Topic: E3 2011 Predictions

[Stogi]

We're not going to see eye to eye on this one. Release the damn game on the system it was built for. Is that so hard? I was willing to put up with it for TP. I was excited about the possibilities that the Wii could provide. Instead we got a gimped version of the game. Now that we have the Zelda being made ground up for the Wii, you want them to gimp the controls so you can play it on Wii 2?

Why?

[Sarail]

Nintendo would be stupid to do that again.

Really? I'd buy an HD/better textures version of Skyward Sword on newer, more powerful hardware ANY day over the current Wii version. Easy.  And I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Nintendo fans who prefer "core" games would, too.

Doesn't really sound that stupid to me.

So you're saying that you would LOVE for Skyward Sword to be delayed, just like TP was delayed, just so you can buy a new console and play it on that?

Thats retarded.

Not really. Twilight Princess was a vastly improved game because of it. Sure, you get Link's true left-handedness in the GC version, but the better controls were found in the Wii "upgrade". Once again, I'd take a "SuperWii" upgrade any day over the current Wii release for Zelda.

To get back on topic... I'm just sick of Nintendo's bullcrap when it comes to this current generation of game systems concerning their Wii. They've gone this entire generation with their own rose-tinted glasses on, and I just want to see 'em throw the blasted proverbial glasses away and come out with arms swinging. They did this with their SuperNES and N64 releases (minus the cart format on the latter), so why can't they do it now? I swear, if Nintendo came out with guns a'blazing...3rd parties would take notice. Nintendo's just GOT to get serious about it first. No more of this hokey pokey, dance around the fire, "but Animal Crossing IS a hardcore game for the holidays!" bullcrap we've been fed for the last several years.

I want to see a return to the old Nintendo. The Nintendo that showcased their prowess with an incredible platform and plethora of games -- 1st and 3rd party alike.

[BlackNMild2k1]

About Zelda;

All I'm saying is that if they are to release the game literally months away from a new system, then they might as well TP the game and dual release it as a launch title for the other system which will have the same if not better controls as the Wii.

There will be no gimping of the controls (since they will be essentially the same), just an increase of resolution, draw distance and then what ever benefits a super charged Wii would provide on top of all that.

Now if there is no Wii2 coming end of 2011/early 2012 and that is when Zelda is supposed to hit, then fukkin release it already. Wii all the way.
I don't want them to delay the game for an extra year just to TP it, but if it's already been delayed for a year so that they could TP it at the end of this year, I wouldn't be mad. whats done would already be done.

[Stogi]

What's "guns a'blazing" exactly?

[Ian Sane]

Not to mention that continuing the trend of delayed dual releases completely eradicates the idea that Skyward Sword is the first "real" Wii Zelda game.

Well you could still consider the Wii one the "real" one since it was originally designed for it.  If you think TP doesn't count then you would logically consider it a Gamecube game and that same logic would make you consider SS a Wii game.  And if you think that SS would then be a Wii 2 game then that same logic would make you consider TP a Wii game.  It all works unless your thought process isn't consistent.
 

If they are gonna force the waggle on me, then I want it to be waggle 2.0, new and improved.

If they did a dual-release then the Wii 2 version's controls would likely offer no improvement as they have to play down the lowest common denominator.  That's why TP was just waggle, because they couldn't add anything more and have it work with the Cube version.  Well that the idea in theory since pretty much everything on the Wii is waggle.
 
I want a great Zelda game that controls like a dream.

[Stratos]

This is silly. There is no reason to dual release Zelda. If anything they will make it a Wii 2 launch title or something. That was a fluke and I doubt it would happen again. Besides, that would steal resources from other games and SS itself for porting that could have gone to better uses.

[rlse9]

"Winning" - The Charlie Sheen Epic RPG.  Released for Wii & Ported for Nintendo 3DS.  It will include a credit card accessory that will plug into the Wii remote so you can accurately imitate cutting lines of cocaine & 3DS connectivity so you can record 3D photographic progress of your body's degredation into a drug-fuelled madness and share with Nintendo for online leaderboards.
 
Rated "T" for teen.

TigerBlood!  Anyone who doesn't want this is a troll.

