Last time I saw something like this was when the Wii U Fatal Frame (which was digital only) failed to make into the NA eShop's top sellers for its launch week.
This is the only way it makes sense to release the platforms. No one is going to buy both the handheld and console if they released simultaneously, especially if they're gonna play the same games. 3DS is older, so it gets replaced first, then Wii U a year later. The handheld will have a much easier time selling since it has virtually no competition and Nintendo always dominated the market. Selling the console will be much harder, so releasing it first could poison the handheld's chances if it underperformed. Either way, the games will be the same, so as long as one of them is successful, the other platform is also guaranteed to have a constant stream of new games.
The only things VC needs are slightly lower prices, more releases (of games people actually care about, hopefully) and GC games in the future. Also, where's the Pokemon games on Virtual Console, Nintendo? If trading is the problem, just make them into 3D Classics with local wireless connection.
@JaxonH 3G and 3U are the same game, I think you meant to say MH3G/3U, MH4 and MH4G/4U. The PSP had MH Freedom, MH Freedom 2, MH Freedom Unite and MH Portable 3rd. There's no reason they can't release MH5 and MH5G/5U on 3DS (or New 3DS). Capcom needs all the money they can get, and just quickly making another MH game is a riskless move that's guaranteed to bring a lot of money. Not to mention that the 3DS is the cheapest platform they could choose to develop for, and we all know they don't like to spend too much on MH, despite it being such a huge cash cow for them.
The biggest issue with the Other M platform heels was the fact that they clearly wouldn't fit inside the boots of the Power Suit. This design takes that even further, there's no way any of that would fit inside the armor. Not to mention that it does not look futuristic at all. The Zero Suit design is fine as long as you use the original design from Metroid Zero Mission (which even has concept art specifically warning not too make the heels too big).
It makes no sense to go back to the Vita at this point, it's a dead platform. If you were talking about MH choosing between the successors of the current handhelds you would have a point. I'm not expecting Capcom to hold out for almost two years until the NX comes out, so Monster Hunter 5 will probably be a New 3DS exclusive. Wouldn't be that weird to have two generations on the same platform, they did release Monster Hunter games covering three generations on the PSP, after all.
No. Super Metroid doesn't need a remake, the game hasn't aged poorly at all. Metroid 2 is the one that needs to be remade, that game is borderline unplayable for anyone that didn't play it back then, or masochists. Seriously, it's a Metroid game with no map. In black and white.
She looks so much better on the 3DS version without that metallic sheen on her suit and hair. Much more like what the Zero Suit is actually supposed to look like.
SNES Remix, GBC Remix, GBA Remix, N64 Remix... I want them all! I'm also up for a NES Remix 3 if it has the most famous third party games, like Mega Man, Contra, Castlevania...
They sure must feel smart for dumping all that MH4 money on mobile right now. I wish I could say I believed underperforming mobile titles would make these companies stop ruining their franchises with awful mobile games, but that would be too good. More likely that they'll find some stupid reason to invest even more money in it.
Sad to see that they haven't shown any interest in having VC multiplayer. I really don't see how that wouldn't be a good thing for them, considering how huge the Pokemon franchise is.
Sounds like he might pull a Keiji Inafune in the future, I like that a lot. A spiritual successor to the 2D Castlevanias would be great in these days where both "Metroid" and "vania" seem to be missing from the genre they defined.
I really hope the future of Monster Hunter in the west has nothing to do with how this game performs, and I'm a little afraid of the negative impact this game might cause on someone who never played any other Monster Hunter game.
So this isn't an HD version? And it doesn't even have new stages? I like Wayforward, but this is really stupid, I don't even see the point of this being on Wii U.
A green Wii U would've been a sure buy for me, but a black one with white scribbles? Not so much. Don't see much point in getting this, unless it costs $350.
That game looked less like Metroid Prime and more like Bomberman Act Zero. A dark and edgy generic FPS with "Mega Man" in the title is not what I want.
