http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/15/7552097/wii-u-a-distant-fifth-as-a-game-development-platform-but-its-on-the
QuoteWhile future Wii U game development remains surprisingly low,
til it's "surprising" that the least popular console since the Dreamcast has no new games in development, but wait almost six per cent of those surveyed foresee their games being released on the Wii U. Hallelujah, praise be unto God! The Wii U is saved!
Maybe I'll buy a Wii U for sub $100, but with less than no games, it seems highly unappealing.
Once you played a mario game you've played them all
Quote from: Commander Fuckass on January 17, 2015, 01:34:38 PM
Once you played a mario game you've played them all
honestly, 3D World is really good though
i know that most of us here have always found nintendo's business practices to be ridiculous and a lot of us can agree that the wii u really does have a scarcity of games worth buying the console for, but where exactly did the sudden huge increase in nintendo hate come from? almost every post from david or dp in this board over the past week has been extremely anti-nintendo lol
I'm stoked about all the local multiplayer games out and coming out, it's not a great single player console but it's shaping up to be a great multiplayer console.
The gamepad is the saddest thing though, it's just there being a regular controller most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best Wii U game it just does nothing
Quote from: reefer on January 17, 2015, 03:25:37 PM
I'm stoked about all the local multiplayer games out and coming out, it's not a great single player console but it's shaping up to be a great multiplayer console.
The gamepad is the saddest thing though, it's just there being a regular controller most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best Wii U game it just does nothing
wow SSB and only SSB
The second screen is the saddest thing though, it's just there being a map display most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best (3)DS game it just does nothing
The motion controls is the saddest thing though, it's just there being a nuisance or doing nothing most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best Wii game it just adds nothing
The GBA link cable is the saddest thing though, it's just there adding negligible features most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best Gamecube game it just does nothing
The E-Reader is the saddest thing though, it's just there double the GBA's size and weight most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best GBA game it just does nothing
Quote from: Commander Fuckass on January 17, 2015, 03:26:38 PM
Quote from: reefer on January 17, 2015, 03:25:37 PM
I'm stoked about all the local multiplayer games out and coming out, it's not a great single player console but it's shaping up to be a great multiplayer console.
The gamepad is the saddest thing though, it's just there being a regular controller most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best Wii U game it just does nothing
wow SSB and only SSB
Nintendo land, Mario Kart, SSB4, SM3DW, NSMB, Mario Party 10
The point is most of the games are great multiplayer which I love
Nintendo Land is lame and NSMB is a tired sub-series tho
Quote from: Platinum the Trinity on January 17, 2015, 02:11:05 PM
but where exactly did the sudden huge increase in nintendo hate come from? almost every post from david or dp in this board over the past week has been extremely anti-nintendo lol
^^ srsly
i'm angry about spending money on a 3ds
Hope Nintendo Bravely Defaults
Quote from: Tectron on January 17, 2015, 03:40:04 PM
The second screen is the saddest thing though, it's just there being a map display most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best (3)DS game it just does nothing
The motion controls is the saddest thing though, it's just there being a nuisance or doing nothing most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best Wii game it just adds nothing
The GBA link cable is the saddest thing though, it's just there adding negligible features most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best Gamecube game it just does nothing
The E-Reader is the saddest thing though, it's just there double the GBA's size and weight most of the time, so sad because it has so much to offer yet most of the best GBA game it just does nothing
the last two are only peripherals and not needed to enjoy most of the games
but i agree with ya
Quote from: Platinum the Trinity on January 17, 2015, 03:43:12 PM
Nintendo Land is lame and NSMB is a tired sub-series tho
nintendo land has some decent multiplayer games,
nsmb is hella tired
just saying i like that they've focused on multiplayer games
Quote from: David on February 04, 2015, 01:54:34 PM
http://www.polygon.com/2015/2/4/7979071/ps4-sales-financial-results-q3-2014
the ps4 sold 70% of the wii u's entire existence in one quarter [if you believe vgchartz, which puts it at roughly 100,000 units lower than has shipped according to nintendo]. how utterly pathetic lmao
i wonder if nintendo regrets not offering a single official black friday sale bundle
it's like they've given up on even trying to move more units
but i guess they've realized that fewer they sell, the fewer customers they'll disappoint when they once again prematurely announce a new system in a futile attempt to revitalize their relevance in the industry
looking forward to the Wii Blewâ,,¢ in 2016
Quote from: Tectron on February 04, 2015, 02:33:28 PM
Quote from: David on February 04, 2015, 01:54:34 PM
http://www.polygon.com/2015/2/4/7979071/ps4-sales-financial-results-q3-2014
the ps4 sold 70% of the wii u's entire existence in one quarter [if you believe vgchartz, which puts it at roughly 100,000 units lower than has shipped according to nintendo]. how utterly pathetic lmao
i wonder if nintendo regrets not offering a single official black friday sale bundle
it's like they've given up on even trying to move more units
but i guess they've realized that fewer they sell, the fewer customers they'll disappoint when they once again prematurely announce a new system in a futile attempt to revitalize their relevance in the industry
looking forward to the Wii Blewâ,,¢ in 2016
it does seem like that lmao
i honestly can't even say poor nintendo since the console was poorly conceived from the first moment
yeah imo nintendo completely deserves this lol
they have done absolutely nothing to make the wii u an appealing device to anything other than an increasingly tiny niche of gamers
maybe they've learned a valuable lesso-- no stop saying this you'll only disappoint yourself
ok so should i just not ever get a wii u or what confuseddood;
david's opinion notwithstanding
Quote from: Thyme on February 04, 2015, 02:51:26 PM
ok so should i just not ever get a wii u or what confuseddood;
david's opinion notwithstanding
even if it is a david opinion, the simple and correct answer is no
well, get it if you think its current library plus the three titles left to come out are worth the investment of $250 to play lol
the console itself may be shit with very little potential left but for hxxxc nintendo fans who can overlook its shortfalls and have another means of playing third parties (or simply don't care about them) i'd say the library is still sufficient enough to justify the expense
Quote from: David on February 04, 2015, 02:55:13 PM
even if it is a david opinion, the simple and correct answer is no
i should probs just stop gaming at all confuseddood;
[spoiler]and move to france and learn to drive trucks confuseddood;[/spoiler]
Quote from: Thyme on February 04, 2015, 02:59:19 PM
Quote from: David on February 04, 2015, 02:55:13 PM
even if it is a david opinion, the simple and correct answer is no
i should probs just stop gaming at all confuseddood;
[spoiler]and move to france and learn to drive trucks confuseddood;[/spoiler]
yes!!!
Quote from: Tectron on February 04, 2015, 02:57:53 PM
well, get it if you think its current library plus the three titles left to come out are worth the investment of $250 to play lol
the console itself may be shit with very little potential left but for hxxxc nintendo fans who can overlook its shortfalls and have another means of playing third parties (or simply don't care about them) i'd say the library is still sufficient enough to justify the expense
i think it is, but...
eeeeehhhhi had a weird existential crisis at the end of the holidays that made me rethink things, mostly from the (obvious to anyone rational but me) realization that there's no fucking way in hell i'm ever going to get through my backlog
it almost made me delete my sig
it's calmed down, but i'm taking my backlog much more casually now
i retired a bunch of games i got from gog that either didn't work very well on my pc or just weren't really to my taste
and that's what i'm gonna keep doing; if i don't like something or get bored by it i'll just retire it and move on to something else without being worried about it still being in my backlog
with that said, i'll keep the countdown going, mostly as an experiment to see how long it can take me to beat 40 games and how many seemingly good games either consoles can garner in that time, but at this point in time i'm not sure i'm actually going to buy the winning console at the end of the countdown
#shitposting #firstworldproblems #thymepersonallife
lol
that's why i adhere to my strategy of only ever buying games that satisfy a certain threshold on [glow=black,2,300]metacritic[/glow], and even then i still have huge problems keeping up
if i were to allow myself to be any more open minded when it comes to purchasing games i would absolutely never have any hope of ever finishing them all
i never want to find myself being overwhelmed with a huge backlog to the point at which it's discouraging because i know i'll be dead before i've played through them
that's also why i'm so glad the ps4 and xbox one are taking so long to become attractive to me lol
im so glad im casual
too casual for the wii u, too
I love my Wii U?
it flew out of my ass
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YV5jV3olWI[/youtube]
http://www.polygon.com/2015/2/6/7991445/nintendo-software-price-cut [ignore the click bait url link]
basically reading between the lines:
nintendo plans on increasing 3ds software revenues by porting shitty smartphone games and remaking [read: porting] its older games to the 3ds. beyond snes and n64 games, many of which have already had proper remakes, what can nintendo honestly expect port to the system? it's not like it'll be impossible to find them elsewhere. and for the former, why would a parent plunk down $200, or more, for a 3ds xl when crappy tablets and smartphones for children that exist well below that price and are more 'rugged' if they're just going to play the same terrible angry birds clone?
without fixing the pricing structure on its proper games, nintendo is basically starting its first forays into being a bigger zynga
emphasizing ports over new games
sounds like nintendo's finally catching up to the 8th generation goodjob;
Quote from: Tectron on February 09, 2015, 01:04:46 PM
emphasizing ports over new games
sounds like nintendo's finally catching up to the 8th generation goodjob;
esp considering that every port so far has been full price, no matter how underwhelming [oot3d, mm3d] has been full price i'm not sure where nintendo is getting the idea that this will somehow lead to cheaper games
i must be misunderstanding something or that entire interview raises way more questions than it answers
what smartphone games are they planning to port
would nintendo itself be doing the porting or would it comission third parties to do so ???
or maybe iwata wants to entice smartphone devs themselves to bring their games to nintendo platforms, but there is literally no economic incentive for them to do that if they haven't already
the way it's worded implies that it would be nintendo itself developing smartphone ports, but does that mean nintendo is going to be paying for licensing agreements to get shitty smartphone games on the 3ds
is he perhaps talking about porting nintendo's preexisting ios """games""" to 3ds
because 1. there are only two of them so they couldn't possibly be considering that as a reliable long-term strategy 2. they're both trash
i mean wth does "The company plans to re-create games for the Nintendo 3DS portable system based on [...] smartphone offerings" even mean lol
maybe it's a mistranslation because i can't make sense of it
also, to announce a future policy of relying on old ports seems to me like they're implicitly writing off the system as a failure
as in, the profit margins and market penetration of the 3ds brand have been so underwhelming for nintendo that it no longer makes any economic sense for them to develop new games for it, but for the sake of keeping it relevant until its successor and to keep fans who don't know any better from noticing that nintendo has all but moved on, they'll offer a library of mainly barely-touched ports that cost them 10¢ to develop from here on out
i can only hope they mean in tandem with significant new game releases in order to pad their otherwise sickly sparse release schedule (as far as we know both the wii u and 3ds will be completely dead after their next zelda (one of which is, of course, a """remake""")), but somehow i doubt it
Yeah I legitimately have no ideas what to make of that garbage sentence. befuddlement
Quote from: Tectron on February 11, 2015, 11:14:15 AM
as far as we know both the wii u and 3ds will be completely dead after their next zelda (one of which is, of course, a """remake""")
Or maybe even two. There were articles (http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/rumor-twilight-princess-to-be-next-zelda-remake-on-new-3ds) posted just earlier today saying there are rumors that Nintendo is working on a 3DS port of Twilight Princess
If that's true, apparently Nintendo is getting confident in their Wii-to-3DS porting abilities after the amazing graphical "upgrades" seen in DKCR3D and Xenoblade 3D.
[spoiler=mfw](http://i.imgur.com/LMBWrZx.jpg)[/spoiler]
I'd actually appreciate a Wii U remake of TP if they improved models and textures to suit the system's capabilities, but 3DS (or N3DS) ports of Gamecube/Wii games are just a bad idea in general.
Quote from: bluaki on February 11, 2015, 07:39:27 PM
Quote from: Tectron on February 11, 2015, 11:14:15 AM
as far as we know both the wii u and 3ds will be completely dead after their next zelda (one of which is, of course, a """remake""")
Or maybe even two. There were articles (http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/rumor-twilight-princess-to-be-next-zelda-remake-on-new-3ds) posted just earlier today saying there are rumors that Nintendo is working on a 3DS port of Twilight Princess
If that's true, apparently Nintendo is getting confident in their Wii-to-3DS porting abilities after the amazing graphical "upgrades" seen in DKCR3D and Xenoblade 3D.
[spoiler=mfw](http://i.imgur.com/LMBWrZx.jpg)[/spoiler]
I'd actually appreciate a Wii U remake of TP if they improved models and textures to suit the system's capabilities, but 3DS (or N3DS) ports of Gamecube/Wii games are just a bad idea in general.
lol, just what i've always dreamed of, a straight port of the ugliest zelda game in history without any graphical update whatsoever for a full $40
thx iwata !!
Lmao oh dear, Nintendo
Dankey Kang Returns 3D wasn't... awful looking. At least, not as bad as Xenoblade lol
Quote from: bluaki on February 11, 2015, 07:39:27 PM
Quote from: Tectron on February 11, 2015, 11:14:15 AM
as far as we know both the wii u and 3ds will be completely dead after their next zelda (one of which is, of course, a """remake""")
Or maybe even two. There were articles (http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/rumor-twilight-princess-to-be-next-zelda-remake-on-new-3ds) posted just earlier today saying there are rumors that Nintendo is working on a 3DS port of Twilight Princess
If that's true, apparently Nintendo is getting confident in their Wii-to-3DS porting abilities after the amazing graphical "upgrades" seen in DKCR3D and Xenoblade 3D.
[spoiler=mfw](http://i.imgur.com/LMBWrZx.jpg)[/spoiler]
I'd actually appreciate a Wii U remake of TP if they improved models and textures to suit the system's capabilities, but 3DS (or N3DS) ports of Gamecube/Wii games are just a bad idea in general.
lol, when kaz showed me this screenshot earlier, I said it didnt look that bad....
now I see it closer, it looks bad
But if it runs smoothly at least, i think that's more important
you should take a look at the reveal footage
it looks like it's running at about 20fps lol
Quote from: Tectron on February 12, 2015, 12:51:13 PM
you should take a look at the reveal footage
it looks like it's running at about 20fps lol
sucks for people playing it that way then
Quote from: bluaki on February 11, 2015, 07:39:27 PM
Quote from: Tectron on February 11, 2015, 11:14:15 AM
as far as we know both the wii u and 3ds will be completely dead after their next zelda (one of which is, of course, a """remake""")
Or maybe even two. There were articles (http://www.zeldainformer.com/news/rumor-twilight-princess-to-be-next-zelda-remake-on-new-3ds) posted just earlier today saying there are rumors that Nintendo is working on a 3DS port of Twilight Princess
If that's true, apparently Nintendo is getting confident in their Wii-to-3DS porting abilities after the amazing graphical "upgrades" seen in DKCR3D and Xenoblade 3D.
[spoiler=mfw](http://i.imgur.com/LMBWrZx.jpg)[/spoiler]
I'd actually appreciate a Wii U remake of TP if they improved models and textures to suit the system's capabilities, but 3DS (or N3DS) ports of Gamecube/Wii games are just a bad idea in general.
to be fair, the character models in xenoblade looked like they belonged on late playstation games
that was the most un-silvertone post you've made in ages. who are you? who's using your account?
Quote from: Platinum the Trinity on February 12, 2015, 06:35:18 PM
that was the most un-silvertone post you've made in ages. who are you? who's using your account?
i would say it is in character because silvertone loves the xeno series
Quote from: Platinum the Trinity on February 12, 2015, 06:35:18 PM
that was the most un-silvertone post you've made in ages. who are you? who's using your account?
i had a dream i had to clean poop and pizza off this boys neck while this chinese lady made me korean food. my dad got rly angry so i did it. I had to use a wet sock since he didn't have any towels or soap. the boy just had a lot of acne on his neck and when i was finished he said i was good.
he also had really good hand writing in korean and english.
Quote from: Platinum the Trinity on February 12, 2015, 06:35:18 PM
that was the most un-silvertone post you've made in ages. who are you? who's using your account?
me ♡
what
Quote from: اÙ,,Ù,رÙ,Ø© on February 15, 2015, 11:41:35 PM
Quote from: Platinum the Trinity on February 12, 2015, 06:35:18 PM
that was the most un-silvertone post you've made in ages. who are you? who's using your account?
me ♡
felt is clucky is silvertone?
Quote from: fuchsmanguste on February 15, 2015, 10:42:36 AM
Quote from: Platinum the Trinity on February 12, 2015, 06:35:18 PM
that was the most un-silvertone post you've made in ages. who are you? who's using your account?
i had a dream i had to clean poop and pizza off this boys neck while this chinese lady made me korean food. my dad got rly angry so i did it. I had to use a wet sock since he didn't have any towels or soap. the boy just had a lot of acne on his neck and when i was finished he said i was good.
he also had really good hand writing in korean and english.
did you save the pizza for me
no. the pizza just...dissappeared
o rly?
YARLY
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/kirby-and-the-rainbow-curse
new super mario bros. will save the wii u
wind waker hd will save the wii u
donkey kong country will save the wii u
mario kart will save the wii u
bayonetta will save the wii u
smash bros. will save the wii u
amiibo will save the wii u
kirby will save the wii u
next up: yoshi's wolly whyevenbother
Quote from: Tectron on February 18, 2015, 06:01:54 PM
new super mario bros. will save the wii u
kirby will save the wii u
next up: yoshi's wolly whyevenbother
Did anybody actually seriously believe any of these three? As much as I like them, they're not at all system sellers nor are they big releases. 3D World and Pikmin 3 also aren't particularly huge releases, but they probably mattered more than those.
Splatoon then Zelda are the only two remaining known major releases for Wii U
Minor ones include Yoshi, Star Fox, Mario Party, Mario Maker, (probably) a Pokken port
Quote from: bluaki on February 19, 2015, 09:16:12 AM
Quote from: Tectron on February 18, 2015, 06:01:54 PM
new super mario bros. will save the wii u
kirby will save the wii u
next up: yoshi's wolly whyevenbother
Did anybody actually seriously believe any of these three? As much as I like them, they're not at all system sellers nor are they big releases. 3D World and Pikmin 3 also aren't particularly huge releases, but they probably mattered more than those.
Splatoon then Zelda are the only two remaining known major releases for Wii U
Minor ones include Yoshi, Star Fox, Mario Party, Mario Maker, (probably) a Pokken port
nobody here would have said that, for sure. but i'm sure if you were scour the comment sections of any 'woe is nintendo's existence' article, many not too dissimilar sentiments would have been expressed
Quote from: bluaki on February 19, 2015, 09:16:12 AM
Quote from: Tectron on February 18, 2015, 06:01:54 PM
new super mario bros. will save the wii u
kirby will save the wii u
next up: yoshi's wolly whyevenbother
Did anybody actually seriously believe any of these three? As much as I like them, they're not at all system sellers nor are they big releases. 3D World and Pikmin 3 also aren't particularly huge releases, but they probably mattered more than those.
