Wii Owners Probably Not Looking at a 'Nintendo Drought'
The site Computer and Videogames has up an (unverifiable) article stating that several anticipated Wii titles are going to be delayed until late 2007. Specifically, they mention Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption as being out of our hands until the Christmas season next year. They report this information via 'reliable sources', and Nintendo is unwilling to confirm or deny the claims as of yet. N'Gai at Newsweek reminds us that Reggie Fils-Aime denied the possibility of a 'Nintendo drought' in an interview they conducted back in October. 1up is also of the opinion that massive delays are unlikely, given the company's recent comments. Just the same, here's hoping Reggie doesn't live to regret these words: "... The third example I would give you is Mario Galaxy, another from-the-ground-up Wii game that we are strategically timing the launch to make sure that we continue driving momentum through 2007. So N'Gai, how do I answer the question, 'Will there be no drought,' and 'How will we make sure that there are fantastic titles for Wii?' The answer is Zelda, Metroid and Mario. Which is a pretty darn good lineup."
There are already some rather sucky titles for the Wii (I'll expand more when I've given them a fair shake of the mote). This system needs (perhaps deserves) quality titles that use the control systems well, not rush jobs shoehorned into a part analogue-pad part mouse-movement style of game.
I think it will be much harder to make good games for this system than Nintendo are letting on, and like the GameCube and N64 before it they'll be mostly Nintendo's own releases with only a few surprises from 3rd party developers.
I really hope I'm wrong, and that the next batch of releases prove me so - it is, after all, early days. We shall see - it just worries me that the games we're mostly looking forward to are the usual suspects from Nintendo.
Wii Owners Probably Not Looking at a 'Nintendo Drought'
