Jeez, it's a $10 game suitable for all ages and good fun for the half hour or so of entertainment it's supposed to provide at a time. Very much more hit than miss. I am completely at loss why this site seems to hold $10 games to the same production standard as $70 games (except when it's some VC garbage).
There is no "long cut scene" when you test the coaster, you are actually riding the coaster you made and you can look around with the gamepad. That's actually a lot of fun. "Tight gamepad integration" you would probably call it if this was a Nintendo title, but alas...
Kids love this and it's easy enough for them to fool around with, but difficult enough for grownups to dabble in too. I highly recommend it as a family game, especially at this price.
I don't see how some silly acessory means the end to anything. iOS dudes are always about "this is the end of that", iPads the end of PCs, iTunes the end of CDs, App Store the end of publishing, yaddayadda.
@Diddy_kong: My experience exactly. Nintendoland is the first, last and only game that had me thinking "heh, this is cool." Every other game had me wishing I could use the Wiimote or Pro controller.
Even (or especially?) ZombiU. Imagine swinging that paddle or shooting a gun with the wiimote. Now that would have been immersive. Infinetly more immersive than being able to use it as a "scanner" at the cost of clunky analog stick aiming.
The gamepad would be a great tool, but even Nintendo themselves can come up with only mediocre ideas of how to use it. It doesn't bring the added value that it brings in added cost.
As a pure controller it's inferior to everything else they have and what you're left with is off-TV play, which is nice but not killer. Asymmetric and 'symmetric' local multiplayer was what was promised but it's only implemented in very few games, even by nintendo.
That said, the local multiplayer in ZombiU is genius.
Nintendo dropped the WiiU off in the wild with a backpack full of what they claimed was 'content' but turned out to be just a peanut butter sandwich, an old carrot, a diet coke and 40 pounts of rocks and sticks. The WiiU tried to call for help by spelling the letters "SOS" with the rocks but didn't have enough of them and now is too weak to move, much less find new 'content' on it's own.
It has taken shelter in the old wreck of a school bus where it will probably die, unless by some miracle the fungus on the walls turns out to be premium content and some passing aircraft correctly interprets the letters "SO..." out front to mean "SOS". But then maybe it does mean "So..." As in "So what."
If I could chose again, I'd stick to my PC. I don't see what the big deal with consoles is. I got the WiiU in the hope of local multiplayer with the family and even a year later there's still barely a game that has it. The whole motion control thing isn't nearly as well implemented (anywhere) and games are so insanely expensive it's just not worth it.
The kids just played two hours of minecraft and got more enjoyment and intelligent gameplay out of it than from the last 12 hours of WiiU (whenever that was. I'm the only one playing it these days).
That's a lot of text for something that's still half a decade or more behind the times. If anything, it underscores how they simply don't have a clue. Any current day gaming company would add an account system over the week end. What is so hard?
Not to mention Nintendo will remove any 'non region approved' currency from your account once you connect the two, which is kind of a glorified form of stealing. Presumably because they're too thick to work out exchange rates. Thats about the most favorable interpretation I can come up with.
No really. What in the world is wrong with Nintendo? This is very, very basic stuff these days, not rocket science. Every website has it.
Your 3ds will also be locked to your selected region after you link up IDs and you'll lose any 'other currency' balance you might have. Basically another recently typical Nintendo charlie foxtrott, plus the questionable legality of just deleting balances.
WiiU stands little chance with those imbeciles currently running Nintendo.
I don't care where they go after this, because if they drop this console just to rid themself of the sting of their own failure I'm not spending another dollar on them. The WiiU failure is a failure of management. It would have done fine with an even moderately capable management team behind it.
Every time I use the Wii Remote on the WiiU I'm left thinking "they dumped this to go back to a traditional controller layout?" Playing shooters with analog sticks feels like I'm using a mouse with my elbow.
This I may actually pick up. Wii Remote control is something that makes it worth buying over a discounted PC version come easter.