Nintendo tends to do two types of shows.  You either get something new announced that really gets everyone excited or it's just a total lame duck where all the good stuff is something we already know about and the new stuff is all incredibly lame.  Hopefully we get the first type.

I'd sure hope so.  If they were to not announce anything exciting for Wii, it'd be an incredibly sad year for Wii owners, Zelda or no Zelda.

I predict:

• Way to much boasting about how huge DS and Wii are, and how great of a start 3DS is off to
• Lots of Zelda which will be for Wii only, the follow up to Wii won't be coming out soon enough for a TP type release
• Some sort of pack in/pre-order bonus for Skyward Sword, like there was for Wind Waker
• Pikmin 3 is finally announced, the people at Nintendo are insane for waiting this long to announce it so it has to finally happen
• One more game in the Wii series (sports, fit, music, etc)
• Dragon Quest 10 getting a lot of focus for being a non-Nintendo made game
• Tons of 3DS games, the most interesting of which won't be released until 2012
• A brief mention of the successor to the Wii at most, with no details of any sort
• Dwindling 3rd party support for Wii
• Great 3rd party support for 3DS

[BlackNMild2k1]

I hope MvC3 gets announced for 3DS. That would have made it a Day1 purchase for me. SF4 (they couldn't even do SSF4... :/) just isn't making me rush out to purchase a 3DS.

[NWR_insanolord]

SF4 (they couldn't even do SSF4... :/) just isn't making me rush out to purchase a 3DS.

The 3DS version is Super Street Fighter 4.

[Luigi Dude]

I don't want them to delay the game for an extra year just to TP it, but if it's already been delayed for a year so that they could TP it at the end of this year, I wouldn't be mad. whats done would already be done.

Twilight Princess was delayed a year because the development was a mess and Miyamoto rebooted it in mid 2005.  They ended up porting the game to the Wii because they realized that if they were going to have to delay it until fall 2006, they might as well just put it on the Wii to help it's launch.  But the original reason for the delay was always the fact the game was no where close to completion.

Skyward Sword on the other hand is said to already be close to being done and so has no reason to be delayed an entire year.  Not to mention the Wii is still doing great in America and good in Europe which is where Zelda games get the majority of their sales and so Nintendo also has no reason to port it to a new system when it can still get huge sales on the Wii. 

[BlackNMild2k1]

SF4 (they couldn't even do SSF4... :/) just isn't making me rush out to purchase a 3DS.

The 3DS version is Super Street Fighter 4.

is it Super!? well that's good, but now I want MvC3. SSF4 is old news already, I want the new hawtness!

I don't want them to delay the game for an extra year just to TP it, but if it's already been delayed for a year so that they could TP it at the end of this year, I wouldn't be mad. whats done would already be done.

Twilight Princess was delayed a year because the development was a mess and Miyamoto rebooted it in mid 2005.  They ended up porting the game to the Wii because they realized that if they were going to have to delay it until fall 2006, they might as well just put it on the Wii to help it's launch.  But the original reason for the delay was always the fact the game was no where close to completion.

Skyward Sword on the other hand is said to already be close to being done and so has no reason to be delayed an entire year.  Not to mention the Wii is still doing great in America and good in Europe which is where Zelda games get the majority of their sales and so Nintendo also has no reason to port it to a new system when it can still get huge sales on the Wii. 

Thanks for the history lesson, but my point was that if a new Wii is coming later this year* and Zelda is supposed to come later this year(*or early 2012), then I wouldn't be mad if they TP'd Skyward Sword, but I wouldn't want them to purposely delay it now to coincide with a Wii2 launch if that's not happening till late 2012 or so.

[Chozo Ghost]

Nintendo is gonna go with a Retro Theme this year....

Oh Reggie, even you weren't immune to the 70s...

Is Reggie old enough to have had a high school picture like that taken in the 70s?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Maybe it was class of '82 and he was still wearing his older brothers hand me downs.

[MegaByte]

He was class of '79.

[BlackNMild2k1]

So that makes Reggie about 51 years old.

[Chozo Ghost]

So that makes Reggie about 51 years old.

I looked on Wikipedia and he was born in 1961 so that makes him 49 or 50. I didn't think he was that old. He seems to have a better way of relating with young people than his age would suggest.

