With the small and quiet E3 Nintendo just had I think it's fair to say that they can't support the Wii U and the 3DS at the same time.
The Wii U needs games and it needs them badly and really the only company that wants to work on the Wii U is Nintendo (although from some news reports Nintendo's not all that eager to work on it)
Everyone is like "Nintendo just needs to make more games" but I don't think they can.
As we saw Nintendo showed almost nothing at E3 and worse yet most of it was for 2015, so we have most of this year with no big titles. Worse yet most of the games shown for 2015 have been said to be titles that will fall in the latter half of the year which means that for over the next year there's not going to be a lot for the console.
It does look like they're hitting up their core demographic in a big way though...
CHILDREN:
Yoshi
Splatoon
These games are mainly hitting the 4-12 age group. They're instantly going to be the games that grandmas and grandpas get their grandkids for birthday and holidays.
Amiibo: Nuff said
Casuals:
Mario Party
Smash Bros with Pac-Man
The other thing that I find funny is here comes Nintendo with a big push for their core again and they release the Zelda knock off. It looks like they're anticipating their core to be like "I remember Pac-Man when I was little so I'll grab Smash Bros, oh and I remember Zelda, this Hyrule Warriors must be his latest game".
The rest of the show for this year were things like Toad's game which should have been DLC for Mario 3D and Pokemon remakes for the 3DS. Not strong efforts in respect to the company.
I think what we're seeing a start of is that Nintendo having trouble running a console and a handheld all by itself. They used to have third party support but that's faded almost completely. What's left is that if a title's going to be made for the Wii U it's going to have to be from them and they just don't have that kind of power.
I'm sure you all remember when Nintendo pulled it's support for the Wii in 2008 thinking they could concentrate in other areas. Not even Mario and Metroid and Zelda could stop the Wii from it's tailspin into obscurity. You have to wonder if Nintendo is sacrificing 2014 in order to have a more robust lineup come 2015 and does it speed up the demise of the Wii U?
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