Still not going to float. WiiU has completely dropped off the public radar I'm afraid and this game is too little, too late. People are not as gullible as they used to be, and they'll see right though this campaign in light of the heavy hitting coming from the 'Big Two'.
In any case, nobody will buy into a dying $300 platform to play one single game and any hype over this game will only underscore that that's pretty much all you're getting. The sad truth for me is I can't justify dumping even another $80 into our wiiU at this point. I'll get it from the inevitable bargain bin eventually.
DarkCoolEdge: Sometimes? Make that "most of the time", recently. Every step they take spells death and decay. I wonder if in fact they are selling the modules seperately just to inflate the lineup.
Splitting by their arbitrary distribution regions is just plain idiocy. There is not a single aspect under which that makes sense.
You know very well these cheap knock offs are just part of the global conspiracy to bring down the genius that is Nintendo. And Google is obviously part of it too. Just like all these people here featuring copyrighted material in their Avatars. Water down the IP until it's worthless.
The only really bad thing about Nintendoland is seeing how many really great and fun Ideas Nintendo had a year or two ago and how they were slapped together in one big package of minigames and left to rot. No follow up, nothing.
The 'Ghost Hunter' for example is still the most fun we've ever had with the console, but it only has, what, three levels? Same with those 'Chasing Mario' game or the balance puzzler (Donkey Kong's something).
I was very excited playing nintendoland last year because I thought it was an indication of things to come. Instead it turns out it was a peek of what might have been. Most notably the gamepad hasn't been used as intelligently since, by anybody, least of all Nintendo. It really makes me sad.
$30 is a fair price. I don't think anything I've seen on WiiU is worth $60 so far, but here at least you get some 'all ages' variety. If you have kids, this is a must.
lol, any award would have been just plain bizarre. Their games may hold up in their own universe, but compared to 'Gaming' overall, they're way behind the pack. ZombiU being about the only one I can hold up next to PC and other console titles and say it holds its own.
I fully agree with this article. VC is a joke. I own two VC games I paid 40c for because that is all I am willing to pay for something that by today's standards is about on par with a high-school semester project and gets flushed down the toilet by nintendo if my device ever breaks. Hell, I don't even get an email receipt for it. It's all on the console.
The degree to which these games are overpriced by Nintendo speaks volumes. it's not about bringing us those old classics, it's all about milking them (and us) for what they can.
In fact, I honestly wonder if the main reason for the insane VC prices is so that they can continue to log this ancient IP at inflated prices in their books (no seriously, think about it: IP value is defined by its revenue potential). The only hardware it's adding value to is on ebay.
@cookiex: That's great if you live in UK. Now if you don't, on the small chance that they do ship outside of UK you can add shipping and customs, which is about $40 all in all, so the $90 I'm offered in the shop still comes in about $10 cheaper.
I can't justify big bucks for this console at this point anymore and I see it announced for $90 here. (Yes my American friends, you have read correctly. Ninety bucks. That's the benefit of region lock for us in Europe. Thank you Nintendo).
@C-Olimar: Glad we agree. Three games on two platforms and lots of bla bla. That's really not even close to what I imagined when they announced it. Marketing fireworks, specials, sales, bundles, "everybody needs one" releases. Something like that. But what you desciribe is just business as usual. Or do you think those three games would not have been released if it had not been "the year of Luigi"? Get real man.
I've seen Skylanders stationery. Is it "The year of Skylanders" too?
Let's play a game: It's "the year of Metroid" and I said "that's nonsense" and you make me a list to prove me wrong! Let me warn you though, you may be shocked by the similar results.
The Kotaku review was most plausible to me. They loved the 3ds version, hated the WiiU version, especially for the latter's 'cheap stricks', non-fluid level design and extremely lame 'low-points', all of which is hinted at here as well but not elaborated on.
In other news, the Year of Luigi has been postponed to Q3 2014.
