vattodev

I want better miiverse mobile (with messaging and friend requests) and eshop mobile. Hopefully Nintendo can also use miiverse mobile to advertise new releases and hype up new games. These would certainly help a lot. Another thing that would GREATLY help is a full integration of Wii U Chat on mobiles. That way we could use Wii U chat while playing other games, instead of relying on Skype. And then the problem of voice chat would be solved. And it would work both for the Wii U and 3DS. I wish they were planning on that.

Now can I call the last article as clickbait and spreading false rumours?

I still wonder if these devices will ever be popular. Would you really take out your phone in the middle of a business meeting and proudly show your d-pad and buttons on it? There is still a lot of prejudice against gaming in many countries, so I don't think most people would risk their careers with such device. But you can walk with a 3ds folded on your briefcase and no one would care.
If gaming on phones become popular enough to have high quality games then I think an add on with d-pad,analog and buttons for the phone would be a better option.

@PorllM @Mahe The quote is from the last meeting with the stock holders. And Nikkei's source tells that they are NOT going to put their games on mobiles. That's why I'm calling false rumours. The rumour started by Nikkei is about demos and marketing, not about "get its games on mobile phones" as written in this article.
IMO it's more likely that Nintendo releases it's own phone with DS/3DS characteristics than it moves to Android/iOS.

Sometimes I wonder why some people like to twist the words and say something completely opposite.
Remember that quote from Iwata? That one saying that it's not so simple as putting their games on cell phones? Then why did you write this:
"Everyone seems to be telling Nintendo to get its games on mobile phones these days, and yesterday's news that the company would be announcing some kind of smartphone strategy seems to suggest that it is listening to such advice."
Isn't that spreading false rumours?

I don't know how Child of Light is not in that list. And I really hope that SMTxFE gets announced for 2014.

@linktothepichu I loved castlestorm, but this one seems to lack the strategy and tower defense side of castlestorm, focusing only on the angry birds mechanics.

@Fazermint Yes, my exact thoughts. Publishing rumours from untrusted sources using the name of an entire company is really dirty and dishonest by itself.

lol, EA's sites doesn't even list the 3DS or Wii U. I went there to learn if they released anything for the 3DS, but it seems that they don't want people to know.

@GN004Nadleeh If you cannot see that this kind of articles spread the concept that "The wii U is a machine for 1st party games", then you should probably read other NintendoLife articles similar to this one. I want my Wii U with 3rd party support and this article leads people to believe that it's impossible due to some technical problem, which is a complete lie.
I don't like that the press is now making money advertising this concept. And I find it extremely insulting to the readers that a site called NintendoLife uses rumours of bad news of one and a half years ago to attract views.

I wonder if they allow google ads in those Nintendo Web Framework games. It would certainly be a good thing to have all those free games with a touch screen and TV display.

When I heard about Nintendo's web framework I started to think that if Nintendo brings that to the 3ds then it may completely turn the tides of what people think is going to happen with smart phones.

Thomas Whitehead: The more you try to spread these doubtful truths, instead of actually trying to spread what is good or what could be improved, the more you're part of the press that wants to alienate people and tell everyone that the Wii U is not for 3rd party games. Look at the comments here. Look what kind of information you're responsible for spreading. What are you going to tell to all the developers that already released games for the Wii U? That people should not care for them? That's the whole purpose of these types of news and you're just feeding it.
There are 3rd party games on the Wii U. I know, I own many. You're not helping their sales with this kind of articles. If you really care for Nintendo, please stop spreading things that were made up with the sole purpose of destroying the console's image.
_{That's quite enough. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns you'd like to share with our Editorial team, the Contact Form is open to you, but stop with the tags — TBD}

This is the kind of article that I expect that you guys refrain from making. First, Eurogamer's article has a clear purpose: State something that happened in 2012 as if it was the reality today. None of these 3rd party titles that had been recently announced suffered the same circunstances that the launch titles did.
I'd rather read an article that states that it's good for everyone that Nintendo improved their support to 3rd parties learning from the bad experiences that it had during Wii U's launch than an article like this, that tries to tell us that we should accept what is crystal clear: Eurogamer was publishing impressions from 1.5 years ago to ruin today's Wii U image.

