What's that supposed to mean? A switch version of a multiplatform game is always going to be worse than the competition, if it pushes the hardware even slightly. The console is significantly weaker than every other current gen option- this isn't a secret.
The Super FX chip idea isn't feasible in 2017 technology. The switch doesn't have the guts in it to do VR on the level of PSVR/Vive/Oculus, and I hope nobody is getting hopes up.
You might maybe get the janky phone VR that isn't very good, I suppose.
"By tapping a Mario Sports Superstars series amiibo card, players can unlock the Star version of the corresponding character in the corresponding sport. A Star character has stronger stats than its regular counterpart, giving that character an edge in that particular sport. And by tapping up to three amiibo cards, players can participate in the Road to Superstar mode. Completing this mode will bestow Superstar status on their characters, giving an even greater boost to their stats."
@Arcamenel
Because prior to the internet gen, you weren't even supposed to be playing the games alone - you were supposed to play with your friend(s)/siblings/significant other who got other versions, so that you could "catch them all". No sane person went out and bought another console to trade with themselves, certainly not anyone who is complaining about a £4.49 fee.
It never cost me a penny extra because I'd already have link cables to play games with friends (including pokemon for battles!), and we'd just let the others use our systems to transfer...
Bunch of people complaining about always online when they 've probably not been away from internet access for a significant period for years. Lord forbid you can safely assume that a person willing to drop hundreds of pounds on the typical iOS device also has wifi access or a 3g or better plan.
Those 500m+ downloads of pokemon go all had to have internet access outside somehow. I think they'll be fine.
Unless the game got an update I missed, Roy doesn't do anything in codename steam. Only Ike/Lucina/Robin/Marth do. Roy does nothing outside of smash currently.
In the UK we used to get demo discs with magazines. PS1 and Dreamcast had a lot of them. Nintendo missed out because they stuck with carts which were too expensive to do it on.
Sorta died out with the ps2/gamecube gen when downloadable demos replaced them.
@Henmii He had time to develop one character from the ballot, he chose the most popular one. Geno was NEVER going to be that one despite what the loud minority on the internet say, and K. Rool wasn't likely either.
Weapons are ok, but I don't care enough to boot splatoon to just look at that.
October is the first month where we didn't get a new stage since release, which makes me think development is winding down (if it hasn't already wound down already), or they're saving stuff for a paid update. I hope they're not because that'll fracture the userbase, and I don't play splatoon enough anymore to justify a paid update on top (possibly twice since I also use two wii us...)
Darkrai was an escalation battle a couple of months back. He has been released, but you missed him. You'll have to wait for him to come round again I guess.
They won't be giving you a code now if you order now...
The point of it is "Sorry, we couldn't get your preorder to you on release date, have this in the meantime".
You may well have noticed, if you've looked at a calendar, that the release date was friday , i.e. yesterday. You won't get anything (other than what you buy, obviously) if you order now.
Besides that, I haven't gotten my preorder which I placed a while ago, nor a download code yet >_>. Time for complaining, me thinks.
I would love for a free to play game to open the 3DS for playing backups. I really would love to turn some of my retail games into download versions without paying nintendos ridiculous eshop prices (When compared to retail).
Being able to buy a retail cart, back it up and then play it anywhere with me is just so ideal for me for a handheld system. If I have to use a card, I can only take one of my nearly 40 3DS retail games with me. If this works, I can have them all at once (and maybe even my 60+ DS games too!), and it'd be glorious.
No they aren't. Not even close. You get an eshop code that can be used once on one machine. You can then never move it off that one machine (except a transfer which erases it and everything else off the source machine.
That's the very defintion of DRM. Normal humble bundles are DRM free because you can download a .exe and then copy it ad nauseum if you want to a million pc's.
@GreatPlayer A price drop after a year isn't early.
All 3 consoles have had significant price drops from RRP within the first year. This always happens with every console. You paid to have it early, not to get a reward later for buying early. You got exactly what you paid for.
No, it couldn't happen via kickstarter. There is no way they could EVER raise nearly enough money, the dream cast game alone cost 20 million dollars. And of course a current gen game would cost more. And only 59 kickstarters have ever got over $1million, let alone 20.
