lol, Nintendo. Last time we sprang for the whole 'secretive genius' act. This time around we know that when you're not saying much - it's simply because you don't have much to say. Talk is cheap and none is cheaper than that of a Nintendo exec. They'll say anything to tide people over until the next shareholder meeting. Remember the big thing about 'QOL'? lol.
"A larger impact than the WiiU but not a pure replacement", huh? That was sarcasm, right? A larger impact than the WiiU is really aiming high, lol
I dunno, but the vibe I'm getting from Nintendo so far is that the NX is another clueless blunder. That they don't clearly set it apart from the disaster that was the WiiU says it all really. The haven't learned a thing.
No third parties either or we would know by now. They're playing the hush card to cover for the lack of interest.
Rest assured that Nintendo will implement it in the most backwards, cost-cutting and cumbersome way while slapping consumers with an imaginary 'cartridge tax', it will he great. Nintendo-Style.
But if they glue some cheap MMC into a plastic enclosure there is indeed less for Nintendo to mess up than if they try anything fancy. The WiiU showed that their product develop department is about as inept as their market research (8GB, no USB3 etc.).
Lol, Nintendo. Do they ever get out? It's really like they have no clue how today's market works. Sometimes I could swear it's parody. No real company would actually do this, right?
Your level sucks so hard we had to delete it. Thanks for contributing, loser.
Basically, they have now officially tried and failed to come up with anything at all to 'show off' the game pad. Even Nintendo doesn't know what it might be good for. Next time they should maybe do that particular research before they launch a product.
I got the combo for EUR 10. Crude and puerile 'sexual' innuendo plus constant T&A ogling camera runs ruin an otherwise good game (She's 'riding' the horse. Get it? Riding. Huh-huh. wink).
Somebody may be able to look past that more easily but I found it just too embarrassing to enjoy the game itself.
What's really going to hurt is when consumers (real ones, not the 'fans' that will buy any nonsense Nintendo puts out and rate it 10/10) weigh in about how much confidence they have in Nintendo delivering more than short term support on their investment. I mean, even ignoring the WiiU, look how Amiboo has predictably turned into nothing more than a quick cash grab. Like the 'gamepad focused' content they announced for the WiiU, they have yet to deliver on the promise of any meaningful use of the things beyond milking their ever-foolish fans for cash. Amiboo remains a gimmick at best. You get more out of any Skylanders figurine.
And where's the talk about the grand strategy of QOL? Dead and gone it seems. Not a word anymore of this alleged cornerstone of the New Nintendo. It was, again, just talk, apparently. And unlike Amiboo they didn't even bother delivering anything at all here so far because it was just for the investors briefing.
Now that the sales numbers on WiiU are hopelessly below even the drastically revised target of last year, I wonder what the next, "I can't say much about it now because it's so great everybody would rip us off, but we are going to totally turn things on their head, blablabla" is going to be this spring.
Great game. Yes, it's too little, too late, but when it's minecraft that's still a metric ton more than anything else has to offer. I'd buy it just to free up my PC from those pesky kids that play minecraft on it forever. But mostly because minecraft.
Thank you Microsoft for bringing this to WiiU in spite of Nintendo's colossal ignorance. Maybe Miamoto can play it now. He might even learn something.
Who would want a WiiU at this point, regardless of price? They completely misjudged the market and it's moved even farther the other direction (even bigger games, VR, even more online). Even Nintendo is just letting the pipeline run out. Just remember this when they want your money for the NX.
Still don't know why I would want any of these. Just like the second screen, they've so far failed to make an even halfway decent case for Amiboo. They're just collector's figures with some minor in-game trinkets. But hey, collect away.
It isn't anybody but Nintendo's burden to offer a compelling business case for their platform. They couldn't, so the invevitable happened. Who can blame them. They're not charities.
This is worse than I would have ever expected. Even their patents are like 10 or 20 years late. It's almost comical. Sleep tracking. Fitness tracking. An alarm clock. That projects on the ceiling.
