After releasing a long line of products sure to keep customers busy well into the next decade, Nintendo has not shown any game lists with late 2010 or even early 2011 release dates, citing "lack of crystal ball."
Weeks after twin press conferences announcing sequels to long-dead franchises PunchOut!! and Sin and Punishment as well as a new update to the DS model, Nintendo avoided speculating about events more than 24 months in the future. President Satoru Iwata announced "We just don't know how long some games will take, and others aren't even on the drawing board yet; by the way, do you have Ms. Cleo's number?"
"2011? [laughter] I think I may be retired by then [laughter]. Right now we have Pikmin 3 and a real Zelda Wii game in development, so those may be out in 2010 or 11. [laughter] Also, I have recently come up with a walking simulator [laughter] for the DS which may take a few years," game designer Shigeru Miyamoto mused.
President Reggie Fills-a-me With-a Terror declared the next two years have been kicked until further notice: "I mean come on, the only things the numbers 2010 and 2011 refer to at this point are the numbers of hairs growing on my knuckles."
Naturally, this non-announcement was met with scorn by Nintendo's fanbase; one forum poster wrote:
Well, if there aren't any games planned for two Christmases from now it probably means they're pulling a Sega. The HD revolution has finally caught up with them. Serves them right for putting in a .3 megapixel camera in the next DS, or making a dog sim, or making those crappy people-in-cubes commercials, or adding annoying voice samples to Mario Advance, or censoring Mortal Kombat, or cutting out a level from Donkey Kong.
Another self-described hardcore forumer was equally irate:
This is just a cowardly way of avoiding game delays isn't it??!!11 They truly have abandoned the core. how can we continue to justify owning a Wii to our friends if we don't see a vague list of sequels on the distant horizon?
Indeed, while Nintendo has generally been able to receive accurate broadcasts from the future spectrum of the space-time continuum, this surely narrows the scope of the company's bullet points going into next year's E3.
A Playstation 3 owner refused to offer a comment for this article and instead walked away, shouting expletives and something about getting "a second job and mortgage" while pushing a shopping cart down the street.
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