Whats with all the blatant clickbait articles nintendolife
"What could it look like" vs "what will it look like if it happens" are two very different things.
1) is what we've been seeing for years on dolphin, and is glorious. 2) is the nintendo approach where they put BLOOM EVERYWHERE for no reason (thanks WWHD).
He actually said a few days ago that kickstarter probably won't work. Presumably VLR cost a ridiculous amount of money. Very few games hit more than a few 100k, which, with VLRs full voice acting, models, 30+hour single player and excellent OST almost certainly cost more.
"Sonic Adventure 3" already happened, twice. They called them "Sonic heroes" and then "Sonic the hedgehog" (a.k.a Sonic 06). They were both horrible games (just like the originals are by todays standards, they aged terribly).
The only sequels sega should be considering even slightly are "Sonic Colours 2" or "Sonic Generations 2".
I'd be excited for DS virtual console on wii u, except for the fact that Nintendo has done an absolutely terrible job with Virtual Console on both the 3DS and Wii U.
At the absolute very best, we get a slightly better slow trickle of games. At worst, this means we get even fewer SNES games. (And we're unlikely to get many of the games I really want, like pokemon/ the world ends with you)
@ikki5 Yeah. We can get free wii points. At the low low price of 4000 stars, i.e. 16 full wii u games/20 full 3ds games, you can get 1000 wii points, i.e. enough for a single N64 game, and they only apply to wii vc or wiiware games. Nothing on 3ds.
Whereas you can get 70 or so coins if you do all the extra things per game, and the downloads cost 150-200 coins, i.e. somewhere between 2 and 3 games.
Wow, that's enough spin to keep the galaxy orbitting.
A 40% increase yoy for the wii u is absolutely terrible news, given it was on the market for nearly 12 times as long this year. (It launched on the last day of novermber in 2013 in the uk).
And only a 4% increase for 3ds when they dropped the pokebomb (As well as all the other amazing titles this year) isn't reassuring either,
Wow, Metroid Prime IV is winning the "favourite from this list" poll at the moment.
Shame it's not going to happen in 2014. Retro took 2 years to put out metroid prime 2 and that was when they already had everything left over from Metroid prime 1 ready to speed up development.
They can't possibly made a Metroid prime 4 properly in around a year after finishing DK Tropical freeze. (Though I would dearly love to be wrong)
@3wdiisu
A no name site, with no source or proof is your argument?
Lol. So anyone who can make a webpage and put stuff on it is automatically telling the truth. Yeah, no. Show a big site or an interview with a sony employee where they said it, because that is trolling, pulled right out of the arse of that webpage maker to get hits.
@darkgamer001
Sony announced a ton of stuff long before Microsoft. For those with short memories, they absolutely blindsided Microsoft with the PS4 announcements months before microsoft had anything to say about the xbone. At the time, they said that the strategy they were going to take would be the "one that does right by gamers", or something along those lines. I find it very hard to imagine translating that into restrictive DRM.
@ LDXD
Then explain why people aren't buying the Wii U. Either you think Nintendo games have gotten significantly less desirable (i.e. worse), or they have competition. Pick one. Or give a valid third option, but that would contradict what you're already saying.
@ LDXD People are buying PS3/4, Xbox 360/ones and smartphones/tablets instead of Nintendo consoles. Therefore Nintendo has competition.
Unless you're suggesting the reason Nintendo sales have fallen through the floor (And are nearly coming out the other side of the planet...) is because Nintendo games have gotten worse, hence no-one wanting to buy them?
I'm not happy with any pricing over £0 for transferring pokemon. They had better give a 30 day free trial with every new pokemon game that comes out if they do intend this to permanently replace in game generation transfers.
And £4.50 is too much for such a meager amount of storage, but whatever. A fool and his money and all that.
All I'm going to say is, if the PS4 doesn't do significantly better than the Wii U is going to, the entire industry is in some serious, serious trouble. If all 3 did about what the wii u is likely to do (say 30m , and that's very generous, since it's more likely to be ~20m) it would mean that roughly 2/3rds of the market just vanished in the course of a single generation.
