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On Thursday, Nintendo 3DS Direct YouTube stream -- featuring a doughnut hungry Reggie -- announced a bevy of upcoming titles for its dual screen handheld console.
Leading the announcements was a 3DS port of Super Mario Maker, the Mario series level creator released on WiiU last year. While 3DS players will be able to play most existing WiiU uploaded courses via the 100 Mario challenge mode, they will not be able to upload courses themselves, though they will have the ability to create and share courses using local multiplayer or Nintendo's Streetpass. Another WiiU port, of Yoshi's Wooly World, was also announced, along with updates for the existing Hyrule Warriors Legends, another 3DS port of a WiiU title.
Ports aside, the stream featured several other upcoming 3DS games, including a new Phoenix Wright title, a new 2D Pikmin game, Pokemon Sun and Moon, Mario Party Star Rush, and Shin Megami Tensei IV. There are also new updates for Mii-Plaza (for people who live in non-rurally depopulated areas).
The stream came only days after the latest Nintendo NX rumors, which suggest that the upcoming console will be some kind of hybrid portable, with detachable controllers. The Wall Street Journal (Paywalled) also reported today the other long standing rumor that the NX will use game cartridges instead of CDs. Despite flying speculations, Nintendo has so far remained relatively quiet on the NX, with CEO Reggie Fils-Aim only recently commenting that "For us, it's not about specs, it's not about teraflops, it's not about the horsepower of a particular system. For us, it's about the content". After lackluster sales of the WiiU, and with approaching hardware upgrades for the Xbox One and PS4, Nintendo strategy appears to be another gamble on innovation, but will they replicate the success of the original Wii? The NX is (rumored) to be due sometime in 2017.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday September 03 2016, @05:30PM
It's as you say, Sony and M$ are making consoles that are increasingly resembling PCs, and as they continue to do so, developers begin to realize that with relatively minimal effort, a game for one of those systems can be ported to PC. The console exclusive is dissappearing, fortunately.