Soundwave said:
zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:
I'm kinda tired of the "it doesn't have games" stuff.
It's now getting a price cut and has gotten New Super Luigi U, Rayman Legends, Pikmin 3, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Wonderful 101, and Zelda: Wind Waker HD (bundled no less) are just released or in the process of releasing in the next few days.
"The drought" thing isn't an excuse anymore IMO. There is plenty to play now when you add in Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Black Ops 2, LEGO City, Monster Hunter Tri G, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Assassin's Creed 3, Game & Wario, Zombi U, and Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed.
There's isn't a lack of content for anyone buying a Wii U from here on out, unless you can play like 10 games in one month's time before Sonic Lost Worlds and Batman: Arkham Origins comes out and then you have Watch Dogs, CoD Ghosts, and Mario 3D World in November.
The system needs to start showing real improvement now.
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The only problem with ur lists are that a sizeable chunk of them are on other consoles with much larger install bases. Rayman, Splinter Cell, Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, Sonic Racing are on PS360 which have sold over 150m so it only makes sense that those games dont push hardware. