This seems pretty fair. New markets are scary, and he seems to think all the next gen consoles are risky business, too.

I don't think it should be a problem. The name is distinct, and Grand Theft Auto LIberty City Stories had motorcycle races that allowed clubbing your opponent much like road rash.

I'll probably take advantage of a couple discounts..

I don't know what the Japanese standards are, but this passes the American "idiot in a hurry" standard for trademark infringement. I doubt even an idiot in a hurry would go to nintendo's warawara plaza thinking that it was the restaurant, or vice versa. And if there is an issue, the patent office is the one at fault for issuing two trademarks.

@burninmylight
Pricing it at $20 would be good, too. It would remove a lot of risk for nintendo and, like you said, get the games in retail stores.

I usually find the 3d effects to be quite impressive, myself. It adds a sharpness to images that I find quite fetching.

@Fusion14
You're never going to explain your opinion, are you? And you're the only one who has commented, too, so I don't think the other Nintendo Life users care one way or the other, currently.

@Fusion14
My overall assumption is that nintendo would continue the series with the same quality they usually put into their flagship games, and thus would not suck. The tournaments would be online, and reach everyone who owns the game and has their wii u online. That would reach an absurd amount of people, and if just 10,000 of these people participated each week in 7 tournament regions for a year, paying $5 each, nintendo would receive $18,200,000. Prizes would probably be exclusive nintendo merchandise, like gold wii remotes, or a 3DS with a custom design, or a real cup trophy, or nintendo character figures. Stuff that would be desirable to a fan, but wouldn't really cause nintendo to go broke.
And you'll have to explain why people who don't participate in the tournament would be alienated. Again, I'm assuming these releases would be just as full featured as previous entries in the series.

@Fusion14
Huh? How did you get that from what I said?
I'm suggesting that the whole of super smash and mario kart be free. The usual play styles like versus, classic, and adventure mode would be fully available whenever you'd like to play it, along with general online play against other users.

At the same time, nintendo would have tournaments every week people could pay to participate in, with special rewards for the winner depending on playing level and amount of people in the tournament.

You wouldn't be blocked out from the game.

Free Mario Kart 8, with weekly buy-in tournaments?
Or better yet, Smash?

Nintendo could divide tournaments based on rank, offer special rewards to winners, and have occasional super tournaments.

And they could use the regular payments to support online services for as long as people play.

When I first saw the wii U, one of my first thoughts was that it looks too similar to the wii. I love the simple design, but it makes it harder to distinguish as a new product for those that don't know anything about it.

Bananas are better, overall. They can really complicate a race with new hazards and a particularly devious player can add a few death traps for players driving from memory. An all mushroom race is pretty static and doesn't test players ability to adapt in the same way.

I, too, have moved away from wiiware. I'd have bought RCR in a second if wiiware was directly playable on the Wii U, like dsiware is on the 3DS.

I'd be far more concerned if Epic hadn't strongly implied that the engine is hard to work with and they'll charge companies through the nose to use it. They've stated themselves that costs of using the engine will be several times higher, and that their 5 minute demos take months to build (and that full games would take much, much longer). If what they say is true, no dev in their right mind will use the engine.

@ ToxieDogg
Day 1 buyers in the US pay the same for each, but get 10% back via Digital Deluxe promo. They also don't have to pay for gas, and if they have uncapped internet don't pay extra for the download either. For some people digital makes good sense.

Yet publishers still seem to track sales exclusively via hard copies...

I'm beginning to suspect "disgraced" executives are wandering off with phat loot.

Legend of the River King, woot!

And I loved bit trip runner, so I might pick harmoknight up, too.

@TwilightV: Let them buy (A wii U). >

Hopefully not Deus Ex: HR. It would sell poorly because it's an old port, which Square Enix would take to mean the Wii U can't support multi-plat releases or exclusives.

Looks good. Also teaches the important message to not climb ladders in a dress.

@raylax That is a bad metaphor. Firefighters have plenty of time to start a game of monopoly, If they had to finish the game, though, the metaphor would totally work.

Looks like everyone wants to be the next Molyneux.

I'll probably purchase ZombiU during this sale. I purchased the deluxe set instead of the basic because I knew I'd be interested in e-shop purchases.

So why don't you think the new type is "magic", kyrurem? A type for pokemon that act like performance magicians might fit in pretty well.

mario and luigi announcement?

Why does the new Luigi's mansion design remind me so much of Resident Evil 1?

His voice is shockingly young, too!

...lol...

Needs games needs games needs games.

All the schedule slippage for games I want to play doesn't make me want to recommend the Wii U to other people, as much as I love mine.

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It might have been okay if 2 of the biggest games weren't delayed half a year.

Woohoo! Another step towards a modern online presence!

I originally thought that this was going to be about Atari declaring bankruptcy regularly.

Although this might not pass the idiot in a hurry test, I don't think it misleads consumers. The pad is shown playing games that use both the TV and the gamepad for different activities in the commercial, which any idiot who isn't in a hurry would realize couldn't be played entirely off the gamepad.

If it was longer or had voice over, I think it would be an instant buy. As it is, though, seems more like an (At most) 15 dollar download.

It doesn't have that much inside, Tomboy. Most of the price is in the screen, which is on the exterior.

@grimbldoo
The sales aren't irrelevant, though. They happen occasionally, which makes the "full retail price" (Which actually decreases over time, instead of staying at the initial price indefinitely) a whole different beast. I can't wait out software for a price drop on a nintendo system. I can wait out Steam.

I see I'm not the only one who always wears the water tunic.

He's cleaned up nicely since his HAL days.

Although this article seems to think that all of the US is hooked up with wonderful broadband over every inch... It's not. There are areas in the country with spotty, crappy coverage. More rural areas here are likely in the same state as Canada's more rural areas.

@DrDaisy
Congratulations. You've found 1 KB. 1 KB that is not located on the hard drive.

Seems fine, as a commercial for the system. I'd rather see the commercials for the games, when those come out.

Every picture and video I've seen of the game just looks bland and uninspired. Nothing really stood out.

So I also passed it over.

I suspect somebody who buys consoles 6 years into their lifespan is not the audience Nintendo is expecting to buy the Wii U at launch. I don't know why someone like SkywardLink, who has implied they buy systems when they've got 6 years of games on the market, would have enough interest in the Wii U to directly compare it to the PS3...

The most recent spec sheets I've seen all seem to show the Wii U as a successor to this generation, rather than a stop gap measure for a company that is (not) hemorrhaging money. The specs are VERY clearly above and beyond this generation, which people who build their own machines know.

More likely, Nintendo is going for the generational head start that gave the PS2 and Xbox360 commanding leads against their direct competitors for years (that the 360 has since lost).

I still can't look at the logo for resident evil 6 without...

Well, I can't unsee, anyway.

I never had enough pieces to bring ideas to fruition.

Saw this during the weekend over at amazon. I was wondering about the new (better looking, imo) cover art.

Is the storage really that big a deal? You can get a 32 gig flash drive for what? $10? $5? I'll probably base my decision on color, though. A hard decision.

This is a natural consequence of the game industry using dark magic to maintain the same MSRP for over a decade. I thank my lucky stars publishers never decided that initial price points should be increased every 2 years.