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It looks like they're trying a bit too hard with the character designs. Superman doesn't need armored padding on his costume, and I agree with @Retro_on_theGo that Joker looks more like Sweet Tooth than anything.

Meh, they're just going for that gritty look I guess. It is made by NetherRealm after all. I hope it's at least just as decent as the Mortal Kombat reboot was.

Wii Channels were one of the most missed areas of potential in that little system. It's too bad Nintendo didn't actively update them, or add any more.

"Content will be revealed and available shortly after the game's release."

Urgh.

He's right about people buying it because they played it at someone's house and thought it was fun enough to warrant buying one, but that's just the thing; the experience of playing Wii was enough to sell them on it.

Where Gears of War on the other hand relies on hype and power of suggestion to sell it. I've played Gears before, but never understood what the hype was all about.

Everything feels the same to me. If there are any improvements it's not enough to make a noticeable impact.

I'm sorry, but there's a show with judges like American Idol but for video games? What!? That's hilarious.

The game looks alright I guess.

Don't retailers usually just put the 30th of whatever month the game is supposed to come out in, when they don't know exactly when it will be? Maybe it's just a tentative listing.

So basically you're admitting that Nintendo gamers are too smart to buy your crappy games?

Is this like a really late April Fools joke or something?

I'd prefer a complete redesign with a lithium-ion battery built in. That way they could make the back more slim, making it feel even to hold sideways.

He is right about mostly every point he makes, but I do think he is too extreme in assuming. If Nintendo made a blunder by waiting too long for online multiplayer, for example, he says they would be gone "forever" if they left the console business because of it. That's a bit of a stretch, as there are many more advantages that Nintendo can offer other than online multiplayer, that people still want. like innovative controllers and software. Just because Pachter doesn't "get" the GamePad, doesn't mean everyone else doesn't.

I'm glad to see that he spared the time to do this interview, and happy that Nintendo Life did it. I don't hate this guy, as that would be stupid because at the end of the day it's just video games and he's just doing his job, but I still think that even though he's right, he's just a bit too "extreme" in his assumptions to sound realistic and "rational" to investors, while what he is saying is actually unrealistic.

I bet Iwata is getting backhanded as we speak.

So now it's not just current multiplatform games that aren't being released alongside Wii U, but it's actually games that were already announced for it that are being held back too?

There is no hope for thrid-party support on Wii U.

It's because it's an MMO.

I think they just forgot.

I think the 64DD format was a step in the right direction. It seems to me like it was a middle ground between cartridges and CD's, in terms of cost vs. durability. I think it's unfortunate that CD's had to become the standard, and only did because of corporations wanting to cut as many costs as possible. If you think about it, we as consumers don't benefit much from CD's, considering how fragile the discs themselves are, never mind how clunky and precious the drives are too. CD's are obsolete garbage in my opinion, and it's a wonder we still use them today.

It's really quite sad that developers aren't taking the Wii U seriously. Nintendo went out of their way to give them what they need, and they're just sitting there laughing at them. I think the reason there was only one or two first-party games at launch, was because Nintendo was giving the third-parties the red carpet.

I can't help but think back to E3 2011 when the Wii U was unveiled, we saw people like Ken Levine praising the system, yet here we are and there's no BioShock Infinite on Wii U. Developers are completely snubbing the system, and I'm personally starting to wonder if it's simply because it's Nintendo, therefore they don't see it worthy of taking seriously, for whatever reason.

Sounds like these guys are getting a bit ahead of themselves.

Well conceived April Fools joke! Haha

With the way things are going, I don't think this really matters. Developers aren't even putting their current-gen games on Wii U, so what makes us think they'll bother scaling down their next-gen games for it?

That seems like a rather short-sighted way to deal with it. If you keep giving everyone Assassin's Creed games, constantly, it will burn them out and kill off demand. If you want a franchise to last, you have to give players bit by bit. Instead of capitalizing on the demand right now and running it to the ground, pace it out and take time making each game that much better, building a loyal fan base over time.

Assassin's Creed is going to become another Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Guitar Hero, or Call of Duty, and will become generally forgotten.

I think all the ex-Rare staff should seriously get together and start a new company, and work for Nintendo again. It's actually not impossible if you think about it, or even that unlikely. Maybe (just maybe) some of them will see this and spread the word.

One can hope.

I still think it's going to be browser based. I know Nintendo said they're developing an "app" for Smartphones, but they could be calling it that even though it isn't technically an app. From what I've seen, they like to take the cheapest way to do things, and that would be to make it browser based so that it's accessible from any device that has a web browser, even the 3DS.

I hope I'm wrong through, I'd like to see Miiverse fully integrated into the 3DS rather than using the web browser.

Well the Wii U isn't next-gen graphics, so there's no surprise here. I'm sure they could make like an Unreal Engine 3.5 to scale down their Unreal Engine 4 games just for the Wii U, but I highly doubt they would invest in such a thing.

Nintendo made the decision to stay behind in graphics for another generation, this is what's going to happen.

I really want to try this game. It's hard to justify any 'realistic' racing game after being spoiled by the Forza games. Hopefully there will be a demo someday.

