Remember Project Giant Robot, the other pet project that Shigeru Miyamoto was working on while hyping Star Fox Zero? After not hearing about it for some time, the project has recently been cancelled.

Nintendo was contacted by Polygon following the game being absent from the company’s recent earnings report. It replied that Project Giant Robot had been cancelled and that “We made this decision after considering our overall product and development strategy.”

Given that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be the last Nintendo developed title for the Wii U, it was obvious that Giant Robot wouldn’t be around in the near future. However, this also means that it won’t be heading to the Nintendo Switch anytime soon either.

Project Giant Robot appeared as a fairly simple game, allowing players to battle other robots as a giant robot. It was meant to be controlled by the Wii U GamePad. What are your thoughts on its cancellation? Let us know in the comments.

In its recent earnings report, Nintendo has revealed that Shigeru Miyamoto’s Project Giant Robot will be out in the “first half of 2015” for North America and Europe. Ponder this for a moment.

Project Giant Robot and Project Guard were teased at last year’s E3 along with a new Star Fox for the Wii U. Not much information was offered aside from a 2015 release but if Project Giant Robot was to release in the first half of this year, it would theoretically need to come out by June end.

It’s not impossible, considering E3 2015 will take place from June 16th to 18th (with several companies hosting their own press conferences prior to this). Nintendo could talk about the game during its Direct presentation and release it shortly afterwards. This would indicate a digital download release rather than a full-fledged commercial release so we’ll need to wait for more information to be sure.

What are your thoughts on Project Giant Robot out by June end? Let us know in the comments.

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In 2014, Nintendo managed to even reverse the Wii U’s sales momentum a little– sales are up this year, compared to last year- and they managed to reverse the Wii U’s perception, at least among enthusiast gamers, from a standing joke to a highly desirable platform with the best library of exclusives on the market.

Their lineup for this year had a lot to do with all of this, sure, but a lot of it also had to do with their stellar E3 showing back in June, where they demonstrated that, unlike some other companies, just because their system was underperforming, they would not abandon it. Instead, they doubled down and showed off a slate of great upcoming games on the platform, that somehow looks even better than everything we already have.

In this list, we look at those upcoming games- there’s an amazing lineup of new Wii U games announced for 2015, and here, we will look at just which of these are the ones you should be looking forward to the most in the coming year.

Ready? Okay, here we go.

Project Guard/Project Giant Robot

Exactly what these games are, we’re not quite sure yet, which is a bit surprising, given that Nintendo is so insistent that they are coming next year. We actually don’t even know if they are two separate games yet- but given that Nintendo has always shown them off and referred to them together, we’re going to go ahead and assume that they’re both part of the same package.

Undoubtedly, these were the weakest part of Nintendo’s otherwise stellar E3 showing. We had been hearing a lot about the new mysterious project Miyamoto had been working on, and how it would utilize the Wii U Gamepad in innovative ways, but their E3 debut, at least, left a lot to be desired, and the games just ended up coming off looking rough and unpolished, and also unconvincing proof of concepts. The Treehouse stream, which you can see above, was a little better, as they started to look like some interesting and innovative takes on existing genres. Although right now, it may be easy to just dismiss them as unpolished tech demos, it would probably be unwise- from these rough tech demos, Miyamoto has wrought masterpieces before such as Pikmin, or crowd pleasers such as Wii Sports.

Whether or not Project Giant Robot/Project Guard end up in that same list of successes for him remains to be seen, but the man has earned our benefit of the doubt- if anyone can innovatively make a compelling case for the Wii U Gamepad, Miyamoto is it, so we’re going to watch just how this pet project of his turns out.

According to IGN, Star Fox Wii U is indeed in development and will be releasing in 2015. The game will allow players to manoeuvre their Arwing using the Wii U Gamepad and you can even transform it into a helicopter or Landmaster tank depending on the situation.

Shigeru Miyamoto is also working on two new projects, namely Project Giant Robot and Project Guard. Giant Robot is about creating your own robots and using them to battle with the GamePad – where you can also head into cockpit mode to fight other robots – while Guard is about defending the Earth from a robot invasion. You’ll be able to employ 12 different cameras to guard against enemies in Project Guard and it should be intriguing to see how the mechanics work.

Regardless, Star Fox for the Wii U is indeed happening. Are you excited? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below along with your favourite game from Nintendo’s presser.