They basically state you can expect such games in late 2009. Since, that's what they state when they say they aren't ready for early 2009. So, where does the 2010 and 2011 bit people have been sprouting out come from? They say games take 2-3 years total development time, not that they will take 3 more starting today, learn to read. Either way, this isn't bad considering all the core games Nintendo have already delivered already, early in the Wii's life. But people like forgetting even the past year because it's "in the past" and say Nintendo abandon core gamers even though they've provided great service to them.
Who really expected a new Zelda or Galaxy caliber game before then anyway? Do you want a Twilight Princess expansion or the redefinition of the series we've been promised? That will take a long time with Nintendo's dedication to quality and I'm sure people wouldn't have it any other way. They're the Blizzard of consoles in regards to that. Now they have an outlet to provide smaller casual games inbetween their big titles it's a bad thing?! How many Zeldas did you see on the N64? 1.5. But people didn't talk about abandonment then.
In the mean time, there are many third party core games to look forward to and more and more get announced all the time, the latest of which being Arc Rise Fantasia, Kizuno, House of the Dead and Cursed Mountain, all looking great from the media shown so far. Of course, reading sites who only cover the Wii just to "cover everything" instead of having people who would actually play it themselves, you wouldn't know much about any of these. Sad, but whatever, google them.
As for games that are closer than Nintendo's for release, there's titles like De Blob, PES 09, Tales of Symphonia 2, Mad World, The Conduit, COD5, Force Unleashed, House of the Dead: Overkill, Fragile, Sky Crawlers, Castlevania Judgement, Little King Story, Deadly Creatures, Wario Land, Tenchu IV, Animales de la Muerte, Space Invaders Get Even, Megaman 9 and many many many more, most of them exclusives or at least with very unique Wii versions.
But hey, I guess people who say their Wii is gathering dust just don't clean their homes much, and they don't buy any games which makes me wonder why they own consoles.
As for the people who don't want more Zelda, Mario, Metroid, F-Zero, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, etc, well, If you don't want Nintendo's franschises why would you buy a Wii? There are also third party games, but when people complain that Nintendo forsakes the core gamer, surely they mean they want Nintendo to keep making their games. They can't "forsake" doing something they never did do after all.
Now they confirm such games are coming, people complain it's not new games but it's Nintendo games? What the heck, hah. People will always ***** I guess, just sell your Wii (if you even own one) and ignore all the related articles, you should have never bought it in the first place guys.
Me, I love it and will keep doing so as long as great games keep coming either from Nintendo or third parties, so, for a long time yet.
Nintendo should just shut up, real gamers still buy their games and have been pleased with their core offerings so far and are looking forward to their future offerings which aren't that far away (again, late 2009 is a year away, I certainly can wait far longer with the third party games I want inbetween) while everyone else will ***** and whine no matter what's announced, shown or released.
Sadly, it's evident mainstream Journalists (not 1UP usually) are also biased, you don't see games like De Blob, Sky Crawlers, Fatal Frame and Mad World covered as much as Killzone 2, Siren and Banjo.
Even games that we now know are ****, like Too Human or that PS3 FPS, were covered and hyped so much before release with so many interviews, front page media updates, showcases, previews, and why? Because they were hardcore PS3 and 360 titles, that's why. It's the current internet fad I guess.
You don't see them make huge announcements on news sections every time a little new screenshot of Mad World or Little King Story is released even though they are more certain to be GOOD games in the end than the "next gen" crap that do get such hype, and they don't go to the trouble of setting up regular interviews with Wii developers to put on the front pages.
You don't even see them make a mention for announced promising games. Where's Arc Rise Fantasia and Kizuno in the mainstream press? If I didn't visit Japanese pages like Famitsu I wouldn't know they exist. What about Cursed Mountain, it was unveiled @ GC08 with a trailer but nobody reported it, instead they raved about yet another showing of Killzone 2, what the ****? Haven't we seen enough of that, it's been a yearly attraction in game shows and it's STILL not out.
They only seem to cover the WIi just to "cover everything" instead of because they see they'd actually play its games. They go with the internet fad flow of Wii bashing for the most part too, just look @ the latest NIntendo news on this site, Nintendo says they have core games coming after "early 2009" and the writer decides to spin it as "games coming in 2010 and 2011" and then mention an unrelated event, the E3 conference everyone loves to hate, even though we've established E3 is now a crappy, irrelevant and insignificant event, to round his point. Again, what the ****?
I guess established developers cooking up new IPs just makes all upcoming games mediocre. And yet people trust those same developers for their other consoles.
Sky Crawlers. It's a Namco Ace Combat team flight game, it's based on a popular anime, it looks similar in style to Crimson Skies which was a grand game but nah, it'll be mediocre, why would it be good?
Mad World. It's made by the God Hand and Okami developers but nah, it will be mediocre, even though the team's games are always quality for their genre. But this one's on Wii, it'll be ****.
Little King Story. Experienced developers of established popular games like WoW and Harvest Moon, a unique concept that sounds like a real time version of Heroes of Might & Magic, a charming storybook look and styling, but no, it's on Wii, it WILL be mediocre.
Tenchu 4. A return to the development team of the original two games, which were arguably the best, and the series went downhill after, but no, it's a Wii game, it will be crap.
PES 09. 08 got great reviews on Wii despite lacking in features thanks to the innovative intuitive controls but hey, why should people acknowledge it? Let's just say 09 will be mediocre, to keep the Wii trend.
Fatal Frame IV, already released in Japan with GREAT reviews, despite a few glitches left within the game, but no, it will be **** when it's released in English with all the bugs fixed, because it's on Wii.
Wario, ****, all Wario games were some of the best platformers ever since the GameBoy days, through Advance and DS, but on Wii? Mediocre.
Etc. All the games mentioned in various threads are very promising and look very good so far, people bash them without any reasoning whatsoever considering the established quality developers of them and the fact it's evident more effort is put into them than the average title. This is only a tiny sampling to demonstrate the flawed logic of the senseless bashers. What exactly do they have to back their claims? Oh right they just go "HERE'S A BANJO SCREENSHOT, THESE GAMES LOOKS CRAP COMPARED, EVEN THOUGH RARE HASN'T MADE A TRULY GREAT GAME SINCE THE N64 DAYS, THIS WILL OWN EVERYTHING ON WII, AND I DON'T CARE SUPER MARIO GALAXY IS ONE OF THE FINEST GAMES OF THIS GENERATION SO GO DIE WII OWNERS HAHAHAHAHAH" or something along those lines. Logic.
What about the already released games that have gotten good reviews fools, are those also somehow mediocre for being on the Wii? As much as you want to claim Nintendo don't offer core games, many of them are already released, even this past year had several, and they all got great reviews, now they're somehow not worth a mention and you have to make claims like how other systems got such superior experiences? Bullcrap.
PS: I love all these touching "convert" stories, how you grew up with Nintendo but now switched because new Nintendo suck, keep them coming, they're like those Mac ads of yesteryear by apple, hilarious, even though you know they're all staged and don't provide actual compelling reasons to go Mac (PS3,360 in this case)