Splatoon then Zelda are the only two remaining known major releases for Wii U
Minor ones include Yoshi, Star Fox, Mario Party, Mario Maker, (probably) a Pokken port
pokken will kill the wii u
http://www.polygon.com/2015/3/3/8145025/ps4-sales-20-2-million-units
already roughly 25% of the ps3s total
xbowned and wii u smh
it's insane to think that this generation, there will likely be only one console which manages to outsell the psp
Quote from: Tectron on March 03, 2015, 07:48:09 PM
it's insane to think that this generation, there will likely be only one console which manages to outsell the psp
glory, glory P S 4
an interesting comment from that article
QuoteA lot of people have both. It’s not as rare as you think. "Gamers" are the people that buy multiple consoles and "gamers" are the main audience this early in the console cycle.
this may be true in north america where the xbone has its only market, but judging from the unpopularity of the console elsewhere, i doubt it
#usaprivilege
didn't you know david?? only american gamers matter
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/03/iwata_nintendo_nx_will_surprise_people_and_change_their_video_gaming_lives
Quote from: iwataHowever, if you only expand upon existing hardware, it's dull. In some shape or form, we're always thinking about how we want to surprise players as well as our desire to change each person's video gaming life.
ironic coming from nintendo, whose past two home consoles were barely anything more than expansions upon hardware that had existed for years lol
not to mention the iterative nature of the 3ds
David you're breaking my heart. :(
Quote from: Tectron on March 23, 2015, 05:28:48 PM
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/03/iwata_nintendo_nx_will_surprise_people_and_change_their_video_gaming_lives
Quote from: iwataHowever, if you only expand upon existing hardware, it's dull. In some shape or form, we're always thinking about how we want to surprise players as well as our desire to change each person's video gaming life.
ironic coming from nintendo, whose past two home consoles were barely anything more than expansions upon hardware that had existed for years lol
along with the nintendo nx
there will be
a nintendo silverware, baking pan,
turns a recipe into a game
and u make w/e u chose to make
and u eat it
get nintendo pts
spend it on a calendar
and eat it
slogan is to make life FUN
Quote from: TLL7-MIB-7LLT on March 23, 2015, 08:21:31 PM
Quote from: Tectron on March 23, 2015, 05:28:48 PM
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/03/iwata_nintendo_nx_will_surprise_people_and_change_their_video_gaming_lives
Quote from: iwataHowever, if you only expand upon existing hardware, it's dull. In some shape or form, we're always thinking about how we want to surprise players as well as our desire to change each person's video gaming life.
ironic coming from nintendo, whose past two home consoles were barely anything more than expansions upon hardware that had existed for years lol
along with the nintendo nx
there will be
a nintendo silverware, baking pan,
turns a recipe into a game
and u make w/e u chose to make
and u eat it
get nintendo pts
spend it on a calendar
and eat it
slogan is to make life FUN
i would buy this
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/253407/iwata-amiibo-isnt-copying-skylanders-or-disney-infinity/
sure iwata, sure
Quote from: iwata"At first glance it may look like we’re a trend follower with amiibo [...] But really what we’re doing is, we have introduced amiibo in a way that is new and where amiibo do things in our games that they can’t do anywhere else. From that perspective, we feel that we are a trendsetter."
uh
how exactly is that any different from what skyl&ers and disney infinity figures do SocksDood;
Quote from: Tectron on March 23, 2015, 08:29:57 PM
Quote from: TLL7-MIB-7LLT on March 23, 2015, 08:21:31 PM
Quote from: Tectron on March 23, 2015, 05:28:48 PM
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/03/iwata_nintendo_nx_will_surprise_people_and_change_their_video_gaming_lives
Quote from: iwataHowever, if you only expand upon existing hardware, it's dull. In some shape or form, we're always thinking about how we want to surprise players as well as our desire to change each person's video gaming life.
ironic coming from nintendo, whose past two home consoles were barely anything more than expansions upon hardware that had existed for years lol
along with the nintendo nx
there will be
a nintendo silverware, baking pan,
turns a recipe into a game
and u make w/e u chose to make
and u eat it
get nintendo pts
spend it on a calendar
and eat it
slogan is to make life FUN
i would buy this
u also get half off on the nintendo pillow after buying a nintendo silverware set and a baking pan
this pillow transfer the hrs u slept in
AND TRANSFERS IT AS HP/MANA REGENERATION FOR A CHARACTER IN THE GAME
WHOOOO
#makinglifefun
Quote from: Tectron on March 23, 2015, 08:32:29 PM
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/253407/iwata-amiibo-isnt-copying-skylanders-or-disney-infinity/
sure iwata, sure
Quote from: iwata"At first glance it may look like we’re a trend follower with amiibo [...] But really what we’re doing is, we have introduced amiibo in a way that is new and where amiibo do things in our games that they can’t do anywhere else. From that perspective, we feel that we are a trendsetter."
uh
how exactly is that any different from what skyl&ers and disney infinity figures do SocksDood;
they're made more cheaply and uglier
Quote from: David on March 23, 2015, 08:35:26 PM
Quote from: Tectron on March 23, 2015, 08:32:29 PM
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/253407/iwata-amiibo-isnt-copying-skylanders-or-disney-infinity/
sure iwata, sure
Quote from: iwata"At first glance it may look like we’re a trend follower with amiibo [...] But really what we’re doing is, we have introduced amiibo in a way that is new and where amiibo do things in our games that they can’t do anywhere else. From that perspective, we feel that we are a trendsetter."
uh
how exactly is that any different from what skyl&ers and disney infinity figures do SocksDood;
they're made more cheaply and uglier
and artificially scarce to create an illusion of high demand
what novel, innovative, fun features nintendo introduced to the plastic waste market
i love how he has the arrogance to call nintendo "trendsetters" for copying an old idea and making it worse lol
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/we-weren-t-cornered-into-smartphone-games-nintendo/1100-6426159/
Quote from: iw@aBut I would like to emphasize here that our alliance [with DeNA] is not the result of a lack of better options for a cornered company.
does anybody believe this
nintendo had been adamant about not capitulating to shareholder demands to go mobile right up until this announcement, and i guarantee they wouldn't have if they didn't feel they had to due to pitiful console sales and a lack of alternatives
there's a reason game companies perceived as successful like sony and microsoft haven't felt any pressure to make cellphone games a core component of their strategy if they wish to survive
[Quote]Mr. Aonuma & team will be hard at work on #Zelda and have decided not to show it @ E3. Thanks for your patience! https://t.co/bwu3nd3fNi[/quote]
RIP
lol
inb4 the wii u release is ultimately cancelled and development moved over to nx
Quote from: Tectron on March 27, 2015, 03:31:32 PM
lol
inb4 the wii u release is ultimately cancelled and development moved over to nx
'new zelda exculsive to ipad'-apple press event circa sept. 2015
Quote from: David on March 27, 2015, 03:34:10 PM
Quote from: Tectron on March 27, 2015, 03:31:32 PM
lol
inb4 the wii u release is ultimately cancelled and development moved over to nx
'new zelda exculsive to ipad'-apple press event circa sept. 2015
i would
what does nintendo even have to show off this e3 then
Another ugly barebones tech demo with Star Fox 64 assets shoehorned in? SocksDood;
yoshi wooli hopefulli
nintendo pulls out of e3, claims conference doesn't "align" with company strategy going forward
Quote from: David on March 27, 2015, 04:12:38 PM
nintendo pulls out of e3, claims conference doesn't "align" with company strategy going forward
hadn't they already done that though lol sillydood;
Quote from: Tectron on March 27, 2015, 04:13:31 PM
Quote from: David on March 27, 2015, 04:12:38 PM
nintendo pulls out of e3, claims conference doesn't "align" with company strategy going forward
hadn't they already done that though lol sillydood;
rofl, true lmao
may as well close this thread down as the wii u is now officially dead
see you in the 'sorry state of the nx' thread
let me at least beat these last 12 games akudood;
Quote from: Thymian on March 27, 2015, 04:25:50 PM
let me at least beat these last 12 games akudood;
https://a.clyp.it/2z0ike2z.mp3
Quote from: Tectron on March 27, 2015, 04:28:43 PM
Quote from: Thymian on March 27, 2015, 04:25:50 PM
let me at least beat these last 12 games akudood;
https://a.clyp.it/2z0ike2z.mp3
smw2yi_baby-mario-crying.wav
Quote from: Tectron on March 27, 2015, 03:59:25 PM
what does nintendo even have to show off this e3 then
Another ugly barebones tech demo with Star Fox 64 assets shoehorned in? SocksDood;
Wii U's future isn't
that bleak. Its known and potential future/post-E3 releases include:
[spoiler]Confirmed in development:
Xenoblade X
Star Fox 64 U
Mario Maker
Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem (possibly vaporware)
Very likely:
Pokken Tournament
Animal Crossing U
Another Mario 3D platformer
Another HD port
Maybe but less likely: (and IPs with no Wii U presence yet)
Pokemon console game
Pikmin 4
Metroid
Paper Mario
Kirby platformer
[/spoiler]
And for 3DS:
Fire Emblem (confirmed)
Pokemon (inevitable)
Another 3D remake (maybe)
Quote from: Thymian on March 27, 2015, 04:10:05 PM
yoshi wooli hopefulli
Last year, they said Yoshi will release in the first half of 2015, which puts it before E3.
But they could delay that too. Considering the state it was in as of last E3, I can't imagine it needing a delay, but who knows.
http://mynintendonews.com/2015/03/28/nintendo-says-e3-will-just-be-focussed-on-wii-u-2015-games/
nintendo-confirms-wii-u-has-no-future-beyond-2015
Quote from: Tectron on March 29, 2015, 12:56:32 PM
http://mynintendonews.com/2015/03/28/nintendo-says-e3-will-just-be-focussed-on-wii-u-2015-games/
nintendo-confirms-wii-u-has-no-future-beyond-2015
alternatively
nintendo-confirms-no-new-3ds-games-production-of-handheld-halted
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/253406/iwata-exchange-rates-preventing-wii-u-price-cut/
i like how nintendo is the only japanese company still using this excuse in 2015
the yen's value has depreciated to like 2/3 of its 2011 peak, even sony who used to love to yell 'muh exchange rates' as its primary means of deflecting blame for its poor performance has stopped pretending that's its biggest problem
in other news, tomorrow's nintendo direct should be fun nyandood;
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/mario-party-10
Wii U is officially dead, rip
Nobody's really cared about Mario Party since the N64 anyway tho, so scores on those games don't matter, because all the sales for MP games come from little kids or parents of said kids. If anything, this one will only do worse cause the Wii U itself is so poorly marketed that none of these kids have one.
i played this for like an hour maybe and the bowser mode is kinda horrible
minigames are okay
2 and 3 are still the best ones by far
Why is it a board game and not the characters walking ariu d
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/splatoon-dropped-voice-chat-over-toxicity-concerns/1100-6426519/
yet another idiotic excuse for being lazy shits
because """toxicity""" is a totally insurmountable problem that couldn't possibly be circumvented by allowing for voice chat only among friends, or by having other players muted by default
eating seeds as a pastime activity
Quote from: whiniest.com on April 10, 2015, 08:22:01 PM
eating seeds as a pastime activity
the toxicity of nintendo
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-s-new-mobile-games-partner-hit-with-layof/1100-6426554/
this is what partnering with nintendo gets you
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-05/15/nintendo-nx-not-wii-u-3ds-replacement
oh boy, another """third pillar""" console
remember how nintendo tried to pretend that the ds was not meant to replace the gba, lol
QuoteNintendo has history in claiming new hardware isn't a replacement for old. Prior to the release of the original Nintendo DS in 2004, the company claimed the untested, radically different hardware was planned as a "third pillar" to stand alongside its home console business and the Game Boy handheld family. The success of the DS rapidly saw it supplant the Game Boy Advance (backwards compatibility with GBA cartridges helped), so Iwata's claims that the NX isn't a replacement should perhaps be taken with a pinch of sodium crystals.
I hope they kill off at least one of their hardware platforms. They can spit out new gaming consoles all they want, they need to focus on making video games because they're not gaining much 3rd party support right now.
I'm interested but I hope they have this far down the road...
At least they're "trying" to remove region lock in the future.
Fabula Sodium Crystallis
i could see this third pillar replacing both the 3ds an wii u, being a portable/at-home hybrid thing
Quote from: ʜɨÉɵ҈҈ on May 19, 2015, 11:52:31 AM
i could see this third pillar replacing both the 3ds an wii u, being a portable/at-home hybrid thing
this sounds awful
Quote from: ʜɨɍɵ҈҈ on May 19, 2015, 11:52:31 AM
i could see this third pillar replacing both the 3ds an wii u, being a portable/at-home hybrid thing
people seem to have latched onto this idea ever since nintendo consolidated its handheld and console development teams into one department, but i have no idea why anyone took it to mean they'd be combining the devices themselves lol
nintendo would be putting themselves at an even bigger risk by halving their potential revenue stream and making themselves completely dependent on the success or failure of one device, unless they could somehow guarantee it would make at least the combined sales of one separate handheld and one separate console (which they certainly can't)
they'd literally and figuratively be putting themselves one step closer to becoming a sega
not to mention that the technology simply isn't there yet, nor will be by 2016, it would either be a mind-bogglingly underpowered console relative to competitor offerings, or it would be heinously expensive and still underpowered, and either option would completely lock them out of any third party support (if there's even any hope at this point of them ever recovering significant third party support) and guarantee yet another generation of irrelevance
i'm certain that there will come a time when consoles and handhelds (or, more accurately, consoles and smartphones) will have effectively converged into one device, but that's still decades off lol
nintendo probably only merged their teams so that they could settle on one base architecture and operating system for the next generation of hardware to facilitate integration between the two, but there's no way that """fusion""" fan fiction is coming true lol
Good point about the "all eggs in one basket" part too. I agree. They're nintendo, they need to keep selling hardware and consolidating their consoles doesn't do that either.
I don't quite understand this third pillar thing. It will replace one or the other most likely. So NX is the Wii U's successor?
judging by nintendo's traditional release patterns alone, one would expect it to be a successor to the 3ds as for the past 15 years now they've pretty much only ever release new hardware in an alternating handheld-home console-handheld pattern
and using the ds's life progression as a model for the 3ds, nintendo would be right on schedule to release a true 3ds successor in fall-winter 2016
but with the absolute failure of the wii u they might feel pressured to buck that trend and release a new home console first (and postpone the release of a new handheld for another year or smth), and with only one or two major wii u games confirmed for 2016 (zelda and........ ??) it wouldn't surprise me if they did just that
Quote from: Tectron on May 19, 2015, 12:49:57 PM
people seem to have latched onto this idea ever since nintendo consolidated its handheld and console development teams into one department, but i have no idea why anyone took it to mean they'd be combining the devices themselves lol
well I never heard that so that's not my line of thinking anyway lol
plus they wouldn't go about it in the way you're saying. more likely it would probably be something like a portable system that would also function as the controller for a home console (that would run higher end games plus the portables) or perhaps it would just be a system that would stream these high end games to the portable system, like a wii u gamepad the size of a 3ds with 4g capabilities or something i dunno man
plus they claim this is a "3rd pillar" so it could easily be something silly that one wouldn't want/expect for a mainline console
Quote from: ʜɨɍɵ҈҈ on May 19, 2015, 07:10:44 PM
Quote from: Tectron on May 19, 2015, 12:49:57 PM
people seem to have latched onto this idea ever since nintendo consolidated its handheld and console development teams into one department, but i have no idea why anyone took it to mean they'd be combining the devices themselves lol
more likely it would probably be something like a portable system that would also function as the controller for a home console (that would run higher end games plus the portables) or perhaps it would just be a system that would stream these high end games to the portable system, like a wii u gamepad the size of a 3ds with 4g capabilities or something i dunno man
i heard ideas like these being floated too, but they also jeapordize nintendo's two distinct revenue streams by significantly reducing the necessity of owning both a nintendo handheld and a nintendo home console
if they were to do something like this, i'd be perfectly content to just by the proper home version of the device if their libraries were shared and the only difference is that the console has better grfx and access to a larger screen, i almost never play handheld games outside of my own room anyway and i'm sure that goes for the vast majority of owners of a dedicated gaming handheld
i buy handhelds for the exclusives more than anything else
not that something like sony's ps3-ps vita cross play wouldn't be amazing convenient, but that sort of service really only makes sense for older generations of games that can be very easily played on a handheld and don't limit the potential of a home console lol
i sure would love to wake up one day all find my wii and wii u virtual console purchases playable on my 3ds (and 3ds vc purchases playable on wii u), but alas, this is nintendo we're talking about
Quote from: Tectron on May 19, 2015, 07:38:49 PM
if they were to do something like this, i'd be perfectly content to just by the proper home version of the device if their libraries were shared and the only difference is that the console has better grfx and access to a larger screen
but see what i was saying is the portable system is needed as the controller for the home system, potentially they would come bundled together, there would not be a home system without the portable system
if they were sold as a bundle like that and so tightly integrated with each other they'd still essentially be one device, a console with a semi-independent controller
i can't see nintendo willingly halving its hardware offerings like that lol
and i can only imagine how expensive additional controllers would be, if sold separately at all (god forbid we end up with another wii u situation where there's a hard limit of just one primary controller per system, please never again)
RIP
http://kotaku.com/how-nintendo-makes-its-games-appear-cheaper-in-japan-1706744822
'b-but why don't third parties like us ??'
Quote from: Tectron on May 25, 2015, 04:08:52 PM
http://kotaku.com/how-nintendo-makes-its-games-appear-cheaper-in-japan-1706744822
'b-but why don't third parties like us ??'
rofl i didn't know you could exclude tax from prices in japan @_@
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/project_cars_studio_boss_admits_to_problems_with_wii_u_version_hoping_for_nintendo_hardware_announcement_at_e3
rofl one less third party game
not that any of the six wii u owners in the world were going to buy this anyway
Quote from: Tectron on May 25, 2015, 06:16:02 PM
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/05/project_cars_studio_boss_admits_to_problems_with_wii_u_version_hoping_for_nintendo_hardware_announcement_at_e3
rofl one less third party game
.............................no one was gonna buy that on the wii u goowan
They have the superior Mario Kart anyhow. happydood;
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/126e1d6b6d40b67ed4ef729ce2ef61b1/tumblr_np6i5oWGBD1r2awemo1_1280.png)
'but we need to save the children from voice chat'
idk how you cannot cuss on voice chats, they're some of my favorite words
(http://i.imgur.com/Po1u84M.jpg)
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN
(http://i.imgur.com/d2vHZOw.jpg)
Splatoon got really sad thanks to Miiverse.
Quote from: Classic on May 30, 2015, 04:58:18 PM
Splatoon got really sad thanks to Miiverse.
(http://i.imgur.com/kxsBEWa.jpg)
http://www.thetanooki.com/2015/06/01/nikkei-nintendo-nxs-operating-system-will-be-based-on-android/
QuoteThe report also points out that third party support has dropped from about 70% of the Nintendo DS library to about 30% of the Nintendo 3DS library.
christ
and not to mention that major 3ds releases are very obviously drying up at this point
So the NX is going to be a glorified Ouya? AWESOME
Quote from: David on June 01, 2015, 08:59:33 AM
So the NX is going to be a glorified Ouya? AWESOME
thats what the wii u is
I only have like 600MB of storage left on my wii u
Quote from: … on June 01, 2015, 06:30:14 PM
I only have like 600MB of storage left on my wii u
'nobody needs more than 600mb of storage'
Quote from: David on June 02, 2015, 01:43:40 PM
Quote from: … on June 01, 2015, 06:30:14 PM
I only have like 600MB of storage left on my wii u
'nobody needs more than 600mb of storage'
that feeling when I need over a gigabyte or something to download that second mario kart dlc :(
Quote from: … on June 02, 2015, 02:31:29 PM
Quote from: David on June 02, 2015, 01:43:40 PM
Quote from: … on June 01, 2015, 06:30:14 PM
I only have like 600MB of storage left on my wii u
'nobody needs more than 600mb of storage'
that feeling when I need over a gigabyte or something to download that second mario kart dlc :(
tfw nintendo thought 32 gigs, (and whatever it actually is after system storage takes it's toll) was gonna be enough, considering they HAD to have known that they would have pushed dlc later
http://nintendoeverything.com/splatoon-getting-free-ika-musume-squid-girl-collaboration-costume/
Ika Musume free DLC for Splatoon is confirmed as actually real (assuming this was a reliable source) and coming (at least to Japan) in August
Wii U is saved y/n
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/259380/wii-u-vs-wiivgchartz-gap-chartsapril-2015-update/
aligned for time on the market, the wii at this point in its life had sold 49 million units
40 million more than the wii u
how a company manages to fall from the peak of mount everest to the depths of the mariana trench in one short leap within the span of a single generation i'll never understand, nintendo's sheer incompetence is utterly bewildering
nintendo is the blackberry of gaming
similarly, the ds has a 40 million unit advantage over the 3ds
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/259403/3ds-vs-dsvgchartz-gap-chartsapril-2015-update/
this is unquestionably nintendo's worst generation ever lol
Hyrule Warriors isn't a Wii U exclusive anymore
it's now being made for 3DS too:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2L8Cfafrvc[/youtube]
Also, WW's Tetra and King Hyrule are being added to both versions as playable, probably as free on 3DS and DLC (or a reward for buying both versions) on Wii U
i can only imagine what a game that struggles to run on the wii u will be like on the 3ds
In other wuu-related news, Splatoon is getting yet another update tonight, adding the "Kelp Dome" stage which previously was playable only in the single-player campaign (which I think totally means it was ready at launch and they held it back)
Quote from: Tectron on June 10, 2015, 08:07:37 AM
i can only imagine what a game that struggles to run on the wii u will be like on the 3ds
hyrule warriors doesnt struggle on wii u, but it sure as hell will on 3ds.
to run decently on 3ds, it'll have to DRASTICALLY cut down the number of enemies on screen
Quote from: bluaki on June 10, 2015, 07:58:44 AM
Hyrule Warriors isn't a Wii U exclusive anymore
it's now being made for 3DS too:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2L8Cfafrvc[/youtube]
Also, WW's Tetra and King Hyrule are being added to both versions as playable, probably as free on 3DS and DLC (or a reward for buying both versions) on Wii U
hopefully the extra characters WILL be paid dlc on wii u version, because right now it sounds like you'll have to own the 3ds version in order to import them to the wii u version, and that BETTER NOT BE THE CASE
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-will-announce-more-third-party-support-fo/1100-6428043/
Quote from: nintendo repWe still have those great, big third-party partners like Ubisoft who continue to invest in our platforms
"great, big third-party partners like ubisoft", including:
and both ubisoft's """greatness""" and level of commitment to the wii u are questionable at best
tfw wii u still isn't dead
even with such "great" games as smash, mario kart 8 etc the wii u has still sold less than the vita. let that sink in.
it's still beneath even the dreamcast
Nintendo make games dude
nintendo's face when having to go last at e3 and having nothing interesting to show
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/111cbae682b8532b94c71fa4111bb177/tumblr_nkicioylY31rggy65o1_500.gif)
seriously nintendo can't possibly live up to the standard set by the other conferences
reggie and iwata must be shaking more than unravel guy
nintendo fans must be on suicide watch right now lol
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-17-next-proper-metroid-prime-would-likely-now-be-on-nx
Quote from: Metroid Prime producer Kensuke TanabeIf we started for Wii U now, it would likely take three years or so. So it would likely now be on Nintendo's NX console
LOL
confirming that:
1. they never at any point had a real metroid in development for the 8th generation in the first place
2. they are indeed already formally abandoning the wii u ship, and they're not even afraid to admit it anymore
i'm keeping it if for no other reason than mk8 but there's really no denying that this has been by far nintendo's most disappointing console yet
Nintendo should ask Panasonic to release that DVD-playing GameCube here, it'd probably sell more than the Wii U y/n
forgive me for linking to neogag
ugly; but this article is brilliant and the original source is dead
Quote from: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533874Every generation, Satoru Iwata tells investors, gamers, and retailers that they will avoid major software droughts because these can kill a platform’s momentum after launch. Satoru Iwata never learns from anything. He always says he has learned from past mistakes, but his actions never show it. Instead, every single generation, all we get from him is a whole bunch of “Please understand†and “I apologize for the inconvenienceâ€.
