Nintendo Wii U

[simms]

Sorry, please understand

[NEG]

SMD is actually Iwata.

It is why we keep getting Mario. People wouldn't buy sod all else.

apparently

[SMD]

I bring you Sonic and this is how you repay me?

[NEG]

Everything is forgiven!

[joffocakes]

Nintendo should of fostered that unprecedented partnership with EA and money hatted TitanFall as I think a hyped, ex COD dev western FPS would have moved units. Arguably Titanfall does not seem to be a looker and could of got anyway with being hosted on the Wii U hardware.

Titanfall looks boring though, and hardly different from what people have already been playing all last gen. Nintendo need something genuinely exciting and new. Of course, having at least some third party games would be a nice thing for the Wii U at this stage.

[Larsen B]

There are too many games. On all platforms. Too many to finish in a lifetime. Too many I've not even opened.

And people want more games? I say shut them all down, let us finish what we've got and then we can all start at 0.

[NEG]

Yeah, I'm sure people still have their amazing vast Wii collections to get through; That backwards compatibility isn't for nothing, guys!

[gone fishin]

Any word on what DS games are being released?

If they made some of the Touch Generations games HD; Birdie Golf Challenge, Planet Puzzle League, Tetris DS, 42 All Time Classics, Elite Beat Agents, Rhythm Heaven... that would be awesome.

But they've have to increase the resolution, it would be like playing N64 games....

[Not Thread Owner]

No word, no. And you know they won't increase the resolution.

[Harmunt]

Just completed The Wonderful 101. Probably the most insane game I've played in years. Pure Platinum lunacy and I loved every minute of it...

[Keiths_Dad]

I bought NES Remix this morning - it's brilliant. It's perfectly suited to passing the pad between a few people to while away a few hours, which is something I've missed for the last few years. I'm day 1 for the sequel now.

[Not Thread Owner]

Just completed The Wonderful 101. Probably the most insane game I've played in years. Pure Platinum lunacy and I loved every minute of it...

Been ploughing through this this weekend as it's in my pile of shame and really want to get it done. It just gets better and better.

Mission 8 now...

[Bacon Horsemeat]

But the problem still remains that strip away those games and the fantastic variety will be selling to a far smaller crowd.

But the choice is there. People buy consoles not necessarily because all the games they want on it they will buy, but because it offers that width in its catalogue. Sure you will have many who buy a console just to buy their annual FIFA or shooter, but then the Wii U has those games too; what makes it better for them to buy it on other consoles? Because they also offer breadth (in addition to an online service that isn't stuck in the past)

[Mr Cochese]

With a Wii U you don't get to have retarded dick waving contests about next gen features like frame rates that are embarrassing for normal people to watch, because Wii U doesn't have frame rates.

[NEG]

But the Wiimote is a sort of dick to wave.

[Steven]

Cochese revealed to be writing Reggie's E3 speech.

[Not Thread Owner]

Tut tut!

[KriessG]

Titanfall looks boring though, and hardly different from what people have already been playing all last gen. Nintendo need something genuinely exciting and new. Of course, having at least some third party games would be a nice thing for the Wii U at this stage.

Pfft, please. I know you're doing your defence force thing here, but to anyone who's played it who's remotely been into console FPS over the last generation, it plays a lot differently to anything that's been popular recently (COD, BF etc).

I want the Wii U to do well, which right now means continue to sell in some numbers. I'll be buying one for Mario Kart 8, or before if there is a good price on one somewhere, as I am looking forward to playing 3D Mario too.

[Sprite Machine]

Fairly sure Minecraft doesn't have any prequels.

Indeed, there is no sequel to Minecraft narratively set during an earlier time.

[Revival]

NES Remix 2 is happening*..

*in Japan as a double set with the first one on a Wii U disc.

[Not Thread Owner]

Er, we know. It was announced on Friday's Direct. £8.99, 25th April.

[SMD]

I'd love a collectible disc version.

[Mr Cochese]

Sort yourself out, MidWalian, you mess.

[scottcr]

Not that anyone probably cares that much - but apparently Donkey Kong is really really good. 10/10 in Destructoid. 9/10 from IGN.

[gizmo1990]

Just for a bit of perspective like, EG and Metro both gave it 7/10 and gamespot 6/10.. Seems a pretty solid game. Just a shame it's not a game that's really going to set the wiiu alight.

[Gambit]

Not that anyone probably cares that much - but apparently Donkey Kong is really really good. 10/10 in Destructoid.

Just as good as Deadly Premonition then.

[NEG]

How many golden bananas does it have to collect?

[mushashi]

*cough* It's the same reason the updated Wii Sports and Wii Fit won't save the console, the people who bought them on the Wii have no reason at all to upgrade, they're perfectly happy with what they already have. Expecting anything to do Wii numbers again is crazy, it's just not going to happen.

I'd give up trying to make some people face reality, still on the 1st stage of grief, even with Nintendo effectively sunsetting the Wii U, as long as there is hope, people will cling to their beliefs, whatever the evidence presented.

Nintendo themselves are so sure people want more Blue Ocean sequel games that they first release them digitally only or in some cases seem to not even bother launching them in some markets at all.

fitu < 20K

[Bacon Horsemeat]

Mostly I think the Wii U is a dead fish, but then I've noticed they haven't announced HD Zelda yet. I know that will break me.

[Not Thread Owner]

They announced HD Zelda a few seconds before they announced Wind Waker HD.