Here's another one: A Sunrise alarm clock.
Oh, sorry Phillips.
Or wait: A service that aggregates all that information so we can sell it to the health industry.
@Darknyht: Yeah but the WiiU is a dead platform. That was not the case when they asked for funding. When the WiiU bombed that changed everything for any developer that didn't have a dog in the fight already. You can't sink money into something that has no hope of succeeding.
I'm reasonably sure the honest answer is, "we could make it, but it would look a lot worse than any other platform, so nobody would buy it anyway." And I think they're right.
Nothing got 'shoehorned' into PCars later. The game was improved and enhanced to the point where it was no longer feasible on the WiiU. Everybody that can run it is getting a that much better game. That's not shoehorning, that's progress.
If there was a market for a toned down last-gen looking PCars they'd do it. But there isn't, and I wonder how many people claiming broken promises here actually funded it (and then funded it for WiiU alone). Because those are the only ones that get to complain in my book. For everybody else, yeah, WiiU is dead. Wake up and smell the coffee.
@Darknyht: How is it a poor development choice to make a game all it can be and then axe those platforms that can't handle it? Visuals are everything these days and there's no WiiU market for a multiplatform game that relies on visuals, simply because every other platform shows a better game. Add Steam prices and all to the mix and developing for WiiU becomes a suicide mission.
It's a wise choice, even if it's hugely disappointing to those that oddly thought a console with roughly the processing power of a current generation smartphone could handle a game like this. Including the developers.
But I think even Nintendo was surprised by how weak their console really turned out to be as gaming progressed, and now everybody is backpedaling, including Nintendo. Even Xenoblade Chronicles X looks like vintage Skyrim at best. I wouldn't be surprised if they axed that too. Or delayed if for their mystical magic NX (Zelda. "X". "NX". Think about it) to up the hype factor when that gets released. At this point, you can't go wrong. WiiU owners are so thoroughly shafted, what does it matter. Most of us have accepted our fate.
Man, is this even a review? If it's realistic it deserves to be reviewed within that premise.
All I know from this is that the reviewer is a dunce that doesn't like the challenge of flight simulation but would rather play 90s arcade titles because they have no learning curve.
It's Nintendo speak again: They build a car without wheels and tell their fans, "Look! You can drive our without the distraction of movement!! Focus on the essentials!! Here's a figurine to unlock extra lights on the dashboard!! Innovation!!!"
Nintendo is over. This is the last nail. The thing isn't even prototyped and they've already killed it by putting the WiiU 'weak hardware' stamp on it.
But hey, they'd always have in the figurine business.
This is going to be hilariously tragic to watch. And this time I won't be suckered into buying one by Nintendo's empty promises, so it won't even sting.
When you declare your future console won't compete with the power of a current one you're saying you're putting last-gen tech in there.
lol, I can't wait to see what this brilliant idea is. Because they really are the king of innovation. For example, their 'Management by Head-In-The-Sand' approach is making waves far beyond the consumer electronics market.
Just like how as the Titanic sank, the captain continued to enjoy the full support of his crew and there were no efforts to relieve him of his command.
@abe_hikura: Yeah, you lose a little something without the gamepad, but I think it can be adressed. To be honest, it was only the map and inventory manager that I really liked, the scanner was an obvious implementation that surprisingly didn't work as well I would have expected as a gameplay vehicle.
Especially since the screen switched to a generic animation while you used the scanner, you could just as well have had the main screen show the scanning. At some point it even became tedious, because you had to get up off the couch to be able to look everywhere you wanted.
They could gladly have dumped gamepad support as far as I cared if you could have played the regular game with a Wiimote instead. As it was they made it such a core mechanic (at little added value) that they couldn't allow you to play with the Wiimote. They did imlpement it though, because you need a Wiimote in multiplayer.
Another little appreciated feature of ZimbiU is the asymmetric local multiplayer: One player spawns the zombies on the gamepad, the other guy tries to survive. Great fun.