Here’s some examples.
Iwata says Wii will avoid major droughts that plagued GameCube. (March 2007)
“When we launched GameCube, the initial sales were good, and all the hardware we manufactured at that time were sold through. However, after this period, we could not provide the market with strong software titles in a timely fashion. As a result we could not leverage the initial launch time momentum, and sales of GameCube slowed down. To avoid repeating this with Wii, we have been intensifying the software development, both internally at Nintendo and at developers outside the company, in order to prepare aggressive software lineup for Wii at and after the launch.†says Iwata. He then says, â€We believe it is important to provide the market with strong software without a long interval in order to keep the launch time momentum."
Source: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/060607qa/02.html
Iwata promises that 3DS will avoid major droughts that plagued Wii and DS.
“It’s important that you be able to supply software with no pause,†said Iwata. “With the DS and Wii, following the titles that were released at launch, the momentum dropped when there was a gap in software releases. We’re making plans so that this type of thing won’t happen.â€
Source: http://www.vg247.com/2011/01/10/iwata-promises-to-avoid-wii-style-gap-in-software-with-3ds/
Iwata promises that Wii U will avoid major droughts that plagued 3DS and Wii.
“As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.â€
“The company was unable to launch much-anticipated first-party titles for the Wii nor for the Nintendo 3DS in a timely fashion in the first half of the term. In the game platform business, creating momentum is very important, but the momentum was once lost, and it has had a large negative effect on our sales and profits.â€
Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/324133/wii-u-will-learn-from-3ds-bitter-lesson-iwata-vows/
Iwata apologizes for Wii U drought in January and February.
“I apologize to those supporting Wii U about the lack of titles in January and February.â€
truth be told, what can nintendo do about that? other than porting old games, every consoles suffers droughts after the first glut of rushed launch games comes out. befuddlement
my only guess would be giving developers dev kits even earlier in the cycle but all that does is further the gap that consoles face in comparison to pcs.
while that's true, it particularly affects nintendo because they get no third party support, so they can sometimes go for significant lengths of time with absolutely no games to look forward to
whereas sony and microsoft might at least get some third party scraps during their downtime
just looking at the ps4's noteworthy releases during the typical drought months (january-august) in 2014 and 2015: tomb raider, rayman legends, thief, ground zeroes, infamy, ffxiv, wolfenstein, destiny, bloodborne, dark souls 2, shovel knight, the witcher 3, batman: arkham knight
the xbox's lineup looks similar
i mean not all of those are stellar (or even good) but it's certainly better than a mario spinoff in june and a zelda in november and nothing else
Wii U's summer drought could have been much shorter if they decided to actually release Yoshi's Wooly World when it was ready (like right now; Europe is getting it next week), but instead they're delaying it four months to release in October, presumably just for the holiday season. I'm particularly sad because, since even before E3 2014, it's been my most anticipated 2015 game.
Unless you count DLC, VC, or (purely 3rd-party) garbage like last week's LEGO Jurassic World, Wii U is getting no new US games this year between May 29's Splatoon and September 11's (odd choice of date) Mario Maker. Nothing at all in the entire quarter-year span of June, July, and August.
To be fair, Earthbound Beginnings does kind of count as a new game for English regions. So that's exactly one kinda-new release during all of the summer months.
Quote from: David on June 18, 2015, 01:51:50 PM
other than porting old games
That is indeed something they could do that people would eat up. So far, Wii U has had exactly one remake: Wind Waker HD. 3DS, on the other hand, has: OoT3D, MM3D, Star Fox 64 3D, DKCR3D, Xenoblade 3D, Hyrule Warriors, MGS3 3D, Tales of the Abyss 3D, Splinter Cell 3D, and maybe some others I forgot.
I can't count the number of times I've seen posts online begging for F-Zero GX HD, Mario Sunshine HD, Mario Galaxy HD, Twilight Princess HD, Paper Mario HD, or Kirby Air Ride HD.
Remakes may not be the best use of development resources, but they do at least take less work, reduce the release droughts, and attract the same kind of people who say FF7 Remake is the reason Sony and Square "won" E3.
Quote from: Tectron on June 18, 2015, 02:12:13 PM
rayman legends, shovel knight
Also available on Wii U, albeit released much earlier and so not falling inside the drought range.
Reggie pretty much "confirmed" the NX to be the next home console. I'm not sure if it was unintentional though.
http://gonintendo.com/stories/236512-reggie-specifically-states-that-nintendo-is-working-on-their-next
QuoteWe’ve also said publicly that we are already hard at work on our next home console and that’s another element we’ll be talking about much later
I agree with the comments on the page though.
3DS is showing its age and Reggie has been inconsistent with final decisions.
metroid prime's producer also heavily implied that it's a home console
which isn't surprising as the 3ds is still somewhat viable (or at least way more than the wii u is)
we're in the skyward sword phase of the wii u's life cycle now, except zelda won't even be wii u exclusive rofl
Zelda Wii U will be another Twilight Princess.
oh yes it will
and that's a best-case scenario, too, i could just as easily see them cancelling the wii u version entirely
Quote from: Classic on June 19, 2015, 10:53:04 AM
Zelda Wii U will be another Twilight Princess.
good, i loved TP 5thgrade;
Quote from: whiniest.com on June 19, 2015, 01:13:43 PM
Quote from: Classic on June 19, 2015, 10:53:04 AM
Zelda Wii U will be another Twilight Princess.
good, i loved TP 5thgrade;
(http://i.imgur.com/6s3J0r1.png)
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/18/e3-2015-why-nintendo-didnt-show-zelda-wii-u
Quote from: ReggieIt goes back to the statement i made earlier about how we view E3. We just fundamentally don’t believe in showing content at E3 that is going to be a long term proposition. We like to show content that typically will launch in the upcoming Holiday and maybe extending into the first half of the following year.
i think nintendo is overestimating the stupidity of its fans (which you would think is impossible considering what nintendo fans are like)
does nintendo honestly believe fans have completely forgotten about how skyward sword and twilight princess were present at every e3 since their respective reveals despite not actually launching until years later
or how brawl was announced before even one line of code had been written for it
and then to come out and act like only demoing games that are within months of release has always been the norm for nintendo on a """fundamental""" level, lol
pls nintendo, we know there's nothing left in development for the wii u aside from maybe zelda if we're lucky but if you're going to try to hide that fact at least try to be a little less insultingly transparent about it
Quote from: fuchsmanguste on June 19, 2015, 01:14:56 PM
Quote from: whiniest.com on June 19, 2015, 01:13:43 PM
Quote from: Classic on June 19, 2015, 10:53:04 AM
Zelda Wii U will be another Twilight Princess.
good, i loved TP 5thgrade;
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/6s3J0r1.png)[/spoiler]
me irl
http://www.gamesradar.com/miyamoto-wii-us-poor-sales-people-didnt-understand-system/
Quote from: miyamotoI think with Wii U, our challenge was that perhaps people didn't understand the system.
this is nobody's fault but nintendo's
what he should be saying is 'we tried deceitfully to ride the coattails of the wii into victory in the 8th gen, but due to a complete abortion of marketing and branding we failed to adequately communicate that it was a new device at all'
they have nobody but themselves to blame for being so arrogant as to think that they could just slap the wii name onto anything in such an unstrategic manner and expect it to sell billions
Quote from: cont.So I don't think it's just price, because if the system is appealing enough, people will buy it even if the price is a little bit high
i mean this is the antithesis of the philosophy that made the wii so successful
the wii u, with its technology based in the early 2000s, had no excuse to launch at $350 in 2012, nor does it have any reason to still be $300 today
these are the same sorts of mistakes born of sheer complacency that got sony into such a mess with the ps3
Quote from: cont.I think unfortunately what ended up happening was that tablets themselves appeared in the marketplace and evolved very, very rapidly, and unfortunately the Wii system launched at a time where the uniqueness of those features were perhaps not as strong as they were when we had first begun developing them
not to mention the fact that there is
still not a single wii u game, not even from nintendo itself, that demonstrates the value of having a second screen beyond shitty proof-of-concept tech demos
not that nintendo's """innovative""" ideas have ever evolved beyond shitty proof-of-concept tech demos, only to be completely abandoned within a year
i mean i can't imagine what they could possibly have had in mind that proved to be such a compelling gameplay idea that they deemed it necessary to package every single wii u with a tablet controller, because whatever that brilliant idea was it has yet to appear in any game, and at this point with the nx on the horizon, it never will
the wii u truly deserves no more than its dreamcast-level sales
what an absolute waste of potential lol
those first couple of quotes are what I have been saying about the wii u's marketing strategy since the damn thing launched.
Maybe me and tec should work at nintendo and tell them how they're fucking up
Quote from: Jojo on June 23, 2015, 12:30:48 PM
those first couple of quotes are what I have been saying about the wii u's marketing strategy since the damn thing launched.
Maybe me and tec should work at nintendo and tell them how they're fucking up
a couple of know-it-all pig gaijin wouldn't survive for five minutes in the overly bureaucratic and hierarchical labyrinth of stagnation that is kyoto, let alone nintendo hq
not even nintendo of america is allowed to backtalk papa miwatamoto lol, no matter how utterly oblivious nintendo jp is being to their consumers and market trends
Quote from: Tectron on June 23, 2015, 12:43:56 PM
Quote from: Jojo on June 23, 2015, 12:30:48 PM
those first couple of quotes are what I have been saying about the wii u's marketing strategy since the damn thing launched.
Maybe me and tec should work at nintendo and tell them how they're fucking up
a couple of know-it-all pig gaijin wouldn't survive for five minutes in the overly bureaucratic and hierarchical labyrinth of stagnation that is kyoto, let alone nintendo hq
not even nintendo of america is allowed to backtalk papa miwatamoto lol, no matter how utterly oblivious nintendo jp is being to their consumers and market trends
i'll overthrow them.
the new sengoku era where weebs rule
Quote from: Tectron on February 18, 2015, 06:01:54 PM
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/kirby-and-the-rainbow-curse
new super mario bros. will save the wii u
wind waker hd will save the wii u
donkey kong country will save the wii u
mario kart will save the wii u
bayonetta will save the wii u
smash bros. will save the wii u
amiibo will save the wii u
kirby will save the wii u
next up: yoshi's woolly whyevenbother
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/yoshis-woolly-world
yoshi's wooled boxers will save the wii ualso, forgot one:
spl@oon will save the wii unext up: star fox [glow=black,2,300]LOL[/glow]
speaking of which:
Quote from: Tectron on March 27, 2015, 03:59:25 PM
what does nintendo even have to show off this e3 then
Another ugly barebones tech demo with Star Fox 64 assets shoehorned in? SocksDood;
l
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Quote from: Tectron on June 23, 2015, 01:46:39 PM
Quote from: Tectron on February 18, 2015, 06:01:54 PM
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/kirby-and-the-rainbow-curse
new super mario bros. will save the wii u
wind waker hd will save the wii u
donkey kong country will save the wii u
mario kart will save the wii u
bayonetta will save the wii u
smash bros. will save the wii u
amiibo will save the wii u
kirby will save the wii u
next up: yoshi's woolly whyevenbother
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/yoshis-woolly-world
yoshi's wooled boxers will save the wii u
also, forgot one: spl@oon will save the wii u
next up: star fox [glow=black,2,300]LOL[/glow]
(http://38.media.tumblr.com/9e9b9e306cfa78decdc0f621e1fca91a/tumblr_inline_mhq4zlu6Lr1qz4rgp.gif)
well, at least i won't have to spend money on two consoles 5thgrade;
Quote from: Thyme on June 23, 2015, 03:25:08 PM
well, at least i won't have to spend money on two consoles 5thgrade;
pick one up in a few years when you can find one for $50
no human should be deprived of mario kart 8
http://www.vg247.com/2015/06/26/nintendo-early-access-wii-u-3ds/
steam has KILLED gaming
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/06/28/nintendo-is-keeping-the-nx-a-secret-so-microsoft-and-sony-dont-steal-their-ideas
original idea do not steal !!!
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 04:45:34 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/06/28/nintendo-is-keeping-the-nx-a-secret-so-microsoft-and-sony-dont-steal-their-ideas
original idea do not steal !!!
(http://i.imgur.com/0Pi1j9k.jpg)
Quote from: Classic on June 19, 2015, 10:53:04 AM
Zelda Wii U will be another Twilight Princess.
I will be fine with this
Quote from: Tectron on June 19, 2015, 10:54:40 AM
oh yes it will
and that's a best-case scenario, too, i could just as easily see them cancelling the wii u version entirely
as long as this doesn't actually end up happening because Zelda was basically the main reason I got the Wii U
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 04:45:34 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/06/28/nintendo-is-keeping-the-nx-a-secret-so-microsoft-and-sony-dont-steal-their-ideas
original idea do not steal !!!
though they sort of did implement some of Nintendo's ideas in their own ways. Miis, motion control, second screen smart phone/tablet interface/connections. But all of that probably would have been coming anyway.
never buy a console for an unreleased game
millions of regretful ps3 owners made the same mistake (and will again with the ps4 no doubt)
Quote from: Thyme on June 28, 2015, 07:25:30 PM
Quote from: … on June 28, 2015, 07:21:27 PM
I will be fine with this
lubdoods;
I actually did like TP alright. It didn't really bother me like it did a lot of other people. I was fine with the art style too, and even the motion controls for the most part.
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 07:26:45 PM
never buy a console for an unreleased game
millions of regretful ps3 owners made the same mistake (and will again with the ps4 no doubt)
Never again. Though I did get it for Mario Kart 8 and that free game promotion they had going on at the time. (And WW HD) But that new Zelda was why I jumped the gun. :(
Quote from: … on June 28, 2015, 07:24:46 PM
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 04:45:34 PM
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/06/28/nintendo-is-keeping-the-nx-a-secret-so-microsoft-and-sony-dont-steal-their-ideas
original idea do not steal !!!
though they sort of did implement some of Nintendo's ideas in their own ways. Miis, motion control, second screen smart phone/tablet interface/connections. But all of that probably would have been coming anyway.
i am 100% certain that kinect and ps move especially would never have existed were it not for the wii's success, so nintendo's concerns aren't completely invalid (though think more than anything else they're really worried about prematurely killing off what remains of the wii u themselves)
Quote from: … on June 28, 2015, 07:30:25 PM
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 07:26:45 PM
never buy a console for an unreleased game
millions of regretful ps3 owners made the same mistake (and will again with the ps4 no doubt)
Never again. Though I did get it for Mario Kart 8 and that free game promotion they had going on at the time. (And WW HD) But that new Zelda was why I jumped the gun. :(
i pretty much bought mine for the same reason, and it helped that it was $200 at the time
and i guess the fact that i figured i would inevitably need one for zelda did factor into my purchase somewhat, but more immediate were mk8 and sm4sh (and 3d world and some other things)
did you at least like mario kart lol
smh if anyone actually regrets getting a tripple
Quote from: Thyme on June 28, 2015, 07:38:15 PM
smh if anyone actually regrets getting a tripple
i certainly don't (best console of all time, trufax) but i would be p. mad if i had purchased one
for the last guardian or ff versus xiii lol
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 07:39:35 PM
Quote from: Thyme on June 28, 2015, 07:38:15 PM
smh if anyone actually regrets getting a tripple
i certainly don't but (best console of all time, trufax) i would be p. mad if i had purchased one for the last guardian or ff versus xiii lol
anybody who bought it specifically for ffvxiii probably bought it with the intent on playing all of the failed fabula nova cyrstalis games lol, the former is a legitimate gripe
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 07:38:11 PM
Quote from: … on June 28, 2015, 07:30:25 PM
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 07:26:45 PM
never buy a console for an unreleased game
millions of regretful ps3 owners made the same mistake (and will again with the ps4 no doubt)
Never again. Though I did get it for Mario Kart 8 and that free game promotion they had going on at the time. (And WW HD) But that new Zelda was why I jumped the gun. :(
i pretty much bought mine for the same reason, and it helped that it was $200 at the time
and i guess the fact that i figured i would inevitably need one for zelda did factor into my purchase somewhat, but more immediate were mk8 and sm4sh (and 3d world and some other things)
did you at least like mario kart lol
yeah, Mario Kart was good. So far I have that game, wind waker hd, pikmin 3, super mario bros u/luigi u, monster hunter 3 ultimate, duck tales remastered, mp trilogy, smg 2, and a bunch of gba and other vc games. (Mostly metroid, mario, and zelda titles) And there are, I think, at least a few other games I want, so it hasn't exactly been a waste. But I will be very disappointed/sad/mad if the new zelda doesn't come out for the wii u.
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 07:26:45 PM
never buy a console for an unreleased game
millions of regretful ps3 owners made the same mistake (and will again with the ps4 no doubt)
bloodborne
Quote from: Tectron on June 28, 2015, 07:39:35 PM
Quote from: Thyme on June 28, 2015, 07:38:15 PM
smh if anyone actually regrets getting a tripple
i certainly don't (best console of all time, trufax) but i would be p. mad if i had purchased one for the last guardian or ff versus xiii lol
legit question, is 3 better than 2?
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/06/29/opinion-why-nintendo-wont-give-us-2d-metroid-and-other-sequels-we-want.aspx
I pretty much agree
http://fortune.com/2015/06/23/shigeru-miyamoto-wii-u/
Quote from: miyamotoI’ve pulled myself back out of some of the hardware section and I’m really focused on some of the software that I’m involved inâ€"for example, the new Starfox game. Of course I am observing and looking at the hardware, but I am not actively participating and making decisions.
Thank God
[spoiler]
though tbh at this point it's probably too late for it to matter at all
nintendo has a reputation that it'll find impossible to shake off no matter what it does[/spoiler]
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20150702PD204.html
Quotemass production will start in May or June 2016, while the console's official launch may take place around July
so much for the Wii U ever getting a real Zelda game sillydood;
Just a rumor.
[spoiler]OH GOD IT'S TOO CONVINCING[/spoiler]
tbh this release sounds way too soon to me
I was expecting it to be a Fall 2016 release, no earlier than October, considering that they haven't even formally announced it yet
Don't they always wait until E3 for hardware reveals? If they do it for this supposed schedule, the announcement timing will be "by the way, you should pre-order it right now to get one of the very limited stock releasing next month"
nintendo needs to release in the middle of summer so the nx isn't forgotten amongst the new skylaners launching in november
if those rumours are true, then nintendo would be taking yet another step down sega's path
http://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/02/the-sad-legacy-of-the-saturn-launch
were they not paying any attention whatsoever to the reasons their former largest competitor went under
bleh
further rumour fodder suggests that nintendo expects to ship 20 million nx units within its first year
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/07/rumour_nintendo_nx_shipping_this_time_next_year_20_million_sales_targeted_in_first_12_months
for comparison, the wii u, in its >2.5 years on the market, has sold <10 million, and only about 2 million so far this year
nintendo must have some truly delusional amount of faith in the zelda they cancelled and moved over to nx, as it might be the only barely compelling reason to own one
in other news,
http://nintendoeverything.com/iwata-on-third-party-collaborations-nintendo-has-received-many-proposals-for-joint-initiatives/
hmm, where have i heard this before
oh yeah
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPY05olaMkk[/youtube]
and what had happened to that """unprecedented partnership""" by 2013
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/124097-EA-Has-No-Games-in-Development-For-Wii-U
lmao
Quote from: Tectron on June 17, 2015, 06:52:35 PM
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-17-next-proper-metroid-prime-would-likely-now-be-on-nx
Quote from: Metroid Prime producer Kensuke TanabeIf we started for Wii U now, it would likely take three years or so. So it would likely now be on Nintendo's NX console
LOL
confirming that:
1. they never at any point had a real metroid in development for the 8th generation in the first place
2. they are indeed already formally abandoning the wii u ship, and they're not even afraid to admit it anymore
well on your 2nd point, the wii u came out in 2012 so a 2018 release would put it at the next system regardless
oh my, look at the time, it's tecarticle o'clock
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/17/nintendo-wii-u-love/
Quote from: Thyme on July 17, 2015, 07:21:06 PM
oh my, look at the time, it's tecarticle o'clock
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/17/nintendo-wii-u-love/
QuoteThe Wii U offered sub-standard graphics
At the time it launched, wasn't it the most powerful console, albeit not as much as an improvement over PS3/360 as it could've been? confuseddood;
QuoteIt offered local cooperative and competitive experiences, something in short supply from the online-focused PS4 and Xbox One.
So apparently decent local multiplayer and good online systems are mutually exclusive?
QuoteThis could be a move to sweep the Wii U under the rug alongside the Virtual Boy, Power Glove and GameCube.
One of these three products is not like the others.
QuoteWhen Nintendo announced the Wii U, it was as if the company hadn't ever heard of 60fps or 1080p
Don't they have a pretty good number of games with both?
Quote from: Thyme on July 17, 2015, 07:21:06 PM
oh my, look at the time, it's tecarticle o'clock
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/17/nintendo-wii-u-love/
this article is nothing but a thinly-veiled eulogy for iwata, a delusionally rose-tinted assessment of the wii u and nintendo in the wake of his demise
pure, shameless pandering meant to capitalize on recent devastating news
i mean not a single point this article attempts to make in defense of the wii u is grounded in reality, from the very first sentence onward
QuoteWith the announcement of the Wii U, everyone thought Nintendo was wrong. Hell, we thought Nintendo was out of touch, foolish and doomed for producing a gaming-focused, two-screen console that wouldn't be able to compete technologically with whatever Sony and Microsoft offered in the new generation.
uh
has anybody's opinion on this actually changed
certainly not the market's, according to that sub-dreamcast sales rate which only finally hit 10 million a few days ago
QuoteBut then: Sony launched the PlayStation 4; Microsoft launched the Xbox One; and as hype for each rose and fizzled out,
goonish
this is a laughably absurd claim (i lit. lol'd)
if 20 million sales in a year is what this maniac calls "fizzling out", i bet nintendo would be thrilled to fizzle the way sony and microsoft are at the moment, sony has doubled the wii u's sales in half the time on the market
if that's fizzling out, then the wii u never even fizzed to begin with
Quote from: bluaki on July 17, 2015, 07:47:53 PMQuote
It offered local cooperative and competitive experiences, something in short supply from the online-focused PS4 and Xbox One.
