A lot of your guys' anti anyone thats unsatisfied attitude really sucks. People have a right to expect a lot more from nintendo a year into a new console cycle that costs as much as the wiiu does.
Nintendo has done nothing but drop the ball since before this thing came out and the evidence of that is not only in the sales performance of the device, but also in the fact that nothing major is coming out until 2014.
Theyve straightup lied about almost everything and not shared any information otherwise. And, instead of developing games that actually have a chance of turning this thing around, theyre doubling devtime on wario minigames and pretending that people really want another wii party.
The people that own this stupid thing now have right to be upset and shouldnt be told to shut up and just "buy a ps4." We dont want a ps4, we want nintendo games that werent thrown together in 6 months or direct copies of stuff we just got finished playing.
Sure, it's still nintendo stuff, and of course im gonna buy it cuz i have a wiiu, but lets not pretend that what they actually announced can hold a candle to the stuff people really wanted. I'm getting sonic, luigi, mario, wario, dk, smash and kart. Of course we all wanted them eventually, but not now.
Metroid, kid icarus, starfox, and fzero would have set the wiiu on fire.
Im not a sony troll and have always preferred nintendo, but a well managed product is a well managed product and nintendo has been stupid, pretty much, since i bought wiiu on day one.
Seriously, anyone whos calling anyone a troll for not digging more on the nintendo botchfest needs to gather some perspective and realize that e3 was the last chance that many consumers were going to give nintendo to wow them and the big n may as well not have come at all.
They abandoned the wii more than two years ago and wiiu will have been out a year before it has 5 games worth having. Honestly, 2014?!
WTF have they been doing all this time?! And if nome of this future crap needs the gamepad screen, why is it in the box?!
Its funny to me how these kinds of experts will tell you that cartoons and primetime sitcoms are catered to and enjoyed by completely different markets, and then go on to argue that idevices and nintendo cater to the exact same demographics.
I agree that nintendo been completely on every front possible for almost two years now, but lets not pretend that any segment of nintendos business is in competition with any segment of apples. It makes us all look stupid.
Gamers are gamers. Screen tappers are screen tappers.
Nintendos in trouble because theyve treated their products massive sales as forgone conclusions. No company in its right mind is going to launch a console and proclaim the following year the year of their handheld. No company in their right mind is going to surrender its press conference in the worlds most hyped trade show, that millions of buyers anticipate, so they can demo product that, after ms and sony announcements, will seem low rent by comparison.
The industry as a whole gets excited about the next wave of future bs. Thats the way it always has been. Mark my words, NOTHING nintendo displays will live up to the promises that sony and ms make. Fair or not, the next gen status quo that nintendos bringing to the table will be torn apart as 'more of the same' while an entire industry is creaming its pants over what theyre thinking the "real" new hardware is going to be bringing to them come christmas.
But, no. By all means, believe that ANOTHER nintendo direct, that again no one will see but us, is going to fix everything.
To me, this is nintendo trying to save themselves more embarassment. Now, dammit, i love nintendo. But all this does is further prove that they STILL have no idea how to sell the wiiu to people while also proving that they never really ever had a release strategy to start with.
When all is said and done, they will have had a years worth of videogame industry landscape all to themselves and wont have done anything with it.
Pinning your hopes to smaller, more drawn out presentations to keep your early adopters interested isnt going to convince anyone to buy your product over one of the ones thats getting all the attention. So much of this industry is based around nothing but hype and media buzz generated by people that NEED spectacle and nintendo has effectively just told them to go f themselves while taking their ball home to go pout in a corner.
If anything we know nintendo will make most things right, it just may end up taking them a while to hit their stride. People seem to have forgotten that 360 launched without achievements and dlc. The entire xbox interface was also 4, lifeless 'pages' and was, at first, completely adless. If memory serves, i believe you also had to have a gold account to download demos.
Point is, perfection takes time and most 'nintendrones' are loyal to a company actually interested in meeting it under self imposed deadline.
