This is one of the things Nintendo could definitely do to increase sales without a price-cut. Re-bundling the systems by having the 'basic' white with a pre-loaded NintendoLand @ $299.99 and the 'Deluxe' would be re-bundled with a pro-controller along with NintendoLand and Trine 2/Nano Assault or even NSMBU pre-loaded on the system for $349.99 would really boost sales. Until the inevitable price cut following the release of PS4/720 this winter holiday. This would help alleviate the financial burden of a price-cut and would be more acceptable alternative that early adopters may tolerate.

This game if very refreshing.  It's very addicting and easy to play, yet challenging enough for those who want to play the game properly.  The visuals are a pleasant change to many HD games out there on the market.  It's like playing a real life INCREDIBLES movie mixed with some old school Japanese superhero quirkiness. A day one pick-up in my book!!!

Could it be something like this:

 

 

THAT LOOKS GORGEOUS...YOU SHOULD WORK FOR NINTENDO'S MARKETING TEAM.

Thanks for the tip. I generally don't use Amazon for gaming, but this may be an exception. Nintendoland may come with a possible Wind Waker Bundle anyway, because it came pre-installed in the Zombi U bundle.

 

Yeah, I think both NintendoLand and WindWaker HD will be pre-installed with the system.  If NIntendo was smart they would also include a promotional ticket ($15-$20 would do) that would discount their newly released titles like Pikmin3, The W101, DK:TF etc.

No, it wasn`t me! Someone else made it.

I just saw it on these forums - i think - some time ago and i remembered to put it here again.

 

Oh thanks for sharing it anyways. I really like how the console and box looks.

I think you misunderstand what I said. What I was saying is that they could bring the Wii U version of Need For Speed to the other new next gen consoles as a director's cut and port the Wii U Deus Ex director's cut to them as well. I'm sure a lot of the additional features can be included on those consoles as they will be a lot more powerful then their current counter parts. As for second screen functionality the PS4 coud absolutely do it in conjunction with the Vita. They may not be possible on the Xbox successor although this is where they could possibly use the Smart Glass technology using tablets and smart phones. The functionality could be optional for those who have the hardware to make use of it.

That's why I think the Vita/PS4 connection is destinted to fail!!! Add-on devices (especially ones that cost $250-$300--vita) never become viable on consoles; you could see how well the Move is for example.  Unless they start bundling the Vita with the PS4 (an expensive endeavor) I wouldn't hold my breath on how much support that will get for Sony's new console.  Also, it's not like the Vita is a rousing success for Sony; in fact it's constantly getting it's butt whooped by the more innovative 3DS!

Still haven't played my copy of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. I probably will soon, just cruising through Knack at the moment.

 

Wouldn't really say that the Wii U is on a roll. It has picked up sales, but it is probably because of the holiday season and bundles. I don't believe every sale made was a "We have absolutely got to have a Wii U" situation. We'll (not) see soon enough how many of those buys are long term investments for those families. It will probably be a lot less than the Wii, but then again it's not nearly as prominent as the Wii was.

 

We just have to see then won't we?  I say if Wii U sells at least 800K worldwide that IT IS ON A ROLL!!!  The momentum definitely has changed direction and it's not surprising that software had driven it!!!  While Jan2014 will see a dip in sales it wouldn't be unlike any hardware after the holidays if it did.  I'd say if they sold 500K in Jan2014 Worldwide that Wii U is still gaining momentum.  It's looking like it would sell past the Vita in half the time it took to have it sales and Sony fanboys have not given up on that!!!

 

BTW out of all the PS4 games why the hell did you waste a good $60 on Knack?  There were some solid games out there at launch and Knack was plain boring!!! I would have picked up KZ:SF or even Skylander's SwapForce was better than that game IMHO!!!

