LOS ANGELES—Most of the games Nintendo announced at E3 this year are due at unspecified dates in 2015. This is bad news for any Wii U owners who were hoping for a flood of games to fill the gap between Mario Kart 8 and the new Smash Bros. game at the end of the year, though the Wii U-exclusive Bayonetta 2 bundle in October may ease the pain for fans of its over-the-top action.
If you want to know how serious Nintendo is about turning the Wii U around, though, remember that every single one of the announcements at its Digital Event was about a new Wii U game. Most of those games won't actually come out until 2015 (which is a whole other problem) but Nintendo's energies are now focused entirely on shoring up the Wii U and building some positive momentum.
The only new 3DS title announced at the show, Code Name S.T.E.A.M., was shown not in the Digital Event but at a small, private developer session halfway through the show. Smash Bros. and the new Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire remakes will carry the 3DS through the end of the year, and third-party support for the system is robust enough that it doesn't need Nintendo's full attention right at the moment.
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