Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (or whatever it's called) isn't really a spinoff game, is it? I thought it was pretty much a fully fledged game, like New Leaf, but with a different take on the role you play.
Nintendo's conference this year didn't bother me at all. Even the little AC mario party game looked cute. If I had friends that were into that sorta thing, I'd totally get it and I'm sure we'd all enjoy what it offers.
This, and nintendo still doesn't see the negatives of the amiibos and the cards: people who don't have the money for collecting them (mostly kids whose parents aren't rich) will be inferior to those who can (mostly kids with wealthier parents) when it comes to competitive games. I can only hope the next not-a-spinoff pokemon game won't suffer from the amiibo/cards garbage. Also, pokemon has always had a lot of spinoff games so that's nothing new or upsetting, I'm fine waiting for a game they've spent plenty of time on.
That being said, I think part of a bad year for nintendo is that they had a good year last year (and the year before) compared to Sony and Microsoft, which are now churning out their big games for the new consoles. 3DS has done well, but the Wii U will have some catching up to do.
sigh, I hate how every time I finally manage to forget about this whole e3 drama this thread gets brought up again...
"upset" is really not the best word to describe this, especially if you were a huge metroid fan like yours truly, can you say emotionally destroyed?
well, nevermind...
I'm indifferent about the majority of it. The only news which actually affects me and the single Nintendo system I own (the 3ds XL) is the Mystery Dungeon Pokemon spinoff...which I am disappointed about since I was hoping for either a sequel or DLC for Pokemon X/Y.
The rest, I'm not bothered about since I don't own a Wii U and am never going to buy one (unless they, for whatever reason, churn out Pokemon games on that system).
It was definitely a disappointment, but to look at things positively that leaves a lot of new possibilities to pop up throughout the year (as not everything is revealed at E3). Plus I'm sure next years E3 will be a huge hit to help make up for this years lackluster one.