Can everyone stop with the system seller crap? No one knows who buys what or why. If things like that could be predicted, the vita wouldnt have spent the last year in the slums it has and almost every console that comes out would see 20 million sales the day if release.
Well done exclusives always matter. Theres no such thing as a fantastic or, very well put together title thats not worth taking into consideration. I see no difference in the gameplay experience lego city is supposed to offer gamers and those that are alleged to be offeted in pikmin, mario 3d or zelda.
The only difference is that lego city isnt, by itself, an established franchise, but neither was killzone. Franchises gotta start somewhere, you know, and as far as starts go, lego city looks to be off to a great one.
If the charming cartoon quality of this particular title is offputting to you, you may find that youre in the wrong boat.
Im not by any means the target consumer for a game like this, but i don't see what's so offensive about it being on my console of choice. It's a nice, unbroken gameshow game, for people that like gameshows. My wife will probably like it as much as wheel of fortune and nintendoland, which she really enjoys.
I'm sorry having options like this is so upsetting and offputting to some of you.
Gaming should really be expressly reserved for the hardcore loners who rock comment sections on websites. They know whats up.
The xbox and ps3 versions were ported from a rushed pc version that was thrown together in 6 months by gearbox because timegates efforts were unusable. To most everyone's understanding, the wiiu version is the only version thats been singularly developed by one studio. Whether thats good or bad remains to be seen, but i have a hardtime believing the wiiu version could suffer from mishaps its production hasnt been forced to encounter...
But that too, is me believing what gearbox says and thats not the sure bet it was last month anymore. Of course, we'll see. But i'm staying hopeful.
That has everything to do with it tanaka. Especially when a game stands to implent a feature thats not present on a ms or sony system. It's amazing that theress a thousand videogame blogs that post the same things and next to none of them have reported what ms and sony are now mandating from their publishers.
Rayman got delayed because ms outright refused to ever allow it on it's console if it didnt. Then they rewrote the terms their affiliates have to play by. That's how confident ms is in the xbox experience, gentleman. That's the kind of crap that the 'hardcore gamer' crowd is fighting against nintendo so hard for.
Ms is just mad that they got their butts kicked by the wii, attach rates and all, and theyre scared that the wii u is out performing their last launch.
Well i like it. Its not broken, glitchy or boring and it plays fine. It's not perfect, but it was never going to be. I was never expecting 9s and 10s, but 4s and 5s just seem ridiculous. Now we're deducting points because the levels that would be boring to play through have been reimagined and altered from the original film to give the player something to do at these locations aside from walk straight and push the flirt button?
I dont care how a game compares to call of duty because i'm sick of call of duty. Im not trying to out-opinion anyone here, but, honestly the game doesnt really deserve anything less than a 6. Personally, i'd give it a 7.5. Its a bond game that does bond related things while also doing standard shooter things that bond games have always done. What were you guys really expecting this to be, a reinvention of the licensed movie game genre?
The biggest difference between skyrim and xenoblade is that skyrim had a firm release date months in advance and a publisher that advertised and marketted the hell out of it and xenoblade was a gamestop exclusive that just showed up oneday.
I loved xenoblade as much as anyone, but this seems more like something thats in the hands of nintendo and what they feel like doing moreso than monoliths talent level. Id love to see more from them, i just dont know if their games will get the attention they deserve in the west due to circumstances beyond their control.
I like how all the no-name developers that say nothing but how terrible the wii u is, have never made or accomplished anything worthwhile where consoles are concerned. Theyve made like ONE GAME that reviewed OKAY and sold DECENT and theyre quoted like theyve made hit after hit.
Im not saying that the wii u is above reproach, but all the developers weve heard of, that make games we buy and want more from have nothing but good things to say...theres no clicks in that, though.
These charts are stupid because niether accounts for the emergence of the uninformed stupidity and proffessional fanboyism that we've seen come out due to the advent of things like the blogosphere, myspace, twitter and facebook. To say nothing of the fact that anyone can operate a website that submits reviews saying anything.