So apparently decent local multiplayer and good online systems are mutually exclusive?
i guess if you're a delusional nintendo fanboy like the article's author is pretending to be, yes
QuoteIt had been out for a year longer, meaning it had more games.
how many of which were actually worth owning...........
and let's not forget about the complete dearth of third-party support, which the ps4 and xbox one have been benefitting from from day one
Quoteit isn't heavily invested in military-style first-person shooters
because it doesn't have a choice because its hardware is too shit to run them
and when tens of millions of gamers demand military shooters (or anything else) and nintendo fails to supply them, tens of millions of gamers instead buy xbox ones and ps4s
QuoteMicrosoft and Sony were just two organizations barely on the periphery of Nintendo's marketing plan
and if nintendo doesn't stop pretending it doesn't compete with microsoft and sony it will continue to lose support
we've all long realize that the 'w-we're not competing !!' narrative is a highly transparent excuse for failing to deliver adequate experiences that gamers can easily find on other platforms
QuoteAs it turns out, Nintendo wasn't wrong. We were.
please, my good lord, stop encouraging the idea that the gaming audience misunderstood nintendo's goals for the wii u, miyamoto himself made a similarly stupid comment a month ago and it's indicative of a complete lack of personal responsibility for the company's failures
nintendo did an absolute shite job at enticing consumers and that's nobody's fault but nintendo's own, keep blaming customers until nintendo's gone bankrupt if it makes you feel better but that's not actually going to increase sales
and so on and so forth
and then for the rest of the article it's just dumb anecdotes and subjectivities about how great the wii u is and why the ps4 and xbox suck
this apologizing for nintendo's glaring deficiencies is exactly what made them so complacent and ultimately so badly defeated this generation
shallow articles like this do nothing but contribute to the company's eventual extinction
[spoiler]
man, i took that bait hook, line & sinker[/spoiler]
it would be a great disservice to all of us if you were to not take the bait, tec giggle;
[spoiler=alternative reply]senpai noticed me giggle;[/spoiler]
Tec, you are literally killing Nintendo
Quote from: … on July 18, 2015, 05:33:32 PM
Tec, you are literally killing Nintendo
yes, as a consequence of being foolish enough to buy a wii u and telling nintendo that a half-baked product like that was a wise idea worthy of my $200, i regretfully contributed to nintendo's eventual doom
Quote from: Thyme on July 18, 2015, 03:42:19 PM
it would be a great disservice to all of use if you were to not take the bait, tec giggle;
[spoiler=alternative reply]senpai noticed me giggle;[/spoiler]
taking the bait isn't good for my blood pressure myface;
Quote from: bluaki on July 17, 2015, 07:47:53 PM
QuoteWhen Nintendo announced the Wii U, it was as if the company hadn't ever heard of 60fps or 1080p
Don't they have a pretty good number of games with both?
the only games with both are sm4sh (which isn't especially demanding) and rayman legends (which is also 1080p/60fps on the ps3 and xbox 360)
everything else is 720p, relatively few of which run at 60fps
the wii u may have been the most powerful option on the market when it launched, but it was only a marginal upgrade from the ps3/360, decade-old technology which most gamers were ready to retire in favor of their upcoming, vastly more capable successors
oh, I thought I saw reports claiming Mario Kart 8 is 1080p, but apparently it's actually 720
of the Wii U games I own:
1080/60: SSB4
1080/30: Wind Waker HD
?/60: Rainbow Curse
720/60: NSMBU, 3D World, Captain Toad, W101, NintendoLand, Donkey Kong, Sonic Lost World, Mario Party, Splatoon
720/30: Pikmin 3
So yes, it seems Wii U's selection of 1080p games is very scarce. Strangely, even the 2D games stick with 720, although I'm sure Wii U should be able to easily handle them at 1080/60. The bulk of its worthwhile games seem to be in 720/60.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/7/21/9009653/project-cars-wii-u-canceled
another day, another cancellation
tbh every game i've played for wii u has been gr8. there's just only been 5 games
http://www.polygon.com/2015/7/24/9037965/nintendo-wii-u-tvii-closure
services already being shut down as they begin their transitional phase from wii u to nx
Quote from: fuchsmanguste on July 23, 2015, 04:20:17 PM
tbh every game i've played for wii u has been gr8. there's just only been 5 games
this seems to be the general consensus among wii u owners
it's basically a mario kart/smash/3d world/bayonetta machine
Quote from: Tectron on July 24, 2015, 05:36:08 PM
http://www.polygon.com/2015/7/24/9037965/nintendo-wii-u-tvii-closure
services already being shut down as they begin their transitional phase from wii u to nx
Quote from: fuchsmanguste on July 23, 2015, 04:20:17 PM
tbh every game i've played for wii u has been gr8. there's just only been 5 games
this seems to be the general consensus among wii u owners
it's basically a mario kart/smash/3d world/bayonetta machine
and hyrule warriors.....
and tropical freeze
sillydood;
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/07/29/nintendo-lists-expected-2016-titles-but-the-legend-of-zelda-not-among-them.aspx
HAHA NINTENDOWNED
Quote from: David on July 29, 2015, 06:01:10 PM
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/07/29/nintendo-lists-expected-2016-titles-but-the-legend-of-zelda-not-among-them.aspx
HAHA NINTENDOWNED
Ninten-D'OH
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/07/29/nintendo-lists-expected-2016-titles-but-the-legend-of-zelda-not-among-them.aspx
lol
Quote from: Tectron on July 31, 2015, 08:27:08 PM
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/07/29/nintendo-lists-expected-2016-titles-but-the-legend-of-zelda-not-among-them.aspx
lol
idk if you're making a joke or not but i most certainly did laugh
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/08/03/nintendo-has-now-sold-more-amiibos-than-wii-us/
Quote from: Tectron on July 31, 2015, 08:27:08 PM
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/07/29/nintendo-lists-expected-2016-titles-but-the-legend-of-zelda-not-among-them.aspx
lol
awdood;
(http://i.imgur.com/xNFyCuW.gif)
Quote from: bluaki on June 03, 2015, 05:01:12 PM
http://nintendoeverything.com/splatoon-getting-free-ika-musume-squid-girl-collaboration-costume/
Ika Musume free DLC for Splatoon is confirmed as actually real (assuming this was a reliable source) and coming (at least to Japan) in August
Wii U is saved y/n
(http://i.imgur.com/NjdvwIn.jpg) (http://www.perfectly-nintendo.com/splatoon-first-picture-of-the-ika-musume-squid-girl-costume-details/)
wii u is saved
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/there-are-now-more-n64-games-available-on-xbox-one-than-wii-u/0153862
with rare rapelay, there are now 7 n64 games on xbox one
there are only 6 on wii u
lol
are n64 games known to be hard to emulate?
they typically run like shit on my pc but idk
and i base this only on the gameplay footage of perfect dark i saw, but the seem to have been remastered somewhat in rare replay
Quote from: Thyme on August 08, 2015, 12:54:57 PM
are n64 games known to be hard to emulate?
they typically run like shit on my pc but idk
and i base this only on the gameplay footage of perfect dark i saw, but the seem to have been remastered somewhat in rare replay
perfect dark, like banjo, are ports of the xbla versions, which were slightly remastered
http://mynintendonews.com/2015/08/08/nintendo-of-america-localiser-defends-wii-u-naming/
if this is how delusional the typical nintendo employee is, it's no wonder why they're bombing
Quote from: Tectron on August 08, 2015, 04:21:37 PM
http://mynintendonews.com/2015/08/08/nintendo-of-america-localiser-defends-wii-u-naming/
if this is how delusional the typical nintendo employee is, it's no wonder why they're bombing
didn't everybody with half a brain point out it was a bad name back when it was announced? not to mention literally the entire 'marketing' campaign for the console revolved around just the game pad
tir about the wii u gamepad
yet another nx game confirmed
http://www.gamnesia.com/news/square-enix-is-considering-ports-of-final-fantasy-xiv-for-xbox-one-and-nx
Quote from: Thyme on August 08, 2015, 05:46:52 PM
tir about the wii u gamepad
it's best to forget
even nintendo has
Quote from: Tectron on August 08, 2015, 04:21:37 PM
http://mynintendonews.com/2015/08/08/nintendo-of-america-localiser-defends-wii-u-naming/
if this is how delusional the typical nintendo employee is, it's no wonder why they're bombing
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/it-was-my-own-fault-fired-nintendo-employee-says/1100-6429736/
even nintendo's patience for wii u apologists has worn thin (http://boyah.net/forums/Smileys/default/clacky.gif)
Honestly even though he was dumb and just saying shitty fanboy shit, he shouldn't have been fired imo lol
i agree, but nda violations are srs bsns
NDA_Chris
http://www.ibtimes.com/pokemons-tekken-pokken-tournament-announced-wii-u-worldwide-release-date-new-2063428
took them long enough to confirm this, jesus christ
surprised it wasn't moved to the nx like a certain other prominent former wii u game
Quote from: Tectron on August 21, 2015, 07:06:48 PM
http://www.ibtimes.com/pokemons-tekken-pokken-tournament-announced-wii-u-worldwide-release-date-new-2063428
took them long enough to confirm this, jesus christ
surprised it wasn't moved to the nx like a certain other prominent former wii u game
this game looks awful
pukkén'
Wii U is the first Nintendo system in generations (even including handhelds) without...
* Animal Crossing (non-boardgame)
* Metroid (in any form)
* Any Mario RPG
* Any Pokémon RPG
* A new Zelda (non-spinoff/remake)
All of these have entries on at least GCN, DS, Wii, and 3DS. Also N64 for all but Metroid. And GBA for all but AC.
wii u, we hardly knew u
the virtual boy is the only other nintendo console to have never received an exclusive zelda
Quote from: bluaki on September 08, 2015, 07:28:31 PM
Wii U is the first Nintendo system in generations (even including handhelds) without...
* Animal Crossing (non-boardgame)
* Metroid (in any form)
* Any Mario RPG
* Any Pokémon RPG
* A new Zelda (non-spinoff/remake)
All of these have entries on at least GCN, DS, Wii, and 3DS. Also N64 for all but Metroid. And GBA for all but AC.
See, imo, the 3DS and DS should also be included for not having Metroid
The DS has Hunters though.
and metroid pinball
Quote from: Snowy on September 09, 2015, 07:56:51 AM
The DS has Hunters though.
saying that is metroid is like going to a three star restaurant and comparing its steak to something you'd get from a school cafeteria under obama's rules
Quote from: David on September 09, 2015, 10:21:35 AM
Quote from: Snowy on September 09, 2015, 07:56:51 AM
The DS has Hunters though.
saying that is metroid is like going to a three star restaurant and comparing its steak to something you'd get from a school cafeteria under obama's rules
i mean sure if you wanna look at it like that. I thought it was a decent game, and certainly more of a metroid game than that federation fighters game.
Quote from: Tectron on September 07, 2015, 06:12:09 PM
Quote from: bluaki on September 07, 2015, 02:46:19 PM
Surprisingly, it sounds like Miyamoto complained about the GamePad requiring additional processing power, producing what he calls 120 frames per second (but, really, GamePad's 480p frames shouldn't require nearly as much power as the TV's HD)
sometimes i can't help but wonder how miyamoto hasn't yet been gunpei yokoi'd
this is the same reason being floated around to justify star fox looking like absolute shit
the wii u was purportedly designed from the ground up to be able to support dual screens, with miyamoto himself playing a huge roll in its r&d, and now he's complaining that it's too weak to do precisely what it was designed to do and simultaneously support two screens????????
and at 480p, no less, lmao
how absolutely fuck;ing idiotic is nintendo's hardware development staff
how could a team of intelligent experienced designers of digital technology have such bewilderingly little foresight
it's simply inexcusable
the sheer incompetence being demonstrated out of nintendo hq for the past four years has been perfectly ineffable
miyamoto has literally no right to be complaining about anything, aside from his and nintendo's own flagrant stupidity, and should they continue down this path into the nx era then i will dance on the day of their bankruptcy
http://nintendoeverything.com/star-fox-zero-director-comments-on-the-games-visual-style/
Quote from: star fox zero directorWe decided to have two screens displaying 3D graphics at 60 frames per second. It was this and a few other factors, including it being the first time players will be using two screens like this on the Wii U, that led us to decide to base the graphical design on Lylat Wars.
'we decided to finally put the gamepad to use and have the wii u do precisely what it was designed to do for once....... but it turns out the system's actually too weak even for that oops lol, don't ask me how this pos made it out of product testing lmao'
confirmed: nintendo's hardware is literally too inadequate to support exactly the type of game it was purportedly designed for, and exactly the sorts of functions that were advertised as unique selling points
confirmed: nintendo is run by legitimate imbeciles and every single one of its hardware engineers needs to be gunpei yokoi'd stat
the entire wii u experiment has to be one of the most unfathomably idiotic things i've ever seen a company deliberately do to itself, in all honesty
i am in utter disbelief that they could honestly think this is a valid excuse for the garbage quality of this game
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/27336-nintendos-new-president-tatsumi-kimishima-advised-against-the-wii-u/
QuoteKimishima used that business experience to advise against shipping the Wii U console, fearing it would fail because it was too similar to the Wii. While it's hard to argue that 10 million units sold is a failure, the ailing system has had trouble maintaining third party support and has been remaining afloat largely because of first party and indie titles.
oh my god, a nintendo employee who isn't completely tone deaf
where has this guy been all my life
(http://i.imgur.com/hElKa89.jpg)
Quote from: Tectron on September 14, 2015, 03:21:52 PM
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/27336-nintendos-new-president-tatsumi-kimishima-advised-against-the-wii-u/
QuoteKimishima used that business experience to advise against shipping the Wii U console, fearing it would fail because it was too similar to the Wii. While it's hard to argue that 10 million units sold is a failure, the ailing system has had trouble maintaining third party support and has been remaining afloat largely because of first party and indie titles.
oh my god, a nintendo employee who isn't completely tone deaf
where has this guy been all my life
'while it's hard to argue that ten million units sold is a failure'
what nintendo-laced fanboy drug is this guy smoking? the
VITA has sold more than the wii u and is considered all but dead. if nintendo's well of franchises were just a little bit shallower, the wii u would be dryer than california atm
even the dreamcast, the biggest embarrassment in console history, never once sold as slowly as the wii u does (not while it was in production,at least)
in fact, the dreamcast's total sales still to this day beat the wii u by half a million units, despite the fact that the wii u's been on the market for a full year longer than the dreamcast ever was
kimishima is completely correct: it's nothing but trash
Quote from: Tectron on September 14, 2015, 05:36:16 PM
even the dreamcast, the biggest embarrassment in console history, never once sold as slowly as the wii u does (not while it was in production,at least)
in fact, the dreamcast's total sales still to this day beat the wii u by half a million units, despite the fact that the wii u's been on the market for a full year longer than the dreamcast ever was
kimishima is completely correct: it's nothing but trash
agreed
how anyone can honestly defend the wii u is beyond me
still kinda want one cry;
so it's been agreed by david and me that you would give me yours when the nx comes out, tec 5thgrade;
friends don't burden friends with hazardous waste akudood;
Quote from: Thyme on September 14, 2015, 05:49:02 PM
still kinda want one cry;
Even if it's been a failure in terms of marketing, sales, and third-party support, I'd still say it has a good number of quality first party games. And games that you want but can't get on the hardware you already have should be the biggest reason to buy a console.
fun fact:
even by iwata's own metric, the wii u is a complete failure
http://www.1up.com/news/iwata-wii-doesn-outsell-gamecube
Quote from: iwataWii will be a failure if it cannot sell far more than GameCube did. In fact, we shouldn't continue this business if our only target is to outsell GameCube.
eh i have a real job and there's like 8 or 9 games i have on it that are kool so fuck yall is what im gettin at
Breaking news: Wii U is getting a Metroid Prime game hocuspocus;
[spoiler]Metroid Prime: Hunters is releasing to Wii U VC
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/09/metroid_prime_hunters_arrives_on_wii_u_virtual_console_in_japan[/spoiler]
Quote from: bluaki on September 30, 2015, 05:07:54 AM
Breaking news: Wii U is getting a Metroid Prime game hocuspocus;
[spoiler]Metroid Prime: Hunters is releasing to Wii U VC
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/09/metroid_prime_hunters_arrives_on_wii_u_virtual_console_in_japan[/spoiler]
fuck
Great. nintendo is trying to heal wounds caused by fed force by giving us the not other m bad metroid game
http://nintendoenthusiast.com/news/nintendo-to-cease-selling-games-in-greece-by-the-end-of-this-year/
first brazil, now greece, soon the us
Quote from: Tectron on October 02, 2015, 10:25:50 AM
http://nintendoenthusiast.com/news/nintendo-to-cease-selling-games-in-greece-by-the-end-of-this-year/
first brazil, now greece, soon the us
i mean greece has no fuckin money and u cant eat nintendo games so whats the point
To be honest Nintendo is still in a great spot, their fans are quite ravenous and their games are comparatively cheap to make compared to other gaming companies plus the game support is nearly all 1st party which I think is a benefit more than it is a downside. They have a huge potential fan base, a huge collection of IP, and nearly unlimited resources. They even have a lot of great feedback from the gaming community and of course some not so great feedback.
The Wii U has a handful of great games, but so did the Dreamcast and the Gamecube. I think the poor sales of the Wii U are from two major problems. First the poor name and even poorer marketing campaign and secondly the nearly unsupported Gamepad made the console more expensive and gimmicky.
I wish Nintendo luck (but of course leave luck to heaven) and I'll always be there to play Nintendo games as long as I can experience them with my friends and family.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/05/business/nintendo-dropped-list-top-100-brands-first-time/
NINTENDO IS FINISHED
Sonic Lost World is releasing on Steam on November 2, with a $30 pre-purchase bundle that also includes All Stars Racing Transformed
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/10/sonic_lost_worlds_wii_u_exclusivity_ends_with_budget_pc_release
There goes another Wii U exclusive sillydood;
Quote from: Tectron on October 05, 2015, 07:05:06 PM
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/05/business/nintendo-dropped-list-top-100-brands-first-time/
NINTENDO IS FINISHED
this article is literally complaining that htey aren't doing smart phone games
lol wut
Quote from: bluaki on October 06, 2015, 02:37:06 PM
Sonic Lost World is releasing on Steam on November 2, with a $30 pre-purchase bundle that also includes All Stars Racing Transformed
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/10/sonic_lost_worlds_wii_u_exclusivity_ends_with_budget_pc_release
There goes another Wii U exclusive sillydood;
did they fix it at all
Quote from: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on October 07, 2015, 05:25:54 PM
Quote from: bluaki on October 06, 2015, 02:37:06 PM
Sonic Lost World is releasing on Steam on November 2, with a $30 pre-purchase bundle that also includes All Stars Racing Transformed
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/10/sonic_lost_worlds_wii_u_exclusivity_ends_with_budget_pc_release
There goes another Wii U exclusive sillydood;
did they fix it at all
what do you mean by fix
It's not like it's a completely different game now, no. But the original game has gotten updates a long time ago that fix some details like not getting a 1-up for 100 rings.
Also, if you're thinking of horribly broken Wii U Sonic games, you might be thinking of Sonic Boom, not Lost World. Sonic Boom is still exclusive to Nintendo systems with one Wii U game and soon two 3DS games.
maybe he meant "fix" as in "make it good"
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on October 07, 2015, 08:49:52 PM
maybe he meant "fix" as in "make it good"
sonic team couldn't make a 'good' game if Jesus himself tried to design a level
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/10/16/report-nintendo-begins-distributing-nx-software-development-kits.aspx
I'm going to laugh when the NX turns out to be a sega CD-style peripheral for the Wii U in a desperate attempt to save it.
Quote from: Jojo on October 16, 2015, 08:23:42 AM
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/10/16/report-nintendo-begins-distributing-nx-software-development-kits.aspx
I'm going to laugh when the NX turns out to be a sega CD-style peripheral for the Wii U in a desperate attempt to save it.
Quoteopting for relatively more powerful hardware.
doubtful, its not liek you can string up some RAM in an HDMI port or some shit
You can make an add on of some kind that plug in via usb
Or in this day of internet-reliance, via wifi
it can be done
Quote from: Jojo on October 16, 2015, 08:59:48 AM
You can make an add on of some kind that plug in via usb
Or in this day of internet-reliance, via wifi
it can be done
i dont think usb or wifi work like that but ok sure man
Quote from: C.Mongler on October 16, 2015, 08:47:51 AM
Quote from: Jojo on October 16, 2015, 08:23:42 AM
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/10/16/report-nintendo-begins-distributing-nx-software-development-kits.aspx
I'm going to laugh when the NX turns out to be a sega CD-style peripheral for the Wii U in a desperate attempt to save it.
