StarStabbedMoon

I really think you should've replaced soccer moms with "business analysts," but otherwise I think you have a good point that I've wondered about myself. Consider what they did last year with the unveiling of Punch-Out Wii and Sin and Punishment in later events when they easily could've shown it at E3 earlier in the year. Their E3 conferences are still very business-oriented (not even soccer moms can comprehend nor handle that much statistics) and save alot of the games for their own press conferences, when ironically E3 has more attention from gamers and journalists and usually only business-analysts pay attention to their own independent press conferences. They do seem to have the audiences a bit mixed up.

Is that the same kind of exaggerated ranking where people like to say the gamecube was dead fucking last when it only sold a couple million less than the xbox and the ps2 sold more than twice both of them put together?

Sorry tmac, but no matter how many times you tell yourself otherwise, people are entitled to their own opinion.

They've done this alot in the past, I think it's just a big deal now that people are expecting more out of Nintendo. Honestly, that Team Ninja is collaborating with Nintendo isn't that big a deal to me, I'm just glad it's a competent developer, and that a new Metroid game is coming out. Let's just hope they don't destroy the exploration anymore than it already has been in the past few years.

They're working on Spirit Tracks. Have you not been paying attention?

It's still going to sell.

I wouldn't be surprised if they don't. He could just be talking about NSMB Wii tonight. We never had any sort of confirmation there was going to be anything even remotely relating to the Pikmin series, there wasn't even a rumor. It was all just wishful thinking.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but unlikely.

As long as it's still compatible with hammer. I'm in no rush for a new engine, I'm still mapping for the pre-HDR lighting source games.

I don't see how patents could be a problem, it's not like Microsoft was waiting for the patent to expire on the eye toy. If they could find a way to get around that, any company could.

So are you saying all that Nintendo would need to do is to improve the technology and they would be able to redeem themselves?