A more interesting chart would be one that measured the ratio of quality titles packed with content against featureless cash ins that offer nothing acrossed all consoles.
I dont necessarilly mean 'reviewed well' when i say quality either. I mean games that had a lot of fun to offer for a decent amount of time that werent broken or poorly thought out. The kind of stuff kids wouldnt regret spending their allowance on.
I bet, acrossed all consoles from every generation the ratio would be something like 0.5 good games for every 200 bad.
I wonder if this is available from amazon uk officially or if theyre being purchased from market sellers...while most of my experiences have been good, i wouldnt put it past a few sellers to have removed the copy themselves, honestly.
Hope it gets sorted out for everybody. While its certainly not my favorite game, it is pretty cool for free.
I was hoping some of you would speculate on what the hell, outside of dev time, could cause a delay until 2013 cuz i'm clueless and the fact that he cant talk about seems strange...anyhoo, i'll start.
You think theyre having a supply problem and wont have enough for all of europe?
Maybe they dont like their current printers for the region and are waiting for the cobtract to expire?
I'm an old school sc fan thats replayed everyone of them multiple times...i'm happy for this, i guess. I just dont care for the direction the series has headed lately and have looked forward to abandoning my xbox.
Its nice knowing that, if i ever have a gaming site no ones heard of or cares about that all i have to do for attention is pull some crap out of my butt about nintendo to generate hits, clicks and revenue.
What really sucks is that no ones going to remember to make fun of these people when the 720 and ps4 come out and look the same as wiiu games with a few more freckles because next to no one in the industry can afford to make anything look that much better without risking bankruptcy or absorbtion.
I however do promise that ill be here to laugh at every single person thats talked crap about wiiu weakness when its revealed that ps4 has the same specs and is twice as hard to develop for and the 720 only upgrades kinect and casual game interfaces.
Those of you that think nintendo is in any danger of losing money anytime soon need to google the gonintendo chart and laugh yourselves dumber when you see that their earnings round out to have 800% more profits than sony and ms have losses (which is a big deal because niether has made a dime in the last 10 years)
To think that either ms or sony is interested in doing anything other than just BEING nintendo this gen is shortsighted.
I guess the trolls need to prepare for disappointment cuz nothing is coming thats completely outclassing the wiiu for a LONG time.
Heck, its been argued that sony hoping to settle with bridgestone out of court so they have SOMETHING ti bankroll the ps4 with cuz as it stands now, as disgusting and sad as it is, sony's less than broke and ms was never interested in gaming, they wanted a windows machine hub in your living room so they could sell you tv youre already paying for.
Check the pressreleases, investor meetings and coo interviews.
I just hope what they "learned" wasnt that interest is peaked when all your devices sell out in minutes of their arrival. It sounds to me that theyre planning on short stocking. Especially considering he mentions the 3ds, which, by comparison to wii and ds, was never in short supply and has been easy to find nearly everywhere.
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cdude commented on Talking Point: Nintendo's Wii U Lineup Makes C...:
A lot of your guys' anti anyone thats unsatisfied attitude really sucks. People have a right to expect a lot more from nintendo a year into a new console cycle that costs as much as the wiiu does.
Nintendo has done nothing but drop the ball since before this thing came out and the evidence of that is not only in the sales performance of the device, but also in the fact that nothing major is coming out until 2014.
Theyve straightup lied about almost everything and not shared any information otherwise. And, instead of developing games that actually have a chance of turning this thing around, theyre doubling devtime on wario minigames and pretending that people really want another wii party.
The people that own this stupid thing now have right to be upset and shouldnt be told to shut up and just "buy a ps4." We dont want a ps4, we want nintendo games that werent thrown together in 6 months or direct copies of stuff we just got finished playing.
Sure, it's still nintendo stuff, and of course im gonna buy it cuz i have a wiiu, but lets not pretend that what they actually announced can hold a candle to the stuff people really wanted. I'm getting sonic, luigi, mario, wario, dk, smash and kart. Of course we all wanted them eventually, but not now.
