@Bolt_Strike I feel Nintendo would've wanted a Mario or DK game releasing around the time of the Mario movie (Cranky Kong is in the movie and if I recall correctly he's never been in a Mario game before) which would've suggested perhaps December before the movie got delayed. But with the movie delayed, I could see Nintendo slot in Advance Wars in the December slot so having something like:
I can't see Advance Wars coming out for a while. It's probably been delayed indefinitely, given the current world events, which don't seem to have an end in sight.
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@Grumblevolcano Cranky is the original Donkey Kong from arcade, Mario is the protagonist there. Even that at that time mario and DK (now Cranky) were just placeholders for Popeye and Bluto, today it is canonical that the kong there was Cranky.
@Grumblevolcano Like @VoidofLight I have doubts that Advance Wars is going to make it this year as the real world situation responsible for its delay could drag on for a while. It's possible DK is delayed, but it doesn't have to be just because the movie is, they tend not to rigidly stick to those kinds of marketing patterns and just release a game whenever they can think it can sell. And since Holiday 2022 is currently lacking any major 1st party besides Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, I can see them thinking DK could release this year. But even if not DK, it'll probably be something else.
They should just release it. I don't care about the game, but it doesn't feel right that politics should stop games. I play games because I'm not into politics and real world events.
@TommyTendo it’s not politics though, it’s marketing. Why risk the game flopping because of the war going on when you can delay it to avoid the issue? It’s not as if Advance Wars is a huge franchise that will sell regardless.
Although gamers aren’t the most empathetic and if anything they probably thinks the war is a marketing stunt to promote the game but will just complain the graphics don’t look as good as what’s on the news. ;p
@jump@TommyTendo It wouldn’t take much for mainstream media point fingers at a game like Advanced Wars if it released when there’s such a major war taking place, especially if they learn about the mission about an invasion of a nation based on Russia. It would be a PR disaster.
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@TommyTendo It's not just politics. It's also just not smart to release a game with modern war and have a Russian stereotype as a boss when the world is having a war with Russia at the moment. Given the leader of Russia's mental state, there's no telling how much danger something like that could put companies into or nations into.
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It does seem like maybe Nintendo aren’t planning to do any indie Directs first half of the year the way things are going. But there’s a lot of exclusives which maybe Nintendo are thinking are the more important games to really focus on promoting this year, so undies are taking a back seat at the moment. I know it could easily happen in May but it’s definitely seeming likely Nintendo aren’t doing anything until whenever the next general Direct takes place.
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