This but unironically. NeoGAF said the Wii U was going to be Nintendo's best console yet to take the world by storm at its reveal, and GAF was convinced Switch would be a total bomb at its teaser trailer in 2016.
In theory the Wii U concept is great and was a pretty special idea back then. It should've worked. Nintendo just botched it.
Oh absolutely, and I still love my little console even if I am unlikely to revisit its unported exclusives in the near future, but man it was a rough time to be a Nintendo-only gamer then especially the way it was hyped up with WUST until it all came crashing down lol
The reactions to Kimishima saying he expected the Switch to outsell the Wii in its lifetime are hilarious in hindsight.
I mean contextually the Wii U was coming off of the success of the Wii, while the Switch was coming off of the massive failure of the Wii U. There being optimism in the former scenario and pessimism in the latter isn't really weird. Even if I would argue the Wii U was always an obviously flawed concept from the start, while the Switch's appeal was fairly clear.
This is actually one of the things I loved about it tbh, it was like Nintendo just tried to bring the DS concept into a tv-connected console. Not for creative use of the screens or asymmetrical play or whatever, but just the DS-style two screens where play could be on one and the menu or any supplemental stuff could be on the other. Especially in games that rely heavily on maps!! My god!! It is such a weird little headache for me to play modern Metroidvanias and be constantly, constantly hitting a button to freeze play and pull up the map so I can keep it in my head where I'm going, whereas on the WiiU all it took was a quick, natural glance. And don't even get me started on how much more comfortable Splatoon 1 was than 2 due to having the map constantly active and visible instead of having to push a button that overlays a map on the whole screen in the middle of live online play wtf.
I even got that impression from the names. "Wii," as in "we," is meant to be played together. Then came the "U," which was focused on "you." I genuinely thought it was purposely named that way to show the new system would focus more on the individual "core" style games people were saying the Wii lacked. "The Wii was for the family, but this new system is for you."
I'm relatively sure they said something like that at their E3 conference back then.
That would explain why I thought that, then.
Ehh I dunno about that
Probably only so much advertising they want to put into Peach. At least we got a demo haha. April looking juicy.
We should be less than two hours away from Peach reviews if the normal patterns hold. Next week is when we start looking ahead again and stuff like Indie World can happen.
if only the splatoon fandom wasnt violent nintendo live may have happened
The sequel to the Teaser for Metroid Prime 4 is now in development.
I am not an insider but I heard people saying the name of MP4 will be Super Metroid: Now in 3D!
Maybe, maybe not. It’s possible it’s tied to something, or perhaps not.
Super Metroid 3D World
I'd be surprised if we didn't get anything Zelda this year. It was annual for a decade until Tears of the Kingdom was delayed.
like a new Donkey Kong game or Metroid Prime 4?
New Super Metroid: 4 U
I’m 90% sure we will get at least one of these
Where’s the new Animal Crossing game to coincide with the Animal Crossing LEGO sets then? I don’t think the LEGO sets mean anything for game releases at all.
IIRC there was a tweet they made that accidentally geo located them, before getting deleted and reposted. If that geolocation was one of Nintendo's locations it would be obvious how they get their leaks
(insert kit doing the shocked face and krysta doing the thinking face thumbnail here)
Lmaooo
I'd be surprised if one didn't happen considering the only time in the past decade where we didn't get a new Zelda every year was TotK being delayed a couple of months. It feels about time for a new 2D Zelda, this year will actually be one of the longest gaps between 2D Zelda games, the only other time there was 5 years between 2D entries was Link's Awakening and Link's Awakening DX because of Ocarina of Time.
fairly sure the geotag pinged them as being in KyotoIIRC there was a tweet they made that accidentally geo located them, before getting deleted and reposted. If that geolocation was one of Nintendo's locations it would be obvious how they get their leaks
If it is towards the end of the month (30-40 days from now) it wouldn’t be that weird to have no extra rumors or rumblings this early on.
It's the middle of March? For all we know the event could happen over a month from now, so nobody would know anything yet.
Well if the Switch 2 reveal was potentially meant to have happened this month and it was delayed only a month or so ago, it's going to reflect in their marketing/social media presence. They now had a gigantic gap to fill up and probably didn't have much to show?
Or an older child of an employee? I mean, that's how Smash for 3DS had its roster leaked pre-release.
GTA6 also had a leak as a result of an employee working from home and their kid taking a picture of the game. He was a real one.