Metroid, kid icarus, starfox, and fzero would have set the wiiu on fire.
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cdude commented on Ubisoft Scaling Back Support For Wii U, Expect...:
Im not a sony troll and have always preferred nintendo, but a well managed product is a well managed product and nintendo has been stupid, pretty much, since i bought wiiu on day one.
Seriously, anyone whos calling anyone a troll for not digging more on the nintendo botchfest needs to gather some perspective and realize that e3 was the last chance that many consumers were going to give nintendo to wow them and the big n may as well not have come at all.
They abandoned the wii more than two years ago and wiiu will have been out a year before it has 5 games worth having. Honestly, 2014?!
WTF have they been doing all this time?! And if nome of this future crap needs the gamepad screen, why is it in the box?!
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cdude commented on Analyst: Nintendo of America "Forgot Marketing...:
Its funny to me how these kinds of experts will tell you that cartoons and primetime sitcoms are catered to and enjoyed by completely different markets, and then go on to argue that idevices and nintendo cater to the exact same demographics.
I agree that nintendo been completely on every front possible for almost two years now, but lets not pretend that any segment of nintendos business is in competition with any segment of apples. It makes us all look stupid.
Gamers are gamers. Screen tappers are screen tappers.
Nintendos in trouble because theyve treated their products massive sales as forgone conclusions. No company in its right mind is going to launch a console and proclaim the following year the year of their handheld. No company in their right mind is going to surrender its press conference in the worlds most hyped trade show, that millions of buyers anticipate, so they can demo product that, after ms and sony announcements, will seem low rent by comparison.
The industry as a whole gets excited about the next wave of future bs. Thats the way it always has been. Mark my words, NOTHING nintendo displays will live up to the promises that sony and ms make. Fair or not, the next gen status quo that nintendos bringing to the table will be torn apart as 'more of the same' while an entire industry is creaming its pants over what theyre thinking the "real" new hardware is going to be bringing to them come christmas.
But, no. By all means, believe that ANOTHER nintendo direct, that again no one will see but us, is going to fix everything.
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cdude commented on Nintendo Won't Be Holding A Large-Scale Press ...:
To me, this is nintendo trying to save themselves more embarassment. Now, dammit, i love nintendo. But all this does is further prove that they STILL have no idea how to sell the wiiu to people while also proving that they never really ever had a release strategy to start with.
When all is said and done, they will have had a years worth of videogame industry landscape all to themselves and wont have done anything with it.
Pinning your hopes to smaller, more drawn out presentations to keep your early adopters interested isnt going to convince anyone to buy your product over one of the ones thats getting all the attention. So much of this industry is based around nothing but hype and media buzz generated by people that NEED spectacle and nintendo has effectively just told them to go f themselves while taking their ball home to go pout in a corner.
Ridiculous.
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cdude commented on Wii U Error Preventing Access To eShop And Fir...:
If anything we know nintendo will make most things right, it just may end up taking them a while to hit their stride. People seem to have forgotten that 360 launched without achievements and dlc. The entire xbox interface was also 4, lifeless 'pages' and was, at first, completely adless. If memory serves, i believe you also had to have a gold account to download demos.
Point is, perfection takes time and most 'nintendrones' are loyal to a company actually interested in meeting it under self imposed deadline.
Cough-last guardian-cough
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cdude commented on TT Fusion: LEGO City: Undercover Will Be "The ...:
Can everyone stop with the system seller crap? No one knows who buys what or why. If things like that could be predicted, the vita wouldnt have spent the last year in the slums it has and almost every console that comes out would see 20 million sales the day if release.
Well done exclusives always matter. Theres no such thing as a fantastic or, very well put together title thats not worth taking into consideration. I see no difference in the gameplay experience lego city is supposed to offer gamers and those that are alleged to be offeted in pikmin, mario 3d or zelda.