At least, those are only US numbers, but it's pretty similar everywhere.
@Einjhar
"But if that is your general situation, you should consider changing it."
I should consider dropping out of getting a successful career because of videogames and nintendo being incompetent? I moved to a new university to begin getting a Ph.D last month and everyone I knew went their separate ways. I would dearly love to play New Super Mario Bros U/2 with my friends, but Nintendo won't let me.
"mario game 3+ times and tell me, if there is any challenge left that would make you say "i need to play that game online again" "
It's a little something called "fun". There is something inately fun in being able to play video games with friends, even if you've played it through before. Yes. I would like to "play that game online again" if I was doing it with friends. It's the same as sports: I sure as heck didn't give up playing football because "we've done it before 3+ times".
Coincidentally, This is part of the reason I know no-one else who has bought a wii u. They'd have jumped on it if that meant they could continue to play multiplayer games over the internet, but nintendo is still stuck in the early 90's in regard to the super scary internets.
@Einherjar That's not a fact, that is something you just made up on the spot.
You must be moderately young still, as real life clearly hasn't hit you yet with the reality that everyone has responsibilities that mean they will eventually be forced to move away from people that they would like to play games with.
I know tens, maybe even a hundred + people I have met that I would LOE to be able to play Mario Multiplayer with. But almost all of them live hundreds of miles away now.
If you really think that "Onlne MP degraded itself to foul mouthing, smack talking, and elitist sub groups and is in no way compareable to a local MP round." I can only presume that your friends don't have an internet connection? Otherwise, either you and your friends are already in one of those groups, or you are wrong.
(Hint, it's probably the fact that you are a short sighted fool, like the people at nintendo making these decisions).
@Jared1984
"They'll buy it anyway".
Right, that's exactly why wii u is currently on track to being the biggest failure of a console launch outside of the virtual boy that Nintendo has ever had.
There isn't. Wii U updates happen by checking which games you've played on the system. I wouldn't worry about it though, just start playing it normally and the wii u will download the update in the background on its own.
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Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Analysis Points To Switch Sonic Forces Being The Worst Version
@Paddle1
Digital foundry don't do reviews. They compare performance on a technical level.
Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Analysis Points To Switch Sonic Forces Being The Worst Version
@GC-161
What's that supposed to mean? A switch version of a multiplatform game is always going to be worse than the competition, if it pushes the hardware even slightly. The console is significantly weaker than every other current gen option- this isn't a secret.
Re: Kimishima Outlines Nintendo's Continued Attention on VR and Portable System Ideas
@Splatmaster
The Super FX chip idea isn't feasible in 2017 technology. The switch doesn't have the guts in it to do VR on the level of PSVR/Vive/Oculus, and I hope nobody is getting hopes up.
You might maybe get the janky phone VR that isn't very good, I suppose.
Re: Mario Sports Superstars Heading to Europe on 10th March
"By tapping a Mario Sports Superstars series amiibo card, players can unlock the Star version of the corresponding character in the corresponding sport. A Star character has stronger stats than its regular counterpart, giving that character an edge in that particular sport. And by tapping up to three amiibo cards, players can participate in the Road to Superstar mode. Completing this mode will bestow Superstar status on their characters, giving an even greater boost to their stats."
Makes this game the easiest non-purchase ever.
Re: Pokémon Bank Update Adds Support for Pokémon Sun & Moon
@Arcamenel
Because prior to the internet gen, you weren't even supposed to be playing the games alone - you were supposed to play with your friend(s)/siblings/significant other who got other versions, so that you could "catch them all". No sane person went out and bought another console to trade with themselves, certainly not anyone who is complaining about a £4.49 fee.
It never cost me a penny extra because I'd already have link cables to play games with friends (including pokemon for battles!), and we'd just let the others use our systems to transfer...
Re: Miyamoto on the Reasoning Behind Super Mario Run's Pricing
Bunch of people complaining about always online when they 've probably not been away from internet access for a significant period for years. Lord forbid you can safely assume that a person willing to drop hundreds of pounds on the typical iOS device also has wifi access or a 3g or better plan.
