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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo to drop the bomb 7/12-2013 ?

Intro.. we all know that Nintendo despide weak wiiu sale in 2013, still holds on to the "9 mill WiiU's sold before april, and we also knows that Iwata some weeks ago commented on Nintendo’s financial situation. For the fiscal year ending March 31, 2014, and that he hopes that the company will be able to once again achieve “Nintendo-like” profits. And that Nintendo intends to continue creating “brand-new and unique proposals.

And what is this.. How can a CEO make such a bold statment and hold on to an all to high estimate at the curent sale, when it for sure will make the investors pissed, if nintendo not meet that goal.

Sure Mario 3d, WiiFit U, Donkey kong and all ready out games like zelda HD, Mario 2d and few other make the "WiiU appeal" bigger and it also look like the casual gamer, will start to notice WiiU... But still 9 mill is to much.. (bawl and MK can't help, they are not yet out)  and "going back to wii level of sales next year".. it sounds crazy.

 

NINTENDO WILL MAKE A SPECIAL ANNONUNCEMENT ON DECEMBER 7TH 2013

http://www.gamrreview.com/news/90733/nintendo-set-to-make-announcement-at-vgx-awards

What can they show to turn it around, what could make such a huge impact in sales. ?


What i hope and think (and the point of this tread :)

Again a little intro.. I have made a topic here before on the fact that Wii-U is a virtual reality unit. becurse when you have a machine that can send the image to a extern screen that can be controlled by gyro and motion. then it's a VR set. And we have all ready seen some VR like in the "street view" app.

I had made treads other places explaining that nintendo could do VR by making a "Head version" of Upad..  use the same tecnic as in the upad in a Head mountered  Display), but cheaper becurse it will not require buttons and touch screen (mayby not the cam either but that could be used to warning)  Most people said that it would not be good or can't be done yet. (or some about Virtual Boy)

But that isent the case anymore. VR are comming and we all know it (many different sets are on the way) now it's not the case if it can be done or how "gimmick" it is.. it will come.. (and it will change the world )

 

THINGS THAT POINTS TO NINTENDO Wii-R

1. Nintendo made a machine that is totally prepared for it

2. They have hinted that the wiiu has a final secret

3. They always said that HD not was next step

4. Nintendo made Wind Waker HD ready for it.. can be played in first person and controlled by gyro (thats a VR game)

5.Nintendo are always first.. (Portable, analog, wireless controller, touch, motion, 3d glasses free)

REASONS WHY "WII-R" WILL MAKE WIIU GO WII

1. Mario 3d U, Mariokart U and Smash Brothers U can be played both on tv and in Wii-R mode (and online could even offer tv vs VR play)

2. Old games like Call of duty, mario 64 and waverace can be played in Wii-R (with a litle extra code)

3. Monster Hunter Wii-R

4. Two player VR (and others could follow the action on the tv screen)  

5. They will get an explosion in new cool Indie games

6. And It's not just the games.. think miiverse and mii channel, nintendogs, nintendo e3 :)  or from 3. part think louver tour, facebook, disneyland... app's

7.New Wii-R bundle.. Black wii-u, black Upad, Black (wireless) motion+/nunchuc Wii-R headset and Zelda HD to the same price as XboxOne


This is the perfect time.. They had showed that wiiu is a nextgen (nintendo consol) They had showed that it's a consol that can play games in 1080p 60 fps, and with a cool second screen upad controller, offering new ways of playnig, off tv play, and fast internet. 

If they did it 1 year ago (sony and ms could had changed theire plans.. just fun) it would have been to much, and wiiu would not be a normal consol. this way wiiu is a normal consol, but with a very cool preperial. (it's like if ps2 came with singstar, it would have been the "karaoke game station" more safe to do it the other way around)

Could it happen and will it have that big a impact in sales. ?  



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Doubt it. I expect their VGX thing to be something quirky like a real life super smash bros. match with people cosplaying the characters.



I'm afraid for the future of Nintendo if this ends up being real.



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4. Nintendo made Wind Waker HD ready for it.. can be played in first person and controlled by gyro (thats a VR game)

I don't think that qualifies as a VR game. 



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JoeTheBro said:
Doubt it. I expect their VGX thing to be something quirky like a real life super smash bros. match with people cosplaying the characters.


Lets say they do show it.. do you think Wii-U Would get attention and better sales



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Smash Bros with VR? Why would you ever play a third-person game with a VR set? If Nintendo was actually trying to position the Wii U as a VR console, Metroid Prime Trilogy HD would already be a thing.



Fusioncode said:

4. Nintendo made Wind Waker HD ready for it.. can be played in first person and controlled by gyro (thats a VR game)

I don't think that qualifies as a VR game. 


If the image can be seen in first person view and change with motion (that means that it also change with head movment) why don't you think it is ?



the_dengle said:
Smash Bros with VR? Why would you ever play a third-person game with a VR set? If Nintendo was actually trying to position the Wii U as a VR console, Metroid Prime Trilogy HD would already be a thing.

You could be very right.. but it could also be a metroid game.. thats just some posible games.. mayby smash is not fit for VR..

But i would rather have people comment on if Wii-R is posible.. a logic next step for nintendo and if it will be "the bomb" if it came now.. :)

What do you think of zelda U or monster hunter in VR ?



FromDK said:
the_dengle said:
Smash Bros with VR? Why would you ever play a third-person game with a VR set? If Nintendo was actually trying to position the Wii U as a VR console, Metroid Prime Trilogy HD would already be a thing.

You could be very right.. but it could also be a metroid game.. thats just some posible games.. mayby smash is not fit for VR..

But i would rather have people comment on if Wii-R is posible.. a logic next step for nintendo and if it will be "the bomb" if it came now.. :)

What do you think of zelda U or monster hunter in VR ?

I don't think of them at all, because neither are first-person. There's no advantage to having VR for those games.

The Wii U could probably handle VR pretty well. But truth be told, Nintendo has very few games that would benefit from the technology, so I doubt they would invest heavily into it.

VR is also very single-player focused, another reason I doubt Nintendo would be interested in it. The Wii U is only built to stream video to one GamePad at a time (two max), so suppose four people are playing Mario Kart together... and one of them is wearing a headset, unable to see or hear the other players. That's not happening.