I could care less. It's just another example of Nintendo delivering a lackluster knockoff of something they thought was hip and current, but lucky for them them there are plenty of 'fans' that would basically buy branded cow dung from Nintendo of they could.
It's all about the hype and a quick buck, or we would never, ever be talking of stocking issues. If it was about the gameplay enhancement, they would never be out of stock, because they would be needed to play.
@Ryu_Niiyama Why, have you got a better theory? Other than the fairy godmother that magically prevented Nintendo from offering these games worldwide? Please unterstand?
You do realize that someone has to bear the actual cost in lost revenue from these bundles, right? How high do you think that is for a $10 game as opposed to a $50 game? Does "We love moderately selling $10 indies" make more sense now? It does to me.
The "boring details" are that Nintendo HQ probably only allowed them to go ahead if they paid for it out of the NoA Marketing budget. Thus they needed to constrain it to the US.
Bold step? Come on. They sold other people's games (i.e. indies), low-priced at that, and then region locked the whole thing so it wouldn't get out of hand.
EA put a few blockbusters and a bunch of classics up when they did their first HB. That's a bold step. This is just more leeching off the indies from Nintendo.
I was super excited but it's way overpriced unfortunately. I'll get it when the price comes down. A lot. Or I won't. I'm not sinking that kind of money into the WiiU anymore. I don't understand why they can't price this somewhere where it becomes the game everybody has. It's online multiplayer after all, the more the merrier.
Always good to know they aren't all as dense At Nintendo as one would suspect. But actions speak louder than words. Nintendo has always been good with words.
@electrolite77: I think you're correct but you're also not being fair. They didn't say it couldn't be done, just that it would take a lot of work to downscale, meaning it would cost more but look (even) less good. The implied rhetorical question is, would it sell well enough to justify that work? Obviously not. People have given up on the WiiU for this type of title.
I believe all their statements were made in good faith, it's just that the state of the WiiU is such now that it would be suicidal to stick to those announcements.
Even Nintendo has pretty much dumped the WiiU, why should third-parties run a business risk not even nintendo will?
I'm just amazed that some people don't see that something like CARS is several levels of magnitude more complex, computationally, than anything Nintendo has even tried to put out. Levels of magnitude.
What processing power is left after all the physics calculations just isn't enough to show a competitively good looking game at a competitive framerate. Simple as that.
Nintendo said you don't need power. They were wrong.
Dead platform. Thank God they realized before they sunk more money into it. I feel bad for the guys because like us, they were misled by Nintendo to believe the WiiU had both capability and a market when in fact it has neither.
Making a little plumber avatar cruise around some imaginary track under make-believe conditions doesn't compare to a current-gen simulation like PC.
Stupid idea with such tiny time slots. I guess they think their target audience spends most of their days in front of the console.
Risky price tag too for a console with a limited playerbase. They should have aimed low and made it a game everybody ends up owning, filling up the servers and feeding the frenzy. But alas, it's nintendo. They'd rather rip off ten people than make a hundred happy.
Not buying any and it made me re-evaluate my planned purchase of Splatoon. IMO they're adding value synthetically like they are synthetically creating scarcity for Amiboo.
There still is no reason to get any Amiboo at all. Their implementation across their games is barely on a gimmick level and I'm not buying into gimmicks just so one game I actually want is fully unlocked. I'll wait for a sale on Splatoon now I think. Not paying full if I'm not getting full. Knowing Nintendo it will be a ridiculous ripoff price anyway.
@Neko_Rukiafan: But he has a point. If there is a NX coming out in the next few years, they're launching with no third party support at all, thanks to how they handled the WiiU. So they need a real seller to launch it, something at least the fanboys will buy right away, so they can peddle their great launch numbers to big studios and hope to bring them back.
I think they're delaying it now falsely claiming 'quality' to get it closer to the NX release, then they'll say 'oh we just woke up and thought, "wouldn't it be great to have this on the NX?!"' and delay it some more. But that's been decided already, they're working toward the NX already.
