Seeing as Nintendolife usually has a more DD slate was suprised not to find a thread about this already. Here is a thread we can talk about the upcoming Wii U eshop games and what we hope its like and want in it.
Some info on what we know about the eshop itself
From Bill Trinen
We have an eShop team internally that handles 3DS and they'll be working on the Wii U eShop. That's transitioned from, I think, initially, the team that was handling the Virtual Console releases. So they've got a much broader perspective now on the overall digital offering. That's focused primarily, going forward, on 3DS and Wii U. For Virtual Console itself, obviously there's been... We had a lot of focus on that early on for Wii, and also at the same time we were trying to grow the original digital content for Wii. Particularly, when you look at how the digital offerings have evolved from Wii to 3DS... 3DS, I look at the stuff that's coming out digitally, whether it's Pushmo — I love that game, it's so good — and Sakura Samurai, there's a lot of really creative and unique content coming out. I think there's certainly a focus on... Let's really try to help these independent developers that are creating new and unique content. That may be why there's more focus in that area.
Also we have some screenshots of what the eshop and Wii U menu will look like.
Games Mighty Switch Force Hyper Drive Edition
System: Wii U
Release Date: 11/18/2012
No. of Players: 1 player
Category: Action, Puzzles
Publisher: WayForward Technologies
Developer: Way Forward
Space Hooligans have escaped custody and are wreaking havoc all over Planet Land!
HQ calls on cybernetic peace-keeper Patricia Wagon to bring these renegades to justice. With the help of Corporal Gendarmor and her trusty Pellet Gun, there's nothing she can't handle. When the going gets tough, Wagon activates her Helmet Siren, altering the world around her. Enter the mechanical shape-shifting, dimension switching world of Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition and blow crime away.
Features
The third game in WayForward’s “Mighty Series”, now in glorious 1080p
Run and gun action meets brain teasing navigation
Playable on the Wii U GamePad, or on your TV in Dual Screen mode
NEW! Hyper versions of all 21 stages — not for the faint of heart!
A fast paced shoot'em'up set in a microscopic world. Play the game on the WiiU Gamepad. Local Multiplayer with WiiU Gamepad and TV Screen. Compare your hiscores with player around the world.
Toki Tori 2
System: Wii U
Release Date: 11/18/2012
No. of Players: To be determined
Category: Puzzles, Strategy
Publisher: Two Tribes
Developer: Two Tribes
Living game world filled with creatures to interact with
No texts or tutorials; players learn by experimentation.
Features level editor using Wii U GamePad.
Fully supports Off-TV gameplay on the Wii U GamePad.
Toki Tori 2 is a hybrid between a puzzle and a platform game that features a rich and living game world. Players need to learn about the personalities of the inhabitants and discover how they react to the player's presence in order to make progress in the game.
The player controls a chubby chicken whose only available actions are a whistle or - using his weight - a stomp on the floor. These actions are all the player gets to work with throughout the game. The diverse roster of creatures and their reactions to these two actions, deliver an easy to grasp yet deep puzzle mechanic.
Chasing Aurora
System: Wii U
Release Date: 11/18/2012
No. of Players: up to 5 players
Category: Action, Adventure
Publisher: Broken Rules
Developer: Broken Rules
Experience the dream of flight
Asymmetric multiplayer gameplay for up to five players
Unique graphics and a fresh setting
16 levels, 4 game modes, 5 playable characters
Chasing Aurora is a 2D aerial action game about the dream of flight. Players will compete in three different multiplayer game modes and a single player challenge mode. The Wii U GamePad is used for local asymmetric gameplay.
Ride the wind from peak to peak. Fight for Aurora's Gem. Fly your bird to victory in the breathtaking scenery of the Alps.
Up to five players can compete in a tournament that spans up to three disciplines. In two of the disciplines, the GamePad player has a special role. After each round, the GamePad is handed to a new player so that everyone has the opportunity to play as the special player.
The single player challenge mode features online and local high scores. Players race against the clock while they evade falling rocks, snow, lightning and gusts of wind.
From lightning storms to waterfalls, from icicles to the sudden rush of wind, each level offers a unique environmental challenge.
Cloudberry Kingdom
System: Wii U
Release Date: TBD
No. of Players: up to 4 players
Category: Action, Adventure
Publisher: Pwnee Studios
Developer: Pwnee Studios
Infinite levels, infinite replayability, save and share your discoveries
Intense 4-player local co-op and co-op bungee mode
Customizable challenge for any skill level
Over 12 unique heroes, guest heroes, plus custom heroes
Cloudberry Kingdom, the land where good heroes go to die, and Bob is the best of them all. Bob sits on the precipice of retirement, recliner ready, but first he must get back what he lost years ago. Jump and dodge your way through billions of levels on a last ditch mission to conquer infinity. The quest was never over. The princess was never saved. A challenge is waiting, are you ready?
Trine 2: Director's Cut
Developer: Frozenbyte
Trine 2: Director’s Cut, exclusively for the Wii U, features the critically acclaimed original Trine 2 game, a number of enhancements and gameplay polish, alongside a new game mode called “Magic Mayhem”, designed exclusively for the Wii U.
Trine 2 is a sidescrolling game of action, puzzles and platforming. You play as one of the Three Heroes who make their way through dangers untold in a fantastical fairytale world. The game features an exciting adventure full of action, including physics-based puzzles using fire, water, gravity and magic; wicked goblins on a quest to ruin the kingdom for good; and a magical environment full of wonder.
For the first time in the series, Trine 2 introduces online cooperative multiplayer support for up to three players, alongside the local multiplayer mode.
Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Developer: Gajin Games
Runner2 is the sequel to the IGF award winning BIT.TRIP RUNNER. Runner2 is a fast paced rhythm-based action platformer featuring the always imperturbable "CommanderVideo".