@ToneDeath: Maybe you should try their forums or something closer. Indie devs are usually open for feedback.

Anyway, great video. I'm looking forward to this game. Just tell it's going to have couch multiplayer and we're done!

Wow, that was weird. So they payed for the engine, used it and it wasn't performing as expected. They decided to mess with it so they could make their games work and sue the enterprise that made the faulty engine. In the court they lose 9 million because they changed the engine. That's a very weird turn of events. Am I interpreting this wrong?

Despite the need that the Wii U has for new games, Metroid and probably Star Fox are not games that we will see so soon in the console's life cycle.

Against whatever people want to think, Capcom has been a great Wii U supporter. They released MH3U as an exclusive, MHFG in japan, Resident Evil Revelations, Dungeons and Dragons and Ducktales Remastered. How many publishers released 5 games for the Wii U in 2013?
Ok, we didn't get some titles that would probably sell terribly anyway such as Strider or SF4, but they have my respect for MH3U alone.

It's so easy nowadays to spread rumours about the Wii U. Haters love it, most Nintendo fans are offended by it and you don't have to prove anything.
To anyone that believe in this kind of thing I have only two questions: How hard it is to develop for the PS3? Do you think the Wii U architecture is that much different from the gamecube or wii?
Annoying rumours.

Great article, please tweet this to Nintendo of America after a few weeks of votes.

@LDXD: No, Nintendo will make great games because the problem is not their hardware. The problem is that PS3/360 games are CPU intensive and most devs are not willing to rewrite a lot of code to put the work that should be done in the GPU to the GPU. And now that the PS4/XBO require the same changes they say that the Wii U is too underpowered when compared. It's weird, because most of these games play on PC too and PC games are well known for scaling graphics according to your video card.

@BinaryFragger On the other hand, as a customer that bought some games with missing features, I find it very deserving that they had low sales. Splinter Cell comes to mind easily. Online is still broken and it has been several months already. How would you call that? Assassin's creed 3 at least had it fixed after some time. Yes, that's lazy. They deserve the bad reputation they created.

Ugh. That's harsh. Well, every console has it's rotten fruits. And for some reason Nintendo consoles seems to draw a lot of games that are there just to give the fans of a given movie/tv show a game to play.

@Baum897 The problem with the "Wii U drought" was that there were many niche games. Ninja Gainden, Monster Hunter, Pikmin 3, Wonderfull 101, Resident Evil are not really games for everyone. People have to go through the prejudice created by the press with those terrible reviews to actually take a change with those games.
I know I had an amazing gaming year on my Wii U. It's just sad that the press tells people that it wasn't a great year.

@unrandomsam That's why I think digital games are so important. There is no shortage of digital copies. This used market speculation (Oh, Xenoblade..) is going to end. I'd rather pay full price in a digital old game than pay even more in an used one.

And that's why Nintendo released a Wii U Chat application with the console.

@gatorboi352 lol, Toki Tori 2 is an indie game developed for steam and rereleased on the Wii U. So blame PC gamers first, Wii U gamers later.

Mario is not really a multiplayer game. The only reason playing with friends in the couch is so fun is because we know each other and want to have fun with each other. Otherwise it would be a simple matter of speedrunning through everything. And that's certainly only a tiny bit of the fun.

I wonder what would happen with games like Super Robot Taisen when there is no region locking. They do not follow the same copyright laws as the other countries. What would happen, then?

@MrGawain That's because this is business, not kindergarden. Anything that these companies have to say is literally a move for publicity. Just look at EA trying to clean their image in the past weeks, after all that dirty talking with Nintendo, the Wii U and Battlefield 4. IMO none of these should publicly say anything. A whole company should not act like a kid in kindergarden. But they do use those dirty tricks when they think it will be profitable.
And now they are controlling the damage from hype they made. The console wars was a very strong publicity move to push the launch of BOTH PS4 and XBOne. Now they want everyone to buy everything and they need to pave that road. Why split the audience if you can make them buy both?

