Marketing starts in the summer of 2020.
WHOMP WHOMP
The Wii is going on 14 years old and there is a whole new generation of kids who never grew up on it. Nintendo has shut down any and all online service for it and with the exception of 1 dance game... nothing new has been made for it in years. But the biggest factor I believe is that Nintendo NEVER actually focused on family entertainment for the system.
I'D STILL LIKE TO SEE IF THEY EVEN HAVE ANY KIND OF ONLINE SERVICE AT ALL FOR THE AMICO, AND IT HASN'T JUST TRANSFORMED INTO ANOTHER RUN-OF-THE-MILL PLUG 'N PLAY. I'M BETTING ON IT HAS
They were too busy with Metroid Prime (a game I worked on with Miyamoto), Smash Bros, Pikman, Zelda, Mario everything, Pokemon, etc.
DID HE ACTUALLY WORK WITH MIYAMOTO, OR DID HE SUBMIT SOME STUFF THAT LIKE... GOT REPLACED OR SOMETHING? I CAN'T REMEMBER THE ACTUAL STORY WITH THIS
And all the 3rd party publishers had their "C" teams on the platform because no one believed it in and all the important teams were working on PS & XBOX. This produced a pile of shovelware that plagued the system for its entire lifecycle.
NOT SURE I CAN FULLY DISAGREE WITH THIS, TBH, BUT IT JUST MAKES ME THINK OF THE NO-NAME OR "C" TEAMS MAKING SHOVELWARE FOR AMICO. WHO ELSE WAS THERE COMITTING TO THE PLATFORM?
Our FOCUS is on all those family and co-op games that was the real factor in making the Wii so successful.
Our research shows that current families who are still playing the Wii are the ones MOST excited about Amico!! They ARE our target and core audience! They will be the easiest to get... not a hard sell at all.
I'D BE SURPISED IF A FAMILY WHO WAS STILL PLAYING A WII IN 2019 WOULD SOMEHOW COME TO KNOW (OR DISCOVER) WHAT AN AMICO IS.