Nintendo Wii U

[NEG]

Season passes should fundamentally fuck off anyway.

[jonnyalpha]

Now that is a Neg post that I can get behind.

[NEG]

[pulsemyne]

Well, well, welly, welly, well. Look what happened when newegg in america offered a good wiiu bundle deal...they sold over 500 in one hour. So yeah nintendo it's really not about price at all. Fools.

[tommygun]

To create huge momentum, we would like to ensure that the release of titles such as “Mario Kart 8” is not a one-off event.

Being optimistic and going from that quote it seems Nintendo hope to have their big games ready to go shortly after MK. For me they need to have at least 1 big game per month right up to Xmas. The right price point with MK8 or Smash Bros. bundles and it could have a relatively decent final 6 months of the year. I fear though that even with DKCTF on the horizon, the doom & gloom will remain strong until May.

[Guest]

Because not even the past IP evangelists wanted Donkey Kong. Where's F-Zero, Metroid, Wave Race or 1080?

And that's not even bringing the people who want some new, fresh IP into it.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Yeah, a 1080 or something. A real Nintendo sports game. Or a shooter. Or anything but another fucking platformer or party game.

[scottcr]

I reckon Deus Ex has the best gamepad implementation for a single player game yet... Pity it was a remake of a game most people had already played

[Harmunt]

I'm so sick of waiting for Nintendo to release a new FZero, Waverace or 1080 that I'd seriously consider funding the fuckers myself!

[gone fishin]

If they're going to farm out IPs. They should give F-Zero to Sumo Digital.

Unless they give a load of money to Alex Ward, ex-Criterion, to start another studio...

[JPickford]

If they're going to farm out IPs. They should give F-Zero to Sumo Digital.

F-Zero needs 60fps. Not whatever random framerate sonic karts runs at.

Unless they give a load of money to Alex Ward, ex-Criterion, to start another studio...

I'll give you that one. Alex knows about framerates.

[NEG]

Give Zelda to the Elder Scrolls folk

Give 2D Mario platformers to Team Meat

Give Advance Wars to Pickford Bros

Give 1080 to whoever did the Tony Hawk 1 remake

Give Wario Ware to Platinum

Give Star Fox to Bioware (if they're still capable and not dead)

Demand/beg Game Freak to make Pokemon MMO.

[hub2]

Then give Sonic to Nintendo so there finally can be a good one.

[scottcr]

So NEG wants Zelda to run into a po-faced fantasy and Star Fox into a push forward to win-a-thon with tediously unrealistic dialogue trees that go on for houuurrrrssssss

[NEG]

Then give Sonic to Nintendo so there finally can be a good one.

Honestly at this point I'm not sure even Miyamoto could make it good, given 3D World not being a proper 3D Mario. But 5 years ago I prayed Nintendo would all the time.

So NEG wants Zelda to run into a po-faced fantasy and Star Fox into a push forward to win-a-thon with tediously unrealistic dialogue trees that go on for houuurrrrssssss

The bioware thing is more to capture that classic space opera feel SF64 had. Do a barrel roll?! Yes/No wasn't on my mind.

[scottcr]

BioWare are absolutely the LAST people I would want an SF game.

[scottcr]

SFA was actually not a bad idea - it just wasn't that interesting a game. It looked *amazing* at the time though.

[NEG]

Give SF to George Lucas/LucasArts!

Oh wait.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

They should give StarFox to the people who do the Ace Combat series.

[Not Thread Owner]

SFA was actually not a bad idea - it just wasn't that interesting a game. It looked *amazing* at the time though.

SFA was never going to be a SF game. They shoehorned the characters in relatively late on.

Also, it was shit.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Is it normal for the GamePad to rattle so much when you twist and turn it? It seems to be the buttons mainly, but also stuff on the inside. It was really noticeable when I moved the pad around a lot to scan rooms in ZombiU yesterday.

[gone fishin]

F-Zero needs 60fps. Not whatever random framerate sonic karts runs at.

I'll give you that one. Alex knows about framerates.

That's the issue. We all say " we want F Zero". But who can actually make it, if it isn't Nintendo in house?

How many arcade style racers do you get these days?

Maybe says something about the demand for arcade racers.

(I'd still love to see a new one though)

[scottcr]

Nope. That's not normal. Unless it's just the stylus rattling about in it's gamepad

The reason we don't have another f-zero because they don't sell.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Hmm, according to Google it's normal that the buttons or gyro rattles. Panic over.

[shirubagan]

Starfox should go to Treasure.

[gone fishin]

SFA was never going to be a SF game. They shoehorned the characters in relatively late on.

Also, it was shit.

To be fair, Dinosaur Planet wasn't going to sell as much as a Starfox

But maybe Starfox is the worst example of an IP being farmed out. The GC and DS games were all pretty crap, none were developed by Nintendo.

When Nintendo are in more control, like metroid Prime and F Zero GX, it seems to work. But they have to work out how to increase output through third parties without tarnishing the IP. That's going to be tough.

[scottcr]

I'd like to see more western studios take them on... I think Cliff Belsnfjdjxyzzzzxxcci could do a great job with a Nintendo action franchise

[gone fishin]

Starfox should go to Treasure.

Good call, Sin and Punishment 2 would have been excellent as Starfox....

[NEG]

Nope. That's not normal. Unless it's just the stylus rattling about in it's gamepad

The reason we don't have another f-zero because they don't sell.

As a game developer if you can't make the games YOU want to make you may as well retire and die alone already.

[chris on the moon]

Just checking in to say how much I'm enjoying pikmin 3.

It's amazing, yeah. Definitely one of my favourite game series, for real.

As for the wiiU itself, sort of reminds me of buying a 3ds in 2011, and having months between games I wanted enough to buy.