Will we see Error?

Does anyone out there remember the GC game Pac Man VS, I think I got it when I bought Pac Man world as a bonus disc?

It was a great little game that you needed the GBA with cable to play, where one person controlled Pac Man on the GBA with full maze on the GBA screen and the other players were the ghosts with limited view of only the surrounding area of the maze on the TV. Whichever ghost captured Pac Man was then given the GBA for their turn as the yellow pizza. I thing this would make a great Wii U game as a e-shop purchase. Perhaps even an online mode as well as local multiplayer.

I would say Smash Bros. If wanted to get a bigger chunk of the hold outs do a Smash Bros/MK 8 bundle.

Two gamers in my house over 30.

Me upstairs playing MK or any Wii U game: Hey that's pretty cool, crap another blue shell?

My Bro-in law downstairs playing CoD on 360: Mother F'er! F-ing A-hole, G-D MF! BEEP.............

who sounds more normal?

I wonder if Error will be one....

I cant wait for Captain Toad! They were my favorite levels in the SMB game.

How is asking someone to pay for re-release of a game you owned 20 years ago to run on a new system wrong?

a: It takes time and money re code a game for a new system.

b: When they emulate them for VC they up graphics quality (Metroid Fusion GBA graphics to look nice on the Wii U)

c: When your VCR breaks do you go to Universal or Dream Works for a free DVD of the tape you bought in 1992?

Someone beat me to it, some non Mario world characters, if the more "life like" ones are not feasible like Samus or Link, but WW Link could be. More tracks. The character selection was my only gripe about this game, too many babies and koppa-kids.

No sticker on mine when I bought the Mario Bros U one, how was all the inside packaging? I know they had everything super neat and tidy on mine even the foam wrap was taped down on the console, and I think that would be a lot of trouble to go through for a cmos battery. Does the battery still work and keep time on the U when turned off and unplugged? considering there was no super shock absorbing packaging holding it in place, I could see the screw backing itself out making its way all the way from where ever it put together. "The world is an imperfect place, screws fall out all the time...

So with the controller adapter, and the Wii channel how hard would it be to add a memory card adapter and use the Wii channel to play GC games? I know it's just a pipe dream, but I think that would also bump up sales. It should be capable, if the Wii could read the GC discs I would also assume the Wii U could since it can read Wii discs. The only tricky things I can think of are, is the Wii channel on the U a full emulation of the Wii or just the Wii game portion, and if it is not then they would have to make a GC channel then, and how to get your saved data from the memory cards to the Wii U memory, perhaps an SD Card/thumb drive to GC Card adaptor.

So I had not seen a single MK 8 commercial ever, but about enough Titanfall/WD commercials to fill a full days worth of watching. But a few days before MK 8 released I got a text from my wife telling me she just saw a MK 8 ad on the TV and that we must get that game. She is not a gamer unless you count Bejeweled or Candy Krush, but for her to get excited about a Wii U game is something new. Why o' Why doesn't Nintendo advertise more? It works.

That's what I am using my Wii for now. Mostly because it takes up less space under my TV than the GC did, even though I had the GB adapter block on the GC I need the space. Plus I bought two of the games that I regularly played on that LoZ Link to the Past and Metroid Fusion for the VC on Wii U, just waiting for Castlevania to pop up hopefully.

I would think that 900k of those being bundled with the system being sold over the weekend may be more impressive than 1.2 mil in sales. If that is the truth then 300k of sales over 3 days would be pretty impressive on its own. I would like to see the Watchdogs numbers broken down by console sales vs. all of them lumped together.

1 Metroid

2 Zelda

3 Star Fox/Kid Icarus (tie)

4 F-Zero

5 Punch Out

6 HD remake of OOT

7 Animal Crossing with mobile iOS & Andriod app for basic actions, so you can time sink without having to use the Wii U every day to pull weeds

I agree 100%. I was seeing Titanfall commercials months before it was released. This being a good chance for them to try and jump-start Wii U we should have heard and seen more.  