Zelda is the last arrow in their quiver. It would be stupid if them to waste it in a dead platform. Compared to all the lies and screwing over they already did to WiiU customers, this actually just rational.
I don't think it flat out won't be released I WiiU, but it won't be released until they can at least announce the ultimate-ultimate-version for NX. If some hold out and buy it with the NX, it's a small loss.
Whatever it is it will happen without me or my money.
All you guys thinking they will 'unify' anything, look around. Making people buy the same crap again and again has basically been Nintendo's business model for the last 15 years (or more even). How likely is it that's going to change? Especially now that they just decided to charge people for the same stuff again on mobile?
When they say 'unify', all they mean is the same credit card will be registered to numerous platforms.
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Re: Reggie on Wii U Support Going Forward
The Switch is going to follow the WiiU. They're repeating the exact same mistakes and adding a few new ones. Hybris and karma.
Re: Nintendo NX Has A Core Idea Which Doesn't Just "Follow Advancements In Technology", Claims Miyamoto
lol, Nintendo. Last time we sprang for the whole 'secretive genius' act. This time around we know that when you're not saying much - it's simply because you don't have much to say. Talk is cheap and none is cheaper than that of a Nintendo exec. They'll say anything to tide people over until the next shareholder meeting. Remember the big thing about 'QOL'? lol.
Put up or shut up nintendo.
Re: Tatsumi Kimishima Reiterates That Nintendo NX Is A New Way Of Playing Games
"A larger impact than the WiiU but not a pure replacement", huh? That was sarcasm, right? A larger impact than the WiiU is really aiming high, lol
I dunno, but the vibe I'm getting from Nintendo so far is that the NX is another clueless blunder. That they don't clearly set it apart from the disaster that was the WiiU says it all really. The haven't learned a thing.
No third parties either or we would know by now. They're playing the hush card to cover for the lack of interest.
Re: Reaction: The NX Could Benefit from Using Cartridges Instead of Discs
Rest assured that Nintendo will implement it in the most backwards, cost-cutting and cumbersome way while slapping consumers with an imaginary 'cartridge tax', it will he great. Nintendo-Style.
But if they glue some cheap MMC into a plastic enclosure there is indeed less for Nintendo to mess up than if they try anything fancy. The WiiU showed that their product develop department is about as inept as their market research (8GB, no USB3 etc.).
Re: Nintendo Financial Results Deliver Profits but Predict Severe Drops in Expected Wii U and 3DS Sales
What they don't realize is they're sinking their brand, not just the WiiU. Who, outside the hardcore fans, will buy an NX?
Re: The Legend of Zelda Wii U Has Been Pushed Back to 2017, Will Release On NX As Well
Lol, man the escape pods Nintendo.
Re: Nintendo's Updates Its Guidance on Super Mario Maker Level Deletions
Lol, Nintendo. Do they ever get out? It's really like they have no clue how today's market works. Sometimes I could swear it's parody. No real company would actually do this, right?
Your level sucks so hard we had to delete it. Thanks for contributing, loser.
Re: Future Of Project Giant Robot Is Still Up In The Air, Says Miyamoto
Basically, they have now officially tried and failed to come up with anything at all to 'show off' the game pad. Even Nintendo doesn't know what it might be good for. Next time they should maybe do that particular research before they launch a product.
Re: Bayonetta 2 to Have a Standalone North American Release on 19th February
I got the combo for EUR 10. Crude and puerile 'sexual' innuendo plus constant T&A ogling camera runs ruin an otherwise good game (She's 'riding' the horse. Get it? Riding. Huh-huh. wink).
Somebody may be able to look past that more easily but I found it just too embarrassing to enjoy the game itself.