Seriously, how can they release a coin to comemorate something that turned out to be just hot air from your marketing departmetn? They could call this "the year of metroid" just as easily and you'd be none the wiser. Or what makes it the year of Luigi? I can hardly supress my sarcasm every time I see that banner in the eShop. The year of what?
@Volke93: Both Splinter Cell and Rayman are decade old franchises and about as 'commercial' and mainstream as it goes. Good games, but no daring innovation.
How can they be ill-informed when there wasn't really anything to be informed about at the time?
@Technosphile: Yep. I think so too. Even Nintendo are laying low and holding off investing into the platform now. For example, I think their own very lackluster gamepad support is an indication that they are already aiming beyond WiiU and don't want to paint themselves into a corner with games that can't be copy/pasted over onto a new platform. One guy went on record that Windwaker took a mere 6 months (!) to 'upgrade', which for one seems plausible, but for another makes me wonder what they were doing the rest of the time.
@ACK: They did accept responsibility. They said "it didn't sell well enough to justify the cost, we're really sorry". And they gave everybody a free game to boot. I'm disappointed too, but I'm not so naive as to ask a company to flat out donate their efforts for free. Every business venture is dependant on its profitability.
This was a pretty cheap game that offers huge entertainment value for the money. No, it's not the best game in the world, but in the current WiiU lineup, it's certainly near the top as far as development quality goes.
And seriously, if Nintendo had made the exact same game, this place would be falling all over itself with raving praise of its brilliance. There's a bias here that goes well beyond just being a fan, because it's not just in favor of Nintendo, it's to the detriment of solid, not to say outstanding, and innovative efforts of other developers, that get nit-picked down to a 5* or 7* score over things that stem primarily from them trying to push the envelope a little rather than play it safe and rehash some old concepts and IP.
TT2+ is a fun game, great for kids and gown ups alike and it is inexplicable to me and very undeserved that it didn't sell well on WiiU. But people seem to be so completely in denial that they somehow think Nintendo will magically appear and resurrect this console from the ashes.
Nintendo can't do it alone and it's games like TT2+ that add charm and value to this console. And for that, they deserve our "hard earned cash", even if, unlike Nintendo, they only want a little bit of it.
The system is not selling because there are not enough reasons to buy it. I have one and right now I frankly wouldn't recommend it to anybody without a stern warning and disclaimer of responsibility. Games are few, overpriced and mostly disappointing, and that is all it does.
If there were more reasons to buy it, it would market itself. As it is, the only reason to get one is as a kind of 'Nintendo Trophy'. So even if "mums" knew about it, they would far too easily see through the marketing veil (see what I did there?).
More spoiled little kids bickering in the face of cold hard facts. And 2tribes even give you a free game to say sorry and get more bickering in return. Some of you guys are just pathetic.
This is what, the third - Fourth? - developer explaining frankly and honestly that they can't make it work financially on this platform. For a company, once you reach that conclusion, it's over. It would literally be a criminal offense in most countries to continue.
It is absolutely the rights holder's job to point out what he deems to be copyright infringements and that he wants stopped. That's not an argument, that is the system.
The idea behind it is that the rights holder is entitled but not required to do something. It's up to him. It's that way for everybody, so yes, even for Nintendo.
@eza: I know what you mean, but it's not up to Square Enix to sell more WiiU consoles. Ther job is to make a profit from the install base they get.
I don't like $20 more either. But I can hardly blame them and in a world where most AAA developers have tunred away for the same reasons Enix is selling for $20 more, I'll take $20 more over "WiiU is a great console, but we have nothing planned for WiiU currently".
You guys are just sad. When you actually get something that's better than on the other consoles, that actually takes advantage of the gamepad beyond off-TV gaming, are you happy? Are you cheering Square Enix for going the extra mile for us, giving us something exclusive? For pulling off what we are still waiting for Nintendo to even try to push beyond just a gimmick with their titles? - No, now you want all that free.
That attitude is killing this console more than Nintendo is even. Square Enix needs to cover extra development costs with less units sold due to WiiU's lousy sales. Of course it costs more. What bizarre world do you live in where that isn't perfectly obvious?
