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SteveW

SteveW

United States

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SteveW

#2

SteveW commented on Senior EA Employee Caught Out Criticising Wii ...:

Focus on mobile? go ahead and release all your freemium crap there while real game companies like Nintendo are making the quality games.

They ruined Sim City, I bet part of them dropping support is that Nintendo won't support their DRM crap...

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#11

SteveW commented on Industry Analyst: Nintendo Is "Positioned Perf...:

Yet to bring out Mario? the Wii U had a new Mario game from the start and it didn't help.

Two screens on a console just wasn't a great idea, even Nintendo is struggling to find a good use for it. Tell me I can play my 3DS and DS games on it and I will like the idea much better.

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#12

SteveW commented on Insomniac Not Working On Wii U, Considers It M...:

I missed the old days when the game is all that mattered, no arguments over CPU speed, etc... this is ridicilous anymore... too many people that care about nothing but power, no matter how powerful the next xbox is, it will still pale in comparison to stuff out 10-15 years from now, so lets just worry about the games.

CPU and graphics do not make classic games! the game does! look at the NES, it has plenty of classic games and who gives a crap about how fast the CPU is!

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#16

SteveW commented on Rumour: Rockstar Won't Be Bringing WWE Or Gran...:

Rockstar always has some excuse... now Nintendo has a powerful system it's going to be that the user base is too small... but I guarantee that they will jump on the Nextbox and next sony systems on day one. Lets just face it, they don't like Nintendo. Lego City is better anyway.

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#19

SteveW commented on Feature: Ten Smartphone and Tablet Games We'd ...:

I found something even better a couple of weeks ago, I Dig It HD. One of the best ipad games I've played.

Also worth mentioning...

Across Age HD (like a SNES RPG), House of the Dead Overkill: The Lost Reels, Boulder Dash XL, Space Miner HD, Air Mail, Star Command

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#20

SteveW commented on Rumour: Nintendo Helping Developers to Convert...:

@Farmboy74
Yeah but out of the 280 games I own there are only 2 games that work with it (only 100 games out of hundreds of thousands supporting something isn't good support). There are tons of new games that would benefit with it but the developers usually just say "I'll think about it"....

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#21

SteveW commented on Rumour: Nintendo Helping Developers to Convert...:

@Farmboy74
No TV solution works well... airplay is just horrible for games, way too much lag. I do like the bluetooth controllers like the 8 Bitty (the NES like icade controller) but only a few games support it. Somehow adding 15 lines of code to your game to support it is too difficult for most developers.

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#23

SteveW commented on Rumour: Nintendo Helping Developers to Convert...:

Sony_70
If Microsoft were just a game/console company they would have been dead years ago. Sometimes I think they keep throwing money at their console business for just reputation alone, they want to be at the top regardless of the cost. Nintendo has to earn their success in the console world.

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#24

SteveW commented on Rumour: Nintendo Helping Developers to Convert...:

@aaronsullivan
I've been reading Toucharcade for a couple of years. They do pick out some of the better games but for every good game there are about 100 bad games released that they don't bother with. People don't realize the huge amount of garbage released every day until you use appshopper or something that lists all the releases real time.

The few "quality" games release on Wednesday nights, most of those I don't even care for because I'm not into endless runners, etc... The rest of the week is mostly garbage that is made with game makers, etc...

Sure, IOS has a lot of good games, currently 1,181,386 apps total but with 99% of them being crap how many good ones will we really get? the major game publishers for ipad, EA, Rockstar, Gameloft, etc... are already able to make Nintendo games when they want to... so who exactly is Nintendo helping? hopefully some worthy companies. I also don't want all the fremium crap.

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#25

SteveW commented on Rumour: Nintendo Helping Developers to Convert...:

@Wiidsguy
I disagree about "the more games the better". People complained about all the shovelware on the Wii, do you not realize that the IOS market is 99% shovelware? it could hurt the e-shop overall if we are flooded with crap. I have an ipad and there are definitely some good games but they are in the minority.

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#28

SteveW commented on Talking Point: Lessons to be Learned, Again, F...:

@snax007
I pointed out those games because they each have potentionally hundreds of hours worth of gameplay in them and they aren't ports to me. Just because a game is on another system doesn't make it any less of a game.

My point was that there is more than enough games to keep people busy on the Wii U, it's hard enough to find time to play the games I already have. The problem isn't with the Wii U library... it's with most of todays gamers... people see a review giving a game less than an 8 and write it off as garbage. I love Tank! Tank! Tank!

Unfortunately what attracts most people these days arent even the games themselves, it's "how good is Wii U Tvii?", I couldn't care less... or "can I play DVDs on the Wii U?" I say are you too cheap to buy a DVD player? or "what are the social features like"... umm, your cell phone, facetime, facebook, twitter, etc.. don't have you stuck up your friends butts enough already?

I'm beginning to think Nintendo will be the last true gaming company, I hope we never see the day where the next Mario game is an endless runner, or worse yet... released on a cell phone. Thats when I am finished with modern gaming and will just stick with Retro.

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#29

SteveW commented on Talking Point: Lessons to be Learned, Again, F...:

@ThomasBW84
I understand... I just have friends that whine about not having anything to play but I somehow cannot convice them that those really are good games they should give a chance.

I personally think they should have given us improved motion controls and not have done the whole two screen thing, it just makes things more confusing to casual gamers, my wife doesn't even want to touch the Wii U, heck, even my grandma bought the Wii.

There are lots of possible solutions... one example that would improve sales is if they need to announce that the Wii U can play DS and 3DS games. I don't know what they are waiting for, all the hardware is there. Just PLEASE give us a cartridge adapter and not expect us to repurchase the games.

SteveW

#30

SteveW commented on Talking Point: Lessons to be Learned, Again, F...:

The Drought has already ended. If you haven't bought Lego City, Monster Hunter or Need for Speed then do it, you couldn't ask for better games...

If you have them and beat them already then... umm... get a life? :)

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#34

SteveW commented on Talking Point: Nintendo's Changing the Media G...:

@Burning_Spear Sony and Microsoft didn't skip E3 last year when they had no hardware announcements...

This would have been the perfect time for a huge announcement... something like "now the Wii U can play DS and 3DS games!"

It's a huge mistake to not do anything, it will only make people just write them off more than they already do...

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#40

SteveW commented on Vote: Pick Your Favourite NES Games:

@Nintendojuenger - Yes, I got it from Australia, only took 6 months to actually find someone in Australia that was willing to sell it to someone in the USA... had to pay someone like 4 times the price just to get it... just wait until those guys want some of our USA exclusives! :)

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#42

SteveW commented on Pachter: Price Cut Unlikely To Help Wii U With...:

We have had some of the best games come out recently, Need for Speed, Monster Hunter and Lego City, no complaints here, I have more than enough to keep me busy. What important game are we missing at the moment? nothing I can think of...