It wouldn't work for a Fire Emblem game, but I'd be interested in a game with a similar gameplay but with something like a Cyberpunk theme. Hackers instead of thieves, riding hoverbikes instead of horses, a guy in a huge mech suit instead of a knight...
I don't want the 3DS to suffer from piracy and the players to suffer from hackers, but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be happy if they found a way to disable the region lock.
Saw this coming a mile away. Looks like a 360 controller with a D-Pad that doesn't suck. Hopefully now I can stop using the 360 controller on PC games.
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Re: Metroid Prime: Federation Force Power Bombs in Japan
Last time I saw something like this was when the Wii U Fatal Frame (which was digital only) failed to make into the NA eShop's top sellers for its launch week.
Re: Poll: The Nintendo NX - Where Do You Stand on the Future of Nintendo?
Overpriced handheld that can also be used as a crappy console? No.
Re: Paper Mario and New Style Boutique Discounts Arrive on My Nintendo in Europe
I wouldn't play Sticker Star again even if they payed me $40. That game is a fun vampire.
Re: Next Year's Mega Man Cartoon Looks Certain To Maintain Proud Tradition Of Annoying Fans
So now Mega Man has reached an all time low by making even Mighty No. 9 look good.
Re: Yo-kai Watch 3 Coming To Nintendo 3DS In Two Fishy Flavours
Wait, I though this game was supposed to be set in America?
Re: Art: If Nintendo Ever Took Zelda Into The Future, We'd Want Link To Look Like This
I'd rather they make a sister franchise to Zelda, sharing a lot of the base gameplay design but with a futuristic setting instead.
Re: Street Fighter Producer Yoshinori Ono Would Love To See Nintendo Vs. Capcom
I really can't believe this hasn't happened already, they're sitting on a goldmine.
Re: Future Of Project Giant Robot Is Still Up In The Air, Says Miyamoto
That's a shame, it looked like a fun silly game to play with friends.
Re: Macquarie Report Believes a Competitively-Priced Portable NX Could Land This Year, 'Console Partner Device' in 2017
This is the only way it makes sense to release the platforms. No one is going to buy both the handheld and console if they released simultaneously, especially if they're gonna play the same games. 3DS is older, so it gets replaced first, then Wii U a year later.
The handheld will have a much easier time selling since it has virtually no competition and Nintendo always dominated the market. Selling the console will be much harder, so releasing it first could poison the handheld's chances if it underperformed.
Either way, the games will be the same, so as long as one of them is successful, the other platform is also guaranteed to have a constant stream of new games.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Legacy Makes The Virtual Console Essential, But It Must Modernise
The only things VC needs are slightly lower prices, more releases (of games people actually care about, hopefully) and GC games in the future.
Also, where's the Pokemon games on Virtual Console, Nintendo? If trading is the problem, just make them into 3D Classics with local wireless connection.
Re: Analyst Thinks Nintendo Is Already Winding Down Wii U Ahead Of Nintendo NX Launch
So there are still people who don't realize the NX is a handheld?
Re: Poll: Which Characters Do You Want to Win the Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot?
Shame on you for not putting my top 2, Bomberman and Simon Belmont, on this list.
Re: Capcom's Gearing Up For a Major Monster Hunter Event on 31st May
@JaxonH 3G and 3U are the same game, I think you meant to say MH3G/3U, MH4 and MH4G/4U.
The PSP had MH Freedom, MH Freedom 2, MH Freedom Unite and MH Portable 3rd. There's no reason they can't release MH5 and MH5G/5U on 3DS (or New 3DS).
Capcom needs all the money they can get, and just quickly making another MH game is a riskless move that's guaranteed to bring a lot of money. Not to mention that the 3DS is the cheapest platform they could choose to develop for, and we all know they don't like to spend too much on MH, despite it being such a huge cash cow for them.