It seems like the Wii U found it's second wind this holiday. Almost all stores from Target to BestBuy to Walmarts seem to be selling Wii U's to an almost feverish pace!!! It's not uncommon to see someone in line carrying a Wii U to the check stand recently.  So my question is the Wii U back from the dead?  Sales for the last 3 months suggest an upward positve trend so hopefully it will carry to the New Year. I for one don't think this is just due to the holiday but because Nintendo is finally beginning to convey the Wii U is a true successor to the Wii.  They have also began touting it's strength which are Nintendo HD games, Media Capabilities, Backward Capablities (wish they expand on this more), and new ways to play games not available to other consoles.  So what do you think is the Wii U back or are these last few months just a glitch?  What can they do in order to keep momentum going positve.  Please share your thoughts on this matter.

also dreamcast had the vmu which was well sort of a mix of both but interesting and the powerglove was complete junk it didn't work at all.

Just because the Power Glove didn't work as well didn't mean it doesn't count though. Another way of looking at it is Nintendo does things for gaming wayyy before Sony and MS ever does. This is coming from a guy who loves his X360 too!!!

I'm all for multiplats, but there is something about exclusive games that just makes a system special. Xboxs have Halo and Gears, Playstation has there LBPs and GoWs, Nintendo has their Marios and Zeldas. Recently there are industry shake ups that allowed Nintendo to exapand their exclusive IP base for their systems. These expansions include funding of Bayonetta 2, a deal with Capcom regarding MH, the buyout by Nintendo to own FatalFrame, Nintendo purchasing MonnolithSoft and the dissolving of Silicon Knights to obscurity leading to Nintendo as the sole owner of Eternal Darkness. Now more than ever he field is right for Nintendo to expand their audience by acquiring certain IPs or even their publishing rights. THQ is on the brink of self-immolation and has a huge number of IPs that would fit and expand Nintendo's audience. (Darksiders, deBlob, Deadly Creatures are some IPs that seem to have done ok on Nintendo systems). Bonk brink of extinction is a cancelled(but already complete) game by Hudson and Konami that Nintendo could grab the publishing rights to; just like Bayonetta. The game looks solid and since it's already completed should have little effort in the development department in contrast to Bayonette. Now is there any other games or IPs out there that you personally think realisticly that Nintendo would/could pick up? Seeing how THQ was willing to sell off all their franchise for $60mil and the Bonk situation, these might be good candidates for Nintendo to seize and expand their exclusive lineup.

Home Consoles:

N64

Dreamcast

GameCube

Wii

Xbox360 slim with Kinect (gave the best experience out of the HD twins IMHO)

Wii U (my favorite system so far)

 

Mobile:

 

GameBoy Advanced SP

Nintendo DS Phat

Nintendo DS Lite

Nintendo 3DS (only dedicated handheld worth owning...PSV was not impressive)

had a PS Vita for 3months (got it as a gift...then traded it in for the Wii U while it still had value)

Google Nexus 4 Phone (best phone ever)

One of the things Nintendo could definitely do to increase sales without a price-cut is bundling Re-bundling the systems by having the 'basic' white with a pre-loaded NintendoLand @ $299.99; while the 'Deluxe' would be re-bundled with a pro-controller along with NintendoLand and Trine 2/Nano Assault or even NSMBU pre-loaded on the system for $349.99 would really boost sales. Until the inevitable price cut following the release of PS4/720 this winter holiday.($249.99 for Basic no game and $299.99 for Deluxe as is now) This would help alleviate the financial burden of a price-cut and would be a more acceptable alternative that early adopters may tolerate.

your fighting for no prics cut?
i work hard for my money and i save every dollar i can and ur trying to find ways for them not to price cut??? you sir are an idiot!!

First of all..please don't call me an idiot. You know nothing about me to even imply that. You could call my post dumb...even idiotic; but personal remarks are unwarranted. Second, the post says alternative ways because Iwata stated that the Wii U was not going to get a price cut. I merely presented an 'ALTERNATIVE' to a price cut that would/could appease both early adopters and incite new buyers to the console (no need to get personal; we all work hard for our money).

i was talking about mighty switch force "2"and iv seen a looooot of bad indie games on xbox. ones that shouldnt even see the light of day.

