Nintendo to Show a Lot of Unreleased Games at the SXSW Gaming Expo

Dang it!
I would totally go to Texas if I had the chance. But alas, I cannot.

Considering Pikmin 3 and W101 don't have release dates, but are scheduled to come out sometime in the next few months.....think we'll get a release date by the end of March?

I mean, both of those were slated to be in the "launch window" of Nov-March, but were delayed for polishing purposes, surely they must be close....

No Wario?

I hope it's a new demo for Pikmin 3; I would like new footage.

Would be nice to see these in action.

Smash Bros. Smash Bros. Smash Bros. Smash Bros. Smash Bros. (repeats ad nauseam)

@JSuede @MasterWario Here's hoping. One would think it's almost finished by now... And some new footage would be nice at least.

@AlexSora89 Nope, that's being saved for E3, sorry.

Pretty hyped for HarmoKnight
Still looking forward to e3 more than anything though. It's so far away...

Aw, man! I'm from Austin, but I go to college in Alabama. Can't believe I'm missing this.

Wow, I read the title wrong at first glance. I skimmed the page and read "Nintendo to Show a lot of Unannounced games..." Anyways, I wish I could go but I am rather far from Texas.

I live really close! Might drive up there this weekend.

NOT GOING unfortunately. I live too far from it.

@MasterWario
Agreed; I've been waiting for Pikmin 3 for years and it was supposed to be a launch title, then a launch window title, and now it's an incredibly vague date range.

It was their big opening announcement at E3 last year, why do we have nothing but a demo, a trailer with footage taken from the same demo, and a trailer that shows how shiny it is but nothing about gameplay?

Really hope they show off new things there.

@ocarinadude14 Do it! Let us know if Pikmin 3 is new stuff too.

@C7_ I can't imagine it will take much longer to finish, May at the latest (currently slated for April-June). They know people want it and without anything else to really move systems (outside of Japan), investors will get antsy. Pikmin 3 looked shiny way back when....just think how good it will look after being delayed for polish purposes. o.O

They know they need to start selling the system more, so I'm thinking that W101 will have new stuff there too, rather than just that same trailer running on a loop. That would be a HUGE mistake.....they are smarter than that...they just need to use their intellect.

Good thing I live in Austin and go to this thing every year.
Now I'm excited!

EDIT: Also, if anybody is wondering, the two characters beside Mario are from a game called "FireFall".

@Pixelroy
LOL, that's what I thought, too.
I think there is enough games to make up for the lack of it, though (for me at least, anyway).

BTW, If anyone passes by me at the event, my username is "Rc"

AC can't come soon enough...

So many good games on that list! I wish I could go to the event.

man i can't wait for wonderful 101... i might be the minority here but that is the game i've been waiting for

Hm, looks interesting. How old do you have to be to go to this? I can't pass for 18.

@Bobhobob

All ages are permitted.

@Armixr
Right there with ya buddy.

@C7_ Yeah at this point I I'm not going to clamber about a release date. It feels like we'll never get a solid release date so if I can't get that then I at least want some new gameplay footage.

@JSuede You would think that if it's coming out soon they would advertise it more. Actually, it feels as if most of the games coming out this year are sort of creeping in, rather than being showered with (hype) info like Super Mario Galaxy 2 pre-launch had. Dark Moon, for example, is coming out this month and I hardly know anything about it (other than that fantastic-looking multiplayer).

Then again, perhaps I simply want to know more about games coming soon than in previous years.

@MasterWario I agree, Nintendo has a bit of a marketing problem at the moment. Though, I do feel like games don't get nearly as much advertising as movies in that you hardly see marketing for it until a week or so prior to release. I remember only seeing Dead Space 3 commercials not long before and after it released. Now, it is pretty much non-existent.

It doesn't help that pretty much every site has this weird bias against Nintendo (other than here....obviously). There are a few stories here that I haven't seen anywhere else. For instance....there were 2 indie games announced for the Wii U and 2 different devs gave Nintendo praise for how easy they are to work with....IGN had neither story, nor the one about Crysis 3 being ready to launch. Joystiq is a little better, but not much.

I kind of feel like Nintendo is doing a soft launch of the Wii U, since there were hardly any commercials around during launch and none of them really showed anything. Let the early adopters pick it up, help with tweaks, word of mouth, streamline and build the Miiverse while the library grows. Then blow the doors off at E3 and bring a deluge of games this fall.

I'd expect to see commercials/ads for Luigi's Mansion in the next couple weeks, same goes for Lego City....especially on channels with child demographics. Marketing to kids will get the parents to buy, while gamers tend to know about things ahead of time. Casuals might see an ad somewhere but neither of those games falls into the same market as something like Wii Fit, so they are less likely to care regardless.

I, like pretty much everyone else here, would love to go; but I'm afraid Texas is a far cry from Ohio.

well ontario is farther away than that lol i really would like to go but alas i can't

@JSuede I thought they announced that those titles were coming out waaay after summer... I'd REALLY love for them to come out sometime extremely soon though, there's only so much internet surfing I can do on my wii u

@chucknorrmis If you're talking about W101 and Pikmin, they are currently slated for Q2 2013 which is April-June. They both were originally going to be Launch Window with Pikmin most likely appearing in March.

Coupled with Miyamoto saying that it wasn't "delayed" so much as..."sort of shifted", I feel like Pikmin is at least pretty close to releasing. To me, the "sort of shifted" means they took a look at it and said, "Can it look better?" and then it moved back for pure visual polish. A delay, to me, seems more like they took a look at it and said, "X,Y,Z issues need to be fixed before it is released. Push it back."

Best news is.....the drought will soon be at an end regardless. In 10 days, Lego City Undercover releases....40-50 hour game and apparently quite good. The next day you've got the definitive version of NFS: Most Wanted that features upgraded visuals and some pretty cool gamepad stuff. Also on the 19th, there is Monster Hunter....which people have put well over 300 hours into....it's crazy.

*this thing really needs a notification system for when someone replies.

So did this ever...happen? Any new Pikmin 3 footage?