Hoodbury

this makes since who the hell wants to be up that late waiting in a line for hours anyway it just blows. good thing i dont do that lol

Er, I'd rather wait in line from like 8PM to midnight instead of having to get up at like 3 in the morning to wait in line for a 7 am store opening.

He did ask that:

IGN: Okay, cool. I think, looking back at the core gamers once again, they have an Xbox 360 or a PS3. And then all indications are that Microsoft and Sony are about to bring their next consoles in within the next year or two. What are your thoughts about how Wii U will compete? Not only with the existing platforms, but the ones that are just around the corner?

Fils-Aime: We're about to launch a tremendously powerful system. A system that pushes out great graphics, a system that has an opportunity to do a lot of things. What I've heard the fan community say is, I want my Mario, I want my Zelda, and I want the best of third-party. And that's what we're looking to bring to consumers.
I think in the end, the consumer choice is going to be... Once I buy my Wii U, that satisfies my Nintendo cravings and my cravings for all of these other great multi-platform franchises, then what is the role of a competitive platform? It's going to have to live on the backs of some sort of unique proposition, or unique content. And to me that's the million-dollar question. Of our potential competitors down the road, who's going to have that compelling content that's going to say, hey, now I need to branch out and pick up this additional system? I think it's for them to answer.

IGN Article

Rich interviewed Reggie and asked about Retro and basically said they are working hard but won't hear anything from them for awhile.

The rest of the interview is pretty good too.  Helped a bit of my current dissappointement of E3 and Nintendo.

He confirms there won't be a lot of 3rd party support from Western developers until there is a bit of an install base with the system, he said that's just how they work.

this was never confirmed, in fact, when they asked the head at DICE, he said he really liked the console but had no plans for wii u.
actually, just take a look at this, it will be cleared up this way:

http://mynintendonew...ii-u-after-all/

this doesnt mean it wont come, just saying, dont get ur hopes up, but u can get ur hopes up for medal of honour cos that will be released this october

Ya, back when that article came out I thought that pretty much meant no Battlefield 3, and then later on they said we would get the new MoH game.  Where is this BF3 confirmation coming from?

If you want to attract the Halo/CoD fans you need these things in my opinion:

• Competitive multiplayer
  
  • Online leaderboards - and not just W/L ratio and K/D ratio.  Needs expansive leaderboards that track many attributes.
  • Stat tracking of every thing you can think of
  • Smooth gameplay and framerates while playing online
  • Voice chat (which should be a given in today's online gaming age)
  • Easy to use friend lists and jump in jump out functionality to play with them
  • More gamemodes than the basic TDM and Free for all that a lot of CoD imitators only seem to add.
  • Plenty of maps to keep things fresh
  • Balance - it really sucks when 1 gun is found to be overly powerful compared to the others and then everyone just uses the same gun/setup.
  • Feed the grinder mechanics, ie. - a slow grind with tiny carrots sprinkled for the player to achieve
• Realistic Graphics
• Single Player campaign with some mature themes.
• Some type of 3rd gamemode.  Something like zombies or a horde mode.  Something else to do when you need a break from multiplayer and have beaten the single player campaign.

Remember, this isn't technically what I'm saying would make the greatest game ever, just what I think a game would need to attract the CoD/Halo gamer to the Nintendo Wii U.

My mind instantly jumps to SSB4 whenever I see "Wii U/3DS cross platform", but it has to be something bigger than that since SSB4 has already been confirmed. Whatever it is, I hope we hear soon.

I'm with you, SSB4 is already confirmed for the cross platform so it's gotta be something else.  We already got news Monster Hunter 4 is coming to the 3DS, perhaps the Wii-U will get it too and it'll have cross platform functionality?  That would definitely be my dream come true.

I guess to me, announcing you have an announcement isn't that exciting and I kinda hate it when 'journalists' do it.

Here, I'll make one too and you guys let me know if you're excited for my big announcement and I'll even give you an exact date unlike this Paul guy:  I have really big and exciting news to tell you guys about the Wii-U and I'll tell you it on June 6th.

Lets hope so.  GTA would be a huge boost for post launch window for Wii-U.  But I guess I already thought it was confirmed we would get it?

Hi,

Been lurking this site since it started and figured I might as well register finally.

I've been going by the online name of Hoodbury for a short while now (2008ish probably), it was my alts name in Lord of the Rings Online and then I chose to use it over my more LOTRish name my 'main' used.  So Hoodbury has stuck and seems to be a universal name that works for different games and genres.

I'm 29 years old and have been gaming on Nintendo consoles from the NES in 1987 and every console since.  I skipped the handheld market for the most part but I do have a 3DS now and am really impressed by it and enjoy it a lot.

I just sold my Wii last week along with all of it's games to start my Wii-U fund, so now I am consoleless until the Wii-U comes out.  So basically, I am hoping for a sooner rather than later release date, heh.  Until then though, the 3DS will keep me busy.

I had a lot of fun on the Wii, but as time went on, I started to get a bit more and more upset that it wasn't getting 3rd party support.  Call me the most crazy Nintendo fan you've met, but I kind of grew away from Mario and Zelda.  Most of my Wii gametime was from the Call of Duty games and Monster Hunter.

I tried a PS3 at a friends house a few years ago, and I just couldn't handle dual analog sticks anymore.  I actually really like the control and feeling of the Wiimote and nunchuck even for Call of Duty and Monster Hunter.  So even though the new tablet controller looks cool and spiffy, I might just end up using the Wiimote and chuck more often than not if possible.

I guess that's me in a nutshell.  Can't wait for e3 and for the console to actually release like the rest of you.