 

Opps...my bad. Anyways, bad games are everywhere; even on the Wii U. One cannot deny that XBLA is currently the leader for indies with a lot of great games in comparison to some really bad ones.  I still believe if Nintendo plays it's cards right that the Wii U can surpass what XBLA did and be a gaming heaven for indie development!

the indie games are pretty good for the wii u. i ddnt care for the gameplay for the cave much but the naration was good and chasing auroa is a coplete wase of money. if it was only a few dollars then it would be better but its 15 normally and i got if for 8 and it sucks bc there isnt anything to do besides fly around in circles. waiting for mighty switch force 2 to be ported to wii u. these games are much better than the indie games for the 360.

wait. what barriers? i hope it isnt the ones that seem to be making them good games like having to have a studio dedicated to the game or having to be able to have at least one game out. i really dont want games that the 360 had to infect the wiiu.

• MSF is already on eShop.
• eShop is miles ahead of WiiWare, but the content is still not as robust as XBLA which has great games such as Braid, Outland, Dust, ShadowComplex, Limbo, and Bastion.  But it's getting there and has the potential to be better seeing how competitve the price Nintendo is charging for the eShop  in comparison to XBLA, PSN, iOS, and even Android.
• I really believe that Nintendo should either partner with Unity to make their engine the preferred engine for Wii U developers (1/4-1/8 the cost of UE4 from what I heard) and purchase the company and gain access to a wider market by having indies develop games using the engine.  Unity is going to be really big!!!

 

 

 

Looks like a great move for Nintendo IMHO!!!

might switch force 2 is the sequel to mighty switch force.
 

 

Also, unity isn't as powerful as cryengine or unreal.

They already include licenses for it in the wii u devkit.

 

I know...but Unity is more of what fits Nintendo's philosphy (Wii U while above the PS360 isn't as powerful as PS4 etc) providing adequate and competent visuals while providing killer gameplay, art direction etc.  Besides the cost of UE and CE is prohibitive to most indie developers and is meant for big budget developers and publishers. Those guys seem to avoid Nintendo consoles like it had scabies (besides Ubisoft) ; hence Nintendo's best bet is being a haven for indies which has the potential to be big developers someday.

 

It begins, it looks like the UNITY partnership is paying dividends for Nintendo. Two potentially great games using UNITY might be coming to the Wii U: http://nintendoenthu...f-icarus-wii-u/

 

guns of icarus:

 

 

 

Battle Worlds: Kronos

It seems like most western big publishers (sans Ubisoft) have abandoned the Wii U.  That should not come as a surprise as Nintendo's systems are usually devoid of third party support regardless of success. One just has to look at the Wii and in some cases the 3DS compared to the lackluster Vita (which still garners much exclusives despite it's pathetic sales).  With the current situation, Nintendo cannot be the sole bearer to support the system.  I believe that in order to remain relevant, Nintendo should start courting the independent developing community especially the ones using Unity.  There are a number of games out there that uses Unity that would or could be a great fit for the Wii U.  Since, the many of these developers are making iOS, Android, etc games the Wii U gamepad would make a great match when developing Wii U games in concurence to those platforms!!! I believe Nintendo should heavily invest in a partnership with Unity; as that platform has the highest potential growth for independent developers.

 

A few games I like using Unity are:

 

BladeSlinger

 

Pid:

 

 

max curse of the brotherhood:

 

Oliver and Spike (confirmed for Wii U)

 

With confirmation that FB3 and UE4 not available for Wii U; the Unity partnership becomes even more relevant for Nintendo!!!

Nintendo really should start investing in Unity!!! Those guys are gonna be HUGE...and probably the platform of choice of most indies and mobile games.  It would be wise for Nintendo to do this in order to secure crossplatform development on their current and future systems. Sure CE, UE, FB might be a smidge more advanced but those are for big developers; the future are the indie development studios!!!  So SCREW BF4 I'm all for independent studios which has more substance than style!!!

Yeah should see a lot of apps coming very soon. But to me it shows Nintendo strategy is 1st and 2nd party, indie, apps , and the partnering with a 3rd party dev every now and then. So we will see how that works out. Just wish they could be this proactive with 3rd parties. It's shows they don't give a you know what and still play by their own rules.

