samfish

I think I gave myself a concussion from face palming so hard. Haha.

Maybe Dragon Quest will finally be successful in America now.

Finally! I was seriously starting to worry that NOA decided we weren't worth of this game... again.

Yay!

Nintendo is bringin' it something fierce! June 27 is a LOT sooner than I expected for Metroid. I was thinking August or September. Very awesome, though. Nintendo has April-June locked up tight for me.

Probably the same thing that happened to NSMBW and Spirit Tracks will happen here. People will act like it's some horrible abomination of a game and write it off (SMG2 is already "just an expansion pack", according to some morons), then about 4-6 weeks before it comes out, hype will kick in and people will go hands on with it, say how great it is and it ends up selling 10 million copies or something.

Not only is that great news, but it also adds weight to those Zelda in November rumors.
I also want a Sin & Punishment 2 date at tomorrow's US conference.

Wait until the US conference tomorrow, chief.

And Zelda won't be announced there. They've said numerous times Zelda will be making it's appearance at E3.

I would honest to God buy a burgundy and wood paneled DS...

It's not a question of whether really how many of those people are doing their gaming on the Wii now, although judging by the sales of NSMBW, not to mention the (unfortunately) consistently high sales of things like Sonic, Punch-Out or Mega Man on the Wii... I'd say an audience with a taste for retro and classic franchises is definitely still there on the Wii.

"1. The Wii has a bunch of titles, both new and on VC that this game is emulating, satirizing , etc.. The PS3 has... well... NONE!"

That's exactly it. The audience is hypothetically there on the Wii. You don't think the 6 million+ people who bought Zelda Twilight Princess would be interested in this?
That's how it's always worked for Sony and MS – they come out with strong first party and/or headliner third party exclusives, third party companies follow up with major and minor games in the same genre. Why do you think there are so many shooters on the 360 (and PS3, since Sony went after MS's bread 'n' butter this gen)?

This isn't a game that is meant to sell a lot of copies. Everything about it is niche and it'll be lucky to breach the 200k mark... in that sense, total install base size means little. It's about appealing to the most informed audiences with a game like this. It's one of the rare occasions where it has a high probability of outselling it's competition on the Wii.

Have third parties SO COMPLETELY f-cked (damn Joystiq filter!) themselves on the Wii that they can't appeal to that hardcore, ultra loyal Nintendo audience for whatever reason? That's also a VERY real possibility. I certainly don't disagree with the logic behind putting ANYTHING (except maybe Epic Mickey) on PS3 or 360 at this point.
I'm not saying it should be Wii exclusive... just that it makes a lot of sense to put this on the Wii in addition to the PS3. Hell, Darksiders should have been on the Wii, too.


You know whats really crazy is that, going back to the above mentioned base building thing... no third party has tried to appeal to the Nintendo audience since the SNES days. There were a couple of REALLY bad 3D platfromers in the first year or so of the N64, I guess, but that's it. Occasionally a bone gets thrown (Okami port, Beyond Good & Evil), too.

So really, I bring this all up because games that are obviously well suited to Nintendo consoles (like 3D Dot Heroes) always make me wonder:
If Halo begets FPSs on 360, if Final Fantasy begets RPGs on the Playstation, GTA and DMC begets action games on the PS2... why do Zelda and Mario not beget action/adventure and platformers on Nintendo consoles?