And yes, if WiiU was a raging success by now, they could sell it for less. It's called Contribution Margin-based Pricing. Look it up sometime.
Nintendo is under fire for sucking very, very badly at what it is doing, not for doing anything different. What are they doing different, anyway? Right now, as a WiiU owner, I'd be happy if they did anything at all.
@Goginho: I think the opposite is the case. They are way out of their depth. Which is why the fewer consoles they try their best to focus on, the better.
They're pretty much asleep at the wheel regarding the WiiU, maybe this will free up some brain power and ressources.
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Re: The YouTube Wii U App Update is Now Live
The WiiU web browser that won't run Google Play Music because its flash player is not up to date?
Re: Review: Coaster Crazy Deluxe (Wii U eShop)
Jeez, it's a $10 game suitable for all ages and good fun for the half hour or so of entertainment it's supposed to provide at a time. Very much more hit than miss. I am completely at loss why this site seems to hold $10 games to the same production standard as $70 games (except when it's some VC garbage).
There is no "long cut scene" when you test the coaster, you are actually riding the coaster you made and you can look around with the gamepad. That's actually a lot of fun. "Tight gamepad integration" you would probably call it if this was a Nintendo title, but alas...
Kids love this and it's easy enough for them to fool around with, but difficult enough for grownups to dabble in too. I highly recommend it as a family game, especially at this price.
Re: iPhone Gaming Controller Could Mean "The End Of Nintendo", Claims Investment Site
I don't see how some silly acessory means the end to anything. iOS dudes are always about "this is the end of that", iPads the end of PCs, iTunes the end of CDs, App Store the end of publishing, yaddayadda.
Re: Talking Point: The GamePad and its Role Defining the Wii U
@Diddy_kong: My experience exactly. Nintendoland is the first, last and only game that had me thinking "heh, this is cool." Every other game had me wishing I could use the Wiimote or Pro controller.
Even (or especially?) ZombiU. Imagine swinging that paddle or shooting a gun with the wiimote. Now that would have been immersive. Infinetly more immersive than being able to use it as a "scanner" at the cost of clunky analog stick aiming.
Re: Talking Point: The GamePad and its Role Defining the Wii U
The gamepad would be a great tool, but even Nintendo themselves can come up with only mediocre ideas of how to use it. It doesn't bring the added value that it brings in added cost.
As a pure controller it's inferior to everything else they have and what you're left with is off-TV play, which is nice but not killer. Asymmetric and 'symmetric' local multiplayer was what was promised but it's only implemented in very few games, even by nintendo.
That said, the local multiplayer in ZombiU is genius.
Re: Poll: As the PS4 Arrives, What Do You Think of the 'New Gen' Environment for Wii U?
Nintendo dropped the WiiU off in the wild with a backpack full of what they claimed was 'content' but turned out to be just a peanut butter sandwich, an old carrot, a diet coke and 40 pounts of rocks and sticks. The WiiU tried to call for help by spelling the letters "SOS" with the rocks but didn't have enough of them and now is too weak to move, much less find new 'content' on it's own.
It has taken shelter in the old wreck of a school bus where it will probably die, unless by some miracle the fungus on the walls turns out to be premium content and some passing aircraft correctly interprets the letters "SO..." out front to mean "SOS". But then maybe it does mean "So..." As in "So what."
If I could chose again, I'd stick to my PC. I don't see what the big deal with consoles is. I got the WiiU in the hope of local multiplayer with the family and even a year later there's still barely a game that has it. The whole motion control thing isn't nearly as well implemented (anywhere) and games are so insanely expensive it's just not worth it.
The kids just played two hours of minecraft and got more enjoyment and intelligent gameplay out of it than from the last 12 hours of WiiU (whenever that was. I'm the only one playing it these days).
Re: Nintendo Stock Value Rises After Buying Stake In Mobile Web Company Dwango
@readyletsgo: Good gosh, yeah. What is up with that?