Mutant Mudds Deluxe
Developer: Renegade Kidd
1001 Spikes
Developer: Nicalis
Starbeast: the stellar war
Developer: Pixel Entertainment.
Little Inferno
Developer: Tomorrow Corporation
Marvel Pinball
Developer: Zen Studios
The Cave
Developer: Double Fine
eshop retail
Assassin's Creed 3 - $59.99 Darksiders 2 - $59.99
Epic Mickey 2 - $59.99
ESPN Sports Connection - $49.99 FIFA 13 - $59.99
Game Party Champions - $49.99 Just Dance 4 - $49.99
Madden NFL 13 - $59.99
New Super Mario Bros. U - $59.99 Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge - $59.99
Nintendo Land - $59.99
Rabbids Lands - $49.99 Scribblenauts Unlimited - $59.99 Sing Party - $49.99
Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed -$39.99
Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper - $59.99
Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2013 - $49.99
ZombiU - $59.99
@Sony_70 you should take over the eshop duties for NL and perhaps earn a nice little shield for your avatar
I will definitely download Trine2 being a man that loves multiplaying through fantastical worlds full of arcane magiks and beastly foes on a mythological quest of epic proportions
I'm hoping EA is in the game with a crapload of Megadrive/Genesis VC this would take me back in time to a place that filled my gaming heart n soul with alot of great memories... Just do it EA
Hang on, the Wii U eShop is only getting a port of Marvel Pinball, not Zen Pinball 2?
This is a problem that no one seems to have picked up on. The reason Marvel Pinball exists on the 3DS is because it is too cumbersome for developers to do what Zen Studios does on the PS3/ Vita - free download of the game, but all the tables are demo-only unless you buy them as DLC.
So Nintendo's DLC policies/ freemium software policies might just still be lagging behind what the developer industry wants, and if so Wii U eShop, like WiiWare, DSiWare and 3DS eShop might struggle to get the quantity numbers up to where they need to be.
I'm interested in Cloudberry Kingdom (looks like a lot of fun and has multiplayer), Trine 2: Director's Cut (multiplayer and game by Finnish game-developer), Toki Tori 2 (my type of game) and Nano Assault Neo (looks like great fun). They already have good games coming to Wii U's eShop as opposed to what WiiWare has to offer. I have only 3 WiiWare games on my Wii: Bomberman, Pokémon Rumble and Cave Story. There are few I might still get but there are many better games I haven't bought yet so they have to wait. Can't wait to get my hands on Wii U.
Check out my Gaming Nonograms thread here on Nintendo Life if you are into Picross or other similar games.
Couldn't agree more!
Well I don't care what platform it's on: I just want another Pullblox goddammit!
Currently playing: Rhythm Heaven, Minecraft (XBLA), Pokemon B/W 2, Halo 4, The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave, Fallblox, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (GCN)
Will be playing soon: Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Cave Story +, Wii U: NSMBU, Nintendo Land, (And lots more!)
I wonder if we can get some new Art Style games. Those saved the WiiWare for me.
I've actually been wondering about that recently. Nintendo has not released any Art Style games for the eshop, and I hope they will in the future and on the Wii U eshop, because I am currently loving Art Style: Pictpicts (or however you spell it) and am considering Art Style: Boxlife as well...
Currently playing: Rhythm Heaven, Minecraft (XBLA), Pokemon B/W 2, Halo 4, The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave, Fallblox, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (GCN)
Will be playing soon: Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Cave Story +, Wii U: NSMBU, Nintendo Land, (And lots more!)
I figured this thread could use one more video to slow it down even more, and a catchy one at that. If you haven't seen it, you're in for a delightfully disturbing treat, and if you have, well, why not watch it again?
Probably going to double dip on Mighty Switch Force HD/Mutant Mudds Delxue.
I'm willing to bet shante is being worked on for the Wii U. Bozon said they would have more wii U/3ds news to announce this year when mighty switch force was announced. With Double Dragon : Neon ( hope to get a port but I might just grab the xbla version) and Adventire Time finished they must be working on their next project. Guessing they will annouce the next shante game when the gbc game gets put on the virtual console.
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I'll definitely be getting some Wii U eShop games, but not immediately. I've still got a few Wii games to beat and a limited budget to spend on games. Can't wait for Mighty Switch Force, though.
I own a PS1, GBA, GBA SP, Wii (GCN), 360, 3DS, PC (Laptop), Wii U, and PS4.
I used to own a GBC, PS2, and DS Lite
Hang on, the Wii U eShop is only getting a port of Marvel Pinball, not Zen Pinball 2?
This is a problem that no one seems to have picked up on. The reason Marvel Pinball exists on the 3DS is because it is too cumbersome for developers to do what Zen Studios does on the PS3/ Vita - free download of the game, but all the tables are demo-only unless you buy them as DLC.
So Nintendo's DLC policies/ freemium software policies might just still be lagging behind what the developer industry wants, and if so Wii U eShop, like WiiWare, DSiWare and 3DS eShop might struggle to get the quantity numbers up to where they need to be.
Or they could have just thrown it together to have a Wii U eShop launch game.
I also agree on my Art Style games. I'd love to see some Wii U and 3DS entries. It's a fantastic series.
So the nintendo okie podcast had jools Watsham from Renegade kid where he talked about a few things regarding the Wii U.
-Renegade Kid’s focus is not on the PC market
Mutant Mudds Deluxe Announcement 1:50:00 – 1:56:00
Will probably stay unique to the Wii U
A lot of work went into the visuals to make it look good on Wii U
Extra artwork added to the Wii U levels
Game will be playable on either the TV or Wii U GamePad. Nothing utilizing both screens now.
Big Wii U title in the works for Holiday 2013
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