Re: Analysis: Assessing Why NX Needs to Take Over From Both the Wii U and 3DS
What's really going to hurt is when consumers (real ones, not the 'fans' that will buy any nonsense Nintendo puts out and rate it 10/10) weigh in about how much confidence they have in Nintendo delivering more than short term support on their investment. I mean, even ignoring the WiiU, look how Amiboo has predictably turned into nothing more than a quick cash grab. Like the 'gamepad focused' content they announced for the WiiU, they have yet to deliver on the promise of any meaningful use of the things beyond milking their ever-foolish fans for cash. Amiboo remains a gimmick at best. You get more out of any Skylanders figurine.
And where's the talk about the grand strategy of QOL? Dead and gone it seems. Not a word anymore of this alleged cornerstone of the New Nintendo. It was, again, just talk, apparently. And unlike Amiboo they didn't even bother delivering anything at all here so far because it was just for the investors briefing.
Now that the sales numbers on WiiU are hopelessly below even the drastically revised target of last year, I wonder what the next, "I can't say much about it now because it's so great everybody would rip us off, but we are going to totally turn things on their head, blablabla" is going to be this spring.
Re: Analysis: Assessing Why NX Needs to Take Over From Both the Wii U and 3DS
@Quorthon What game did you make? Congrats on your Greenlight success, man!
Re: Poll: Are You Excited About Minecraft: Wii U Edition, Or Is It Too Late?
Great game. Yes, it's too little, too late, but when it's minecraft that's still a metric ton more than anything else has to offer. I'd buy it just to free up my PC from those pesky kids that play minecraft on it forever. But mostly because minecraft.
Thank you Microsoft for bringing this to WiiU in spite of Nintendo's colossal ignorance. Maybe Miamoto can play it now. He might even learn something.
Re: Nintendo Is Making Female Characters Cover Up For The Western Version Of Xenoblade Chronicles X
Pics like that of a real 13yo on your HD would get you convicted for possession of child pornography.
Re: Editorial: A Wii U Price Cut is Still Worthwhile Despite Its Ongoing Woes
Who would want a WiiU at this point, regardless of price? They completely misjudged the market and it's moved even farther the other direction (even bigger games, VR, even more online). Even Nintendo is just letting the pipeline run out. Just remember this when they want your money for the NX.
Re: Editorial: A Wii U Price Cut is Still Worthwhile Despite Its Ongoing Woes
Just let it die.
Re: Production Of Shovel Knight amiibo Is Being Handled Entirely By Yacht Club Games
Still don't know why I would want any of these. Just like the second screen, they've so far failed to make an even halfway decent case for Amiboo. They're just collector's figures with some minor in-game trinkets. But hey, collect away.
Re: Kerbal Space Program Is Landing On The Wii U eShop
Awesome. I've had it for ages on PC but I'll get it again on WiiU just to have more of it.
Re: Talking Point: Wii U Gamers Have Been Treated Poorly By The Third-Party Retail Scene, But The System Still Brings Joy
It isn't anybody but Nintendo's burden to offer a compelling business case for their platform. They couldn't, so the invevitable happened. Who can blame them. They're not charities.
Re: Nintendo Quality Of Life Patent Applications Appear Online
This is worse than I would have ever expected. Even their patents are like 10 or 20 years late. It's almost comical. Sleep tracking. Fitness tracking. An alarm clock. That projects on the ceiling.
Here's another one: A Sunrise alarm clock.
Oh, sorry Phillips.
Or wait: A service that aggregates all that information so we can sell it to the health industry.
Oh.
Re: Exclusive: Project CARS "Simply Too Much For Wii U", Developer Now Waiting On New Nintendo Hardware
@Darknyht: Yeah but the WiiU is a dead platform. That was not the case when they asked for funding. When the WiiU bombed that changed everything for any developer that didn't have a dog in the fight already. You can't sink money into something that has no hope of succeeding.
I'm reasonably sure the honest answer is, "we could make it, but it would look a lot worse than any other platform, so nobody would buy it anyway." And I think they're right.
Nothing got 'shoehorned' into PCars later. The game was improved and enhanced to the point where it was no longer feasible on the WiiU. Everybody that can run it is getting a that much better game. That's not shoehorning, that's progress.
