Donkey Gone.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/35585
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, which was originally scheduled to release in December this year, has been pushed back until next year.
As Iwata explained during today's Nintendo Direct, the game will now be released in February 2014. The only explanation offered was that the game is being refined and improved.
The game was first announced during E3 this year.
I see Nintendo just realized that they have nothing in 2014 besides Mario KartSuper Smash Bros. Probably Bayonetta 2. And just because they didn't announce something, doesn't mean it isn't in the works. That's par for the course with Nintendo for the last few years. Donkey Long Coubtry Returns was announced like six months before it was released.
I see Nintendo just realized that they have nothing in 2014 besides Mario KartSuper Smash Bros. Probably Bayonetta 2. And just because they didn't announce something, doesn't mean it isn't in the works. That's par for the course with Nintendo for the last few years. Donkey Long Coubtry Returns was announced like six months before it was released.
Not caring about a game doesn't change the fact that it still exists. There's a distinct difference between saying "Nintendo just realized that they have nothing in 2014 besides Mario Kart" and "Nintendo has nothing for me until Mario Kart." They're not even remotely close to the same thing.
Also, I don't recall Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS getting delayed. They never announced a date outside of 2014 which is about right considering Sakurai didn't start the game until after Kid Icarus Uprising was finished. Brawl spent about two years in development.
The Wii U will be discontinued in 2014.Right. Because no one wants Smash Bros. and Mario Kart.
The Wii U will be discontinued in 2014.
Smash Bros. and Mario Kart. were also on the GC and it didn't save that.
No way. I want to be wrong on this.The Wii U will be discontinued in 2014.
Care to make a ban bet? ;)
It's hilarous to see the very same people who hated Tropical Freeze reveal now feigning outrage at it's delay ;p
It's hilarous to see the very same people who hated Tropical Freeze reveal now feigning outrage at it's delay ;p
Platinum games have a history of selling at best underwhelming numbers and typically bomb. Bayonetta 2 might as well not exist for all the sales impact it will have, especially on a console where nothing sells.If you're going to use sales impact as an indication of a game's potential then it makes perfect sense for Retro to make a sequel to a game that sold as well as Donkey Kong Country Returns. Isn't it their highest selling game (not counting helping out with Mario Kart 7's development)? Therefore, by your own reasoning, if Retro's talent is to reach as many people as possible, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is exactly the kind of title they should be developing unless you want them to make Mario or Zelda. If they worked on any other Nintendo IP or a brand new one, they're probably not touching sales anywhere near DKCR.
A genre that wouldn't be a waste of Retro's talents would be one that Nintendo does not already have multiple teams working on. EAD and Good Feel are already cranking out 2D platformers for Nintendo. I don't know what HAL is currently working on but their last Wii game was also a 2D platformer. So Nintendo already has three other devs working on this genre and thus Retro should do it, too? Meanwhile Nintendo is completely ignoring entire genres including the FPS genre which is, you know, the most popular one going right now. Metroid Prime filled a hole in Nintendo's lineup that no one else was filling. In comparison, DKC is redundant. That doesn't make it a bad game, but it's idiotic to put so much attention on the 2D genre while other genres are completely ignored.
Nintendo's got Platinum Games working for them these days and they're not working on the same types of games other Nintendo devs are already working on. That's a full use of their talents as they can fill a hole and provide variety to Nintendo's lineup. Retro has provided no variety for Nintendo since Metroid Prime 3.
Once again, Retro wanted to make a sequel to Donkey Kong Country Returns. Retro could have made something else but they choose to make a sequel because they still had a lot of idea's left over from DKCR that they wanted to do.
To me the whole appeal of the 2D platformer revival was that that genre had been dormant for a while so it was really cool to get some new games in that retro style.Don't 2D Mario platformers routinely outsell the 3D ones? I could have sworn Luigi Dude posted sales data of that which I'm too lazy to look for. If that's the case, it seems like people just like the genre. It was neglected because everyone, including Nintendo, thought people just wanted 3D. If it was all just a nostalgia trip, those games would have stopped selling. Look at JRPGs. They were booming in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but they've been relegated to niche status since.
How about Retro work on something that comes across as modern? Maybe something that could ONLY be done on present day hardware that would introduce new ideas and concepts that future games would feel inspired to copy?What the hell does that first question even mean? And why are you suggesting that something "modern" automatically means "better?"
What successful console has ever sold on old ass ideas?Is that a serious question? Many of the really popular games this past generation were based on old ideas. I'm curious what games you're alluding to that are filled with all of these new ideas that inspire other game designers and can't be done on existing hardware. I'm going to be honest, there has been nothing shown on PS4/One that I feel couldn't be done on their predecessors other than graphics. That's why I'm waiting until 2015 at the earliest to pick up a PS4.
So I would say at this point when Nintendo needs to try to sell Wii Us a game like DKC which does not offer any gameplay experience that is truly new that someone HAS to buy a Wii U for is a waste of, hell, ANY dev's talents.Are you buying a PS4 or One at launch? Either way, what cutting edge games coming out for them do you want to buy? If you're going to rant up the forums and make claims that Nintendo isn't presenting new ideas, it's only natural that you should follow up with examples of games and developers that are pushing the creative envelope.
Don't 2D Mario platformers routinely outsell the 3D ones? I could have sworn Luigi Dude posted sales data of that which I'm too lazy to look for. If that's the case, it seems like people just like the genre. It was neglected because everyone, including Nintendo, thought people just wanted 3D. If it was all just a nostalgia trip, those games would have stopped selling. Look at JRPGs. They were booming in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but they've been relegated to niche status since.
Once again, Retro wanted to make a sequel to Donkey Kong Country Returns. Retro could have made something else but they choose to make a sequel because they still had a lot of idea's left over from DKCR that they wanted to do.
What the hell does that first question even mean? And why are you suggesting that something "modern" automatically means "better?"What I'm saying is that if Nintendo is going to tell me that I need to spend a couple hundred bucks on a new videogame system to play their games they better be offering games that actually require a new console. That's why having modern games is important. It makes no sense to move to new hardware if the developers do nothing new with it. And I'm not praising the PS4 or XB1 here, just pointing out that the Wii U is selling poorly and Nintendo considers it a top priority to pump out multiple games from multiple teams with old-fashioned gameplay. Not like those games are bad or new games are automatically better but it makes no sense to use them to push a new console.