Those 500m+ downloads of pokemon go all had to have internet access outside somehow. I think they'll be fine.
Re: Monster Hunter Stories amiibo Are Compatible with English Copies of Animal Crossing: New Leaf
@Spoony_tech
Unless the game got an update I missed, Roy doesn't do anything in codename steam. Only Ike/Lucina/Robin/Marth do. Roy does nothing outside of smash currently.
Re: Talking Point: Free and Early Access Downloads Like Metroid Prime: Blast Ball Make a Lot of Sense
@Kirk.
In the UK we used to get demo discs with magazines. PS1 and Dreamcast had a lot of them. Nintendo missed out because they stuck with carts which were too expensive to do it on.
Sorta died out with the ps2/gamecube gen when downloadable demos replaced them.
Re: Talking Point: Free and Early Access Downloads Like Metroid Prime: Blast Ball Make a Lot of Sense
I mean, sometimes, It makes sense.
In the case of federation force. playing the Blast Ball demo has just reassured me that I do not want to touch this game with a bargepole.
Re: Talking Point: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS Set a Standard That'll Be Tough to Follow
@Henmii He had time to develop one character from the ballot, he chose the most popular one. Geno was NEVER going to be that one despite what the loud minority on the internet say, and K. Rool wasn't likely either.
Re: Sales for Dementium Remastered Have Been Much Lower Than Expected
@Sandman89
Making a version that costs exponentially more for an even smaller userbase isn't the solution here.
They have no advertising at all. They need to actually let people know the game exists, for a start, if they want it to sell.
Re: Rumour: Nintendo Software Technology Working On Free-To-Play amiibo Game, Could Be Switching To Mobile In The Future
@Rockmin
This studio, they have no reason to trust
Re: Evergreen Nintendo Releases Hang Tough in the UK as Xenoblade Chronicles X Tumbles Out of Top 40
I'm not really enjoying xenoblade X at all, so I kinda feel like the sharp sales drop off is fair.
It's really lacking in what I like in RPGs, and I don't really value the big open world at all...
Re: Review: Pokémon Picross (3DS eShop)
"who just want to play here or there and really makes one wonder why it wasn't a paid game from the get go."
Easy, because nearly nobody would pay the price they're currently charging to unlock 100% of the game.
Re: Video: See Splatoon's Shiny New H-3 Nozzlenose D & Luna Blaster Neo in Action
Weapons are ok, but I don't care enough to boot splatoon to just look at that.
October is the first month where we didn't get a new stage since release, which makes me think development is winding down (if it hasn't already wound down already), or they're saving stuff for a paid update. I hope they're not because that'll fracture the userbase, and I don't play splatoon enough anymore to justify a paid update on top (possibly twice since I also use two wii us...)
Re: Spooky Halloween Events Are Now Live In Pokémon Shuffle
@C1pher
Darkrai was an escalation battle a couple of months back. He has been released, but you missed him. You'll have to wait for him to come round again I guess.
Re: Nintendo's UK Store Gives Free eShop Copy of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Following Order Delay
Tried ringing, the customer service centre isn't even open on sundays. Makes sense, but urgh. Wanted to be playing animal crossing
Re: Nintendo's UK Store Gives Free eShop Copy of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Following Order Delay
@RianneMT
Might I ask, which phone number did you use? I should give them a ring tomorrow.
Re: Nintendo's UK Store Gives Free eShop Copy of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Following Order Delay
Still nothing.
I wanted to be making homes for villagers this weekend, darnit. At this rate, I might have to shudder go outside.
Re: Nintendo's UK Store Gives Free eShop Copy of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Following Order Delay
My email says I have to wait until Tuesday too for the Physical copy, and they only just now dispatched it at about 9:50 this morning.
That's obviously not going to have arrived in time for release date (yesterday), haha. Still no code in my inbox though .
Re: Nintendo's UK Store Gives Free eShop Copy of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Following Order Delay
They won't be giving you a code now if you order now...
The point of it is "Sorry, we couldn't get your preorder to you on release date, have this in the meantime".
