Wii U - thread 3

[gambit6613]

Deadly serious. Pikmin 3 dropped last week and is lovely, and further exclusive titles scheduled for the next 9 months that pique my interest:
Wonderful 101, Wind Waker HD, Sonic, Donkey Kong, Mario 3D World, Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart, plus stuff like Watch_Dogs, AC4, Rayman, COD are coming to the WiiU if they float your boat.

GTA5 looks wonderful and Dark Souls II will be spectacular but I am personally looking forward to more WiiU games than will be available on any other platform over the next 9 months.

Yeah I agree some of those are decent but Wind Waker isn't exactly a new title, Mario Kart is a very long way off and the sonic game very little is known and recent history of Sonic games doesn't exactly fill me with much hope. As for the multi platform stuff, for one thing they won't come close to matching the next gen versions and given I would be surprised if the are even as good as the current Xbox and PS3 versions. I won't be expecting any developer putting any serious effort into the Wii U versions simply because they won't sell in big numbers. I really do hope I'm wrong but I'm very doubtful at this stage.

[Lebowski]

A Nintendo phone? I don't think friend codes are that scalable of a system.

could you imagine that,

"right whats your friend code, i wil give you a ring later.... what do you mean you need mine as well or we cant talk to each other?"

slogans for nintendo's marketing team
"Nintendo friends codes making it a pain in the arse to add friends since 2006"
"Who needs gamertags when you can have a random sting of numbers"
"Hello 11234-2346-12234 nice to meet you, IM NOT A NUMBER IM A FREE MAN"

[VR46]

Even Target have confused the Wii and Wii U

http://kotaku.com/whoops-target-advertises-wii-as-wii-u-989179577

[Paddy]

could you imagine that,

"right whats your friend code, i wil give you a ring later.... what do you mean you need mine as well or we cant talk to each other?"

slogans for nintendo's marketing team
"Nintendo friends codes making it a pain in the arse to add friends since 2006"
"Who needs gamertags when you can have a random sting of numbers"
"Hello 11234-2346-12234 nice to meet you, IM NOT A NUMBER IM A FREE MAN"

You know it'd be so easy to add people from your contacts book so you could play them on compatible games online (like how it should be in the real world).

However, in the land of Nintendo it would totally be done via proprietary codes that are overly long and frustrating to enter even on a modern Smartphone.

Because Nintendo cares more than anyone else...

Still, would be a neat idea. I think they should seriously consider looking at it with the increased popularity of Apple/HTC/Samsung/Nokia/RIM and phone gaming on the go.

[dataDave]

I'm adding friends on my Wii U and I've not needed a single code so far.

[Lyris]

A Nintendo phone? I don't think friend codes are that scalable of a system.

Does anyone have the friend code for emergency services

[Paddy]

Sad times for Wii U sales atm:

http://www.dealspwn.com/nintendo-financials-wii-bombs-hard-3ds-runs-rampant-150019

Fingers crossed it'll pick up leading into Winter.

[Lebowski]

has anyone heard about Nintendo's Nuclear Option, the entire backlog of Nintendo games for free on the wiiu?

This keeps popping up around the net with a few big sites running with the story theres no firm news or anything from Nintendo so its a bit of a non story really, but an official 2 terabyte drive has appeared as an add on for the wiiu which makes you wonder why would anyone need that much space for a console with a very expensive eshop with very little content on it?

a Nintendo ambassador scheme or some type of playstaion+ type service with a 12 month free trial would certainly gives sales a kick in the Arse, allowing Nintendo to keep the wiiu alive at retail till the big hitters land like they did with the 3ds, Asda's recent drop of the console is really bad news. Supermarkets are dominating the games retail space. nintendos just lost visibility at one of the big 3 supermarkets and that is terrible news.

imagine a console that had access to hundreds of Nintendo classics but wouldn't cost you thousands of pounds to do so. There is a market out there for something along those lines look at things like the ouya and the game stick, its pretty much offering a way to get these old games for free right now in your living room

[gambit6613]

That would be ingenious if Nintendo were to offer such a thing but as much as I would love them to do this I just can't see them being bold enough to do it.

[J0e Musashi]

Basically what has happened here is that Nintendo started saying that the Wii U can now handle HDD's of up to 3TB in size, and the Internet has totally lost the plot. You can connect two HDD's to Wii U, so that's in fact way more than 3TB of storage, twice that much at 6TB. There's no way in hell that Nintendo would release it's entire back-catalogue of games for free. You'd have to be seriously brain-damaged to even entertain such a notion IMO.

[wakka]

Their individual properties are far more valuable than the Wii U. Wii U may well continue on its course and sink without trace, but Mario, Zelda and the rest will still be around for years to come and no doubt earn plenty of cash.

They wouldn't want to devalue those properties by basically doing a ROM dump on all owners' systems.

[J0e Musashi]

It'd take you around four years to D/L them all too.

[Lebowski]

you could argue playstation+ is deranged as anything that appears on it is basically dead at retail, or you could say its a master stroke as these games are past there launch window and are given a second lease of life and generate income again via the ?40 a year fee.

Likewise the ambassador scheme Nintendo ran could be seen as deranged but it stopped the 3ds from being dropped at retail and bought them time to get more stuff out and is now selling a massive amount thanks to its excellent catalog of games, Nintendo doing nothing now would be deranged as we are seeing a slide at retail, Nintendo needs to stop that now or risk losing more suppliers.

[J0e Musashi]

Nintendo have already stated what they are going to do. That is to bring games out next year.

[VR46]

Even making all games available and charging for them would help. NES and SNES games really should be a bit cheaper on the eShop, and hurry up with the N64 and Gamecube stuffs please.