Nintendo's recent financials contain all kinds of interesting information, including a rough release schedule for the coming months. While this is naturally looking a bit on the light side as the 3DS and Wii U come to the end of their lifespans and Nintendo continues to keep its Switch cards close to its chest, it does throw up some interesting entries.
For example, Project Giant Robot (still not its final title) remains on the list with a "TBD" date. Shown off alongside Project Guard at E3 2014 as one of Miyamoto's pet projects, it hasn't been seen or heard of for ages, yet Nintendo clearly feels it's still on the way.
The same can be said for Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training: Can You Stay Focused?, a European 3DS title which was supposed to launch in 2013 but never saw release - despite hitting North America in the same year. UK store GAME has opened a pre-order page which also says "TBC-2016" and there's official box art, so perhaps it's actually on the way to Europe.
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Ok, this is getting into running gag territory.
Some say when Devilish Brain Training releases in Europe, a portal built of bones and charred flesh will erupt from under the Channel to birth obscene horrors and malevolent abominations into our world. NoE doing good work on stopping this from happening.
Given what happened to Project Guard... maybe Project Giant Robo will become an eShop spin-off to Breath to the Wild? There are some giant machines in there afterall!
On the other end, TBD on Dr. Kawashima feels like someone at NoE suddenly found the files of the translated EU version in a forgotten folder "Oh my, we forgot to release it!!! O_O;;;".
I feel like it is Miyamoto moreso than Nintendo refusing here.. but hey, I guess he pretty much is Nintendo xD
Project Giant Robot is beyond help. It was a flawed creation from the beginning and just like above is a mess. Lit it die in peace.
Project giant farce.......
I wonder how many concepts and ideas like this junk, Nintendo has resources dedicated to whilst saying that more vc options are too much of a drain etc.
Strange really!?!
@EllenJMiller That's the rumour we've been hearing, I can't reveal my source, though.
Cackles manically
Forgive me, but this info isn't from the investors meeting we're expecting, is it? Isn't that today or tomorrow?
Dying for new Switch info!
Brain Age is kinda cool.
I'd be up for that - loved all the "brain training" type games a few years back.
@Moon This is from the financials, which are available online.
Good to hear. I love brain age and still have hopes for project robot.
This reeks of someone at Nintendo not actually reading their own list of upcoming titles before publishing it. There is genuinely no reason it's taken over 3 years to prepare Brain Training, unless they're waiting for a hole in their publishing schedule which needs filler. Oh wait, like now...
I'd kind of like them to do something similar with Project Giant Robot to what they done with Project Guard... tie it into an existing franchise and release it alongside a main series release for that franchise.
The only problem with doing that for Project Giant Robot would be what franchise to tie it into, as there aren't really any that would properly fit with the giant robot concept... but if I had to pick one, I might actually go with Pikmin, with the giant robots actually being toy robots that only seem giant to those characters.
Those preorder websites have been up since 2013...
Interesting.
Brain Training is seemingly confirmed then. I'm glad actually, I've always been a big fan of the DS games so I'll be more than happy to get the 3DS one. Plus, it only being £18 is really nice. It probably would help with the drought of 3DS games coming now.
I never liked the look of that devil head guy. I know that sounds petty but it just looks weird to me for some reason, and that's coming from a guy who's fsvorite character is Yoshi.
Anyway, I'm real suprises to see Giant Robot still possibly being a thing. Hopefully we will hear more soon.
"Come on Shibata, give us Brain Training 3!"
@DoctorOverbuild Sorry, but what drought? Dragon Quest VII and Rhythm Paradise just released, and we've still got Pokémon Sun/Moon, Super Mario Maker, Sega 3D Classics Collection, Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, and 7th Dragon III: Code VFD coming before the end of the year.
I guess I'm one of the few people who is actually interested in Project Giant Robot...
Little bit late at this point isnt it? It'll probably do okay but all those adult players from the DS era have probably moved onto similar games on their phones....
@RainbowGazelle Okay, there's clearly not as much of a drought as I thought lol. But in terms of me Personally only a couple of games really intrigue me
We waited so long here in Europe they should give us Devilish Brain Training for free or at least for 1000 platinum points on my.nintendo...
I think NoE is waiting for a time when there's no 3ds releases, meaning that they won't release it anytime soon because of Pokemon and Super Mario Maker 3ds.
Maybe they can make Giant Robot on NX since it has a feature the Wii U didn't?
I'm wondering if Devilish Brain Training isn't being released because brain training as an idea has been busted (well, not completely busted, but there are many studies that show that playing brain training games simply makes you better at those brain training games and does not lead to overall increase in brain power.)
Scientific American has a range of articles on this.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/search/?q=games+and+brain+training
Just release Devilish Brain Training on the E-shop that game has been in Limbo for years
This game is not worth getting. It is funny it is still on the list. But as a North American who has it, I want to tell everyone waiting on it in Europe that it is not worth the wait. The original brain training games for DS were much better.
I still don't get why they didn't release Devilish Brain Training in Europe. Its already localized and everything.... Maybe the world devilish causes a problem? Some governments are a bit sensible.
And project giant robot is right on track to become vaporware!
Cool
i have a fealing giant robot will be a switch title
Oh yeah. Those are things.
@NintyFan PGR was shown off heavily at the same E3 that Zelda U was shown at, and that doesn't have a release date either.
Hey @Damo What did the Financials list as the release date for Zelda U? Surely it must have been on there as its a Wii U game, and if it wasn't listed for Wii U at all surely somebody would have mentioned that.
Nevermind @Damo I found it.
In case anybody else is interested, Nintendo still has Zelda on Wii U listed as "2017". Several other games on 3DS have "spring 2017" dates, Poochy and Yoshi has actual dates in Jan/Feb 2017. If Nintnod was so sure Zelda in March wouldn't it at least say ""1st half" or something?
Page 6 of 7 (page 5 in the PDF doc)
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2016/161026_2e.pdf
Project Giant Robot will probably become a small Switch game/minigame.
Devilish Brain Training is shovelware.
Ah, Nintendo of Europe. Where would we be without your terrible incompetence?
I swear, all of these "Project" games always fall into oblivion. Project HAMMER was one of them!!
tbh this game wont sell well anyways, if you want brain training then mobile is the perfect way
Haha yeah I wanted to get Brain Training on 3DS back when it was TBD, waited for a while but realized it wasn't coming out here.
I still want Giant Robot, even if it's just an eshop game.
YIKES!
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