"Nintendo acquired the shares at the request of Dwango Chairman Nobuo Kawakami for his personal funding needs, said Minagawa."
That has got to be the wirdest thing yet from Nintendo. They bought shares in a company because the chairman needed money?
And then the market thinks it means they're going into mobile and their stock rises, lol.
Re: Talking Point: The Nintendo Network ID Creeps Ever Closer to Being Fit for the Modern Age
That's a lot of text for something that's still half a decade or more behind the times. If anything, it underscores how they simply don't have a clue. Any current day gaming company would add an account system over the week end. What is so hard?
Not to mention Nintendo will remove any 'non region approved' currency from your account once you connect the two, which is kind of a glorified form of stealing. Presumably because they're too thick to work out exchange rates. Thats about the most favorable interpretation I can come up with.
No really. What in the world is wrong with Nintendo? This is very, very basic stuff these days, not rocket science. Every website has it.
Re: System Update Will Allow You To Share eShop Balances Across Wii U And 3DS
Your 3ds will also be locked to your selected region after you link up IDs and you'll lose any 'other currency' balance you might have. Basically another recently typical Nintendo charlie foxtrott, plus the questionable legality of just deleting balances.
From the source (see the last question):
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Nintendo-3DS/Instant-Software/Nintendo-Network-ID/FAQ/Nintendo-Network-ID-FAQ-828876.html
If what is detailed on that page is their rough draft of a unified account system, they obviously still don't get it.
Re: Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida Wants The Wii U To Succeed
He needs to go run Nintendo.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Resilience Against Wii U Criticism Emphasizes Its Longevity
WiiU stands little chance with those imbeciles currently running Nintendo.
I don't care where they go after this, because if they drop this console just to rid themself of the sting of their own failure I'm not spending another dollar on them. The WiiU failure is a failure of management. It would have done fine with an even moderately capable management team behind it.
Re: Full Screen Mario Web Game Closed Down Following Nintendo's Copyright Complaint
Bad publicity is better than no publicity I guess. Throw us another crazy one, Nintendo.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Resilience Against Wii U Criticism Emphasizes Its Longevity
Nintendo has completely lost it I'm afraid. It's the bridge of the Titanic. Complete denial.
Re: Video: This Is Why CoD: Ghosts Is Best on Wii U
It doesn't matter anymore, nobody is buying it on WiiU apparently.
Re: Nintendo Land Has Been Removed From the North American eShop
And the hits just keep on coming. Nintendo clearly has a death wish.
Only someone clinically insane would actually remove content from their already understocked eStore. This is beyond tragic.
Re: Video: This Is Why CoD: Ghosts Is Best on Wii U
Every time I use the Wii Remote on the WiiU I'm left thinking "they dumped this to go back to a traditional controller layout?" Playing shooters with analog sticks feels like I'm using a mouse with my elbow.
This I may actually pick up. Wii Remote control is something that makes it worth buying over a discounted PC version come easter.
Re: Nintendo UK Planning Major TV Campaign For Super Mario 3D World
Still not going to float. WiiU has completely dropped off the public radar I'm afraid and this game is too little, too late. People are not as gullible as they used to be, and they'll see right though this campaign in light of the heavy hitting coming from the 'Big Two'.
In any case, nobody will buy into a dying $300 platform to play one single game and any hype over this game will only underscore that that's pretty much all you're getting. The sad truth for me is I can't justify dumping even another $80 into our wiiU at this point. I'll get it from the inevitable bargain bin eventually.
Re: Nintendo Combats Wii Fit U Lock-Up Error With Manual Solution
@bagszi and @eza: Wow, that's insane. It's like they're running amok with their region lock just to antagonize people, lol.
Re: Talking Point: Regional Online Multiplayer Misses the Point
DarkCoolEdge: Sometimes? Make that "most of the time", recently. Every step they take spells death and decay. I wonder if in fact they are selling the modules seperately just to inflate the lineup.