Think if I added up all the Titanfall commercials it would have equaled one month of real time

Welcome to the Wii U! I was in the same boat, but I did own the Wii. I kept getting bombarded from all the internet stories of how the Wii U is a flop for Nintendo and 3rd party blah blah blah. I rode out the Black Friday and next gen launch hype of the PS4/Xbox One, listened to my co-workers talk about how great the new consoles were and that I should get one now. So I waited until my tax return came in and made my choice. If you look at the list of all the hyped up games very few are exclusives to the new consoles, in fact most of the big releases will also be available on PC. So I took those games into consideration along with the fact that I can still play Wii games on the U, and it was an easy choice. Not to mention the only games my wife will play are the SMB platformers and Mario Karts and since we share a TV and budget, she didn't feel the lower priced Wii U was as big of a "waste of money" since we already had a working Wii (since she is not a gamer the whole next generation game consoles don't really mean much to her). So since Feburary I have stocked up an quite a few games and half are the exclusives to the U, SMB U, DKC, SMB3D, and the games I am most looking forward to are going to be exclusives X, Zelda U, MK, Smash Bros, and eyeing Pik 3 for my next purchase.

Ummmmmm pretty simple then from a development standpoint, don't code the game to use the gamepad. If DKC isn't using it, then I doubt Nintendo has some kind of limitation that games must use it. the Xbox one has the Kinect but developers don't feel the need to use it either. Most of the games I've played just use the pad for maps and inventory management anyway.

Awesome, Thanks all.

The only sports titles that ever mattered:

Tecmo Bowl

Pro Wrestling "The winner is you!"

Bases Loaded/RBI Baseball (Tie)

Blades of Steel

Sorry EA but you couldn't compete

I see horror stories about how if your Wii U bites the dust you can not recover your games, or it takes an act of congress to convince Nintendo to refund your credits so you can repurchase them from the eshop. Should I be sticking all my games on a USB drive instead and if so, in the case of a broken Wii U would I be able to hook the external up and sign in with my Nintendo ID and go about my merry way?

Probably has been said over and over again on these forums but being new I'll toss my few cents in the ring.

Advertise on channels that more adults watch (you know the people with money that buy the consoles)

Try and grab more of the older gamer crowd than just tossing nostalgia their way. Although I did buy the Wii U for hopefully Zelda and Metroid but Mario was not the reason I went with the console. (Maybe Mario Kart was)

Upcoming Mario Kart bundle with included SMBU pack too.

Why did they waste time redesigning the Wii for the Wii Mini (better resource management for development)?

Actively court some 3rd party devs for Exclusives like they did Capcom with the Gamecube.

Advertise again

Dare I say it.....Another price drop.

Firmware update for Blueray if possible, Network connectivity for shared network drives to access MP3s and such

Some more major apps like Skype, Facebook and such so the Gamepad can truly be used as a basic tablet (not a full fledged Andriod or Ipad) but more than just a gimmick as most people look at it.

How about a Subscription Service that gives you back catalog game access in tiers $5 a month per console (NES, SNES, GBA, N64)

A better social interface

Different UI depending on taste/age, at 38 I find the Mii based UI seems real kiddy and probably turns some adult gamers off.

Advertise

Bought Metroid Fusion over the weekend and it rocks once you turn the smoothing on.

Currently Have:

Wii U

Wii

N64

Gamecube

Genesis

GBA

Intellivision

System Changer for Intellivision making it an Atari 2600

Dreamcast

Have owned:

NES

SNES

Xbox

So something struck me the other day when using the Wii U, it could do point and click games great. Not sure how much of a market there is for the good old Graphic Adventure games of old like the Myst series or some of the SCUMM games from Lucas Arts but I would love to see them ported over or at least some new entries in that genre. Then again I am probably showing my age when I admit I still own Myst on CD! (a huge thing at that time btw). I know the newer Sam and Max games hit the Wii but never picked them up since I had them on PC so not sure how they did on the Wii but I would think that the Gamepad would lend itself better to that type of game then joystick or motion control of the Wii controller.

Love it!

One question though: will dust get into the disc drive so we can experience the old school "game wont play so blow into the console to get the contact pins clean" effect?