But how exactly did he go from Steve Urkel to what he is today?

[Shaymin]

A lot of Bigfoot pizzas.

[ymeegod]

Does DQX even have a developer?  Level 5 did the last two games but so far they haven't announced it yet and they are already commited to multiple projects.

Saddly I won't be holding my breath for any RPG news, been disappointed for the last couple of years so I given up any hope other than maybe a little Kingdom Hearts 3DS news.

Alot of attention towards the 3DS, most likely the biggest announcement will be Super Smash Bros 3DS and a Super Mario title.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo was developing it themselves just to make sure it came to the Wii at all.

[Chozo Ghost]

I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo was developing it themselves just to make sure it came to the Wii at all.

Could be. Nintendo certainly has been stabbed in the back on supposed exclusive deals in the past.

[Morari]

SF4 (they couldn't even do SSF4... :/) just isn't making me rush out to purchase a 3DS.

The 3DS version is Super Street Fighter 4.

is it Super!? well that's good, but now I want MvC3. SSF4 is old news already, I want the new hawtness!

You mean it isn't even Super Street Fighter Fighter IV: Arcade Edition?! Pft!

Mortal Kombat 9 looks better anyway... 3DS needs that.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Mortal Kombat would also get bought by me for 3DS.

Between SSFIV3D & MK3D, I wouldn't ever need another fighting  game for the 3DS until SSB3D was released.

[Mop it up]

Dragon Quest 10 moved to 3DS

There already is a Dragon Quest game in development for the 3DS, so I see no reason to move X to it.

I'd buy an HD/better textures version of Skyward Sword on newer, more powerful hardware ANY day over the current Wii version. Easy.  And I'm sure hundreds of thousands of Nintendo fans who prefer "core" games would, too.

Not me. I don't care that much about graphics and that's the only thing I can see that would be different if there were a version of Skyward Sword on the next system, so it isn't worth buying a new system to me. I'm not interested in a new system yet in general, there are still plenty of Wii games I want first. Then again, there are still plenty of GameCube games, too...

This is silly. There is no reason to dual release Zelda. That was a fluke and I doubt it would happen again.

TP isn't the first time it's happened, there were some games released on both NES and SNES. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened yet again, though I do think there's less chance that it will since the Wii has sold far more than the GameCube.

[Kytim89]

I heared that there was a Batman game announced for the 3DS, I hope it is a Batman Arkham Asylum type game because that would get me to buy it on da one.

[BwrJim!]

Dear Nintendo,

   We are friends and we've met from time to time and your systems and games have always brought a smile.   Now that I am older though, I would like some of your franchises to grow with me.  You see, we grew up together in this video game age and now that I have children of my own, would you please make new software and I.P's for the new generations.  It would be a sad moment in history if Nintendo has lost its focus and continued down the course of recycle. 

  When I was growing up I got to witness just about every character you have ever made and there was a new experience around every corner.  The thing is though is that I have been playing these characters for so long that my kids already know them.  There is nothing NEW and exciting ever coming out.  We have Mario, Kid Icarus and so on, but what we don't have is the feeling of unexplored territory and the excitement of learning, its old hat.   

  The old is fine and you can recycle that, but I would really appreciate 1 year of nothing but new IP released into the wild.   Mario, Star Fox, Samus, Evil Princess and so on, they have peaked and while they practice their redundancy for safety, they are not providing new experiences for my children and no, running around on a sphere doesnt count.  Sorry, but I know what it takes and while it was just a little different, they are still just platforms that need to be navigated. 

 So please, flex that imaginary might that you have, and if you release a new system in the coming years, why not treat us with a new face that isnt based all around Pokemon.  Yes, Pokemon gave you the mini-games (which you pretty much only do now) that are incorporated in what looks like real games, but really its just a mini-game interface, but what it has taken from you is sporadic creative thought and tossed you into your own box.  While the box might be hard to get out of, truly Nintendo, you have the industry leaders that make the trends and if you continue to not break out of the box, the rest of the industry will make boxes just like yours and then we will have the same games on all the systems again.

An open letter tossed into the wild.
-j!m