Quoteopting for relatively more powerful hardware.
doubtful, its not liek you can string up some RAM in an HDMI port or some shit
the wii u will use usb thumb drives like post vista oses use them for fake ram
Quote from: C.Mongler on October 16, 2015, 12:58:30 PM
Quote from: Jojo on October 16, 2015, 08:59:48 AM
You can make an add on of some kind that plug in via usb
Or in this day of internet-reliance, via wifi
it can be done
i dont think usb or wifi work like that but ok sure man
technology
nintendo fans, rejoice
http://nichegamer.com/2015/10/the-wii-u-finally-outsells-the-sega-dreamcast/
the wii u is saved
we did it guys, you know what they are kind of similar consoles if you think about it down to the silly controller.
Quote from: reefer on November 01, 2015, 07:50:24 PM
we did it guys, you know what they are kind of similar consoles if you think about it down to the silly controller.
the main difference being the gamepad is comfortable
Quote from: Tectron on November 01, 2015, 06:58:00 PM
nintendo fans, rejoice
http://nichegamer.com/2015/10/the-wii-u-finally-outsells-the-sega-dreamcast/
the wii u is saved
Next stop: Outselling the Vita. ETA never.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/4/9669880/nintendo-didn-t-create-the-next-wii-apple-did
he makes some valid points about how nintendo poorly defined [and continues to do so] the wii u when it announced it. but i hardly consider the apple tv to be the new wii, obviously it'll have wider appeal like the wii did among "causal" gamers, but where as the wii was a dedicated game console that just happened to have a quirky way of interacting with its games, this is a netflix/hulu box that lets you play your iphone/ipad games. of course i could be wrong, but i think the biggest thing lacking from the apple tv is local multiplayer which is what really made the wii a success.
thoughts?
Quote from: David on November 04, 2015, 01:35:23 PM
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/4/9669880/nintendo-didn-t-create-the-next-wii-apple-did
he makes some valid points about how nintendo poorly defined [and continues to do so] the wii u when it announced it. but i hardly consider the apple tv to be the new wii, obviously it'll have wider appeal like the wii did among "causal" gamers, but where as the wii was a dedicated game console that just happened to have a quirky way of interacting with its games, this is a netflix/hulu box that lets you play your iphone/ipad games. of course i could be wrong, but i think the biggest thing lacking from the apple tv is local multiplayer which is what really made the wii a success.
thoughts?
ouya
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-30/nintendo-mobile-game-delay-triggers-4-5-billion-drop-in-value
(http://i.imgur.com/isWaSM9.jpg)
lol
Quote from: Tectron on November 04, 2015, 09:43:31 PM
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-30/nintendo-mobile-game-delay-triggers-4-5-billion-drop-in-value
(http://i.imgur.com/isWaSM9.jpg)
lol
Jésus
activision buyin nintendo soon could be a reality
NINTENDO DIRECT COMMIN ATCHA
https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/664095209534435328
WILL THEY ANNOUNCE A GOOD GAME????!
Quote from: Tectron on June 23, 2015, 01:46:39 PM
Quote from: Tectron on February 18, 2015, 06:01:54 PM
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/kirby-and-the-rainbow-curse
new super mario bros. will save the wii u
wind waker hd will save the wii u
donkey kong country will save the wii u
mario kart will save the wii u
bayonetta will save the wii u
smash bros. will save the wii u
amiibo will save the wii u
kirby will save the wii u
next up: yoshi's woolly whyevenbother
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/yoshis-woolly-world
yoshi's wooled boxers will save the wii u
also, forgot one: spl@oon will save the wii u
next up: star fox [glow=black,2,300]LOL[/glow]
i'm not sure i can continue to be as cynical about spl@oon's performance as i once was
within a few months it managed to sell nearly 2 million units on a console with an install base of just 10 million
mario kart 8 is actually even more impressive, having sold over 5 million units, one for every two wii u owners
but still, splatoon and mk8 didn't save the wii u so much as they miraculously saved themselves despite the wii u, lol
and for that they will remain struck out
anyway,
xenoblade will save the wii umario maker will save the wii uand with star fox's delay, it's still next up, along with twilight princess
Quote from: Tectron on November 12, 2015, 08:37:55 PM
Quote from: Tectron on June 23, 2015, 01:46:39 PM
Quote from: Tectron on February 18, 2015, 06:01:54 PM
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/kirby-and-the-rainbow-curse
new super mario bros. will save the wii u
wind waker hd will save the wii u
donkey kong country will save the wii u
mario kart will save the wii u
bayonetta will save the wii u
smash bros. will save the wii u
amiibo will save the wii u
kirby will save the wii u
next up: yoshi's woolly whyevenbother
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/yoshis-woolly-world
yoshi's wooled boxers will save the wii u
also, forgot one: spl@oon will save the wii u
next up: star fox [glow=black,2,300]LOL[/glow]
i'm not sure i can continue to be as cynical about spl@oon's performance as i once was
within a few months it managed to sell nearly 2 million units on a console with an install base of just 10 million
mario kart 8 is actually even more impressive, having sold over 5 million units, one for every two wii u owners
but still, splatoon and mk8 didn't save the wii u so much as they miraculously saved themselves despite the wii u, lol
and for that they will remain struck out
anyway,
xenoblade will save the wii u
mario maker will save the wii u
and with star fox's delay, it's still next up, along with twilight princess
damn.... i thought wooly world did better than that
i mean that nintendo direct confirmed the wii u is fucking dead, they aren't putting resources into devolving new software for the thing, just tying up what they've already had in development
SEE YA ON THE NX BOYS
seriously the nintendo direct along with animal crossing amiibo party have made me very sad about being a nintendo fan
the sorry state of the wii u:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/mario-tennis-ultra-smash
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/animal-crossing-amiibo-festival
looks like everyone's seeing right through nintendo's deceitful tactics and this lazy filler content is getting exactly the reception it deserves
such a far cry from these days, in so short a time:
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/GS1N3d1.jpg)[/spoiler]
Quote from: Tectron on November 18, 2015, 04:08:20 PM
the sorry state of the wii u:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/mario-tennis-ultra-smash
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/animal-crossing-amiibo-festival
looks like everyone's seeing right through nintendo's deceitful tactics and this lazy filler content is getting exactly the reception it deserves
such a far cry from these days, in so short a time:
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/GS1N3d1.jpg)[/spoiler]
Updating that chart would include these changes:
Add to Wii U: Mario Maker
Add to 3DS: Monster Hunter 4U, Majora's Mask 3D, Xenoblade 3D
Add to other: Witcher 3, Bloodborne
That comparison still adds up to 23 Nintendo vs 10 everyone else.
tbh I'm surprised Mario Maker and the 3DS remakes scored so well. I wouldn't honestly rate them that high.
Correction: I somehow missed Ori and the Blind Forest, so that's one more in the "all other consoles" list.
But "all other consoles" still has exactly 8: (3 of the ones that made the list last year have dropped off it)
93/9.2 Vita - Persona 4 Golden
88/8.6 Vita - LittleBigPlanet Vita
87/8.9 Vita - Tearaway
86/8.5 Vita - FFX/X-2 HD Remaster (PS4 version has a lower score)
95/8.9 PS4 - Last of Us Remastered
92/8.6 PS4 - Bloodborne
92/8.8 PS4 - Witcher 3 (also on Xbone: 91/8.6)
88/8.6 Xbone - Ori and the Blind Forest
Nintendo's list also lost 3 games:
86/8.4 3DS - Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon
83/8.3 3DS - Persona Q
85/8.4 3DS - Bravely Default
So the final comparison is now 20 vs 8.
Quote from: bluaki on November 18, 2015, 07:15:08 PM
Quote from: Tectron on November 18, 2015, 04:08:20 PM
the sorry state of the wii u:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/mario-tennis-ultra-smash
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/animal-crossing-amiibo-festival
looks like everyone's seeing right through nintendo's deceitful tactics and this lazy filler content is getting exactly the reception it deserves
such a far cry from these days, in so short a time:
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/GS1N3d1.jpg)[/spoiler]
tbh I'm surprised Mario Maker and the 3DS remakes scored so well. I wouldn't honestly rate them that high.
likewise, but muh nostalgia i guess
it's too bad nintendo's done absolutely everything in its power to repel third parties from the wii u, otherwise it'd be unquestionably the best console this generation
and as for nintendo's recent performance on the 3ds:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/the-legend-of-zelda-tri-force-heroes
http://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/animal-crossing-happy-home-designer
http://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/chibi-robo!-zip-lash
they have completely given up on this generation lol
Man. nintendo wishes they had a game lime ori.
oh wait... they do.
and they fucked it up by making a multiplayer shooter out of it
i'm confused, are you saying splatoon is like ori?
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on November 18, 2015, 09:59:37 PM
i'm confused, are you saying splatoon is like ori?
i think it's a reference to what's become of the """metroid""" franchise
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on November 18, 2015, 09:59:37 PM
i'm confused, are you saying splatoon is like ori?
*facepalms* I'm hoping that was a joke
Quote from: Tectron on November 18, 2015, 10:11:17 PM
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on November 18, 2015, 09:59:37 PM
i'm confused, are you saying splatoon is like ori?
i think it's a reference to what's become of the """metroid""" franchise
yes tec. thank you.
who still says facepalm
and oh okay i forgot that game existed tbh
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on November 18, 2015, 11:59:40 PM
who still says facepalm
shut up
it was supposed to be an action description, hence the asterisk. I didn't SAY facepalm
Quote from: Loto on November 19, 2015, 12:00:23 AM
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on November 18, 2015, 11:59:40 PM
who still says facepalm
shut up
it was supposed to be an action description, hence the asterisk. I didn't SAY facepalm
Quote from: Loto on November 18, 2015, 10:34:11 PM
*facepalms*
lol but this is a forum no one can see your text based actions everything you type is what you say lol
BUT ANYWAY like i think it's silly that the metroid shooter is a thing, but i dont think they ever went into designing it with the intention of it being a classic metroid title; i think they started with the basis of HEY LETS MAKE A FUTURISTIC MULTIPLAYER SHOOTER ON THE 3DS and then they were like HOW THE FUCK DO WE BRAND THIS and then metroid was the only logical answer they could come up with.
i mean it looks dumb, but rocket league also looks fucking dumb on paper and thats one of, if not my favorite multiplayer games of the past decade so WE'LL SEEEEE
Quote from: C.Mongler on November 19, 2015, 07:36:00 AM
Quote from: Loto on November 19, 2015, 12:00:23 AM
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on November 18, 2015, 11:59:40 PM
who still says facepalm
shut up
it was supposed to be an action description, hence the asterisk. I didn't SAY facepalm
Quote from: Loto on November 18, 2015, 10:34:11 PM
*facepalms*
lol but this is a forum no one can see your text based actions everything you type is what you say lol
yeah yeah. I get it.
*facepalms*
*facepalms*
*pinches nasal bridge*
*poops in thread*
sorry :(
*cleans up poop*
/me died
speaking of metashitdick,
Quote from: Tectron on June 13, 2015, 03:44:30 PM
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nintendo-will-announce-more-third-party-support-fo/1100-6428043/
Quote from: nintendo repWe still have those great, big third-party partners like Ubisoft who continue to invest in our platforms
"great, big third-party partners like ubisoft", including:
and both ubisoft's """greatness""" and level of commitment to the wii u are questionable at best
let's see how some of nintendo's "great, big third-party" exclusives are doing:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/rodea-the-sky-soldier
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/devils-turd (http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/devils-third)
wow
truly impressive, nintendo
for fans of first and third-party titles alike, the wii u is unmistakably the best place to game
a couple more posts like this and you'll finally be ready to send me your wii u giggle;
a couple more posts like that, and
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/SuKwYht.jpg)[/spoiler]
no no no no no, it belongs in a cardboard box with my name and address on it madood;
The Wii U has redeemable qualities, ie Mario Kart 8 and Smash
Quote from: reefer on November 19, 2015, 06:28:23 PM
The Wii U has redeemable qualities, ie Mario Kart 8 and Smash
welp
Quote from: Tectron on November 19, 2015, 03:46:05 PM
let's see how some of nintendo's "great, big third-party" exclusives are doing:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/rodea-the-sky-soldier
to be fair to rodea, all those negative reviews cite the controls as a big if not the biggest problem
But the Wii U version comes with a disc of the Wii version, which is vastly better because its controls are what the game was designed for and the Wii U version is just a bad port of a previously-unreleased game.
Similarly, how bad would a GamePad-only (no Wiimote) Wii U port of Skyward Sword be? Wii Sports?
But that still doesn't speak well of Wii U's library if people will buy this Wii U game just to play the Wii limited edition bonus disc and ignore the actual Wii U game.
Port issues aside, I think I've heard this game is maybe roughly on par with Sonic Adventure 2 in quality? That's not really a good thing, but it's certainly not as bad as a lot of other recent releases have been.
[spoiler]I own this game but I haven't tried it yet[/spoiler]
Only controls the problem? Sounds like kid icarus uprising to me
Quote from: Loto on November 19, 2015, 08:40:41 PM
Only controls the problem? Sounds like kid icarus uprising to me
Well, no.
Like I said, if you take away the control issues for the Wii U/3DS ports, it's supposedly roughly on par with the Sonic Adventure games in terms of quality. It has quite a few other issues (like camera), but controls really is the biggest one.
That said, I'm still surprised how well Kid Icarus Uprising scores on Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/kid-icarus-uprising).
Quote from: bluaki on November 19, 2015, 08:47:11 PM
Quote from: Loto on November 19, 2015, 08:40:41 PM
Only controls the problem? Sounds like kid icarus uprising to me
Well, no.
Like I said, if you take away the control issues for the Wii U/3DS ports, it's supposedly roughly on par with the Sonic Adventure games in terms of quality. It has quite a few other issues (like camera), but controls really is the biggest one.
That said, I'm still surprised how well Kid Icarus Uprising scores on Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/game/3ds/kid-icarus-uprising).
thats what I meant.
granted, I know KI U doesn't have many other problems like rodea seems to according to reviews. but controls were what hurt it most, and that's what I thought you were saying
to be fair devil's third is just a shitty game
Quote from: C.Mongler on November 20, 2015, 06:27:48 AM
to be fair devil's third is just a shitty game
don't know how anyone expected otherwise
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-11-21/shin-megami-tensei-x-fire-emblem-crossover-game-videos-preview-tiki-bloom-palace/.95638
In Fire Emblem, Tiki is a powerful divine dragon and daughter of what is essentially a god in that world.
In Genei Ibun Roku #FE (SMTxFE), Tiki is... basically that world's Hatsune Miku. She's a digital character for the synthetic vocal software called "Utaloid Tiki".
That said, this reminds me: one of the more memorable silly Smash suggestions I've seen floating around the internet lately is Hatsune Miku. It's just ridiculous enough to be kinda-plausible and she even has two 3DS games hocuspocus;
so kawaii~
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nintendo's annual metacritic averages, from 2005 to 2015
objective statistical evidence that 2015 is not nintendo's finest year
we did it, boys
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/11/27/target-coms-1-console-black-friday-2015-wasnt-ps4-xbox-one-wii-u/
the wii u is saved
Quote from: Tectron on November 29, 2015, 04:02:22 PM
we did it, boys
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/11/27/target-coms-1-console-black-friday-2015-wasnt-ps4-xbox-one-wii-u/
the wii u is saved
lmao
Quote from: Tectron on November 29, 2015, 04:02:22 PM
we did it, boys
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2015/11/27/target-coms-1-console-black-friday-2015-wasnt-ps4-xbox-one-wii-u/
the wii u is saved
if i didnt have one already i probably woulda got one on BF, shit was a dang good deal
i'm honestly a little bit miffed that i wasn't able to snag a copy of splatoon while it was $25 over the weekend
http://mynintendonews.com/2015/12/10/wii-u-has-now-sold-11-million-worldwide/
Only 2 million more until it overtakes the Vita. 5thgrade;
the sorry state of the 3ds, and nintendo in general:
http://gimmegimmegames.com/2015/12/24419/
Quote from: nintendo exec
Nintendo 3DS is here to stay. Let me throw out a number that might surprise you. So far, on a global basis, Nintendo 3DS has sold more hardware than PS4 and Xbox One—combined. Most people find this shocking.
is this supposed to be impressive
the 3ds came out a full 2.5 years before the ps4 and xbox one at about half the price of either, and still it and needed an $80 price cut in its first few months before it was actually viable
and in just another 1.5 years the ps4 will have eclipsed the 3ds's lifetime total
how insecure is nintendo to be touting such disingenuous statistics lol, the only reason "most people find this shocking" is because most people have forgotten nintendo exists at all
how about this for a "shocking" figure: in its four years on the market, the 3ds has barely managed to achieve even 1/3 the sales of its predecessor, and remains about 30 million units behind the lowly psp
Quote from: Tectron on December 11, 2015, 09:57:55 PM
the sorry state of the 3ds, and nintendo in general:
http://gimmegimmegames.com/2015/12/24419/
Quote from: nintendo exec
Nintendo 3DS is here to stay. Let me throw out a number that might surprise you. So far, on a global basis, Nintendo 3DS has sold more hardware than PS4 and Xbox Oneâ€"combined. Most people find this shocking.
is this supposed to be impressive
the 3ds came out a full 2.5 years before the ps4 and xbox one at about half the price of either, and still it and needed an $80 price cut in its first few months before it was actually viable
and in just another 1.5 years the ps4 will have eclipsed the 3ds's lifetime total
how insecure is nintendo to be touting such disingenuous statistics lol, the only reason "most people find this shocking" is because most people have forgotten nintendo exists at all
how about this for a "shocking" figure: in its four years on the market, the 3ds has barely managed to achieve even 1/3 the sales of its predecessor, and remains about 30 million units behind the lowly psp
i mean we're hard in the smartphone market now bub, handhelds arent popular at all anymore lol it really shouldn't be surprising the 3ds hasnt been as succesful as the DS, thats kind of a retarded metric lol
Quote from: C.Mongler on December 12, 2015, 07:44:37 AM
i mean we're hard in the smartphone market now bub, handhelds arent popular at all anymore lol it really shouldn't be surprising the 3ds hasnt been as succesful as the DS, thats kind of a retarded metric lol
so you're telling me that statistics without context are meaningless numbers
huh
who'd'a thunk
maybe someone should let nintendo in on that little secret so they never make such an embarrassing mistake again
Quote from: Tectron on December 12, 2015, 09:18:27 AM
Quote from: C.Mongler on December 12, 2015, 07:44:37 AM
i mean we're hard in the smartphone market now bub, handhelds arent popular at all anymore lol it really shouldn't be surprising the 3ds hasnt been as succesful as the DS, thats kind of a retarded metric lol
so you're telling me that statistics without context are meaningless numbers
huh
who'd'a thunk
maybe someone should let nintendo in on that little secret so they never make such an embarrassing mistake again
uh did you not read what i said
the 3ds selling that much is impressive BECAUSE of context lol
i don't think we're on the same page
i mockingly posted a "shocking" statistic (3ds vs. last-gen handhelds) that is nonsense without context in response to nintendo doing the same (comparing 3ds sales to ps4/xbox one sales)
my point was that if nintendo can whip out bs stats, then so can anyone else lol
oh so you're mad that their pr team used pr buzzwords, my bad lol
nintendo's marketing tactics are brilliant in all the most underhanded ways
how to forge a buzz around a game that was otherwise never going to sell: create demand by making it artificially scarce, then sit back and watch as a terrible product becomes highly sought-after among collectors and scalpers (synonyms, really)
http://nintendoenthusiast.com/article/did-nintendo-of-america-send-devils-third-out-to-die/
result:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00KWIYS3K/ref=sr_1_1_twi_gam_1_olp?
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=devils%20third&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1&_trksid=p2045573.m1684
a tried-and-true nintendo strategy
or maybe they didn't produce a lot of them because the game is horse shit lol
New Mario Maker content update coming next week:
[spoiler][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JECCJu_UNaQ[/youtube][/spoiler]
* Fire Clown Car: You can press B/Y to shoot a fireball forward instead of the downward angle you get with Fire Flower. Hold the button to fire a charged shot that can break blocks.
* Bumper: A stationary ring that entities can bounce off of
* P-Door: A door that appears when P-Switch is active
* UI: The level listing now displays world record fastest clear time and first clearer for each stage
With the former two features, I can already see a new flood of shmup levels coming.
that's fucking awesome
I am so excited for this update. giggle;
http://mynintendonews.com/2015/12/17/nintendo-ceo-says-amiibo-will-play-bigger-role-in-its-video-game-business/comment-page-1/
Ugh. And to think I ever had a glimmer of hope that Kimishima wouldn't destroy Nintendo. awdood;
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RUMOR MILL CHURNIN CUZ FRENCHIE SITE LISTS STAR FOX RELEASE DATE IN JULY
FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK I JUST WANT A GAME NINTENDO
wasnt sure which of the 8 nintendo threads to post this in, but there's a direct tomorrow
[spoiler]hot rumor going around of ANOTHER Star Fox delay, with the possibility of it being canned entirely lmao. don't have a source on it, coming from word of mouth from a friend who somehow knows everything[/spoiler]
Meh not excited for this one.