I'm not sure what I'll be playing, I don't really have anything on the go at the moment. I'm currently waiting for Diddy Kong Racing, Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer, Duke Nukem 64 and Mega Man 8 to arrive in the mail. Once those get here, it's going to be classic gaming for awhile! But this weekend I might try forcing my way through New Super Mario Bros. 2 on the 3DS, which I'm not enjoying nearly as much as New SMB U, unfortunately. Also, while not game related, I just bought The Hobbit on Blu-Ray and haven't seen it yet, so I'll be getting around to watching that for sure. Have a good Easter weekend, everyone!

Exactly.

Edit: But it wouldn't hurt.

I think Nintendo went vastly out of their way to cater to third-party developers. The blame is on third-parties, and gamers. Third-parties have personal grudges against Nintendo, or fear that putting their games on Nintendo's systems will somehow hurt their credibility because it's seen as the "kiddie" platform. Gamers constantly want new games rather than enjoying the ones they already have, a vicious cycle of consumerism that is spiraling out of control, making it easy for companies to milk franchises.

There are games on the Wii U, Nintendo has done their part to cater to developers, now it's all on the third-parties. I do think Nintendo gamers need to be better at voting with their wallets, though. They need to stop being all talk, and actually support the games they keep asking for, don't shy away once it actually comes out (Operation Rainfall for example).

Visually this looks pretty amazing, but I'm not a huge fan of endless runners. They seem like an easy way to make a platformer by using touch screen controls, not having too many inputs cluttering up the screen, which is great, but I like traditional level design styles where the levels become part of your muscle memory.

But that's just me, I'm sure there are lots of people who like endless runners, and this game looks fantastic in that regard. I hope it reaches it's goal so it can be fully realized.

Camera controls look a little awkward. The game reminds me a lot of Silent Hill.

I wonder if he finds the Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time era to be the funnest because that was the last time he was involved as a Director, and being more hands on with the development of games.

Haha, that's awesome, there's a cheat code to fix the issues caused by the update.

There's not much to say other than times are changing. Simply put, the quality of Square Enix's games isn't as high as it used to be, therefore they are doing worse financially. I see this is as a typical case of 'not the same people involved' in making Final Fantasy, or other iconic Square games that were once top-notch. Such is the case with Capcom and Mega Man, or Sega and Sonic.

Nintendo works pretty hard to cater to indie developers, I'd imagine what this guy is saying would be kind of offensive to Nintendo. What makes him think his game is so special that Nintendo should be the ones to have to pay for everything? This is the thing I can't stand about Phil Fish, it's that he's such a pretentious Hipster b*tch.

Oh cool, you get to stab sharks in this one. Stab, stab, stab. Stabby, stab, stab. They should make an "Assassin's Creed on Ice" where the figure skaters dance around like an Assassin while stabbing every living thing in sight.

Crazed fanboy loads up his rifle, straps on his grenades and headband, hops on Twitter: "Who's idea was it to make Bayonetta a Wii U exclusive ?"

I think it would be cool to see a sequel to Moon, but on the other hand I want to look forward to Cult County, because if it's just as good, I'd like to see it go somewhere.

That's BS that just anyone can make emulators for Nintendo's systems and put them into products being sold on store shelves, and get away with it. This jeopardizes Nintendo's business stance with Virtual Console, and there's nothing they can do about it? Man, nice legal system.

People can say all they want about open-source vs. closed-source, but I'm calling it right now, an open-source console will cause a crash in the video game industry. An overwhelming selection of junk games caused it to crash in 1983, history will repeat itself 30 years later once this console comes out, and there's nothing but a surge of junk games made by anonymous people in their mom's basements. Just look at the Google Play store to see what I'm talking about. "Oh man, I can't wait to pre-order Weed Farmer 2 on the Ouya!" or "When I get home, I'm gonna download some Undress Hot Babez 16 on my Ouya."

"Sorry guys, but the only plans we have is keeping the 3DS version completely obsolete so that you buy the HD version."

If the original game didn't have multiplayer, and this is a "remastered" version of the original, then I don't see any reason to add something that wasn't in the original. Perhaps the game isn't designed to work with multiplayer, why screw it up?

2D platformers always pique my interest, but I'll wait to read a review here on Nintendo Life first, before considering buying it. This one looks cool, though.

There's always such thing as Evergreen sales for those titles that get missed in the fray. It seems that video games nowadays only sell for the first week or two they are released, rather than over the entire year.

I'd probably be all over that.

I don't really know enough about this game to get interested in it. Last I heard it was getting unfavorable reviews all over the place, and that the Wii U version was turning out to be the worst. If I knew what was wrong with it, and if there were any possibility of Demiurge actually fixing up the problems of the original release, to make the Wii U version good, then I might be interested.

I loved playing this game when I was a kid! I actually forgot the name of it. It's too bad the Virtual Console is dead and being restarted on Wii U, I would have loved to see this game get re-released on there.

Chip n' Dale is the one I remember most. I'd love to see it remastered.

Now this could be creepy. I really enjoyed Moon, so hopefully this game will be just as good, if not better. I'm intrigued, Renegade Kid, looking forward to seeing more.

I'm still plowing through New Super Mario Bros. U, surprisingly. I plan to finish collecting the Star Coins this weekend, and if I have time I might go back and finish New Super Mario Bros. 2 on 3DS. Been on a bit of a New SMB kick lately.

Game of the Year.

So now they're just simply saying no. If this is the attitude that third-party publishers are having, then I could see the Wii U easily becoming the GameCube all over again. It practically is, already.

Here we go again folks, another 5 or 6 years of being trickle fed the odd first-party Nintendo game.