If there was a market for a toned down last-gen looking PCars they'd do it. But there isn't, and I wonder how many people claiming broken promises here actually funded it (and then funded it for WiiU alone). Because those are the only ones that get to complain in my book. For everybody else, yeah, WiiU is dead. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Re: Exclusive: Project CARS "Simply Too Much For Wii U", Developer Now Waiting On New Nintendo Hardware
@Darknyht: How is it a poor development choice to make a game all it can be and then axe those platforms that can't handle it? Visuals are everything these days and there's no WiiU market for a multiplatform game that relies on visuals, simply because every other platform shows a better game. Add Steam prices and all to the mix and developing for WiiU becomes a suicide mission.
It's a wise choice, even if it's hugely disappointing to those that oddly thought a console with roughly the processing power of a current generation smartphone could handle a game like this. Including the developers.
But I think even Nintendo was surprised by how weak their console really turned out to be as gaming progressed, and now everybody is backpedaling, including Nintendo. Even Xenoblade Chronicles X looks like vintage Skyrim at best. I wouldn't be surprised if they axed that too. Or delayed if for their mystical magic NX (Zelda. "X". "NX". Think about it) to up the hype factor when that gets released. At this point, you can't go wrong. WiiU owners are so thoroughly shafted, what does it matter. Most of us have accepted our fate.
Re: Review: Quadcopter Pilot Challenge (Wii U eShop)
Man, is this even a review? If it's realistic it deserves to be reviewed within that premise.
All I know from this is that the reviewer is a dunce that doesn't like the challenge of flight simulation but would rather play 90s arcade titles because they have no learning curve.
Re: Talking Point: Raw Power Isn't Vital to Nintendo's NX, But It Does Matter
It's Nintendo speak again: They build a car without wheels and tell their fans, "Look! You can drive our without the distraction of movement!! Focus on the essentials!! Here's a figurine to unlock extra lights on the dashboard!! Innovation!!!"
Nintendo is over. This is the last nail. The thing isn't even prototyped and they've already killed it by putting the WiiU 'weak hardware' stamp on it.
But hey, they'd always have in the figurine business.
Re: Rumour: Nintendo NX Won't Be As Powerful As PlayStation 4
This is going to be hilariously tragic to watch. And this time I won't be suckered into buying one by Nintendo's empty promises, so it won't even sting.
When you declare your future console won't compete with the power of a current one you're saying you're putting last-gen tech in there.
Re: Nintendo Download: 9th July (Europe)
Overpriced VC garbage as always, but a good week to pick up on those indies.
Re: Nintendo Isn't Talking About NX Because It Doesn't Want Rivals To Steal Its Ideas
lol, I can't wait to see what this brilliant idea is. Because they really are the king of innovation. For example, their 'Management by Head-In-The-Sand' approach is making waves far beyond the consumer electronics market.
Nintendo really is RIM/Blackberry.
Re: Nintendo Board Members Retain Roles After AGM as Share Value Remains Strong
Just like how as the Titanic sank, the captain continued to enjoy the full support of his crew and there were no efforts to relieve him of his command.
Re: Rumours Surface of Android Emulation On The Nintendo NX and Potential Deals With Amazon and Disney
I'm getting a very Blackberry vibe here...
Re: Tablets Stole The Wii U's Thunder, Laments Shigeru Miyamoto
Deflect the blame... The game is obviously over for the WiiU.
Re: Australian Rating Confirms That ZombiU is Shuffling Its Way to Xbox One
@abe_hikura: Yeah, you lose a little something without the gamepad, but I think it can be adressed. To be honest, it was only the map and inventory manager that I really liked, the scanner was an obvious implementation that surprisingly didn't work as well I would have expected as a gameplay vehicle.
Especially since the screen switched to a generic animation while you used the scanner, you could just as well have had the main screen show the scanning. At some point it even became tedious, because you had to get up off the couch to be able to look everywhere you wanted.
