MikeLove

As long as we have developers like AE Games creating fantastic software like Mad Men Football for the Wii-U, I'm fine with all other third parties jumping ship.

Do the modders who have advertisements on this website in article form get them for free, or is there some palm greasing going on?

@jakysnakydx

Huh? The PS4 is essentially sold out in Japan, the PS4 is still hard to find in US stores, and in 3 months it's sold as many consoles as the Wii-U has in 14 months. So yes, the PS4 has been 'dominating' the Wii-U so far.

@withoutdk

Nope.

Sold out their Japanese launch and in the next couple weeks it should surpass worldwide sales of the Wii-U if it hasn't done so already.

If anything, it's looking like it will be the top system this time around.

If some fool says that the Wii-U doesn't have third party games, just say to them 'Oh ya buddy?! It's got 12 Lego games!!'

That will shut em up!

@dumedum

There were only around 300K PS4's released at launch. Impossible to sell a million when that many weren't even available...

@Wolfgabe

Pointing out that the PS4 has sold out and is in such high demand that people are reselling unopened consoles for a profit online is not evidence of "buyers remorse".

@Wolfgabe

Hahaha! Grasping at straws!

I love music and can't go a single day without listening to it, but I can honesty say I would never find myself in a situation where I would want to listen to videogame music.

Driving around in a car on a hot summer day with the Hyrule Overworld theme blasting? No thanks.

@swampertdude

If your wife Peggy has any headaches, send her to me so I can 'heal' her

_{If you don't like someone here, please ignore them. Insults will not be tolerated — TBD}

@Unca_Lz

Exactly! Like 3D Mario, Mario Kart, DKC, 2D Mario, Wii Sports, Smash Bros...the same stuff over and over! It's killing the industry!

@kuribo4

I guess it was just a coincidence that the three most easily hacked consoles (Wii, DS, PS2) are also the highest selling of all time?

@the_shpydar

Sounds like the Wii-U gamepad

@HopeNForever

@Cyberbotv2

"Gaming is strictly a hobby for me. To get too enveloped in this is actually sort of embarrassing"

I hate to break it to you, but if you are on an online forum sharing your opinion on "vidya games", especially in a pompous and condecending manner, you are clearly "enveloped" in it and it's no longer a hobby.

We welcome you. Step forward into the darkness....

@shigulicious

"Slow season" shouldn't affect a major franchise release on the Wii-U, as there hasn't really been a lot of games coming out on it lately. If it opened at only 35,000 copies sold (+ unknown # of digital) its highly unlikely it will go on to see any higher than that number in the following weeks. Thats awful.

@Tsusasi

So if you don't consider DKC a "AAA" title, then would you not have to agree that it means the actual Wii-U "drought" between AAA games is now the gap between SM3DW and MK8? 6-7 months?

Sounds great!!!

@Tsusasi

"We also know the Wii U's situation. I hate the drum beat of doom... especially when played on a dead horse or taken out of proper context."

The "proper context" of Nintendo's last major Wii-U release until May 30th launching with abysmal sales numbers in Japan?

@ThomasBW84

I think there is an even balance of good/negative news on this site, but it's just that, for the Wii-U at least, the negatives are FAR more significant than the positives.

When the Wii-U does something well it's slightly above average, but when it does badly, it's spectacularly so.

@Tsusasi

"NINTENDO IS DOING GREAT!!! NINTENDO IS DOING GREAT!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!"

@rjejr

"I think its karmic payback for all the Nintendo fans mocking the endless parade of similar FPS games on the other consoles."

Exactly. Third DKC game released since late 2010. Platforming titles like this have a niche audience now, and three similar looking releases (one being an identical re-release) like this don't excite anyone other than the most ardent Nintendo fans.

@Tsusasi

If thats true, why does Nintendo even bother making new games? Just sell a $300 console that plays only 8 and 16-bit games! It would sell like hotcakes, right?!!

If you polled all Wii-U owners and asked them whether they would rather have a new retail title, or a GBA game, what do you think would be the most popular answer?? New release titles are what get people to buy the system and want to invest their money. VC releases should compliment a steady stream of new software, not be a replacement for it.

@Tsusasi

"There's also NES Remix 2 in April, as well as Virtual console releases include a few amazing Gameboy Advance games. What I'm saying is that the notion of a drought is a whiney, ridiculous, cry-baby, first-world, entitled whack-job view-point."

You know what else is a whack-job point of view? Believing that people spent $300+ on a new Nintendo console so they could repurchase games that are 12-25 years old.

Who exactly is this marketed to? Adults won't buy it, and if a kid has enough cash to pick it up, they would likely buy something more professional looking that they could use for years to come.

Even if it's a high quality bag, it looks too corny for more than a handful of people to want to own/use.

@JaxonH

"I'm glad I'm one of the millions who knows how great of a game this is going to be, and knows better than to think this game is "average" or "fair""

There, that sounds more reasonable then. Carry on.