Quote from: C.Mongler on January 14, 2016, 11:44:44 AM
(http://cdn-static.gamekult.com/gamekult-com/images/photos/30/50/61/80/untitled-ME3050618001_1.jpg)
RUMOR MILL CHURNIN CUZ FRENCHIE SITE LISTS STAR FOX RELEASE DATE IN JULY
FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK I JUST WANT A GAME NINTENDO
today nintendo is happy to announce a new star fox app for mobile :)
Quote from: reefer on March 02, 2016, 09:27:24 PM
Meh not excited for this one.
yeah theres been ANOTHER HOT LEAK that sayss star fox isnt canned (delayed maybe but not sure yet) and Monster Hunter X will come stateside. Rumors of SNES games to the
NEW 3ds tho so thats kind of something except i still have a regular XL not a new one lol other than that yeah not much so i hope the rumor is FALSE
Star Fox GUARD!?
i'm done
and another mario sonic olympics
Smt x fe is now pop idol x fe
We also got paper mario x splatoon splash
Omigod medli gonna be in hyrule warriors!!
no mother 3 announcement.... smithicide;
Nintendo Direct announcements for Wii U:
* Nintendo doesn't want us to forget that TPHD is releasing tomorrow and Pokkken in a couple weeks
* Star Fox Zero and Star Fox Guard are bundled at retail (or sold separately on eShop, like Bayonetta) and release April 22
* The SMTxFE game (known as Genei Ibun Roku #FE in Japan) has an English title now: Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, and it's releasing June 24 with no English voice/subs-only (considering the nature of this game, I think this is for the better)
* Paper Mario: Color Splash. Like Sticker Star, it's a "twist" on Paper Mario with another weird/not-very-promising battle system.
* Mini Mario & Friends Amiibo Challenge is basically a "free" Mario Minis game which requires amiibo to unlock each mission, releasing on both Wii U and 3DS.
* Hyrule Warriors on Wii U will get N3DS content if you buy both versions. There's also Medli coming as a free DLC.
* Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympics
Azure striker gunvolt 2.
Dragon Quest vii
Kirby robotbotbotbot whatever.
Quote from: Loto on March 03, 2016, 02:56:03 PM
Dragon Quest vii
Kirby robotbotbotbot whatever.
This is the Wii U thread.
That said, Kirby is the one newly-announced game from this presentation that I'm most looking forward to. It looks very much like Triple Deluxe, which I liked quite a bit. But I kinda wish they were making a Wii U Kirby game instead of a second 3DS one.
but yeah, I forgot to mention Gunvolt 2. The first Gunvolt is also going on sale.
Also, Mario Maker and Splatoon are getting updates. Splatoon's doesn't look like much at all, but Mario Maker is getting two new elements: key doors (accompanied by keys of course) and skewers (the huge spike poles that crush down and then spin back up)
god that SMTxFE game still looks fucking BAAAAD
ugh why did they have to destroy the paper mario series
best announcement was those kirby amiibo, waddle dee looks cute as fuck and i like the new kirby too
Quote from: C.Mongler on March 03, 2016, 03:45:36 PM
god that SMTxFE game still looks fucking BAAAAD
did we know before this that it was a god damned idol game?
Quote from: Loto on March 03, 2016, 05:42:38 PM
Quote from: C.Mongler on March 03, 2016, 03:45:36 PM
god that SMTxFE game still looks fucking BAAAAD
did we know before this that it was a god damned idol game?
uh yes
the game's been out since december in japan lol
Quote from: Nyerp on March 03, 2016, 06:52:33 PM
the game's been out since december in japan lol
doesn't mean I've been looking it up.
"we're not going to bother dubbing this because only really fucking weird nerds are going to buy it anyway!!!"
glad that letdown is out of the way
that direct was probably meant to clear up the few loose ends remaining on wii u before e3, where the nx will be the focus
https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-cancel-paper-mario-color-splash
lol
Oh my god....
They don't even know what the game will be like...
Can I start a petition to cancel their petition?
sure you can
https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-don-t-cancel-metroid-prime-federation-force
sillydood;
Quote from: Loto on March 11, 2016, 09:23:31 AM
Oh my god....
They don't even know what the game will be like...
Can I start a petition to cancel their petition?
There was only one short trailer, but that trailer managed to show almost everything people hated about Sticker Star.
there's a slim chance they could somehow make consumable-item battles fun and turn all those other red flags into false flags, but I wouldn't put a microgram of hope in that happening
it's also still possible that they'll simply change most of that by release
Yeah, well, how about just let the game come out and let the people who want to buy it, do so?
There are people who liked sticker star.
But I guess we'll never stop the entitled from barking.
Granted, the game will come out anyway, cause petitions amount to shit, but still.
Vote with your wallet is all you can do.
Quote from: Tectron on March 11, 2016, 09:37:18 AM
sure you can
https://www.change.org/p/nintendo-don-t-cancel-metroid-prime-federation-force
sillydood;
wow.
I'm gonna make a petition to make a petition to make a petition
The petition will be about making petitions.
Quote from: Loto on March 11, 2016, 09:58:40 AM
There are people who liked sticker star.
no there aren't
Quote from: Nyerp on March 11, 2016, 10:11:56 AM
Quote from: Loto on March 11, 2016, 09:58:40 AM
There are people who liked sticker star.
no there aren't
like it or not, there are.
Nobody here mind you
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/03/22/report-nintendo-to-cease-production-of-wii-u-during-2016.aspx
welp
we done here, pack it up fam
good, so i guess they'll mark them down to an affordable price what they're actually worth
Quote from: Rhyme on March 22, 2016, 02:00:00 PM
good, so i guess they'll mark them down to an affordable price what they're actually worth
but the games won't
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on March 22, 2016, 02:21:23 PM
Quote from: Rhyme on March 22, 2016, 02:00:00 PM
good, so i guess they'll mark them down to an affordable price what they're actually worth
but the games won't
thank god there's only like 0.75 worthwhile games on the wii u
The Wii U is the only Nintendo Console (not handheld, since I still only ahve original DS) that I haven't owned since the SNES came out.
Quote from: Rhyme on March 22, 2016, 02:00:00 PM
good, so i guess they'll mark them down to an affordable price what they're actually worth
100 dollars?
the only way i'd buy a wii u is if i could get it for the same price as my playstation tv [$30]
what is a playstation tv
how have i not paid attention to thes gaymen things
Quote from: Khadafi on March 22, 2016, 03:18:41 PM
what is a playstation tv
how have i not paid attention to thes gaymen things
it's a vita that is only compatible with about 75% of its games
lol@wii u owners
look forward to seeing the superior version of zelda u on the nx
i aint even mad lol giggle;
glad i didn't spend money on a shit console
hopefully the nx isn't shit so i can get good games like zelda
wow no production by end of 2016
would this make it worth it to buy a wii u now? like could it make it more valuable? or is that dumb logic
very few wii u games appealed to me sadly but i still would like to play some super mario maker
well it was a good smash bros/splatoon/earthbound machine, a bit sad that there's nothing more than that but at least i got it fairly cheap
but I won't be able to afford the nx for a while and i want that zelda dammit
then again I also need a PS4 if/when the last guardian ever comes out
Quote from: Khadafi on March 22, 2016, 07:15:35 PM
glad i didn't spend money on a shit console
hopefully the nx isn't shit so i can get good games like zelda
lol the nx will be the death of nintendo as we know it, mobile dev by 2022 PUTTIN MONEY DOWN
Quote from: antmaster5000 on March 22, 2016, 07:18:36 PM
wow no production by end of 2016
would this make it worth it to buy a wii u now? like could it make it more valuable? or is that dumb logic
very few wii u games appealed to me sadly but i still would like to play some super mario maker
maybe but probably not. it will probably be a semi niche console like 10 years from now, but probably no more than the dreamcast is.
honestly super mario maker is worth it alone if u like kaizo mario otherwise eh
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on March 22, 2016, 02:21:23 PM
Quote from: Rhyme on March 22, 2016, 02:00:00 PM
good, so i guess they'll mark them down to an affordable price what they're actually worth
but the games won't
you're right *sad soap wizard*
Quote from: David on March 22, 2016, 04:32:22 PM
Quote from: Khadafi on March 22, 2016, 03:18:41 PM
what is a playstation tv
how have i not paid attention to thes gaymen things
it's a vita that is only compatible with about 75% of its games
granted, it's compatible with 90% of the ones that are actually good
nintendo says fuk u guys that just a rumor we are makin wii u's 4ever
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/03/23/report-nintendo-to-cease-production-of-wii-u-during-2016.aspx
upddate
ninnytendo says about ceasing production...
"*shrugs*"
nikkei in 2009: nintendo is to launch a new, larger dsi
nintendo: squarely denies, then announces dsi xl mere days later
nikkei in 2011: nintendo is to launch a 3d-capable successor to the original ds
nintendo: squarely denies, then announces 3ds mere days later
nikkei later in 2011: nintendo is to launch a wii successor with a touch-sensitive controller in late 2012
lo and behold, nintendo does just that
nikkei in 2012: nintendo is to launch a new, larger 3ds
nintendo: squarely denies, then announces 3ds xl mere days later
nikkei in 2016: nintendo is to cease manufacturing of the wii u
nintendo: squarely denies, and then.......................................
this particular report about the fate of the wii u may or may not actually be true, but nintendo's own words are even more worthless than those of the rumour mill at this point
and it's not like they would ever come right out and confirm that they're ceasing production of the wii u eight months before it even has a successor on the market; even if it were true, that sort of information made public could only possibly affect them negatively
Um that is just a rumor and ALL rumors are fake, okay?
What I'd really like to know is how pitiful the Wii U's production numbers are currently
they probably sold around 6 or 7 so they probably made like 9 or 10
i would buy a wii u just to play tokyo mirage sessions ironically
$199 would be the sweet spot for me tbh
[spoiler]CAD[/spoiler]
My Nintendo when
http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/13462/~/error-codes%3A-160-0103-and-160-1710
awdood;
call the "nintendo center"
Quote from: â€" on April 14, 2016, 03:13:05 PM
awdood;
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Tokyo Mirage Sessions actually looks pretty fun, after watching a gameplay video.
However stupid it is conceptually
it does look fun but it does feel more limited than even persona though
the characters can morph into different FE classes but it's almost linear progression except towards the end when it starts branching
the only unique thing is the chain of attacks that replace the press turn/one more system
changes made during localization include:
hot springs dlc not being made available
looks like its targeted audience is out
i can't bring myself to watch videos of TMS because my penis starts to retract inside of my body and it feels weird
transcranial magnetic stimulation is an effective treatment for that and shitposting
so umm back on topic, are there any other good wii u games to look forward to or rip wii u
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
there's the paper mario spinoff game which looks like it's probably gonna be shit
and then there's the new zelda which will probably also launch on the NX, if even the wii u at all anymore at this point
so yeah, RIP
Uummmm EXCUSE ME!
I believe you have forgotten the game that will save the Wii u?
A little game called
MARIO AND SONIC AT THE RIO 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES!?
was mario and sonic the first nintendo crosscollaboration similar to the atlus (sega) x nintendo collab that shall not be named again
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 25, 2016, 02:15:58 PM
was mario and sonic the first nintendo crosscollaboration similar to the atlus (sega) x nintendo collab that shall not be named again
I think it's at least the first crossover of Mario and Sonic IPs. It predates Brawl.
Sega and Nintendo had previously collaborated on games that involved neither Mario nor Sonic. For example, F-Zero GX.
Wii U's death is further confirmed.
NX releasing March 2017 (worldwide).
Zelda U is delayed to 2017, now slated to be a simultaneous release on WiiU and NX, to nobody's surprise.
Nintendo is already saying Zelda will be their focus at E3, so don't expect any more notable WiiU games.
There are some not-fully-confirmed reports saying that Zelda will be the only playable Nintendo game at E3 2016.
So, Wii U's remaining future holds:
* Localized releases of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
* Paper Mario: Color Splash
* Mario & Sonic
* Mighty No 9
* An almost-certainly-inferior version of the NX Zelda
* Maybe one or two unannounced minor releases near the end of 2016.
Every item on that list is now a joke sillydood;
There's even rumors that most of Wii U's noteworthy games will receive NX ports, including possibly SSB4, Splatoon, and Mario Maker.
lmao@anyone who was foolish enough to waste $300 on a wii u
Hooray I successfully avoided a worthless console :3
I might buy the NX though we will see
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:08:44 AM
lmao@anyone who was foolish enough to waste $300 on a wii u
its current library is well worth it confuseddood;
but its future is utterly hopeless
i just hope it gets an animal crossing title :(
and that there is a port for TMS so i don't have to buy a wii u
Quote from: bluaki on April 27, 2016, 01:12:10 AM
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:08:44 AM
lmao@anyone who was foolish enough to waste $300 on a wii u
its current library is well worth it confuseddood;
i don't completely disagree but the highlights of its current library are all getting ported to the nx anyway lol
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 01:13:49 AM
i just hope it gets an animal crossing title :(
and that there is a port for TMS so i don't have to buy a wii u
There was a new Animal Crossing game announced tonight [glow=black,2,300]for mobile[/glow]
Tokyo Mirage Sessions has already performed really poorly in Japan and doesn't have much hope for American sales numbers, so I doubt they'll see it as worth porting.
Quote from: bluaki on April 27, 2016, 01:27:36 AM
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 01:13:49 AM
i just hope it gets an animal crossing title :(
and that there is a port for TMS so i don't have to buy a wii u
There was a new Animal Crossing game announced tonight [glow=black,2,300]for mobile[/glow]
Tokyo Mirage Sessions has already performed really poorly in Japan and doesn't have much hope for American sales numbers, so I doubt they'll see it as worth porting.
i really hope they just find some way to make a wii u emulator run on the nx despite the completely different architecture lol
or i'll just wait till price drop to buy a wii u
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:15:09 AM
Quote from: bluaki on April 27, 2016, 01:12:10 AM
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:08:44 AM
lmao@anyone who was foolish enough to waste $300 on a wii u
its current library is well worth it confuseddood;
i don't completely disagree but the highlights of its current library are all getting ported to the nx anyway lol source needed
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 27, 2016, 04:55:23 AM
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:15:09 AM
Quote from: bluaki on April 27, 2016, 01:12:10 AM
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:08:44 AM
lmao@anyone who was foolish enough to waste $300 on a wii u
its current library is well worth it confuseddood;
i don't completely disagree but the highlights of its current library are all getting ported to the nx anyway lol source neededthe source is common sense lmao esp with how the gaming industry is currently set up
i mean mario maker might get a port if there's a retarded touch screen thing, and smash GOTYALLYEARS will probably be ported, and MAYBE splatoon if i'm gettin' stretchy
but i dont really think any wii u games past that would get ported n_u
I just want digital purchases to be transferable/compatible
i just want bayonetta 2 to be compatible gimpdood;
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:08:44 AM
lmao@anyone who was foolish enough to waste $300 on a wii u
I feel good about the $200 I spent on mine maps;
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 01:13:49 AM
i just hope it gets an animal crossing title :(
pretty bummed about this too :'(
Quote from: bluaki on April 27, 2016, 01:27:36 AM
There was a new Animal Crossing game announced tonight [glow=black,2,300]for mobile[/glow]
Hopefully this ends up alright too because I'd actually love this
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 27, 2016, 06:19:05 AM
i mean mario maker might get a port if there's a retarded touch screen thing, and smash GOTYALLYEARS will probably be ported, and MAYBE splatoon if i'm gettin' stretchy
but i dont really think any wii u games past that would get ported n_u
Smash is a pretty safe bet, but I'm guessing we'll get Spla2n instead of a port
I mean the Wii U itself is a port machine. We got Earthbound and some other VC games, WWHD, TPHD, Mario 3D Land HD, Brawl HD+, Mario Kart 7 HD, NSMB HD, Kirby Canvas Curse HD
the only original games I can think of are LittleBigMario and Splatoon
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i mean if we're calling sequels 'ports' then splatoon is the only original title nintendo has made since like the year 2000 goonish
3d World adds a lot to the 3d land formula
NSMB Wii U is arguably the best one in that entire shitty franchise
Mario Kart 8 is the best Mario Kart since DS, way better than the shitty Wii one and better than the "eh it's better than the wii one at least" 7
and lol I wish the Wii U Kirby was simply Canvas Curse HD cuz that game is a fuckload of wasted potential
but yeah i think the wii u's library was fine. it wasn't PHENOMINAL, it wasn't MUST HAVE, but i don't regret getting one, though i wish more was done with the damn thing. i'm bored, here's games
kikass wii u games
Super Mario 3D World
Mario Kart 8
Splatoon
Bayonetta 2
Pikmin 3
Super Mario Maker
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
FAST Racing Neo
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
Pushmo World
s'alright wii u games
Pokken
Yoshi's Wolly World
The Wonderful 101
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
Starfox
Fatal Frame 4
Mario Party 10????
Nintendoland?????????????????????????
games that are on other platforms but probably best to play on wii u
Super Smash Bros. Wii U
Hyrule Warriors
Mon Hunter 3
WW HD & TP HD
Zombi U
Rayman Legends (fuk u this game was designed for wii u ubisoft!!!)
devil's third tier
Devil's Third
Despite all the signs indicating otherwise, Nintendo actually continues to claim that "NX won't simply replace 3DS and Wii U"
that's what they told investors at yesterday's meeting
Well, at least, 3DS has mildly more hope in its future release plans than Wii U does. Even I honestly doubt that I'll ever buy another Wii U game at this point, unless they manage to somehow reverse all expectations and either make Color Splash good or announce new worthwhile games for Wii U.
Meanwhile, My Nintendo Gold Points expire only 6 months after you earn them, even though there's really not enough stuff coming out to even earn enough to redeem anything.
Nintendo should just release a smartphone at this rate
It'd be a hit with the wii sports market
Parents could limit who their children call
They could make it easier for seniors to use their phones and not get scammed by strangers
i mean signs kind of point to nintendo not focusing on mobile hardware for the foreseeable future, and with today's announcement, i'm lead to believe a lot of nintendo mobile games will be literally nintendo games with microtransations on mobile telephone platforms madood;
i think that's a big mistake because all signs point to an opening in the mobile platform market
*not sure if this is a felt trigger post* but is there one? iphone and android have it pretty well by the balls. the vita sold like shit. the 3ds sold fine, but no where near the level of its predecessors and it's clearly on the way out. i'm not sure what hardware nintendo could launch that would be successful in the current market, as most moms n dads see their son's iphone as a perfectly capable gaming device
nintendo could just derive something from android and make a snazzy os
take away samsung's market share
lower r&d too
If Nintendo makes an Android phone, I wonder how they'd handle app distribution. Adopting Google Play Services doesn't seem like something they'd do, but I question how much success they could have with their own app market.
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 12:27:56 PM
nintendo could just derive something from android and make a snazzy os
take away samsung's market share
lower r&d too
i 100% agree, but given nintendo's track record of making/working with a competent OS i would be
shocked to see this happen
Quote from: bluaki on April 27, 2016, 12:39:11 PM
If Nintendo makes an Android phone, I wonder how they'd handle app distribution. Adopting Google Play Services doesn't seem like something they'd do, but I question how much success they could have with their own app market.
if it's like full-fledged games they make specifically for the platform it could work
make it the successor to the 3ds
maybe make a tablet version non-phone version like the wii u gamepad was heading towards
people are going to emulate their games anyhow it's a fact of life
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 27, 2016, 12:42:27 PM
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 12:27:56 PM
nintendo could just derive something from android and make a snazzy os
take away samsung's market share
lower r&d too
i 100% agree, but given nintendo's track record of making/working with a competent OS i would be shocked to see this happen
it could be lipstick on a pig and nintendo fans would still eat it up
the home screen will have two buttons
- play mario?
