For starters, our source has confirmed that the majority of what we already know thanks of Nintendo Direct will be Nintendo’s E3 lineup, since there will be not many big surprises for the event, or 2013 lineup. Nintendo will be holding up on a few titles until the end of this year. Those will be Game & Wario, Pikmin 3, Wii Fit U, Wonderful 101, Wii Party U, Zelda Wind Waker and Mario, who will be shown and playable at E3 for Wii U, and Animal Crossing, Mario & Luigi, Mario Golf, Pokémon, Mario Party and Zelda for the 3DS.
Nintendo’s launch window has been modified, and titles that should have been released this Christmas will go to 2014. That’s what happened to Yoshi’s Yarn game, it has been delayed to 2014 since Nintendo will make 2014 the “Yoshi’s year”, in a similar way they had made 2013 Luigi’s Year.
The next 3D Mario game for Wii U won’t be a Galaxy game, but it will take some titbits of it to make a full open world platformer. It will make an intensive use of the touch screen for some game mechanics.
About 3DS, there will not be big surprises for it for the rest of the year. Nintendo will publish some little games of niche series and forgotten IP’s directly at eShop, similarly of how they have done with Mario Vs Donkey Kong. There will also be a 3DS Japan only Nintendo Direct presenting some games for the Japanese market, like Daigasso Band Brothers, a Skip game and a Monolith one.
There is a 3DS Kirby game in development, but it won’t be shown in some time. The same with a Metroid 3DS game, it has been on development for some time but we won’t see it soon. I can personally corroborate this last one, since I personally got the same info from a Nintendo rep on Metroid 3DS back on 2011.
It’s unknown who is developing this game, but the same source claims Retro Studios is working in two games at the moment. One of them will be huge , it will in fact be revealed in a Nintendo Direct event, after E3, but it won’t be released until late 2014, as this is the big bet of Nintendo for the upcoming year, along with Smash Bros. It’s a shooting game, from an already known IP. In this game, you will be able to scan scenery with the Wii U Gamepad and use the Wii U Gamepad Touch Screen to control your spaceship. The game is looking really good, graphically wise, one of the most advanced graphics you’re going to see in Wii U. The other game is said to be a smaller game, similar to what Donkey Kong Country Return was. It might be this one Metroid 3DS?
There will be other games revealed for 2014, at Nintendo’s E3 and upcoming Nintendo Directs after that.
Mario Kart U will be presented at E3, and will be playable at the fair, as Nintendo confirmed not too much ago ( again, when the source claimed this, that hadn’t been announced yet). The game will be very online focused, with lots of Miiverse and Communities options. Missions will make a comeback, and they will add some sort of achievements system to the game too. It will be released in 2014, meanwhile, the third exclusive Sonic game will take it’s place, as we reported yesterday.
There will be a teaser for Bayonetta 2 at the E3 too, and a Yoshi’s Island 3 teaser. They will also show a pretty shocking teaser for Smash Bros U/3DS. The game will feature sightly different gameplay than older instalments of the Smash Bros series. The 3DS version will be very different to the W ii U one, content wise. There will be a few newcomer characters shown at the teaser: Little Mac, Takamaru, Tom Nook, Palutena, Dark Pit ( the source says he is not sure if it’s a transformation for Pit like Zelda/Sheik or a standalone character), and Bayonetta.
There will be other games, smaller ones. Nintendo is working in a new IP of a genre Nintendo has not much experience with. Not much was disclosed about this besides that. There will be other games, like a new Project Zero game for Wii U. Already revealed ones like Shin Megami Tensei Vs Fire Emblem, Zelda, and X will take some time still. The one we might be seeing sooner is X, who will be released at 2014 first half in Japan.
Last, but not least, 2014 will be a slow year for Nintendo 3DS, in favour of pushing up the Wii U catalogue and sales in a similar way they’ve done with 3DS this year . Third parties will not change too much on their treat with Nintendo, although there will be a few important multiplatform games who will be at Nintendo consoles too. One of them will be a really important third party IP who will turn exclusive to Nintendo in a similar way of Bayonetta 2 did. It will also create loads of drama like the Sega’s witch exclusivity deal did. The source has not disclosed if this IP is coming from the Sega X Nintendo deal or not.
I was really hoping for the retro game to be revealed in the E3 direct.
I feel that mario kart would be a december release..I suppose they can afford to push it with the new 3d mario but a sega game is not a good replacement. Nothing against sega but Mario Kart Wii sold like 30 million. Really happy about the return of missions!
I wonder if that new IP Nintendo is working on would be a FPS.. or perhaps a survival horror. Feels like it must be one of those considering they say it's something that they aren't too familiar with.
They will also show a pretty shocking teaser for Smash Bros U/3DS. The game will feature sightly different gameplay than older instalments of the Smash Bros series. The 3DS version will be very different to the Wii U one, content wise. There will be a few newcomer characters shown at the teaser: Little Mac, Takamaru, Tom Nook, Palutena, Dark Pit ( the source says he is not sure if it’s a transformation for Pit like Zelda/Sheik or a standalone character), and Bayonetta.
It'd be cool if Dark Pit was in it. We could use another anti-hero. And considering the sheer amount of weapon options thanks to Uprising, it shouldn't be too difficult to make him a non clone to Pit. The transformation idea sounds dumb though. And as for Palutena being too OP @Dev, down/upsizing is what the series does best, so that isn't a problem.
Also, ever since Nintendo Land, I got to thinking that Takamaru could be a Smash character. Perhaps I might be right.
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