Splitting by their arbitrary distribution regions is just plain idiocy. There is not a single aspect under which that makes sense.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Safe and Family-Friendly Focus is Integral to Its Fortunes
Enjoy it while it lasts. Just another sad sign of how way out of touch Nintendo is.
Re: Nintendo's At It Again With Its Musical Zelda Easter Eggs
Yes children, they even rehash their theme songs.
Re: Nintendo Titles Continue To Be Illegally Peddled On Android Google Play Store
@rjejr: Enough with the truth already.
You know very well these cheap knock offs are just part of the global conspiracy to bring down the genius that is Nintendo. And Google is obviously part of it too. Just like all these people here featuring copyrighted material in their Avatars. Water down the IP until it's worthless.
Re: Nintendo of America Cuts Recommended Price for Nintendo Land
The only really bad thing about Nintendoland is seeing how many really great and fun Ideas Nintendo had a year or two ago and how they were slapped together in one big package of minigames and left to rot. No follow up, nothing.
The 'Ghost Hunter' for example is still the most fun we've ever had with the console, but it only has, what, three levels? Same with those 'Chasing Mario' game or the balance puzzler (Donkey Kong's something).
I was very excited playing nintendoland last year because I thought it was an indication of things to come. Instead it turns out it was a peek of what might have been. Most notably the gamepad hasn't been used as intelligently since, by anybody, least of all Nintendo. It really makes me sad.
$30 is a fair price. I don't think anything I've seen on WiiU is worth $60 so far, but here at least you get some 'all ages' variety. If you have kids, this is a must.
Re: Satoru Iwata Emphasizes "An Opportunity" for the Wii U This Holiday Season
The fact that Nintendo is keeping Iwata indicates someone has a death wish.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo's Ambitious Sales Targets Require Runaway Holiday Success
Good luck with the 2000% holiday sales jump Nintendo. Oh man.
"Suffer" would be 2 Million units. 460k is pretty much "dead".
Iwata is clearly insane.
Re: Giana Sisters' Halloween-Themed DLC Not Hitting Consoles
One of the best games on the Platform. Glad they're still working on it.
Re: Nintendo Comes Up Empty at the Golden Joystick Awards
lol, any award would have been just plain bizarre. Their games may hold up in their own universe, but compared to 'Gaming' overall, they're way behind the pack. ZombiU being about the only one I can hold up next to PC and other console titles and say it holds its own.
Re: Soapbox: The Wii U Virtual Console Needs to Freshen Up
I fully agree with this article. VC is a joke. I own two VC games I paid 40c for because that is all I am willing to pay for something that by today's standards is about on par with a high-school semester project and gets flushed down the toilet by nintendo if my device ever breaks. Hell, I don't even get an email receipt for it. It's all on the console.
The degree to which these games are overpriced by Nintendo speaks volumes. it's not about bringing us those old classics, it's all about milking them (and us) for what they can.
In fact, I honestly wonder if the main reason for the insane VC prices is so that they can continue to log this ancient IP at inflated prices in their books (no seriously, think about it: IP value is defined by its revenue potential). The only hardware it's adding value to is on ebay.
Re: Preview: Super Mario 3D World
@Samurai_Goroh: Yep, Europe but not in the EU.
I'll be getting it somewhere if local multiplayer is decent. It seems it will be the Nintendo game to have.
Re: Preview: Super Mario 3D World
@cookiex: That's great if you live in UK. Now if you don't, on the small chance that they do ship outside of UK you can add shipping and customs, which is about $40 all in all, so the $90 I'm offered in the shop still comes in about $10 cheaper.
Re: Preview: Super Mario 3D World
Too bad it's at Nintendo's usual ripoff price.
I can't justify big bucks for this console at this point anymore and I see it announced for $90 here. (Yes my American friends, you have read correctly. Ninety bucks. That's the benefit of region lock for us in Europe. Thank you Nintendo).