- answer thinly veiled market research question?
miitomo is nintendo testing the waters at ui design whilst gathering market data they can sell to use as a buffer
miitomo was fun for posting dank memes for the first 3 days and then i spent all my coins on booty shorts and now it's INCREDIBLY boring and pointless, which is a darn shame. i hope the fire emblem and animal crossing mobile games aren't the same shit
well it was the novelty of the mii channel all over again so it was fun for its purpose tbh
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 12:13:35 PM
Nintendo should just release a smartphone at this rate
It'd be a hit with the wii sports market
Parents could limit who their children call
They could make it easier for seniors to use their phones and not get scammed by strangers
this would be a complete waste of time and money for nintendo
to release the umpteenth gimmick lagdroid smartphone in a market that's already vastly overcrowded and yields negative profits for nearly everyone involved, even giant industry veterans like lg and sony who are much better equipped to absorb losses from their mobile divisions
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:17:29 PM
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 12:13:35 PM
Nintendo should just release a smartphone at this rate
It'd be a hit with the wii sports market
Parents could limit who their children call
They could make it easier for seniors to use their phones and not get scammed by strangers
this would be a complete waste of time and money for nintendo
to release the umpteenth gimmick lagdroid smartphone in a market that's already vastly overcrowded and yields negative profits for nearly everyone involved, even giant industry veterans like lg and sony
have you done market research tell me your stats pls
i think if it had traditional games it would do well
make the next generation of full-fledged pokemon games run on it tbh guaranteed system seller
make the next generation of animal crossing run on it
make [any universally popular nintendo franchise] run on it
nintendo could make an ngage clone and people would buy it
the console makers sell their consoles at a loss anyhow so i don't see how this refutes anything
also sony has been bleeding money for years on their non-gaming ventures, i'm not sure where the constant argument sony = HOLY GREEN nintendo = HELLFIRE RED comes from either lol, if anything nintendo has more room to take a risk on a android hybrid than sony would
before b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but playstation mobile, sony doesn't even have unique ip they can leverage that i think everyone would want either
maybe lbp and dreams are the closest to universal appeal so i can make my diatribe about mras a level
list of android oems who actually make money:
-samsung
list of android oems who piss blood:
-literally everyone else
http://www.androidauthority.com/apple-has-95-of-smartphone-profits-656093/
what makes you think inexperienced nintendo could prove to be be a second samsung among android oems and not just another lenovo at best lol
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:49:24 PM
list of android oems who actually make money:
-samsung
list of android oems who piss blood:
-literally everyone else
http://www.androidauthority.com/apple-has-95-of-smartphone-profits-656093/
what makes you think inexperienced nintendo could prove to be be a second samsung among android oems and not just another lenovo at best lol
well tec the selling point of samsung is the SOFTWARE
i don't think any of those other companies have like any good software titles and they just share the same pool of generic android apps to choose from
all of those companies ship their devices with their own android skin, and in fact i hear at least as many complaints about samsung's deep and often bloated customization as i hear praise lol
not to mention the fact that the complexity of mobile games is severely limited by the standard touch-only interface
can nintendo really make money on a software ecosystem based on things like flappy tanooki
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/AByrWEP.png)[/spoiler]
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 01:59:22 PM
not to mention the fact that the complexity of mobile games is severely limited by the standard touch-only interface
can nintendo really make money on a software ecosystem based on things like flappy tanooki
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/AByrWEP.png)[/spoiler]
well what makes you think nintendo would only use shallow touch screen controls
why do you presume this
they could use tactile feedback on the screen
they
innovate tec
if they resist the temptation to go free to play it'll work
free to play is best used to introduce new IP, not existing IP
what if they added.....buttons
sure they could do that, but now their device is bulkier and more expensive with less relative screen real estate than a button-free equivalent
and already they have problems
well nintendo would make making a nice cut off the mobile games they sell while most smartphone makers don't have the capacity to do so
it's like comparing apples to oranges
there's no way to make an ergonomic design with buttons, pack it up folks
more like no one has thought of it yet
look at the 3ds. two screens. the retro '90s are in again. bring back flip phones nintendo
i mean just do what the psp go did lol
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 27, 2016, 02:09:27 PM
there's no way to make an ergonomic design with buttons, pack it up folks
that's not what i said at all
an ergonomic design that includes buttons would naturally be more expensive than a button free equivalent or compromise in other areas (see: blackberry priv, which is both overpriced and full of compromises)
in building a smartphone that doubles as a dedicated gaming machine, nintendo would have some enormous conflicts of interest regarding interface options, software pricing and complexity, hardware capability/longevity/pricing, etc. to reconcile, and as evidenced by the gravestones of the dozen other gaming-oriented smartphones that litter the mobile industry, that is no easy task
yes, nintendo has a much larger and more prestigious software ecosystem to support any of its mobile ventures than sony or any of those other guys did, but it still would have to find an adequate balance between all of those other concerns
well how different would that be from developing a new handheld tec tbh
like with the 3ds nintendo used cheap parts and tacked on the useless 3d gimmick that was supposed to compensate for that
it ended up being okay after stumbling for a while
people lease their phones or devices from t-mobile et al. now as opposed to a few years ago
the advantage of that is that by it having mobile data is that nintendo could tout that you could literally play it anywhere (where available)
casual gaming shouldn't burn out your data plan
the lag wouldn't be noticeable in games like pokemon
maybe a bit problematic in some areas like animal crossing but i've tethered my phone to my 3ds b4 and new leaf didn't lag much if at all
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 27, 2016, 01:11:29 PM
miitomo was fun for posting dank memes for the first 3 days and then i spent all my coins on booty shorts and now it's INCREDIBLY boring and pointless, which is a darn shame. i hope the fire emblem and animal crossing mobile games aren't the same shit
yeah i dropped it after the first week as well
Quote from: Tectron on April 27, 2016, 02:27:32 PM
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 27, 2016, 02:09:27 PM
there's no way to make an ergonomic design with buttons, pack it up folks
that's not what i said at all
an ergonomic design that includes buttons would naturally be more expensive than a button free equivalent or compromise in other areas (see: blackberry priv, which is both overpriced and full of compromises)
in building a smartphone that doubles as a dedicated gaming machine, nintendo would have some enormous conflicts of interest regarding interface options, software pricing and complexity, hardware capability/longevity/pricing, etc. to reconcile, and as evidenced by the gravestones of the dozen other gaming-oriented smartphones that litter the mobile industry, that is no easy task
yes, nintendo has a much larger and more prestigious software ecosystem to support any of its mobile ventures than sony or any of those other guys did, but it still would have to find an adequate balance between all of those other concerns
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 02:37:35 PM
well how different would that be from developing a new handheld tec tbh
lol felt beat me to it
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 27, 2016, 08:52:22 AM
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i mean if we're calling sequels 'ports' then splatoon is the only original title nintendo has made since like the year 2000 goonish
3d World adds a lot to the 3d land formula
NSMB Wii U is arguably the best one in that entire shitty franchise
Mario Kart 8 is the best Mario Kart since DS, way better than the shitty Wii one and better than the "eh it's better than the wii one at least" 7
and lol I wish the Wii U Kirby was simply Canvas Curse HD cuz that game is a fuckload of wasted potential
I was being cynical/joking, I love MK8, Sm4sh, and 3D World
also my guess for the March date is that they're using the latest AMD chips, which couldn't be produced in large quantities in time for the end of the year. Still, I would have much preferred they just release Zelda U this winter, then push the NX back to maybe September 2017 and just release the Zelda U port then, plus they'd have more time for a bigger launch lineup which could maybe include some big winter release AAA titles like Dishonored 2, FF XV, or Mass Effect Andromeda
ok GOOD cuz i felt extremely triggered
also i'm curious if zelda actually has months more work left on it or if it's being artificially staggered like everyone is assuming cuddledoods;
Quote from: C.Mongler on April 27, 2016, 03:24:15 PM
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 27, 2016, 02:37:35 PM
well how different would that be from developing a new handheld tec tbh
lol felt beat me to it
well, let's see:
1. a $200 dedicated handheld console doesn't have to be (and can't be due to cost limitations) even a third of the multitasking swiss army knife of a device that the average $500 smartphone is (http://www.statista.com/statistics/283334/global-average-selling-price-smartphones/)
a gaming smartphone would have to have every one of the iphone's essential features
in addition to the ability to competently and comfortably play proper games, all while being about 1/3 the cost of last year's iphone model in order to appeal to children and the parents of children
2. with a dedicated gaming handheld there's no real need to consider what the pricing model for the typical game is going to be - you pay upfront ($30+) for a full experience
expectations in the smartphone space are completely different, the average game is """free""" and loaded with ads and microtransactions, and $5 tops for maybe something of higher quality with a little bit more depth
also a service like virtual console would be nonviable as piracy of legacy games is rampant in the mobile space
3. a dedicated gaming handheld becomes outmoded only every five or six years, minor revisions like the '''new''' 3ds notwithstanding - with smartphones the standard evolves yearly, and now nintendo would have to find some balance between the pressure to iterate annually and maintain a long-term technical standard
those are just a few of the problems nintendo would have to resolve that it simply doesn't even have to think about when developing a new 4DS XLi U - the general dedicated handheld's price range is from $150-$250, its games are purchased in full up front (for the most part), and it remains the standard for five years at a time
so it would be very different
the business models of smartphones and dedicated gaming handhelds completely contradict each other in too many significant ways for a nintendo venture into the smartphone space to be feasible imhotbh
um nintendo could defy those expectations and just use their own pricing model
there's no rule that says nintendo has to use free to play... That's just used to sell crapware and new IP
nintendo could have their own app ecosystem like they do now
the reason smartphones are expensive is that they don't have software they can sell
people are starting to lease their phones as opposed to a few years ago
they could just release a wifi only version tablet along the lines of the wii u gamepad
as far as i know it's not an ios feature to limit incoming calls which the helicopter market would LOVE
And some people pirate their games because they rather carry their games on one device, again nof a strong argument
3ds+ my iphone can't fit in my pocket... guess i have to carry my phone
somehow i don't think nintendo would be comfortable giving away $400-$500 worth of hardware for $250 and praying to god that they can recoup their losses on software that costs >6x the price of the typical app store offering
they've never liked subsidizing their consoles and a subsidy of $100+ per unit is a lot to ask
and how often does nintendo iterate
do they release a new model annually to keep up with the smartphone competition
or do they not release a significantly updated model for five years so that they have some hope of eventually making a profit on their hardware (but get left in the dust by other mobile manufacturers)
Quote from: squirrelfriend on April 28, 2016, 11:23:53 PM
And some people pirate their games because they rather carry their games on one device
but most do it because it's free and there's no alternative
and it's been free and unregulated for so long that a mobile virtual console if introduced today would largely be ignored
i've had super mario bros. and pukémon on my lagdroid for the past six years, why am i suddenly going to pay $5 for them now
maybe if nintendo had been a little more proactive and established its own paid mobile emulator service in the incipient years of the smart device industry it could have made a decent chunk of change as the legitimate vendor of legacy games on ios and android
but nintendo slept while the mobile revolution was underway lol
I think widely releasing its games to every phone platform where it can't guarantee its reliability on all platforms would run counter to the Nintendo way
children can't legally use half of ios features because of coppa regulations
nintendo's target market is children and helicopter parents
So conclusion: it can have a limited feature set and lower hardware costs because well it would be for kids
god i always get a good laugh out of tec's triggered posts lol good job felt
tec are you suggesting that nintendo is going to make the next ngage?
"i'm suggesting they already have" -tec
cellphones cost 900+ dollars to produce it simply ISnT FEASABLE!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nintendo should just become third party
Quote from: Tectron on April 28, 2016, 10:55:50 PM
1. a $200 dedicated handheld console doesn't have to be (and can't be due to cost limitations) even a third of the multitasking swiss army knife of a device that the average $500 smartphone is (http://www.statista.com/statistics/283334/global-average-selling-price-smartphones/)
tbh it isn't actually that extreme
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/apples-iphone-6-profit-margin-at-least-69-per-cent-report-20140924-10ld37.html
It costs Apple about $250 or so to actually make an iPhone so nintendo may be able to shave offsome costs + tweak it more for gaming and maintain a price point of 2-300 and make a little profit or break even
Wii U's future has hope: [glow=black,2,300]Splatoon is getting 5 new amiibo[/glow]
[spoiler=images]
(http://i.imgur.com/bsyAtT4.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Ehwcht2.jpg)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=a video too][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP3CPiSOBRs[/youtube][/spoiler]
It's all releasing on July 8 in America.
Quote from: bluaki on April 30, 2016, 04:18:25 AM
Wii U's future has hope: [glow=black,2,300]Splatoon is getting 5 new amiibo[/glow]
[spoiler=images]
(http://i.imgur.com/bsyAtT4.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Ehwcht2.jpg)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=a video too][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP3CPiSOBRs[/youtube][/spoiler]
It's all releasing on July 8 in America.
another nail in the coffin of quality software
Quote from: Le Chapeau du Clavardage on April 29, 2016, 08:58:59 AM
"i'm suggesting they already have" -tec
I nearly spit out my cereal
Quote from: bluaki on April 30, 2016, 04:18:25 AM
Wii U's future has hope: [glow=black,2,300]Splatoon is getting 5 new amiibo[/glow]
[spoiler=images]
(http://i.imgur.com/bsyAtT4.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Ehwcht2.jpg)[/spoiler]
[spoiler=a video too][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP3CPiSOBRs[/youtube][/spoiler]
It's all releasing on July 8 in America.
I really want Marie, and maybe green squidgirl (though I wish she was tan like squidboy)
Also we have this I guess http://www.polygon.com/2016/4/27/11519760/super-mario-maker-babymetal-wii-u-nintendo
A cellphone seems like a horrible thing to pair with a handheld gaming device. Given battery life, phone call interruptions, horrible controls, a step back in the type, quality, and complexity of games, storage limitations. Probably some other things I'm not thinking of.
Sure, releasing some certain types of games on phones, but actually making a phone dedicated for gaming? And one from Nintendo? Eh...
Plus a lot of games would probably turn out like a lot of the touch control only ds games like star fox and some of those other ones.
Though I guess they could have controllers for it, wireless or one that it snaps into. (Like there already is for Android phones.) Or maybe some sort thin control pad that can attach and detach from the back or something.
But you'd also have to worry it doesn't get too bulky, which is something that a dedicated handheld can get away with to a certain extent.
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/zelda-breath-wild-aonuma-demo/
Quote“We realized that having something on the GamePad and looking back and forth between the TV screen and the GamePad actually disrupts the gameplay, and the concentration that the game player may be experiencing,†Aonuma said. “You have your car’s GPS system on your dash. If you had it down in your lap, you’re going to get into an accident!†Still, you can play the game entirely on the GamePad screen, if you like. Considering how vast the world is, it would keep you from monopolizing the TV.
Aonuma confirmed: the Wii U GamePad is a gimmick that distracts from gameplay and doesn't actually contribute anything positive to the experience.
Quote from: bluaki on June 15, 2016, 06:01:28 PM
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/zelda-breath-wild-aonuma-demo/
Quote“We realized that having something on the GamePad and looking back and forth between the TV screen and the GamePad actually disrupts the gameplay, and the concentration that the game player may be experiencing,†Aonuma said. “You have your car’s GPS system on your dash. If you had it down in your lap, you’re going to get into an accident!†Still, you can play the game entirely on the GamePad screen, if you like. Considering how vast the world is, it would keep you from monopolizing the TV.
Aonuma confirmed: the Wii U GamePad is a gimmick that distracts from gameplay and doesn't actually contribute anything positive to the experience.
nice to see it only took nintendo four years to admit this mistake
it's funny he uses the gps comparison like that because using my phone's gps on my lap is exactly how i often navigate
didnt u just get into accident?
yes lmao but that was completely unrelated i was not using my gps as i knew where i was going
that deer also knew where it was going, straight into the front of my car
Quote from: bluaki on June 15, 2016, 06:01:28 PM
http://www.wired.com/2016/06/zelda-breath-wild-aonuma-demo/
Quote“We realized that having something on the GamePad and looking back and forth between the TV screen and the GamePad actually disrupts the gameplay, and the concentration that the game player may be experiencing,” Aonuma said. “You have your car’s GPS system on your dash. If you had it down in your lap, you’re going to get into an accident!” Still, you can play the game entirely on the GamePad screen, if you like. Considering how vast the world is, it would keep you from monopolizing the TV.
Aonuma confirmed: the Wii U GamePad is a gimmick that distracts from gameplay and doesn't actually contribute anything positive to the experience.
took them long enough but it's dumbfounding to me that they didn't discover this problem in basic product testing during r&d
this combined with miyamoto's grievances about the system not being powerful enough for star fox to look even passable serves as yet another unmistakable reminder of nintendo's absolute incompetence
lol tec you should be a food critic tbh
Quote from: Loto on March 22, 2016, 11:15:59 AM
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/03/22/report-nintendo-to-cease-production-of-wii-u-during-2016.aspx
welp
and to further corroborate this rumour that nintendo flatly denied:
https://mynintendonews.com/2016/06/18/nintendo-of-americas-scott-moffitt-says-you-should-grab-a-wii-u-while-you-can/
Quote from: NoA VP of Sales"...grab [a Wii U] now while they last [...] we will be transitioning production to NX, so our message to fans is to grab a Wii U while you can, because they won’t be around forever".
lol
and yet they're still $330 CAD, smh nintendo
Well, unless I'll speaking too soon, WW HD is at least working and not throwing up any errors. At least for now.
Quote from: Tectron on June 18, 2016, 08:15:46 PM
Quote from: Loto on March 22, 2016, 11:15:59 AM
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/03/22/report-nintendo-to-cease-production-of-wii-u-during-2016.aspx
welp
and to further corroborate this rumour that nintendo flatly denied:
https://mynintendonews.com/2016/06/18/nintendo-of-americas-scott-moffitt-says-you-should-grab-a-wii-u-while-you-can/
Quote from: NoA VP of Sales"...grab [a Wii U] now while they last [...] we will be transitioning production to NX, so our message to fans is to grab a Wii U while you can, because they won’t be around forever".
lol
get one while you can. give us money before we show what the nx really is, and never sell anything again.
NX will be vaporware good point
i wonder how many unsold wii u consoles nintendo is preparing to bury next to et in new mexican landfills
http://wiiudaily.com/2012/07/nintendo-expects-to-sell-8-million-wii-u-consoles-by-mar-2013/ (http://wiiudaily.com/2012/07/nintendo-expects-to-sell-8-million-wii-u-consoles/)
The NX is four GameCubes duck taped together confirmed
Quote from: David on June 19, 2016, 06:55:54 PM
The NX is four GameCubes duck taped together confirmed
if only
That reminds me, I wonder how often the handle got used?
i used the handle once, to chuck it into the garbage
http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/tokyo-mirage-sessions-fe
I think I may wanna check this game out now.
it's objectively the best game on the wii u this year now i guess lol
but yeah seems like yer style loto, i'd probably hate it lol
Quote from: C.Mongler on June 22, 2016, 10:54:19 AM
it's objectively the best game on the wii u this year now i guess lol
but yeah seems like yer style loto, i'd probably hate it lol
it seems to me, that if you like persona/smt, and can accept it to be pretty silly, it will be a fun ride.
I'll look into it when either I get excess spending money, or a sale
i'll keep a vague interest in it until it's on sale
am i weird if i like persona but dont really care for smt doodhuh;
Quote from: C.Mongler on June 22, 2016, 11:32:23 AM
am i weird if i like persona but dont really care for smt doodhuh;
not really.
They're actually quite different
yeah and smt is just plain unfair half the time so
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on June 22, 2016, 01:05:10 PM
yeah and smt is just plain unfair half the time so
not if you're good.
But I'm not, so I agree.
even worse if it's devil survivor because then it's unfair AND the battles take an eternity and then you just lose 3/4 of the way through and you just wasted an hour and a half of your life
Quote from: Sakura Kinomoto on June 22, 2016, 01:39:07 PM
even worse if it's devil survivor because then it's unfair AND the battles take an eternity and then you just lose 3/4 of the way through and you just wasted an hour and a half of your life
very true.
I still gotta beat Dante in Nocturne. He's an asshole.
the new paper mario game looks great
[spoiler]or at least it did until they showed the cards again[/spoiler]
i mean it literally looks great, it does not however, look fun
rip paper mario
That moment I realize how backwards the triggers and shoulder buttons are named on the game pad
Quote from: ÂÌ...Ì...Ì...Ì...Ì...Ì...Ì...Ì...Ì...Ì... on June 28, 2016, 08:04:01 PM
That moment I realize how backwards the triggers and shoulder buttons are named on the game pad
There aren't any triggers. All four are buttons.
It's only backwards if you compare it to the GameCube, which has Z above the R button. On all other controllers, the top button is like the first one and the bottom is the second,
Quote from: bluaki on June 28, 2016, 08:17:01 PM
Quote from: ̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅ on June 28, 2016, 08:04:01 PM
That moment I realize how backwards the triggers and shoulder buttons are named on the game pad
There aren't any triggers. All four are buttons.
It's only backwards if you compare it to the GameCube, which has Z above the R button. On all other controllers, the top button is like the first one and the bottom is the second,
they're shaped kinda like triggers, so
But I was talking more like in relation to the xbox controller which I'm more used to, (though yes, I know that's LT/RT and LB/RB) in which the triggers are where your index fingers naturally lay and they're primary buttons and the shoulder buttons are secondary. Generally.
I understand why Nintendo labeled them the way they did I the game pad, because it followed they're label scheme of having the shoulder buttons be L and R, but then with the added buttons beneath I think I would have preferred the shoulders be ZR/ZL and the others be L and R. Since on the game pad your index fingers naturally go to ZR/LZ (unless it's somebody that uses their middle fingers too and has fingers on both sets of buttons at all times) and those should be more primary buttons.
http://press-start.com.au/news/nintendo/2016/07/06/nintendo-expected-wii-u-sell-100-million-units/
if the wii u is what it takes to drag nintendo kicking and screaming back to confront its bleak reality, the it may be the best thing that's ever happened to them
http://gamerant.com/nintendo-wont-abandon-wii-u-nx-release/
Quote from: kimishimaI think our first job right now is to make sure that the customers, those 10 million customers who have a Wii U at home have software to play. And we need to make sure that they are satisfied with their purchase and continue to enjoy playing on this platform. So we can’t just abandon them and say ‘Hey, it’s time to move on to the next thing.’
https://twitter.com/Cheesemeister3k/status/747964747681669121
lmao
eh, shit was like 250 bucks and im a grown ass man with a job so i feel like i got plenty of gaymin' outta mine lol
even if it's barely passable enough to make it worth owning for a salaried adult with an interest in nintendo games (a demographic that nintendo never deliberately targets), it's still at the very bottom of the barrel in terms of console value
http://nintendoenthusiast.com/article/nintendos-consoles-total-retail-game-releases/
(http://i.imgur.com/2U2N97z.jpg)
[spoiler]
(http://i.imgur.com/YhQBKEv.png)[/spoiler]
lmfao
lol the n64
oh gee i'll just run out and buy a GAMEBOY then, I sure feel silly!!!
*pisses into own mouth and then strokes cock gently to a picture Kaz Hirai as urine dribbles down chin*
holy shit guys, look what i just found, i will NEVER buy a nintendo console again!!
[spoiler](http://cdn5.avanquest.com/UK/Images/615-x-600-10,000-Games-3D_tcm12-143773.jpg)[/spoiler]
So how many versions of solitaire, breakout, mahjong, and bejeweled are in there?
r/dankboyahmemes
Quote from: Djyme on July 14, 2016, 05:11:49 PM
Quote from: squirrelfriend on July 14, 2016, 05:08:39 PM
r/dankboyahmemes
(http://i.imgur.com/Asq8BJH.png)
my dream for this was for it to have a speech bubble and dot dot dot knave
Or something like that like other emote
is the end of the wii u also the end of amiibo? befuddlement
Quote from: Djyme on July 15, 2016, 10:30:45 AM
is the end of the wii u also the end of amiibo? befuddlement
no. The nx will be controlled exclusively with amiibo
probably not since nfc chips are not really that expensive
Quote from: C.Mongler on July 14, 2016, 04:49:52 PM
holy shit guys, look what i just found, i will NEVER buy a nintendo console again!!
