Most Recent: Wii U

For all the Internet wailing that Nintendo just rehashes their favored franchises over and over again, Shigeru Miyamoto is obsessed with newness. In the last 18 months, the famed developer has told reporters that he’s interested in creating new characters for Nintendo, bringing new ideas to Metroid and Star Fox using the Wii U GamePad, and experimenting with the Legend of Zelda series. He has also passed on creating another F-Zero sequel because he can’t think of anything new to add to the franchise.

After all this, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Miyamoto doesn’t just have plans to work on a new franchise for the Wii U… he’s actually doing it right now!

Miyamoto: [I]t’s pointless to talk about other features, no matter how fulfilling, without releasing games of our own, so we hope you’ll look forward to the games to come. Next Spring, with the release of Mario Kart 8, we’ll have a general selection available, so I’ve been thinking it would be a good time to bring out a new franchise.

Famitsu: A new franchise! An all-new title that you would be working on?

Miyamoto: I can’t say too much in detail right now, but I’ve been pretty busy with this title these days.

Just a few days ago, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata confirmed that the company has a full slate of unannounced titles in development for the Wii U. So it might be a while before we hear more about Miyamoto’s next (possible) masterpiece.

[Source: Famitsu (via Kotaku)]

Perhaps in an attempt to counter what was seen as a rather conservative show at this year’s E3 Expo, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has revealed that not all of the games the company has currently in development were shown (in hindsight, this isn’t very surprising).

In an attempt to alleviate the worries of both fans and shareholders at a recent investors meeting, Iwata insisted that there were new games in development and planned for release in 2014. In his reasoning, there was too much information to spill all at one show. The Nintendo President also commented that the company “[doesn’t] want to leave a long gap between announcement/release of new game types that would lessen the impact or allow competitors to copy.”

There’s little doubt that Zelda Wii U (which is officially unannounced) is one of the games, but there was no hint as to whether the others were updates of existing IPs or new inventions from inside the House of N. Whatever the titles are, expect further announcements later this year via future Nintendo Direct videos.

[Source: CVG]