Topic: Nintendo unveils a game blowout excitebots, starfy, punch out!!

[Stogi]

Except these vehicles will have be assembled and driven by android bears.  Exciting.

get it?

Banjo?

[Flames_of_chaos]

Isn't Excite Bots going to be pretty much Excite Truck 2 with different vehicles and better multiplayer? (At least I hope that's what it is!)

It's a combination of Excitetruck and Excitebike essentially so I suppose it's a sequel in the sense. I hope there's Wi-Fi this time and I wonder if they retained the ability to put MP3 AACs and make a custom soundtrack.

[KnowsNothing]

MORE EXCITE ON APRIL 20.

DO WANT.

[BeautifulShy]

May 18th!Punch out!!

[NovaQ]

It's nice to finally get a little tiny bit of info on Punch Out!!

Should I be concerned about the lack of Muramasa?

[Flames_of_chaos]

It's nice to finally get a little tiny bit of info on Punch Out!!

Should I be concerned about the lack of Muramasa?

Nope, it's going to come out late summer most likely.

[vudu]

Try 2010.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Try 2010.

In EUROPE, red star is a European publisher, it will probably be late summer or fall in North America.

[Luigi Dude]

Once again when I'm away from a computer for a day Nintendo announces something.

Anyway, it's nice to see Punch-Out has a release date, really locking forward to seeing how it turns out.  Of course I wonder why Nintendo hasn't released any screens of Excitebots yet.  I mean, usually when Nintendo announces a new game, they at least show screen shots right away.  To announce something new that will be out shortly and not show something with the announcement just seems like they either just forgot to sent out screens or NOA is trying to troll the internets.

Why it took them so long to localize it is beyond me.

Actually it's quite obvious why they're finally localizing the series, the latest Starfy game bombed last summer in Japan.  It also doesn't help that the last one before that, while not a bomb, failed to match the success of the GBA Starfy games.  What makes this even worse is the fact that the DS is selling much better then the GBA did, and that ever other Nintendo series in Japan has had better sales on the DS then they did on the GBA except Starfy.

In other words, the reason Nintendo is finally bringing the series over is because it's dieing in Japan, and Nintendo probably wants to see if maybe the American market can revitalize it.  This is why I imagine this announcement has more to do with NCL forcing NOA to localize the game in order to have a reason to keep one of their franchises alive, then NOA suddenly having a change of heart.

Considering how they've released 5 Starfy games in only 6 years, that shows how it's a rather important series to NCL.  One that they probably want to keep around for a few more years as well.