Re: Wii Party U Bypasses the Wii U eShop in Launch Week
More marketing brilliance from Nintendo. They're all about spreading the 'barely anything' they have as thinly as possible.
Re: Year of Luigi Commemorative Coin Emerges On European Club Nintendo
@C-Olimar: Glad we agree. Three games on two platforms and lots of bla bla. That's really not even close to what I imagined when they announced it. Marketing fireworks, specials, sales, bundles, "everybody needs one" releases. Something like that. But what you desciribe is just business as usual. Or do you think those three games would not have been released if it had not been "the year of Luigi"? Get real man.
I've seen Skylanders stationery. Is it "The year of Skylanders" too?
Let's play a game: It's "the year of Metroid" and I said "that's nonsense" and you make me a list to prove me wrong! Let me warn you though, you may be shocked by the similar results.
Re: Review: Sonic Lost World (Wii U)
The Kotaku review was most plausible to me. They loved the 3ds version, hated the WiiU version, especially for the latter's 'cheap stricks', non-fluid level design and extremely lame 'low-points', all of which is hinted at here as well but not elaborated on.
Re: Year of Luigi Commemorative Coin Emerges On European Club Nintendo
In other news, the Year of Luigi has been postponed to Q3 2014.
Seriously, how can they release a coin to comemorate something that turned out to be just hot air from your marketing departmetn? They could call this "the year of metroid" just as easily and you'd be none the wiser. Or what makes it the year of Luigi? I can hardly supress my sarcasm every time I see that banner in the eShop. The year of what?
Re: Rayman Legends And Splinter Cell Blacklist Both Sold Less Than Expected, Says Ubisoft
@Volke93: Both Splinter Cell and Rayman are decade old franchises and about as 'commercial' and mainstream as it goes. Good games, but no daring innovation.
Re: Rayman Legends And Splinter Cell Blacklist Both Sold Less Than Expected, Says Ubisoft
10'000 units on WiiU. Ouch.
Watch for the next train wreck that will be Scribblenauts Unlimited, currently $5 on Steam and coming to WiiU Europe in December for $85!
/golf clap/
Re: "Uninformed" Store Staff Are Hurting Wii U Sales, Claims Senior Games Analyst
How can they be ill-informed when there wasn't really anything to be informed about at the time?
@Technosphile: Yep. I think so too. Even Nintendo are laying low and holding off investing into the platform now. For example, I think their own very lackluster gamepad support is an indication that they are already aiming beyond WiiU and don't want to paint themselves into a corner with games that can't be copy/pasted over onto a new platform. One guy went on record that Windwaker took a mere 6 months (!) to 'upgrade', which for one seems plausible, but for another makes me wonder what they were doing the rest of the time.
Re: Hands On: Toki Tori and EDGE (Two Tribes Classics)
Great games at incredible prices. That's a fraction of the original PC price even.
RUSH is one of my all time favorites. A truly fantastic game.
Re: Two Tribes Confirms Toki Tori 2+ Level Editor Will Not Hatch On Wii U
@ACK: They did accept responsibility. They said "it didn't sell well enough to justify the cost, we're really sorry". And they gave everybody a free game to boot. I'm disappointed too, but I'm not so naive as to ask a company to flat out donate their efforts for free. Every business venture is dependant on its profitability.
This was a pretty cheap game that offers huge entertainment value for the money. No, it's not the best game in the world, but in the current WiiU lineup, it's certainly near the top as far as development quality goes.
And seriously, if Nintendo had made the exact same game, this place would be falling all over itself with raving praise of its brilliance. There's a bias here that goes well beyond just being a fan, because it's not just in favor of Nintendo, it's to the detriment of solid, not to say outstanding, and innovative efforts of other developers, that get nit-picked down to a 5* or 7* score over things that stem primarily from them trying to push the envelope a little rather than play it safe and rehash some old concepts and IP.
TT2+ is a fun game, great for kids and gown ups alike and it is inexplicable to me and very undeserved that it didn't sell well on WiiU. But people seem to be so completely in denial that they somehow think Nintendo will magically appear and resurrect this console from the ashes.