You may well have noticed, if you've looked at a calendar, that the release date was friday , i.e. yesterday. You won't get anything (other than what you buy, obviously) if you order now.
Besides that, I haven't gotten my preorder which I placed a while ago, nor a download code yet >_>. Time for complaining, me thinks.
Re: IRONHAX to Use Free-to-Play IRONFALL Invasion to Run 3DS Homebrew and Region-Free Workaround
I would love for a free to play game to open the 3DS for playing backups. I really would love to turn some of my retail games into download versions without paying nintendos ridiculous eshop prices (When compared to retail).
Being able to buy a retail cart, back it up and then play it anywhere with me is just so ideal for me for a handheld system. If I have to use a card, I can only take one of my nearly 40 3DS retail games with me. If this works, I can have them all at once (and maybe even my 60+ DS games too!), and it'd be glorious.
Re: Iwata Vows To Listen To E3 2015 Digital Event Feedback And "Work To Better Meet Your Expectations"
@cbkummer
Apologising for a trainwreck doesn't do much when that's all you do.
Re: Feature: Explaining Humble Bundle and What it Could Mean for Nintendo and Nindies
"DRM-free downloads, remember. "
No they aren't. Not even close. You get an eshop code that can be used once on one machine. You can then never move it off that one machine (except a transfer which erases it and everything else off the source machine.
That's the very defintion of DRM. Normal humble bundles are DRM free because you can download a .exe and then copy it ad nauseum if you want to a million pc's.
Re: Three More Pokémon 3DS HOME Themes Heading to Europe This Week
@KeeperBvK
It was free for people who bought Codename Steam on the eshop, rather than free in general.
Nintendolife screwed up.
Re: The Prices of the Remaining Physical Goods on Club Nintendo in North America Have Been Reduced
@GreatPlayer
A price drop after a year isn't early.
All 3 consoles have had significant price drops from RRP within the first year. This always happens with every console. You paid to have it early, not to get a reward later for buying early. You got exactly what you paid for.
Re: SEGA Records Financial Losses and Aims to Stick With "Mainstay IP" Game Releases
@GreatPlayer
Alien Isolation sold 2.1m copies because it was a good game with a strong license behind it.
That's much more than you can say about anything sega put out on Wii U
Re: Poll: Would You Like Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. DLC to Expand for a Whole Generation?
Smash DLC is way overpriced currently, so I won't be buying any of it. £4.50 for a veteran, seriously? Get stuffed sakurai.
If mario kart releases more at the same price as the first double pack, I'll be there day 1 though.
Re: Shenmue 3 Could Happen Via A Kickstarter Campaign, Says Creator Yu Suzuki
No, it couldn't happen via kickstarter. There is no way they could EVER raise nearly enough money, the dream cast game alone cost 20 million dollars. And of course a current gen game would cost more.
And only 59 kickstarters have ever got over $1million, let alone 20.
Whats with all the blatant clickbait articles nintendolife
Re: TwitchPlaysPokémon Conquers Pokémon Red
@Pichubby
They're doing gen 2 next. Which one of Gold/silver/crystal is anyone guess for now.
Re: Video: What Could Super Mario Galaxy Look Like In HD?
"What could it look like" vs "what will it look like if it happens" are two very different things.
1) is what we've been seeing for years on dolphin, and is glorious. 2) is the nintendo approach where they put BLOOM EVERYWHERE for no reason (thanks WWHD).
Re: GBA Titles Super Mario Ball And Pac-Man Collection Rated By Australian Classification Board
When Nintendo has GBA and DS games on the 3DS eshop, I'll care enough to give them some more of my money.
I'm not buying a single GBA or DS game on wii u though (And yes, I already have a wii u)
Re: Zero Escape Series Creator Considering New Options for Possible Third Game
@Knux
He actually said a few days ago that kickstarter probably won't work. Presumably VLR cost a ridiculous amount of money. Very few games hit more than a few 100k, which, with VLRs full voice acting, models, 30+hour single player and excellent OST almost certainly cost more.
I hope it happens someday though.