Re: Gallery: These Artistic Recreations of Women Characters Set a Different Tone
The biggest issue with the Other M platform heels was the fact that they clearly wouldn't fit inside the boots of the Power Suit. This design takes that even further, there's no way any of that would fit inside the armor. Not to mention that it does not look futuristic at all.
The Zero Suit design is fine as long as you use the original design from Metroid Zero Mission (which even has concept art specifically warning not too make the heels too big).
Re: Capcom's Gearing Up For a Major Monster Hunter Event on 31st May
It makes no sense to go back to the Vita at this point, it's a dead platform. If you were talking about MH choosing between the successors of the current handhelds you would have a point.
I'm not expecting Capcom to hold out for almost two years until the NX comes out, so Monster Hunter 5 will probably be a New 3DS exclusive. Wouldn't be that weird to have two generations on the same platform, they did release Monster Hunter games covering three generations on the PSP, after all.
Re: Remake Request: Super Metroid 3D on Nintendo 3DS
No. Super Metroid doesn't need a remake, the game hasn't aged poorly at all.
Metroid 2 is the one that needs to be remade, that game is borderline unplayable for anyone that didn't play it back then, or masochists. Seriously, it's a Metroid game with no map. In black and white.
Re: New Nintendo 3DS Models Announced
Dem Super Famicom color coded buttons!
So glad I didn't buy an XL already.
Re: This Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Box Art May Get Its Claws Into You
Boy that looks awful. Looks like something I'd make in Photoshop, and I don't know anything about Photoshop.
Re: Steel Empire Blasting A Path To The North American 3DS eShop Next Week
$30? That's twice the highest amount I'd be willing to pay for this game.
Re: Eiji Aonuma Hints at The Legend of Zelda on Wii U Being "More Than Just a Single-Player Experience"
Calling it now, the next Zelda will have co-op with the Player 2 character being either Zelda, Impa, or a new version of Aryll.
Re: Weirdness: This Walmart Employee Got a Little Confused by a Mario Kart 8 Poster
Coming soon to the ∩ !!M.
Re: Ubisoft Reconfirms Watch Dogs For Fall 2014 Release On Wii U
Can't wait to not get this until it quickly loses value and starts going for $15 on Amazon!
Re: Rumour: Nintendo Will Reveal New Hardware At This Year's E3
2011: Nintendo 3DS
2012: Nintendo 3DS XL
2013: Nintendo 2DS
Oh jeez, I wonder what they're gonna release in 2014...
Re: Fresh Super Smash Bros. Screens Show Zero Suit Samus in Action
She looks so much better on the 3DS version without that metallic sheen on her suit and hair.
Much more like what the Zero Suit is actually supposed to look like.
Re: Possibility of SNES Remix and Other Remix Titles Depends on Fan Support
SNES Remix, GBC Remix, GBA Remix, N64 Remix... I want them all!
I'm also up for a NES Remix 3 if it has the most famous third party games, like Mega Man, Contra, Castlevania...
Re: Subtle Character Design Changes Spotted for North American Version of Azure Striker Gunvolt
Covering up his midriff was a good idea, but I liked the blond ponytail, it reminded me of Zero.
Re: Feature: What We Want to See in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Direct
All I want is a bundle with a Wii U disk and a 3DS download code. For less than $100 of course.
Re: Capcom Cuts Profit Projections By Over 50%, Despite "Strong Sales of Monster Hunter 4"
They sure must feel smart for dumping all that MH4 money on mobile right now.
I wish I could say I believed underperforming mobile titles would make these companies stop ruining their franchises with awful mobile games, but that would be too good. More likely that they'll find some stupid reason to invest even more money in it.
Re: Take a Look and be Jealous of This Beautiful Monster Hunter 4 3DS XL
Capcom, seriously, I need this.
Re: Game Boy Advance Games On The Wii U Virtual Console Are Single Player Only
Sad to see that they haven't shown any interest in having VC multiplayer. I really don't see how that wouldn't be a good thing for them, considering how huge the Pokemon franchise is.