[spoiler](http://cdn5.avanquest.com/UK/Images/615-x-600-10,000-Games-3D_tcm12-143773.jpg)[/spoiler]
lol
the quality vs quantity argument would maybe be applicable here if the wii u compensated for its anemic quantity with stellar quality
but it really doesn't
almost every single nintendo franchise is far better represented on nintendo's previous consoles, the only possible exceptions being mario kart and maybe sm4sh
the first party wii u experience is defined by shovelware like amiibo festival/mp10/sfzero/mario&sonic at the 20xx special olympics/mario tennis/game&wario/color splash/etc., cheap rehashes like the nes/snes remixes and the latest ironically named """new""" super mario bros, and lazy ports like wind waker/tp """hd"""
the wii u is severely lacking in both quantity and quality imhotbh, more so than any of its predecessors or any of its competition
i would say all the wii u games are great, butt they should've been wii games if that makes sense. the whole console feels like nintendo just did a do-over of the wii. That being said i dont regret buying a wii u, or selling it lol.
i'll take it from the guy who has never played a wii u to tell me HOW BAD the wii u is, sure, yup
>tfw i look at my ps4 shelf and Bloodborne is the only good, exclusive, non-HD remake/ster game there
Quote from: C.Mongler on July 17, 2016, 11:34:37 AM
i'll take it from the guy who has never played a wii u to tell me HOW BAD the wii u is, sure, yup
so you were referring to me in this post
wtf mongler i've made it very clear that i've owned a wii u for years
apparently not lol
i would not waste so much time shitting on and arguing about a product unless i were personally familiar with all its shortcomings lol
i'm sorry i mistook u for another man bb cry;
Quote from: Tectron on July 13, 2016, 01:03:51 AM
http://gamerant.com/nintendo-wont-abandon-wii-u-nx-release/
Quote from: kimishimaI think our first job right now is to make sure that the customers, those 10 million customers who have a Wii U at home have software to play. And we need to make sure that they are satisfied with their purchase and continue to enjoy playing on this platform. So we can’t just abandon them and say ‘Hey, it’s time to move on to the next thing.’
https://twitter.com/Cheesemeister3k/status/747964747681669121
lmao
http://alwaysnintendo.com/european-retailers-reportedly-taking-final-wii-u-orders-september-30th/
L
M
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OOO
reminder that nikkei hit the nail on the head
yet again and nintendo's flimsy denials of nikkei
rumours facts are utterly worthless
Quote from: Big Goop on March 22, 2016, 11:15:59 AM
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/03/22/report-nintendo-to-cease-production-of-wii-u-during-2016.aspx
welp
hopefully the price drops like a fucking brick soon so i can pick up another for like 75-100 soley because my gamepad has a dipshit ass crack in it and they don't sell them separately beyond refurbs (though i thought they promised they would in their pre-launch kerfuffle)
and then i can have another wii u to prop up a table or something i dunno
Quote from: C.Mongler on September 29, 2016, 10:40:07 AM
hopefully the price drops like a fucking brick soon so i can pick up another for like 75-100 soley because my gamepad has a dipshit ass crack in it and they don't sell them separately beyond refurbs (though i thought they promised they would in their pre-launch kerfuffle)
more ingenious nintendo hardware design
the wii u is almost entirely functional without the gamepad except for the fact that the os is artificially married to it
there is absolutely no reason you shouldn't be able to get around a broken gamepad by just using a pro controller since 99% of games don't even use the piece of junk
but for some reason the wii u's settings menu just
requires two screens!!!!!!
i guess they had to make the thing mandatory somehow, otherwise we all would have tossed it aside by day 2
very consumer-friendly, nintendo, either buy a whole new system or pony up $150 (2x the value of the wii u) to regain access to my settings menu
great for fans of legacy gaming too, once wii u gamepads start breaking and no one's around to repair them, it'll render otherwise perfectly functional consoles completely unusable for no legitimate reason
yeah it's pretty fucking stupid
i only want another one because i usually play my wii u on the bb screen in bed or while i'm taking a shit. i think i've played more wii u games on the pad than on tv honestly/sadly
Quote from: Tectron on September 29, 2016, 12:47:26 PM
Quote from: C.Mongler on September 29, 2016, 10:40:07 AM
hopefully the price drops like a fucking brick soon so i can pick up another for like 75-100 soley because my gamepad has a dipshit ass crack in it and they don't sell them separately beyond refurbs (though i thought they promised they would in their pre-launch kerfuffle)
more ingenious nintendo hardware design
the wii u is almost entirely functional without the gamepad except for the fact that the os is artificially married to it
there is absolutely no reason you shouldn't be able to get around a broken gamepad by just using a pro controller since 99% of games don't even use the piece of junk
but for some reason the wii u's settings menu just requires two screens!!!!!!
i guess they had to make the thing mandatory somehow, otherwise we all would have tossed it aside by day 2
very consumer-friendly, nintendo, either buy a whole new system or pony up $150 (2x the value of the wii u) to regain access to my settings menu
great for fans of legacy gaming too, once wii u gamepads start breaking and no one's around to repair them, it'll render otherwise perfectly functional consoles completely unusable for no legitimate reason
they did the same shit with the wii and the wiimote/sensor bar lol
i guess you could use a classic controller but you still needed batteries and a dongle
that's true but at least wii remotes are inexpensive, extremely abundant and effortless to replace
replacement gamepads can only be obtained through nintendo for $150 goonish
(http://i.cubeupload.com/u3DvhR.jpg)
lol i love this
forced to resort to such unapologetically disingenuous advertising to make the case for a game that they know is doomed to get exactly the embarrassing sales it deserves
yes, a floating paint bucket and endless toads are certain to make for a memorable cast
splatoon has paint, color splash has paint, i like splatoon, i like paint
i am confident that color splash will my personal goty
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-11-01-nintendo-to-end-wii-u-production-this-week
i really hope i can get a gamepad in decent shape for like 30 bucks or less before this thing rolls into obscurity
Quote from: C.Mongler on November 01, 2016, 07:27:08 AM
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-11-01-nintendo-to-end-wii-u-production-this-week
i really hope i can get a gamepad in decent shape for like 30 bucks or less before this thing rolls into obscurity
it's simply astounding that nintendo had the audacity to flatly deny this, only to confirm it themselves the very next day
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/nintendo-denies-end-of-wii-u-production-this-week-2/
"please buy it still, we need the money"
for any of you nerds that still want one of these ninty has $200 refurbs up, probably the cheapest you'll find one for a bit that isnt totally crusty
https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/us/po/browse/productDetailColorSizePicker.jsp?categoryNav=true&navAction=jump&navCount=0&atg.multisite.remap=false&productId=prod840425&categoryId=cat570935
not saying i necessarily recommend getting one lol
lol i paid 400 for mine
came with a bunch of games ive never played. lol oops
so for the six of you sorry saps who got suckered into buying a wii u, what does you final library look like
mine:
nintendoland (pack-in)
mario kart 8
super mario 3d world
new super mario bros. u (digital, from the mk8 promo)
wind waker hd (digital, gift from tyler lubdoods;)
bayonetta/bayonetta 2 combo
smash 4
star fox zero/star fox guard
hyrule warriors
captain toad treasure tracker
yoshi's woolly world
and a handful of digital indies like shantæ
i still intend to get botw (of course), tp hd, kirby and the rainbow curse, new super luigi u, donkey kong country tropical freeze, and maybe mario maker or splatoon but eh
with a complete library of <15 decent games, i think it's quite easy to say that the wii u was the worst nintendo console of all time
i'd be curious to see your list of decent OG wii games
seems like it didn't have that many either
Uh, from memory, its
Bayonetta 1 & 2
Donkey Kong country tropical freeze
Ducktales Remastered
Kirby rainbow curse
Mario u
Mario 3d world
Shovel Knight
Smash
Hyrule Warriors
Tokyo mirage sessions
Xenoblade x
Mario maker
monster hunter 3 ulti is the best big screen monsti hunt at this juncture too
pokken is aight imo
wolly yoshi is ok
i had fun with wonderful 101
nintendoland is fun if you actually have friends for like an hour
i got it in 2014, didn't open it until last year bc i was going to return it but then didn't
i have
mario 3d world
pikmin 3
donkey kong
rayman legends
nintendo land
zelda
super smash bros
ive played
mario 3d world
donkey kong
rayman legends
i beat
pikmin 3
honestly 7 games isnt bad, i think thats the same as the wii for me.the wii u has some of my favorite games in years on it, pikmin 3 was very, very good and zelda reminds me a lot of it in terms of heart. im ok with my purchase.
Pikmin 3
Zelda BotW
NSMBU + Luigi U
Smash Bros.
Mario Kart 8
Yoshi's Woolly World
DKCR Tropical Freeze
Super Mario 3D World
Still need Bayonetta 2 at some point. Vaguely interested in getting Rainbow Curse sometime.
Quote from: Thyme on March 04, 2017, 05:38:28 PM
i'd be curious to see your list of decent OG wii games
seems like it didn't have that many either
a few of the games in my library (star fox, nintendol&) aren't even
decent, i only listed them because i happen to own them
the two 'hd' zelda games are bare minimum-effort ports that don't qualify as meaningful additions to the wii u's library in the least
breath of the wild itself, though originally intended for the wii u, is not exclusive and in fact now serves as the switch's flagship title, but i'll count it anyway because i will later include tp in the list of good wii games
so the full list of remotely decent wii u exclusives is as follows (metascores in parentheses):
mario kart 8 (88)
super mario 3d world (93)
breath of the wild (98)
new super mario bros. u (84)
super luigi u (77)
bayonetta 2 (91)
smash 4 (92)
hyrule warriors (76)
captain toad treasure tracker (81)
yoshi's woolly world (78)
kirby and the rainbow curse (73)
donkey kong country tropical freeze (83)
mario maker (88)
monster hunter 3 ultimate (82)
wonderful 101 (78)
splatoon (81)
pikmin 3 (87)
tokyo mirage sessions (80)
xenoblade x (84)
pokken (76)
and i am
REALLY stretching the definition of "remotely decent" with some of those sub-80 metascore inclusions, as i'm sure most wii u owners would agree
20 games total, with a metacritc average of 83.5
stay tuned for my upcoming list of good wii games for comparison
Quote from: steal on March 04, 2017, 10:37:17 PM
Tbh my favorite game out of the whole bunch was probably donkey kong, which is weird because I was never a huge fan of the series (this was the first DK game I actually played to completion) doodthing;
my personal favorite (botw excluded) is mario kart 8, easily
one of the highlights of the generation and arguably the best mario kart overall
Around the beginning of Wii U's life, I was hopeful because of Nintendo's move into HD, modern-enough specs, and a seemingly classic/standard control scheme. I was somewhat wary of the GamePad's usefulness but expected I could just ignore it and use the Pro Controller instead, but it turns out they managed to shoehorn it into way too many things and (other than gyro use) the game is made worse for it every single time.
There's frankly not a single way any game developer can use the GamePad screen right as a complement to the TV; it only works as a supplement for either optional off-TV play (MK8, SSB, etc) or to the point of why bother targeting a TV console in the first place (Kirby, Mario Maker).
The
only worthwhile Wii U game I can think of that wouldn't work better ported to Switch than on Wii U is Kirby Rainbow Curse. It depends on the stylus in a way that you can't get with capacitive screens unless you have something like the Note Pen or Apple Pencil. Not a single Wii U game would be made worse by losing the second screen; stuff like Splatoon's Inkstrike and Pikmin's "Go Here" would even be made better if moved to the main screen.
Quote from: Tectron on March 04, 2017, 04:37:58 PM
so for the six of you sorry saps who got suckered into buying a wii u, what does you final library look like
Captain Toad
DKC Tropical Freeze
Kirby Rainbow Curse
Wind Waker HD
Mario Kart 8
Pikmin 3
Pokken
Sonic Lost World
Splatoon
Mario Maker
New SMB U
New Super Luigi U
3D World
Smash 4
Yoshi's Woolly World
I don't own Twilight Princess HD yet but I'm sure I'll get it some day.
And some bad ones:
Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival
Mario Party 10
NintendoLand (it might've been good if I ever had a chance to play it with friends lol)
I also own Wonderful 101 but couldn't really get into it.
I don't regret the Wii U. My personal favorite games on it are Yoshi > 3D World > Pikmin 3 > MK8 > SSBU.
Supposedly the Switch MK 8 "deluxe" includes an actual battle mode.
Quote from: steal on March 05, 2017, 08:26:56 AM
Quote from: Tectron on March 05, 2017, 01:00:25 AM
Quote from: steal on March 04, 2017, 10:37:17 PM
Tbh my favorite game out of the whole bunch was probably donkey kong, which is weird because I was never a huge fan of the series (this was the first DK game I actually played to completion) doodthing;
my personal favorite (botw excluded) is mario kart 8, easily
one of the highlights of the generation and arguably the best mario kart overall
yeah it was great if you ignore the battle mode. I don't know why they even included it if they were gonna make it so unplayable. For real tho the rest of the game was awesome and the dlc added a lot.
yeah, the omission of battle mode was its only major fault
but the dlc was fantastic compensation for that lol
regardless, i would have loved to have seen a third dlc pack that introduced a proper battle mode, but i guess locking away the battle mode we should have gotten behind mario kart 8 """deluxe""" is the more lucrative decision for nintendo nyandood;
Quote from: Big Goop on March 05, 2017, 09:05:12 AM
Supposedly the Switch MK 8 "deluxe" includes an actual battle mode.
not supposedly, it definitely does
but that and a few character additions are the only things that make it """deluxe"""
i may love battle mode and dry bones, but absolutely not enough to buy mk8 a second time
I'm unfortunately gonna have to buy Deluxe because with battle mode it will be the perfect Mario Kart game
but let's see here, I own:
Nintendoland
Mario Kart 8
Splatoon
Super Mario 3D World
Super Mario Maker
Super Sm4sh Bros
Then for VC games:
EarthBound
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
and Humble Bundle shit:
BitTrip.Runner2
The Fall
Guacamelee
OlliOlli
Sportsball
Steamworld Dig
Stealth Inc. 2
I still plan on getting a lot more games for the Wii U, either on clearance or used, over the next few years, because there's a good number of games I'd still like, such as Kirby Rainbow Curse, DKC Tropical Freeze, Wind Waker / Twilight Princess HD, Pikmin 3, Captain Toad, Bayonetta 2, and Paper Mario Color Splash
Quote from: Tectron on March 04, 2017, 04:37:58 PM
so for the six of you sorry saps who got suckered into buying a wii u, what does you final library look like
mine:
nintendoland (pack-in)
mario kart 8
super mario 3d world
new super mario bros. u (digital, from the mk8 promo)
wind waker hd (digital, gift from tyler lubdoods;)
bayonetta/bayonetta 2 combo
smash 4
star fox zero/star fox guard
hyrule warriors
captain toad treasure tracker
yoshi's woolly world
and a handful of digital indies like shantæ
i still intend to get botw (of course), tp hd, kirby and the rainbow curse, new super luigi u, donkey kong country tropical freeze, and maybe mario maker or splatoon but eh
added botw and tphd to my collection
Quote from: bluaki on March 05, 2017, 08:47:16 AM
Around the beginning of Wii U's life, I was hopeful because of Nintendo's move into HD, modern-enough specs, and a seemingly classic/standard control scheme. I was somewhat wary of the GamePad's usefulness but expected I could just ignore it and use the Pro Controller instead, but it turns out they managed to shoehorn it into way too many things and (other than gyro use) the game is made worse for it every single time.
There's frankly not a single way any game developer can use the GamePad screen right as a complement to the TV; it only works as a supplement for either optional off-TV play (MK8, SSB, etc) or to the point of why bother targeting a TV console in the first place (Kirby, Mario Maker).
agreed, part of the wii u's problem is that the entire gamepad concept was inherently self-defeating from its inception
nintendo advertised (and i use that term loosely) the second screen as both an integral gameplay enhancer akin to the ds's touch screen, and alternatively as a supplemental screen for off-tv play
it can only possibly be either one or the other per game, never both, and the fact that the vast majority of games that use gamepad-enhanced controls also support off-tv play meant that it could only ever be used in utterly superficial ways, like basic menu navigation/map display/a freaking horn in mk8
kirby and star fox are perhaps the only games that actually strictly rely on the gamepad for gameplay reasons, and yet both of them actually
suffer for it lol
kirby's use of the gamepad renders the tv completely superfluous, so it too needed just one screen
the gamepad just ended up being a near completely redundant optional accessory all around, and even nintendo got lazy within a year and just relegated the thing to being an off-tv display, which in itself is a perfectly useless feature in the developed world where the vast majority of households have more than one tv
i can't imagine what brilliant gameplay concept nintendo must have had in mind when it decided that each wii u absolutely needed to be shipped with a gamepad, elevated costs of an enormous touchscreen controller be damned, because whatever that idea was, it clearly never came to fruition
i don't understand how hardware engineers with decades of experience could ever have thought the wii u was a sane, rational concept, unless they did literally no basic product testing
Quote from: bluaki on March 05, 2017, 08:47:16 AM
I don't regret the Wii U. My personal favorite games on it are Yoshi > 3D World > Pikmin 3 > MK8 > SSBU.
ultimately, i can't quite say i regret it either, but library-wise it still sits near the bottom of my console rankings and it's certainly nintendo's worst system ever, barring the virtual boy
Quote from: Tectron on March 05, 2017, 12:02:09 AM
Quote from: Thyme on March 04, 2017, 05:38:28 PM
i'd be curious to see your list of decent OG wii games
seems like it didn't have that many either
a few of the games in my library (star fox, nintendol&) aren't even decent, i only listed them because i happen to own them
the two 'hd' zelda games are bare minimum-effort ports that don't qualify as meaningful additions to the wii u's library in the least
breath of the wild itself, though originally intended for the wii u, is not exclusive and in fact now serves as the switch's flagship title, but i'll count it anyway because i will later include tp in the list of good wii games
so the full list of remotely decent wii u exclusives is as follows (metascores in parentheses):
mario kart 8 (88)
super mario 3d world (93)
breath of the wild (98)
new super mario bros. u (84)
super luigi u (77)
bayonetta 2 (91)
smash 4 (92)
hyrule warriors (76)
captain toad treasure tracker (81)
yoshi's woolly world (78)
kirby and the rainbow curse (73)
donkey kong country tropical freeze (83)
mario maker (88)
monster hunter 3 ultimate (82)
wonderful 101 (78)
splatoon (81)
pikmin 3 (87)
tokyo mirage sessions (80)
xenoblade x (84)
pokken (76)
and i am REALLY stretching the definition of "remotely decent" with some of those sub-80 metascore inclusions, as i'm sure most wii u owners would agree
20 games total, with a metacritc average of 83.5
stay tuned for my upcoming list of good wii games for comparison
anyway, i know you've all been waiting with bated breath for this, so here goes:
An Incomprehensive List of Good Wii™ Games
super mario galaxy (97)
super mario galaxy 2 (97)
twilight princess (95)
super smash bros. brawl (93)
skyward sword (93)
xenoblade chronicles (92)
metroid prime 3 (90)
donkey kong country returns (87)
new super mario bros. wii (87)
sin & punishment: star successor (87)
kirby's epic yarn (86)
punch-out (86)
super paper mario (85)
tatsunoko vs. capcom (85)
monster hunter tri (84)
no more heroes 2 (84) (i would include the first game too but it eventually lost its exclusive status to the ps3)
rhythm heaven fever (83)
warioware: smooth moves (83)
mario kart wii (82)
madworld (81)
so there's 20 games with an average score of 87.85
and this is just a list of good
popular/noteworthy wii exclusives, and includes no sub-80s like the wii u list does, so if i really wanted to i could easily expand this to 30+ different entries and it would only be ever more clear that the wii was a far superior platform to the wii u
more obscure or lesser scoring games that have just as much a right to be on this list as anything on the wii u list include:
kirby's return to dreamland (77)
zack and wiki (87)
fire emblem: radiant dawn (78)
muramasa: the demon blade (80)
the last story (80)
little king's story (82)
boom blox (85)(let's ignore the n-gage port)
trauma center: under the knife (78)
trauma team (82)
mario strikers charged (79)
warioland: shake it (78)
excitebots (77)
etc.
i also deliberately excluded the entire "wii ___" franchise of games (wii sports (76), wii sports resort (80), wii fit (80), etc.)
so yeah, wii
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wii u
the fact that i even have to make this comparison demonstrates that the wii is, unironically, one of the most underrated and underappreciated consoles of all time SocksDood;
Sony recently announced that they would discontinue all production of PS3 consoles this month. Despite being a whole generation older than the Wii U, it lived later.
That said, PS3 probably got more good games last year (at least in Japan) than Wii U did.
Quote from: Tectron on March 19, 2017, 04:11:55 PM
twilight princess (95)
super smash bros. brawl (93)
donkey kong country returns (87)
new super mario bros. wii (87)
mario kart wii (82)
At least the Wii U got some successors to these games that outdid the Wii ones.
Quote from: Tectron on March 19, 2017, 04:11:55 PM
fire emblem: radiant dawn (78)
trauma center: under the knife (78)
warioware: smooth moves (83)
warioland: shake it (78)
The GCN and Wii Fire Emblem games are desperately in need of digital re-releases srsly
Under the Knife is a DS game. The enhanced Wii port is called Second Opinion.
Why is Smooth Moves rated higher than Shake It?
Imo, because smooth moves was a lot more fun than shake it