Re: Rumour: 2015 Sonic Title To Hit Wii U Alongside PS4 and Xbox One
"Sonic Adventure 3" already happened, twice. They called them "Sonic heroes" and then "Sonic the hedgehog" (a.k.a Sonic 06).
They were both horrible games (just like the originals are by todays standards, they aged terribly).
The only sequels sega should be considering even slightly are "Sonic Colours 2" or "Sonic Generations 2".
Re: Poll: Have Your Say on Satoru Iwata's Nintendo Strategies
I'd be excited for DS virtual console on wii u, except for the fact that Nintendo has done an absolutely terrible job with Virtual Console on both the 3DS and Wii U.
At the absolute very best, we get a slightly better slow trickle of games. At worst, this means we get even fewer SNES games. (And we're unlikely to get many of the games I really want, like pokemon/ the world ends with you)
Re: Preview: Japanese Gamers Get Their Free Super Mario Bros. Deluxe Download
@ikki5
Yeah.
We can get free wii points. At the low low price of 4000 stars, i.e. 16 full wii u games/20 full 3ds games, you can get 1000 wii points, i.e. enough for a single N64 game, and they only apply to wii vc or wiiware games. Nothing on 3ds.
Whereas you can get 70 or so coins if you do all the extra things per game, and the downloads cost 150-200 coins, i.e. somewhere between 2 and 3 games.
It's not even close to equal.
Re: Fresh 2013 UK Hardware Sales Figures Keep 3DS on Top, While Wii U Sells Less Than Vita
Wow, that's enough spin to keep the galaxy orbitting.
A 40% increase yoy for the wii u is absolutely terrible news, given it was on the market for nearly 12 times as long this year. (It launched on the last day of novermber in 2013 in the uk).
And only a 4% increase for 3ds when they dropped the pokebomb (As well as all the other amazing titles this year) isn't reassuring either,
Re: Feature: Nintendo Games We'd Love to See in 2014
Wow, Metroid Prime IV is winning the "favourite from this list" poll at the moment.
Shame it's not going to happen in 2014. Retro took 2 years to put out metroid prime 2 and that was when they already had everything left over from Metroid prime 1 ready to speed up development.
They can't possibly made a Metroid prime 4 properly in around a year after finishing DK Tropical freeze. (Though I would dearly love to be wrong)
Re: Nintendo Download: 26th December and 2nd January (Europe)
"3DS Virtual Console
Super Mario Bros. 3 (Nintendo, €3.99 / £3.49 until 2nd January 2014, then £3.49/€4.99) "
I presume this is a mistake and that it should be £2.79 like the wii u version, and not that there is no discount on the 3DS version for UK people.
Re: Nintendo States Its Wii U Case With a Holiday Infographic
All the games that came out this year, and they choose to advertise using the one that failed to sell the wii u last christmas?
Brilliant thinking there Nintendo America...
Re: Poll: As the PS4 Arrives, What Do You Think of the 'New Gen' Environment for Wii U?
@3wdiisu
A no name site, with no source or proof is your argument?
Lol. So anyone who can make a webpage and put stuff on it is automatically telling the truth. Yeah, no. Show a big site or an interview with a sony employee where they said it, because that is trolling, pulled right out of the arse of that webpage maker to get hits.
@darkgamer001
Sony announced a ton of stuff long before Microsoft. For those with short memories, they absolutely blindsided Microsoft with the PS4 announcements months before microsoft had anything to say about the xbone. At the time, they said that the strategy they were going to take would be the "one that does right by gamers", or something along those lines. I find it very hard to imagine translating that into restrictive DRM.
@ LDXD
Then explain why people aren't buying the Wii U. Either you think Nintendo games have gotten significantly less desirable (i.e. worse), or they have competition. Pick one. Or give a valid third option, but that would contradict what you're already saying.
Re: Poll: As the PS4 Arrives, What Do You Think of the 'New Gen' Environment for Wii U?
@3wdiisu
You're making stuff up. Please don't. You can't prove that sony ever intended to have the DRM BS
Re: Poll: As the PS4 Arrives, What Do You Think of the 'New Gen' Environment for Wii U?