Everytime I see these Japanese charts a smile comes to my face. I usually enjoy japanese games much more than western games anyway, so I'd be extremely happy if the Wii U receives more japanese games because it's a successful console there.
Capcom could just release Monster Hunter 4 HD on the Wii U and seal the japanese domination coulnd't it?

@Assassinated That would be great. Also improve miiverse for mobile. And Nintendo eshop for mobiles.

@ghall Probably in 2014. Or sports from resort.

Now that I read more carefully there will be no Zelda, Metroid, X or Bayonetta in this Direct. They specifically say: spring 2014.
Most likely Kart, Kong and wii sports golf and baseball. Maybe something from indies.

@Ony I read somewhere that they expanded early in 2013 when Myamoto talked about how they should be working in two projects at once. They could be working in most game concepts already and schedule a release for late 2014.

@AVahne I don't think there will ever be a MH built from ground up for HD consoles. MH in japan sells A LOT on the handheld market. Not so much on the console market. The game is designed for local co-op, not for online co-op, though it changed with MH4.

You're doing a great job with this series of articles. Great idea!

Can't you get a wii with a classic controller and N64 games for that price?

Ok, now I see where this came from. That picture in the topic is HER FANART! She drew that!?!? Why? When I first looked at it I thought it was a bad joke about Beck's design, but no! Wow. Why would anyone sexualize a character that is designed to look neutral and childish and is a freaking ROBOT?

@Matts14 Actually, it's the 6th week that it is the best selling home console over there.

@Goginho That's because of the unity sdk. They spend very little to port these games, but they get a lot of stuff like gamepad, wii remote and dual screen with very little coding. So we are going to get a ton of indie games, old and new. Mostly old for now. The new ones are mostly from kickstarter campaigns.

I was expecting more of the scenarios. Hopefully the final version get's better graphics. Just look at Pikmin, Assassin's creed and Monster Hunter. That's the art style they should be aiming for.

Ok, so it's the best selling MH game ever! Please bring it to the west!

Wow, these are actually really good news. This means that they believe that Nintendo will actually sell 6 million consoles in 6 months. Because the fiscal year don't count those 3 million from last fiscal year. So the wiiU would have nearly 10 million units sold by march. If they are right, this is really good news.
I don't think anyone believes in the 9 million target. Iwata only kept that so it wouldn't sound that they were giving up right next to SM3DW, Wii Fit U, Wii Party U, Wii Sports Club and Sonic release.

Knack is a bundled game and the PS4 is out of stock. Do the math why it sold more than Mario 3D World, Forza 5, Dead Rising 3 and Ryse Son of Rome.

So I read an amazing comment in another site that posted this same news:
The Last of Us (PS3), another game that is running for game of the year, received many praises for topping the japanese charts in it's release week.
It sold 117k retail copies. Not that more than SM3DW, but it's on a 9 million install base.
http://www.vg247.com/2013/06/26/the-last-of-us-debuts-on-top-in-japan/
http://www.destructoid.com/the-last-of-us-tops-japanese-charts-in-opening-week-257095.phtml
Please stop spreading rumours of bad news, NintendoLife!

Ugh, Knack above Dead Rising and Ryse Son of Rome. So the PS4 is having a really strong launch, huh?

UK is a lost territory ever since EA dropped the Wii U. That's the biggest system seller there and PS4 and XBO bring exactly what the custommer whant: a new engine with more gameplay improvements. There is no way Nintendo can compete there. It's similar to Brazil. When someone wants a console they ask: Does it play Fifa?

I watch their shows regularly and I know that they are all Nintendo haters. At some weird point in the past they also said that no one cared about the "new mario game" that Reggie was talking about.
The only sane comment in that show was one in the "The Wii U is irrelevant! Look at their financial report!". That's true. Now the Wii U is fighting back to relevance with it's games. And it's far from irrelevant. It's easy to talk about numbers they read 2 months ago, before the Wii U starts rising on sales.

As a user that bought the Wii U early in it's life all I can say is: Let Nintendo take their time and make their games. They already released many gems for the Wii U. I expect nothing less. If they keep it like this, the Wii U will be full of amazing titles by the end of 2014.