

I'm not going to fall for that again. I'm just going to assume that all they are working on is HD DKC with features Sega's Nights introduced back in the Saturn era.