The only difference is that lego city isnt, by itself, an established franchise, but neither was killzone. Franchises gotta start somewhere, you know, and as far as starts go, lego city looks to be off to a great one.
If the charming cartoon quality of this particular title is offputting to you, you may find that youre in the wrong boat.
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cdude commented on Review: Jeopardy! (Wii U):
Im not by any means the target consumer for a game like this, but i don't see what's so offensive about it being on my console of choice. It's a nice, unbroken gameshow game, for people that like gameshows. My wife will probably like it as much as wheel of fortune and nintendoland, which she really enjoys.
I'm sorry having options like this is so upsetting and offputting to some of you.
Gaming should really be expressly reserved for the hardcore loners who rock comment sections on websites. They know whats up.
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cdude commented on Developer Interview: Ambient Studios On The Po...:
Im happy for them, even though i dont care for the game, but lets not ever put the words 'death' and 'wiiu' in headlines anymore.
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cdude commented on Wii U Version of Aliens: Colonial Marines Has ...:
The xbox and ps3 versions were ported from a rushed pc version that was thrown together in 6 months by gearbox because timegates efforts were unusable. To most everyone's understanding, the wiiu version is the only version thats been singularly developed by one studio. Whether thats good or bad remains to be seen, but i have a hardtime believing the wiiu version could suffer from mishaps its production hasnt been forced to encounter...
But that too, is me believing what gearbox says and thats not the sure bet it was last month anymore. Of course, we'll see. But i'm staying hopeful.
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cdude commented on Rayman Legends Boss and Dev Team Protest Wii U...:
That has everything to do with it tanaka. Especially when a game stands to implent a feature thats not present on a ms or sony system. It's amazing that theress a thousand videogame blogs that post the same things and next to none of them have reported what ms and sony are now mandating from their publishers.
Rayman got delayed because ms outright refused to ever allow it on it's console if it didnt. Then they rewrote the terms their affiliates have to play by. That's how confident ms is in the xbox experience, gentleman. That's the kind of crap that the 'hardcore gamer' crowd is fighting against nintendo so hard for.
Ms is just mad that they got their butts kicked by the wii, attach rates and all, and theyre scared that the wii u is out performing their last launch.
Wheres that story at game blogs?
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cdude commented on Review: James Bond: 007 Legends (Wii U):
Well i like it. Its not broken, glitchy or boring and it plays fine. It's not perfect, but it was never going to be. I was never expecting 9s and 10s, but 4s and 5s just seem ridiculous. Now we're deducting points because the levels that would be boring to play through have been reimagined and altered from the original film to give the player something to do at these locations aside from walk straight and push the flirt button?
I dont care how a game compares to call of duty because i'm sick of call of duty. Im not trying to out-opinion anyone here, but, honestly the game doesnt really deserve anything less than a 6. Personally, i'd give it a 7.5. Its a bond game that does bond related things while also doing standard shooter things that bond games have always done. What were you guys really expecting this to be, a reinvention of the licensed movie game genre?
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cdude commented on Monolith Soft: We Want To Be Like Bethesda:
The biggest difference between skyrim and xenoblade is that skyrim had a firm release date months in advance and a publisher that advertised and marketted the hell out of it and xenoblade was a gamestop exclusive that just showed up oneday.
I loved xenoblade as much as anyone, but this seems more like something thats in the hands of nintendo and what they feel like doing moreso than monoliths talent level. Id love to see more from them, i just dont know if their games will get the attention they deserve in the west due to circumstances beyond their control.
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cdude commented on System Faults Didn't Stop THQ From Bringing Me...:
I like how all the no-name developers that say nothing but how terrible the wii u is, have never made or accomplished anything worthwhile where consoles are concerned. Theyve made like ONE GAME that reviewed OKAY and sold DECENT and theyre quoted like theyve made hit after hit.
Im not saying that the wii u is above reproach, but all the developers weve heard of, that make games we buy and want more from have nothing but good things to say...theres no clicks in that, though.