Re: Koji Igarashi, Best Known for the Castlevania Series, Departs from Konami
Sounds like he might pull a Keiji Inafune in the future, I like that a lot.
A spiritual successor to the 2D Castlevanias would be great in these days where both "Metroid" and "vania" seem to be missing from the genre they defined.
Re: North American Retailers List Limited Edition Yoshi 3DS XL
Meh. It should be mainly green, not white.
Re: NES Remix 2 Will Bring Even More 8-Bit Favourites To Your Wii U
"NES Remix 2! Now with only actually good games!"
Looking forward to SNEX Remix, GBC Remix and N64 Remix.
Re: Capcom Reportedly Planning Western Release of Monster Hunter Frontier G
I really hope the future of Monster Hunter in the west has nothing to do with how this game performs, and I'm a little afraid of the negative impact this game might cause on someone who never played any other Monster Hunter game.
Re: Mighty Switch Force! 2 Dousing the North American Wii U eShop This Week
So this isn't an HD version? And it doesn't even have new stages?
I like Wayforward, but this is really stupid, I don't even see the point of this being on Wii U.
Re: Monster Hunter 4 Launch Sales Estimated to be a Series High
Come on Capcom, I know you can release this here 1 year after 3U was released.
Re: Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is Half Price in Europe and North America
Damn, by the time I get my Zelda Wii U the discount will be long gone. D:
Re: Rumour: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Trailer Shows a Special Edition Wii U Design
A green Wii U would've been a sure buy for me, but a black one with white scribbles? Not so much.
Don't see much point in getting this, unless it costs $350.
Re: More Evidence Emerges of a Wind Waker HD Wii U Bundle
It's probably just the black one, but fingers crossed for a green Wii U.
Wind Waker HD + a green Wii U would be the final push for me to get one.
Re: Mega Man FPS "Polarized Opinions" Within Capcom As Well
That game looked less like Metroid Prime and more like Bomberman Act Zero. A dark and edgy generic FPS with "Mega Man" in the title is not what I want.
Re: Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D's Beastly Block Size Revealed
@Fusion14 Say good bye to yours in 10.
Re: Ubisoft: Female Protagonists in Main Assassin's Creed Titles "Wouldn't Be Surprising"
Female protagonist in the present going through the memories of a male ancestor. Or vice-versa.
I'd like to see how they'd handle that.
Re: Fire Emblem: Awakening Was Almost Set On Mars
It wouldn't work for a Fire Emblem game, but I'd be interested in a game with a similar gameplay but with something like a Cyberpunk theme.
Hackers instead of thieves, riding hoverbikes instead of horses, a guy in a huge mech suit instead of a knight...
Re: Behold The Ungodly Union Of The Wii U Pro Controller And SNES Pad
That looks really weird, but I really wish Nintendo would bring back the color-coded buttons.
Re: 3DS XL Represents 'The Progress of Technology'
I want that transparent 3DS so much.
Re: Nintendo Determined to Beat Hackers with Wii U and 3DS
I don't want the 3DS to suffer from piracy and the players to suffer from hackers, but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be happy if they found a way to disable the region lock.
Re: New Super Mario Bros. U is 'Accessible and Intuitive'
People thought it looked like the other NSMB games? Most of what I've seen so far about this game reminded me of Super Mario World.
Re: E3 2012: Wii U Pro Controller Offers More Options
Saw this coming a mile away.
Looks like a 360 controller with a D-Pad that doesn't suck. Hopefully now I can stop using the 360 controller on PC games.
Re: Feature: Games We'd Love to See at E3
Add to that: Wii U Metroid 5, 3DS Metroid 2 remake and a new Pokemon Snap for whatever the Wii U online store will be called.
Re: Miyamoto to Show Wii U Mario at E3
There is no way it is a 2D Mario game, they're already doing one for the 3DS.