They could gladly have dumped gamepad support as far as I cared if you could have played the regular game with a Wiimote instead. As it was they made it such a core mechanic (at little added value) that they couldn't allow you to play with the Wiimote. They did imlpement it though, because you need a Wiimote in multiplayer.
Another little appreciated feature of ZimbiU is the asymmetric local multiplayer: One player spawns the zombies on the gamepad, the other guy tries to survive. Great fun.
Re: Australian Rating Confirms That ZombiU is Shuffling Its Way to Xbox One
Good for them, it's a great game and the lackluster sales were undeserved.
Re: Feature: Five Key Moments from Nintendo's E3
They're shuttering things up already it seems.
Re: Poll: We Need to Talk About amiibo - Where Do You Stand?
I could care less. It's just another example of Nintendo delivering a lackluster knockoff of something they thought was hip and current, but lucky for them them there are plenty of 'fans' that would basically buy branded cow dung from Nintendo of they could.
It's all about the hype and a quick buck, or we would never, ever be talking of stocking issues. If it was about the gameplay enhancement, they would never be out of stock, because they would be needed to play.
Re: Interview: Nintendo of America's Damon Baker on the Brave New World of Humble Nindie Bundle
@Ryu_Niiyama Why, have you got a better theory? Other than the fairy godmother that magically prevented Nintendo from offering these games worldwide? Please unterstand?
You do realize that someone has to bear the actual cost in lost revenue from these bundles, right? How high do you think that is for a $10 game as opposed to a $50 game? Does "We love moderately selling $10 indies" make more sense now? It does to me.
Re: Interview: Nintendo of America's Damon Baker on the Brave New World of Humble Nindie Bundle
The "boring details" are that Nintendo HQ probably only allowed them to go ahead if they paid for it out of the NoA Marketing budget. Thus they needed to constrain it to the US.
Re: Feature: Explaining Humble Bundle and What it Could Mean for Nintendo and Nindies
Bold step? Come on. They sold other people's games (i.e. indies), low-priced at that, and then region locked the whole thing so it wouldn't get out of hand.
EA put a few blockbusters and a bunch of classics up when they did their first HB. That's a bold step. This is just more leeching off the indies from Nintendo.
Re: Review: Splatoon (Wii U)
I was super excited but it's way overpriced unfortunately. I'll get it when the price comes down. A lot. Or I won't. I'm not sinking that kind of money into the WiiU anymore. I don't understand why they can't price this somewhere where it becomes the game everybody has. It's online multiplayer after all, the more the merrier.
Re: Nintendo Wanted To Make Its Humble Bundle A Global Offer, Expects To Do So "Eventually"
Always good to know they aren't all as dense At Nintendo as one would suspect. But actions speak louder than words. Nintendo has always been good with words.
Re: Humble Nindie Bundle Allows Wii U and 3DS eShop Gamers in North America to Pay What They Want
Region locked! Thanks Nintendo, always working so even a good thing leaves a bad taste! Because region lock is a great thing.
Re: Project CARS Studio Boss Admits to Problems With Wii U Version, Hoping For Nintendo Hardware Announcement at E3
@Leu10antFalcon: No, those two would be the other 25%.
Re: Project CARS Studio Boss Admits to Problems With Wii U Version, Hoping For Nintendo Hardware Announcement at E3
@electrolite77: I think you're correct but you're also not being fair. They didn't say it couldn't be done, just that it would take a lot of work to downscale, meaning it would cost more but look (even) less good. The implied rhetorical question is, would it sell well enough to justify that work? Obviously not. People have given up on the WiiU for this type of title.
I believe all their statements were made in good faith, it's just that the state of the WiiU is such now that it would be suicidal to stick to those announcements.
Even Nintendo has pretty much dumped the WiiU, why should third-parties run a business risk not even nintendo will?
Re: Project CARS Studio Boss Admits to Problems With Wii U Version, Hoping For Nintendo Hardware Announcement at E3
I'm just amazed that some people don't see that something like CARS is several levels of magnitude more complex, computationally, than anything Nintendo has even tried to put out. Levels of magnitude.