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cdude commented on Wii U Review Score Average Is Modest, At Best:
These charts are stupid because niether accounts for the emergence of the uninformed stupidity and proffessional fanboyism that we've seen come out due to the advent of things like the blogosphere, myspace, twitter and facebook. To say nothing of the fact that anyone can operate a website that submits reviews saying anything.
A more interesting chart would be one that measured the ratio of quality titles packed with content against featureless cash ins that offer nothing acrossed all consoles.
I dont necessarilly mean 'reviewed well' when i say quality either. I mean games that had a lot of fun to offer for a decent amount of time that werent broken or poorly thought out. The kind of stuff kids wouldnt regret spending their allowance on.
I bet, acrossed all consoles from every generation the ratio would be something like 0.5 good games for every 200 bad.
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cdude commented on Some Euro Wii U Buyers Reporting A Distinct La...:
I wonder if this is available from amazon uk officially or if theyre being purchased from market sellers...while most of my experiences have been good, i wouldnt put it past a few sellers to have removed the copy themselves, honestly.
Hope it gets sorted out for everybody. While its certainly not my favorite game, it is pretty cool for free.
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cdude commented on Scribblenauts Unlimited Delayed In Europe Unti...:
I was hoping some of you would speculate on what the hell, outside of dev time, could cause a delay until 2013 cuz i'm clueless and the fact that he cant talk about seems strange...anyhoo, i'll start.
You think theyre having a supply problem and wont have enough for all of europe?
Maybe they dont like their current printers for the region and are waiting for the cobtract to expire?
Clueless.
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cdude commented on Rumour: Splinter Cell: Blacklist Sneaking Onto...:
I'm an old school sc fan thats replayed everyone of them multiple times...i'm happy for this, i guess. I just dont care for the direction the series has headed lately and have looked forward to abandoning my xbox.
So, my official opinion is 'cool, but meh.'
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cdude commented on The Wii U Nintendo Network Will Connect to EA'...:
My last ea game was and will be skate 3. Origin may connect automatically to the wii u, but it won't to mine.
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cdude commented on MCV: Wii U Is A Stopgap System, Real Successor...:
Its nice knowing that, if i ever have a gaming site no ones heard of or cares about that all i have to do for attention is pull some crap out of my butt about nintendo to generate hits, clicks and revenue.
What really sucks is that no ones going to remember to make fun of these people when the 720 and ps4 come out and look the same as wiiu games with a few more freckles because next to no one in the industry can afford to make anything look that much better without risking bankruptcy or absorbtion.
I however do promise that ill be here to laugh at every single person thats talked crap about wiiu weakness when its revealed that ps4 has the same specs and is twice as hard to develop for and the 720 only upgrades kinect and casual game interfaces.
Those of you that think nintendo is in any danger of losing money anytime soon need to google the gonintendo chart and laugh yourselves dumber when you see that their earnings round out to have 800% more profits than sony and ms have losses (which is a big deal because niether has made a dime in the last 10 years)
To think that either ms or sony is interested in doing anything other than just BEING nintendo this gen is shortsighted.
I guess the trolls need to prepare for disappointment cuz nothing is coming thats completely outclassing the wiiu for a LONG time.
Heck, its been argued that sony hoping to settle with bridgestone out of court so they have SOMETHING ti bankroll the ps4 with cuz as it stands now, as disgusting and sad as it is, sony's less than broke and ms was never interested in gaming, they wanted a windows machine hub in your living room so they could sell you tv youre already paying for.
Check the pressreleases, investor meetings and coo interviews.
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cdude commented on Reggie Promises Steady Stream Of Wii U Consoles:
I just hope what they "learned" wasnt that interest is peaked when all your devices sell out in minutes of their arrival. It sounds to me that theyre planning on short stocking. Especially considering he mentions the 3ds, which, by comparison to wii and ds, was never in short supply and has been easy to find nearly everywhere.
Hope not, though. I need online buddies.