Nintendo can't do it alone and it's games like TT2+ that add charm and value to this console. And for that, they deserve our "hard earned cash", even if, unlike Nintendo, they only want a little bit of it.
Re: Zelda: Wind Waker HD Release Triggers 685% Increase In UK Wii U Hardware Sales
Apparently they were 1200 last week, so about seven times that. 8400? Still only half as much as last week's Xbox360...
On the right:
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41546/UK/
Re: Nintendo UK: Awareness Is The Real Issue With The Wii U, Not Price
The system is not selling because there are not enough reasons to buy it. I have one and right now I frankly wouldn't recommend it to anybody without a stern warning and disclaimer of responsibility. Games are few, overpriced and mostly disappointing, and that is all it does.
If there were more reasons to buy it, it would market itself. As it is, the only reason to get one is as a kind of 'Nintendo Trophy'. So even if "mums" knew about it, they would far too easily see through the marketing veil (see what I did there?).
Re: Two Tribes Confirms Toki Tori 2+ Level Editor Will Not Hatch On Wii U
More spoiled little kids bickering in the face of cold hard facts. And 2tribes even give you a free game to say sorry and get more bickering in return. Some of you guys are just pathetic.
This is what, the third - Fourth? - developer explaining frankly and honestly that they can't make it work financially on this platform. For a company, once you reach that conclusion, it's over. It would literally be a criminal offense in most countries to continue.
This console is bleeding out. Nothing we can do.
Re: Illegal Nintendo Clones Are Running Rampant On Windows Store
It is absolutely the rights holder's job to point out what he deems to be copyright infringements and that he wants stopped. That's not an argument, that is the system.
The idea behind it is that the rights holder is entitled but not required to do something. It's up to him. It's that way for everybody, so yes, even for Nintendo.
Re: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut Will Cost $20 More On Wii U Than On PS3 And 360
@eza: I know what you mean, but it's not up to Square Enix to sell more WiiU consoles. Ther job is to make a profit from the install base they get.
I don't like $20 more either. But I can hardly blame them and in a world where most AAA developers have tunred away for the same reasons Enix is selling for $20 more, I'll take $20 more over "WiiU is a great console, but we have nothing planned for WiiU currently".
Re: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut Will Cost $20 More On Wii U Than On PS3 And 360
You guys are just sad. When you actually get something that's better than on the other consoles, that actually takes advantage of the gamepad beyond off-TV gaming, are you happy? Are you cheering Square Enix for going the extra mile for us, giving us something exclusive? For pulling off what we are still waiting for Nintendo to even try to push beyond just a gimmick with their titles? - No, now you want all that free.
That attitude is killing this console more than Nintendo is even. Square Enix needs to cover extra development costs with less units sold due to WiiU's lousy sales. Of course it costs more. What bizarre world do you live in where that isn't perfectly obvious?
And yes, if WiiU was a raging success by now, they could sell it for less. It's called Contribution Margin-based Pricing. Look it up sometime.
Re: Monster Hunter 4 Continues to Devour Competition in Japan
Zelda. Wow. Is that the elephant in the room here?
Re: Iwata: We Never Fear Failure And Always Seek To Challenge The Status Quo
Nintendo is under fire for sucking very, very badly at what it is doing, not for doing anything different. What are they doing different, anyway? Right now, as a WiiU owner, I'd be happy if they did anything at all.
Re: Soapbox: Nintendo Could Have Ruled The Micro-Console Market With Wii
@Goginho: I think the opposite is the case. They are way out of their depth. Which is why the fewer consoles they try their best to focus on, the better.
They're pretty much asleep at the wheel regarding the WiiU, maybe this will free up some brain power and ressources.
Re: Ubisoft Explains Wii U Watch_Dogs Visuals as "In Between" Current and Next-Gen
Ubi moved WiiU development to a country with low labor costs. Better than dropping features, but the writing is on the wall.