There's also a ton of third party releases rolling out for 3DS, so I'm not terribly worried right now.

Pretty much what you expect to see at the end of a console cycle and this close to the launch of a new one.

.....and everyone says the vita has no games, they both lack titles.

Still no Wii U release date and price?
Good lord, Nintendo. It's less than six months until Christmas. Come on!

Its funny to see the younger generation have no clue how gaming cycles work, even when it is their day job.

A tactic used by Nintendo during their 64 era was to trickle out titles, repeating pretty constantly that it's "quality, not quantity". This drove up sales for games people normally wouldn't have bothered with because they were starved for new games, and it drove up review scores because anything was better than the mostly nothing that system got.

I've yet to see them change this trend. Nintendo has a deep and diverse catalog of IPs, but they trickle everything out and most of what gets released isn't exactly deep or deeply sustainable. None of what I read surprises me; they've done this before, and will continue to do so for as long as there are people willing to buy their bullshit.

Enjoy your trickle.

Man, what if I stayed exclusively on Nintendo consoles like I used to do until, uh, 2008? I would have given up gaming I think.

So did the Wii have one of the most pathetic deaths for a console?
I know the Gamecube went out with a bang, and the PS2 was still supported years after it was done.

This cracks me up a little. I always hear about the Vita suffering from nothing coming out, and yet the 3DS has the exact same issue. I don't hear Nintendo being called out often about their lack of content. Nintendo having a larger fanbase for handhelds and a cheaper handheld really let's them get away with stuff no other company could.

@Quiotu

3rd party games are being released all the time for the 3DS, the same can't be said for the Vitas.

Uh

the wii is phased out

the ds is phased out

the 3ds is damn strong

Animal Crossing (temp title) — TBD
Art Academy (temp title) — TBD
Fire Emblem (temp title) — 2012 2013
Lego City: Undercover (temp title) — TBD
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon — Holiday
New Super Mario Bros. 2 — 8/19/2012
Paper Mario: Sticker Star — Holiday
Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask — Nov. 2012
Super Smash Bros. (temp title) — TBD

I am not sure I am seeing the issue...........

Nintendo is phasing systems out.....

Also keep in mind nintendo and xseed teamed up on last story, even though its not on the list.

@stealth

damnit im so sad that i only want 2 games on that list. oh well i hope 3rd party are making more games im interested in.

all is good though i have sound shapes and ragnarok odyssey to look forward to on the vita.

Five years from now, I'll be in a trade shop, see one on the cheap, and say "Ya know, I never did play The Last Story..."

Yes, 3ds has the exact same problem vita does. Haven't bought a new 3ds game since a week before vita came out

The Wii-U isn't much better than this...

3ds has the same problems Vita does, eh?
Yeah, no.

@sayword

thats only first party so third party titles wouldnt be on the list

The 3ds has a pretty impressive holiday, and games keep rolling in.


Of course the wii u wont be up there till after tgs

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!

Do... om?

There's over 20 3ds games i have on my amazon wish list, and the Vita has 0 that id want. So ya its all preference.

@Quiotu

The Vita has literally 3 games scheduled for the next 2 months. Not 3 first party games, 3 games in total.

Everyone's release slate is looking anemic these days, even more so than previous end-of-cycle lulls. The Wii U's release date hasn't even been announced yet, there's no reason for Nintendo to believe it has the steam to abandon the Wii's final holiday season. It's likely their cash issues more than anything.

this is all sorts lf fucked up. there are amazing games on both 3ds and vita. the fact that people say one system has games and the other doesnt shows how ignorant and how big of a hypocrite gamers are.

as for me i have 8 vita games (not including psp or downloads) and i have 3 for 3ds. the fact that people cant understand that it is preference needs to be shit on by me while i pee in your mouth.

@alan argentina

and the 3ds has 2 games kingdom hearts and mario what is your point? (im really excited for DDD)

at least with the vita we are getting some originality this summer. Ragnarok odyssey and sound shapes.

@SayWord

My point is there is 3 games coming out for the Vita in the next 2 months. If you go back another 2 months, you won't see much outside of Resistance and Gravity Rush besides some ports and downloadable stuff.

I was responding to that guy that compared the 3DS library to the Vita's. Regardless of who's throat you'd like to shit down for whatever reason, the Vita is doing the same weeks-between-games thing the PSP went through. It's unmistakable, and should be disheartening.

For reference, in the months of April, May, June, and July, the Vita has had 10 weeks where no games were released at all. This is compared to the 3DS's 1.

This means that, in the last 4 months, there have been more weeks without a Vita release than weeks where there were. I want the Vita to succeed as bad as anyone, I think that handhelds are the most hardcore gaming machines outside of the PC, but it's clear that Vita support just isn't there yet.

I just want my damned copy of Animal Crossing. Is that so much to ask?

I'm still waiting for those 3rd party games, Where's my 3DS 3rd party games?

