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Post by The Qu on Jun 9, 2008 2:54:00 GMT -5
It's scary how close to being released this is though. IT really is. Is this Nintendo's new policy or something? Flip mentioned it earlier in the thread. Have they ever announced a game this close to release before? |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 9, 2008 3:12:51 GMT -5
Yes they have. In fact, in Japan they often won't announce games until they announce all releases for that Quarter.
And from previous entries, Wario games seem to be developed with the West in mind. In fact if you take all Wario Land and WarioWare games into account, most of them have been released in Europe before the US, and sometimes even before Japan!
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Post by wanderingshadow on Jun 9, 2008 8:37:39 GMT -5
That's because we love ourselves some Wario! In all seriousness though, I don't like Nintendo's new policy of announcing games so close to release. We have nothing to speculate about.
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Post by Savage Adam on Jun 9, 2008 9:32:59 GMT -5
I think I recall that Diddy Kong Racing was announced barely a week before it's release.  |
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Post by The Qu on Jun 9, 2008 10:17:53 GMT -5
I think I recall that Diddy Kong Racing was announced barely a week before it's release. No way. I've got a NP from sometime in 97, along side another game mag, that both have previews of Diddy Kong Racing in it. |
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Post by Smashchu on Jun 9, 2008 10:45:29 GMT -5
That's because we love ourselves some Wario! In all seriousness though, I don't like Nintendo's new policy of announcing games so close to release. We have nothing to speculate about. I like this way better. I hate hearing about a game and then waiting eons for it. With this, I hear about it and it will come out in about a month or two. |
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Post by Savage Adam on Jun 9, 2008 11:47:52 GMT -5
I think I recall that Diddy Kong Racing was announced barely a week before it's release. No way. I've got a NP from sometime in 97, along side another game mag, that both have previews of Diddy Kong Racing in it. Oh really? My bad then.  Edit: What month was that issue for? |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 9, 2008 13:26:37 GMT -5
Diddy Kong Racing was announced 2 weeks before it was released. And it was first announced in Nintendo Official Magazine UK no less. Which actually means it was announced 1 week before the game's Japanese release. So there  |
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Post by The Qu on Jun 9, 2008 13:29:48 GMT -5
No way. I've got a NP from sometime in 97, along side another game mag, that both have previews of Diddy Kong Racing in it. Oh really? My bad then. Edit: What month was that issue for? December 97. It was an issue of Imagine. I've long since lost the NP however. It's kinda moot anyways since Fry showed us up. I wasn't thinking about it being announced before the Japanese release. |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 9, 2008 13:32:34 GMT -5
Well, it was released within 6 days in all major territories (JP: 21st, US: 24th, EU: 27th) - all in November 97.
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Post by The Qu on Jun 9, 2008 14:07:57 GMT -5
Well, it was released within 6 days in all major territories (JP: 21st, US: 24th, EU: 27th) - all in November 97. Crap! I was wrong. I just looked through the mag again and it was a review! For some reason I was thinking it was a preview. Probably because of the layout of the magazine, with the reviews up front and the previews in the back (The opposite of all other mags I've read.). Hell, DKR is the cover story that month apperently. |
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Post by Koopaul on Jun 9, 2008 18:27:39 GMT -5
Yeah but the problems with releasing it too soon after announcing it is that it doesn't have time to get itself hyped. There's no time to spread the word. Know what I'm saying? If it just pops up out of nowhere, it might not get a good reaction. It needs a build. A trailer. Ads and the like.
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Post by Smashchu on Jun 9, 2008 20:20:10 GMT -5
Yeah but the problems with releasing it too soon after announcing it is that it doesn't have time to get itself hyped. There's no time to spread the word. Know what I'm saying? If it just pops up out of nowhere, it might not get a good reaction. It needs a build. A trailer. Ads and the like. True, but in the same vein, wait to long and people loss interest. I point to TP as evidence. It was in purgatory for so long. It actually didn't come out busting down doors for a lunch title. Of course, one reason for the quick announcement may be becuase Nintendo doesn't put much stock in hype for this title. |
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Post by Flip on Jun 9, 2008 20:59:54 GMT -5
Twilight Princess suffered from overhype. People just gave up on the game. Sales weren't where they wanted them (though eventually reached that point, I imagine). Brawl would have suffered likewise had the game not been hyped continuously through the website.
More examples... Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 were announced eons before release and did not sell as well as planned. Big titles, basically, just got too hyped for their own good.
Compare this with Mario Kart which basically was revealed, never mentioned again, and then magically appears like... a month before release. It sold like crazy when it came out. And I think that's the new (sucky) strategy. If they can save games until they're almost done people will not complain. I mean, the Wii serves a very "have it now" crowd: new gamers. They aren't used to sitting around and speculating like us nerds are.
What sucks, though, is that we will never really know what the big titles are until just before release. Then, by comparison, Wii looks really weak next to the other consoles. Hell, it does NOW. There's such a crazy dry spell of information people are already figuring the fad ran out.
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Jun 10, 2008 1:00:30 GMT -5
That dry spell is probably because the E3 is coming along pretty soon. I'm sure plenty of new information gets revealed for shit that won't come out until next year.
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