@JaxonH

You are acting like you are one of a handful of people who anticipated this game to be good, when pretty much everyone expected it to be great (whether of not they want to play it or not). You have the same opinion as most people, but then try to pass yours off like you made some bold prediction haha.

@JaxonH

"I'm glad I'm one of the few who knows how great of a game this is going to be, and knows better than to think this game is "average" or "fair"

@Klimbatize

Good luck, but I must decline your offer as I have already opened my own development studio. It's called "Well Behaved Puppy" and my first game is a third person action adventure game called 'Fully Documented'

No need to panic people. AE will be releasing Mad Men Football very soon, and that will move a lot of systems.

@hcfwesker

Of course. Nintendo wouldn't want to be associated with a "game" that only "exists" to mock EA and Madden football. It's a weak online parody, thats all.

@Klimbatize

I'm with you. The amount of people acting enthusiastic about this "game" on here is mind boggling. It's not only a HORRIBLE idea, but the fact it seems to just "exist" as a parody of EA's Madden is proof it will never see the light of day (never mind the fact the guy doesn't have a Wii-U dev kit).

How did this story get past the editor?? Oh wait....it was posted by the editor...

@MrGawain

"I think the belief both systems selling 10m in the first year by some fans is vastly deluded"

They will be a hell of a lot closer to that number than the Wii-U achieved when people predicted a similar number for it.

@Swiket

I glued some blood diamonds to my gamepad to jazz it up a little bit

One of my most anticipated games!

But I'm not a fan of the customizing your gear to boost stats. I don't want to have to wear a goofy yellow banana hat or something like that to boost a stat that I desire.

@JacketsNest101

X winning 'Game of the Year'??

I doubt very much that a niche JRPG that will sell under a million copies will ever receive that accolade. Let alone in 2014...I bet its not releasing this year.

VERY underwhelming Direct. A bunch of eShop junk nobody asked for (THOSE were the Level 5 games!?), nice to get a bit more info on Mario Golf, and then a little bit more info and new trailers for a bunch of games we knew about YEARS ago.

E3 can't come fast enough!

It's because all those other platforms have tons of better games to play, and Nintendo consoles go long stretches with nothing. No surprise a $5-9 dollar game sold more copies on a system that has 5 month game droughts.

You know its a slow news day when there is a story posted about a development studio who may or may not exist, talking about releasing software that may or may not exist.

@Kuksenkov

By the time this game releases, it will be almost 10 months since GTA5 came out. Its painfully obvious the game wasn't anywhere close to being finished by that point in time, so I doubt VERY much that the release of GTA5 had anything to do with the delay. A couple of months? Probably. Nearly a year? No way. The game still needed A LOT of work evidently.

2% of UbiSofts sales come from the Wii-U, yet people STILL want to believe that Watch_Dogs will be released on the console, several months after it hits the others???

Gimme a break

@boynerdrambling

Good points. UbiSoft has never really impressed me much with their games (they are usually very buggy) and it seems like they may have bit off more than they could chew with this one. The hype when this game debuted a couple years ago was HUGE and since then there has been barely a trickle of information.

@Sean_Aaron

So UbiSoft, in a reactionary response to Nintendo announcing MK8 is coming in May, has "shut down" development on the Wii-U version of the game and diverted all man power to the PS3/PS4/Xbox/360 teams so they can avoid releasing Watch_Dogs around the same time?!

"I think people need to look at this rationally..."

Why are so many people believing that Ubisoft has invested a ton of time into the Wii-U version? How many times has this happened before (in the Wii-U's short history) where a developer claims the Wii-U version will be the "best" and "definitive" version, only too see that its a crappy port on release? For all anyone knows, Ubisoft could have stopped work on the Wii-U version 4 or 5 months ago,if not longer, meaning that by the time the final game is released around June, that the Wii-U version is 10+ months behind the others?

If UbiSoft cancels the Wii-U version now (they are just using the term "delayed" to be diplomatic) they will save more money than they would earn if they finished work on the game and released it months after the other versions, to awful sales.

@Discostew

Microsoft has a rule that a game must be released on Xbox at the same time as other consoles, or else they won't allow it on their system. If Rayman came out on Wii-U and PS3 first, they couldn't put it on the 360 after that. Nintendo doesn't have such a publishing clause (or the power to enforce one) so UbiSoft doesn't have to worry.

Not that it will be released on the Wii-U anyway.

Really? All these guys do is just re-release/remake/tweak the same game over and over again.

The character models look too creepy

Hahaha wow, this looks horrible. The animation is stiff, and there doesn't seem to be an original thought in the minds of the developers. Aren't these guys embarrassed to ripoff Metroid this much? The look of the character, the power ups, level design, music, the abilities, the way the level starts with the space craft landing?

@OptometristLime

Ok fine, it's a Halo/Destiny/Killzone dudebro clone

"Another brown, dudebro brocore shooter?! No thanks!!"

^ What would be said if this was a Sony/Microsoft game

I take comfort in that fact that everytime someone gets upset or calls me wrong for saying the gamepad was a bad idea, I can look over my shoulder and see 95 million former Wii owners who (so far) agree with me.