It was only last year that we watched a bunch of adults make fools out of themselves by miming instruments with their Wiimotes. Slowly we realized that day, that Nintendo didn't give a crap about the core gamers anymore. The casual audience was their obvious focus with Wii Fit, Wii Music, Wii Sports Resort and the slew of games that had come before it, and we were left in the dust.
But GASP! They've turned the car around! They are coming back to get us! That's right, as if to say they were sorry, Nintendos press conference this year was filled with games for the hardcore. Whether it be a third Mario & Luigi RPG and new Golden Sun for DS, or the sequel to Mario Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros. for Wii, they seem to be acting like they love us again.
The most interesting conference announcement was a new Metroid for Wii designed by Team Ninja. It remains to be seen fully what this game will be like but a Metroid that plays like Ninja Gaiden is something I'd be onboard with. I never played the Metroid Prime games as I'm not a big first person game fan, but a third person action game is right up my alley.
As for the future, Miyamoto brought up that work on a new Wii Zelda is being done during his Q&A. The best part about that announcement was that he mentioned trying to find ways to help evolve the series. While there hasn't been a bad Zelda game, a new one that's exactly like all the old ones wouldn't have excited me much. It's good to hear that they recognize that the series is getting a little stagnant.
Can Nintendo keep up this momentum though? Obviously they will actually show the new Zelda at next years E3 as Miyamoto says he hopes to have it out next year, but will that be all they have? If everything after this rush of quality games is more Wii Music type junk then they'll easily fall right back into gamers bad graces. It will be nice to use my Wii to play some games other than party games when people are over.
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