What processing power is left after all the physics calculations just isn't enough to show a competitively good looking game at a competitive framerate. Simple as that.
Nintendo said you don't need power. They were wrong.
Re: Project CARS Studio Boss Admits to Problems With Wii U Version, Hoping For Nintendo Hardware Announcement at E3
Dead platform. Thank God they realized before they sunk more money into it. I feel bad for the guys because like us, they were misled by Nintendo to believe the WiiU had both capability and a market when in fact it has neither.
Making a little plumber avatar cruise around some imaginary track under make-believe conditions doesn't compare to a current-gen simulation like PC.
Re: Poll: Did The Splatoon Global Testfire Hit Its Targets?
Stupid idea with such tiny time slots. I guess they think their target audience spends most of their days in front of the console.
Risky price tag too for a console with a limited playerbase. They should have aimed low and made it a game everybody ends up owning, filling up the servers and feeding the frenzy. But alas, it's nintendo. They'd rather rip off ten people than make a hundred happy.
Re: Each Splatoon amiibo Will Unlock 20 Special Challenges
Not buying any and it made me re-evaluate my planned purchase of Splatoon. IMO they're adding value synthetically like they are synthetically creating scarcity for Amiboo.
There still is no reason to get any Amiboo at all. Their implementation across their games is barely on a gimmick level and I'm not buying into gimmicks just so one game I actually want is fully unlocked. I'll wait for a sale on Splatoon now I think. Not paying full if I'm not getting full. Knowing Nintendo it will be a ridiculous ripoff price anyway.
Re: Analyst Thinks Nintendo Is Already Winding Down Wii U Ahead Of Nintendo NX Launch
@Neko_Rukiafan: But he has a point. If there is a NX coming out in the next few years, they're launching with no third party support at all, thanks to how they handled the WiiU. So they need a real seller to launch it, something at least the fanboys will buy right away, so they can peddle their great launch numbers to big studios and hope to bring them back.
I think they're delaying it now falsely claiming 'quality' to get it closer to the NX release, then they'll say 'oh we just woke up and thought, "wouldn't it be great to have this on the NX?!"' and delay it some more. But that's been decided already, they're working toward the NX already.
Zelda is the last arrow in their quiver. It would be stupid if them to waste it in a dead platform. Compared to all the lies and screwing over they already did to WiiU customers, this actually just rational.
I don't think it flat out won't be released I WiiU, but it won't be released until they can at least announce the ultimate-ultimate-version for NX. If some hold out and buy it with the NX, it's a small loss.
Re: Analyst Thinks Nintendo Is Already Winding Down Wii U Ahead Of Nintendo NX Launch
"winding down", lol. But for the occasional nervous twitching of some indies and a few projects that were too far along to retarget it's stone dead.
Re: Talking Point: The Legend of Zelda on Wii U May Benefit From a Delay, But It Leaves a Blockbuster-Sized Gap
More Nintendo from Nintendo.
I'll bet their stalling to line the architecture up with their 'new platform' so they can re-release 'Legend if Zelda NX' with minimal effort.
Creativity at Nintendo has been dead for a decade, they're all about the cash flow.
Re: Reaction: The Nintendo 'NX', and Why We Think a Unified Platform is the Future
Whatever it is it will happen without me or my money.
All you guys thinking they will 'unify' anything, look around. Making people buy the same crap again and again has basically been Nintendo's business model for the last 15 years (or more even). How likely is it that's going to change? Especially now that they just decided to charge people for the same stuff again on mobile?
When they say 'unify', all they mean is the same credit card will be registered to numerous platforms.
Re: Iwata Saw Miyamoto As A Rival When He First Started Out
Three words: Giant. Fighting. Robots. He needn't have worried, Miyamoto lost it long ago. He's a threat to Nintendo but not to anybody else.
And in that, he and Iwata have alot in common.