 

Well they've tried to court 3rd party publishers for quite sometime now.  They either got gimped ports or inferior exclusives for their efforts.  The trouble with 3rd party (both western and Japanese) stems from sometime now during the nes and snes when Nintendo controlled 3rd parties with an iron fist.  Despite the changes within Nintendo,  3rd parties are reluctant to have them rise to what they were before.  Besides Nintendo console always relied on 1st and 2nd party software to sell systems.  Now they have a chance to start over and building good relationships with indies (nicalis, wayward, frontier, Shinen, Frozenbyte, Two Tribes, 5th Cell etc)

that have produced some great games.  Kudos to Nintendo for this...hopefully this means a strategic partnership(if not a stake) with Unity as that company is primed for success!!!

A couple of Unity games were up and running on the Wii U at GDC 2013. It's going to be very simple and cheap to port existing UNITY games on the system with the way Nintendo set it up (paying for the license etc).  Hopefully when this goes in full effect sometime in May (hmm..very close to E3) we could see some great games coming from independent 3rd party developers.

 

http://www.gonintend...story&id=199277

Dude. Thats an article based off a Kamiyah tweet. Its fake. He trolls crap sites like kotaku all the time, when some fan asks him a stupid question, he gives stupid sarcastic answers, which are then taken out of context by idiot journalists, whom he tells to eat &%$^ (no, really)

Like when he said the w101 would be in stores next tuesday ....Two months ago *Kotaku reported*

Like when he said bayonetta 3 would be in an upcoming nintendo direct *kotaku reported*

When he said Zelda would be on ps4 if you asked.

And if hes not feeling up to putting out fake info, he tells you to ask your mom.

Congratulations. You are yet another person who was trolled by Kamiyah's twitter.

Oh, the games around 15-20 hours long. Which is pretty beefy for an action game.

I stopped reading when the site brought me to one related to VGChartz.  That site is full of Sony fanboys thus the exodus of Nintendo and Xbox gamers are becoming more and more pravalent each month. 

Or that all the miiverse pics people were taking while playing pikmin 3 were pre rendered cg cutscenes. That was hilarious.

 

The way DesertPunk trolls is very similar to how another Sony fanboy behaves; you might know him as NinjaBlade.  The guy is absolutely crazy and firmly believes Red Dead Redemption is superior to Nintendo/Monolith's 'X' !!!

Does it look worse on wii u, I couldn't really tell by those images. I was quite pleased reading through it to see the wii u had no screen tearing and still a good frame rate but then the bombshell struck with the awful load times.

 

I mean come on the wii u has 1GB of memory and a very fast optical drive why is it slower? I can only guess it was due to uncompressing but then perhaps if they put more thought into it they could have optimised it more.

 

This feels like a game that could have been an outright victory for wii u even if the graphics may have had a few minor weaker bits and it was ruined by the loading time issue.

 

I'd also like to know the native resolution of each version. Not keen on 1080p upscaling being used to as the resolution. In which case every 360 game is in 1080p and the poor old ps3 can only muster 720p a lot of the time due to the lack of an upscaler built in. Not fair at all especially as all1080p televisions will upscale to 1080p themselves anyway. Yes I know upscaling in the console is better than the tv most of the time but not all the time as some televisions/projectors have some pretty amazing upscaling circuitry.

 

Can you clarify this point? Are you saying this shows the wii u weaker or stronger as to be honest as with most  wii u titles its hard to tell. No screen tearing great, horrible load times bad. It's hard to know what to prefer screen tearing or long load times. I believe there is also a missing feature or two in the wii u version.

 

All I care about at the moment is Zelda Windwaker and won't be buying this game until it hits the bargain bucket.

 

Great stealth trolling, almost believed you if it wasn't for your predictable history of trolling Nintendo.

It looks to be a promising indie project that only ask $15 for a Wii U key for the game!!!  Here's a link to those interested: http://www.kickstart...-classics/posts