@ LDXD
People are buying PS3/4, Xbox 360/ones and smartphones/tablets instead of Nintendo consoles. Therefore Nintendo has competition.
Unless you're suggesting the reason Nintendo sales have fallen through the floor (And are nearly coming out the other side of the planet...) is because Nintendo games have gotten worse, hence no-one wanting to buy them?
Re: Poll: As the PS4 Arrives, What Do You Think of the 'New Gen' Environment for Wii U?
Well, sony has officially sold more PS4s in a single day just in North America than nintendo has wii u worldwide this entire year.
That about says it all really on how this is going to go down.
If they have the stock, it's quite possible Sony outsells the Wii U by the end of the year
Re: Pokémon Bank Pricing Emerges For Europe
I'm not happy with any pricing over £0 for transferring pokemon. They had better give a 30 day free trial with every new pokemon game that comes out if they do intend this to permanently replace in game generation transfers.
And £4.50 is too much for such a meager amount of storage, but whatever. A fool and his money and all that.
Re: Poll: As the PS4 Arrives, What Do You Think of the 'New Gen' Environment for Wii U?
All I'm going to say is, if the PS4 doesn't do significantly better than the Wii U is going to, the entire industry is in some serious, serious trouble. If all 3 did about what the wii u is likely to do (say 30m , and that's very generous, since it's more likely to be ~20m) it would mean that roughly 2/3rds of the market just vanished in the course of a single generation.
Re: Rumour: Hacker Unlocks Three New Legendary Pokémon in X & Y
@belmont 3DS has been hacked to some extent on older firmware, all it took was someone without a fully updated 3DS to do it.
Don't think fully updated ones have been cracked yet though.
Re: Shigeru Miyamoto Clarifies That Local Multiplayer is Still the Priority for Mario
@LunaticPandora
I forgot nothing. Wii U is currently doing significantly worse than the gamecube.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4523/61jf.png
At least, those are only US numbers, but it's pretty similar everywhere.
@Einjhar
"But if that is your general situation, you should consider changing it."
I should consider dropping out of getting a successful career because of videogames and nintendo being incompetent? I moved to a new university to begin getting a Ph.D last month and everyone I knew went their separate ways. I would dearly love to play New Super Mario Bros U/2 with my friends, but Nintendo won't let me.
"mario game 3+ times and tell me, if there is any challenge left that would make you say "i need to play that game online again" "
It's a little something called "fun". There is something inately fun in being able to play video games with friends, even if you've played it through before. Yes. I would like to "play that game online again" if I was doing it with friends. It's the same as sports: I sure as heck didn't give up playing football because "we've done it before 3+ times".
Coincidentally, This is part of the reason I know no-one else who has bought a wii u. They'd have jumped on it if that meant they could continue to play multiplayer games over the internet, but nintendo is still stuck in the early 90's in regard to the super scary internets.
Re: Shigeru Miyamoto Clarifies That Local Multiplayer is Still the Priority for Mario
@Einherjar That's not a fact, that is something you just made up on the spot.
You must be moderately young still, as real life clearly hasn't hit you yet with the reality that everyone has responsibilities that mean they will eventually be forced to move away from people that they would like to play games with.
I know tens, maybe even a hundred + people I have met that I would LOE to be able to play Mario Multiplayer with. But almost all of them live hundreds of miles away now.
If you really think that "Onlne MP degraded itself to foul mouthing, smack talking, and elitist sub groups and is in no way compareable to a local MP round." I can only presume that your friends don't have an internet connection? Otherwise, either you and your friends are already in one of those groups, or you are wrong.
(Hint, it's probably the fact that you are a short sighted fool, like the people at nintendo making these decisions).
@Jared1984
"They'll buy it anyway".
Right, that's exactly why wii u is currently on track to being the biggest failure of a console launch outside of the virtual boy that Nintendo has ever had.
Re: The Wonderful 101 Update Now Available To Download
@WiiUexposed
There isn't. Wii U updates happen by checking which games you've played on the system. I wouldn't worry about it though, just start playing it normally and the wii u will download the update in the background on its own.