@terran
Me 2...-_-;
I will be importing (potentially through the eshop) it with my Japanese 3ds this fall, hopefully.

@sayword
I think the "has no gaems" statement is just an exaggeration.
At least, I hope it is...

both consoles have a nice list(not going to compare the numbers here) of games, but of course preference will change the "actual " number per person.

Think your thinking to hard about this Chris. Sure its sparse, but it does them no good to release a bunch of Wii games suddenly out of no where, when no one (in the empirical sense) really cares any more.

As for the 3DS game dates, this happened last year and went fine. they'll space them out over the coming months, probably one a month, till the end of the year, given that they've got enough games to make that spread.

Also have to figure Pokemon will be huge for them, so they may have 2 games in one month, in order to give Pokemon its own unimpeded space in October. Space it'll probably need.

Real problem I see is that there's no hard date for the Wii-U yet. They need to get that price out and get on the ball of getting people to agree with it (cause you know few will, even if its a good price)

God, really can't wait for Paper Mario: Sticker Star

N

Not bad for a 1st party lineup.^

Nintendo are always like this, at least post-SNES. Their machines are for them to release Mario, Zelda and a bit of Metroid on, and then get random shovelware and late ports. They also seem to trade very heavily on nostalgia, hence their considerably greater success in America and Japan, where their characters hold a lot more nostalgia for more people than elsewhere.

I'm okay with that, Zelda games are usually very good, but they behave more like a third-party developer that has mad enough fans to support a console for their small amount of rehashed franchises. It's like if Valve made a console that only had the Orange Box games (and sequels) on, plus shitloads of ports.

Hahaha, Nintendo sucks.

I think it would be fun to look at sony and microsofts planned first party releases for comparisons sake... minus their next gen aspirings, of course.

The 3DS schedule is okay (though we've been waiting for some of those games since launch), but the DS and Wii schedule is pathetic; even for the end of its lifespan.

I don't understand how Nintendo expects people to get excited for the Wii U, when they won't release any games for its predecessor. NOA had to be dragged through hot coals in order for it to localize Xenoblade, even when it was getting translated by NOE (into many more languages at that) and its present lineup was nothing & empty space. And after that, they didn't even touch Last Story, no, Xseed had to save the day on that one. Nintendo's been losing money for the first time in their history, and they really should know why. NOA is part of a games company, and it refuses to release games. It's as if NOA expects to be successful merely by selling hardware; even when they are selling at a loss or they not releasing software to justify the hardware's purchase. I mean, Fire Emblem was actually a difficult decision for them on whether or not to localize (considering how long the announcement took).

I'm a huge fan of Nintendo's games, but I'm not a fan of long software droughts. The longer they use the "Wait and see, I promise!" card, the more fans are going to become disenchanted.

Yanno somethin... all of you suck, you fanboys and you anti-fanboys need to all die in a fire.. I'm happy with my vita's game lineup since a ton of the games I had just suddenly opened up, a majority of my psp titles came over and I have the space to actually have TONS of psp games on my system..

Also tons of Mini's came to the vita (many mini's I actually have never played since I felt it was a mobile experience..) So if you REEEEAAAAAALLY wanna say Vita has no games you need to include all the Mini's, Vita titles, PSP titles and the next OFW 1.8 we're getting PS1 classics...

My library is full of PS1's I've never gotten around to playing or finishing along with PSP and Mini's so.... counting the DS just like counting all the others for the PSvita you're left with a HUUUGGGEE gap between the two when it comes to actual games... if we're talking about vita/3ds games they both are piss poor.. check the quality of games that have come out for the vita/3ds lotsa mario over on 3DS, lots of different games for vita..

Anyhow my rant is done, you all can go back to claiming one system is better then the other.. when I wake up tomorrow I'll happily be playing my Vita as my Ps3 collects dust.. well if I could get my Vita away from my girl that is... *sighs at the lonely 3DS in the corner* Dunno why I bought her it, neither of us use it..

It really is pretty sad how Nintendo and Microsoft support their hardware. The second the new shit is out, they drop all support of the old systems. The Gamecube was discontinued 3 months after the Wii released, but the entire PS2 life cycle may very well contain both the Gamecube AND the Wii in their entirety.

And don't even get me started on the 4 year life cycle for the Xbox. Out of all the things Microsoft blatantly ripped from the Sega handbook (controller, console aesthetic, fixation with online, first party/exclusivity carry over, etc) this wasn't one of the things they should have been so quick to copy. The jump from the Saturn to the Dreamcast was a disaster.

All I want is Animal Crossing and the Layton/Ace Attorney crossover. THAT'S ALL I FUCKING WANT. CAN'T NINTENDO GIVE IN TO MY NEEDS?!

Chris is a coward, I wish if he had an issue hed say it to my face

Says the one not using his real identity online. Oh, irony.

Come on N... quit fucking around and announce some Wii U info!!!