Today’s Nintendo Direct livestream was a big one: in addition to announcing a handful of new games, Nintendo finally gave us some concrete release dates for some of the 3DS’s and Wii U’s biggest titles.
Unlike Sony or Microsoft, Nintendo dedicated their entire press conference to talking about games, and not about search engines or ESPN or other nonsense that has no business being at E3. Unfortunately, while Nintendo’s event was all about games, not all of those games were good. …
Back in the early days of the Wii, Nintendo re-released a bunch of Gamecube games with “new” (read: tacked on) motion controls in order to quickly capitalize on the success of their new system. I didn’t mind; after all, the Gamecube had some great games that …
The Gamecube, Wii, and 3DS all launched without a Mario game, and while the Wii managed to have a successful launch without Nintendo’s mascot, the Gamecube and the 3DS struggled early on without gaming’s favorite Italian stereotype there to help sell systems. Nintendo’s not taking any …
Shigeru Miyamoto, himself, mentioned that a new Pikmin game may be in the works for the Wii U, at a Nintendo round-table discussion. Though he didn’t right out confirm it, he did say that there was indeed a Pikmin game being developed for the Wii, but …