Revered gaming publication Edge has named Super Mario Galaxy 2 as its game of the year fending off fierce competition from the likes of Red Dead Redemption, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Mass Effect 2.
“Super Mario Galaxy 2 nips and tucks its predecessor’s triumphs into tuned and taut snippets of interactive euphoria.
“Galaxy 2 is product of a surfeit of imagination and a will to test and delight that sits at the very peak of videogame artistry.”
- Edge magazine
Nintendo have announced that they’re live streaming their E3 press conference online via their official website at 9 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, June 15th.
Legendary games designer Shigeru Miyamoto has gone on record to say that 2010 will be a “really great year” for Nintendo Wii owners.
“This year’s going to be really great for the hardcore Nintendo player, especially with Super Mario Galaxy 2.”
“I really want many households to be able to have a hands-on experience of Mario Galaxy 2. I didn’t have any involvement in Metroid Other M, but it is on its way. And also we are working on the New Legend Of Zelda for Wii.”
- Shigeru Miyamoto
The Nintendo channel in the United Kingdom have run a segment highlighting the key blockbuster releases from Nintendo this year.
Amongst the games that were briefly mentioned were the sublime Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid: Other M and Nintendo’s Zelda for Wii.
Jesse Divnich, an analyst for EEDAR, claims that Nintendo will release the successor to the Nintendo DS this year to counter the ongoing threat of Apples iPhone and Sony’s PSP.
One of the biggest reasons for Nintendo’s success in the handheld market is their ability to remove opportunity gaps for competitors to enter. Nintendo’s transition from the GBA to the DS, a year earlier than anticipated, was a brilliant strategy to remove any upper hand the Sony PSP could have by being first to market.
If Nintendo follows the same game plan in 2010, the main reasons will probably not be the release of the PlayStation Portable Go, which is already shaping up to be a disappointment for Sony, but the continuing success of the Apple made iPhone, which is becoming an important platform for gaming on the go. Pushing out a DS2 handheld offering some kind of motion tracking and more multimedia capabilities might be a significant step in reassuring publishers and gamers that the DS still counts.
Nintendo and Team Ninja’s highly anticipated Metroid: Other M has been confirmed again by Nintendo for a 2010 release. No word as of yet regarding when in 2010, but as always I’ll keep you posted.
“The next highly anticipated offering in the Metroid franchise is Metroid: Other M, which will be available this year,”
- Nintendo
Satoru Iwata has confirmed to Japanese newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, that the next iteration of the Zelda franchise for the Nintendo Wii is currently scheduled for a late 2010 release. Whether this is Japan only remains to be clarified, hopefully more news regarding this issue will follow shortly.
Iwata also informed the Japanese news publication that the future successor to the DS will have “highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing”. No word as of yet as to when we will see it, but expect more information at this years E3 event in June.
I’d just like to wish you all a happy 2010!
Last year was a fantastic year for the site, so I’d like to thank every single one of you for making it such a great year. 2010 looks set to be an incredible year for video games so stay tuned to Sickr for all the latest Nintendo news.
To celebrate the site I’m considering introducing a Forum in the next couple of days which will be free to sign up to, and is advertisement free. More to come on this over the next few days : )
Thank you all,
- Sickr
President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, has warned that the eagerly awaited Legend of Zelda Wii might not make its widely expected 2010 release date.
“We haven’t committed to Zelda for 2010… so we’ll see how that continues to develop,” Fils-Aime told GameTrailers TV.
- Reggie Fils-Aime
Unfortunately it appears as though we won’t be seeing the fantastic looking Red Steel 2 until sometime early next year.
Ubisoft have just announced their latest sales report which tragically states that Red Steel 2 for the Nintendo Wii won’t be available to consumers until the last quarter of the company’s current fiscal year. This means that we should see the eagerly awaited first person title released between January – March 2010.
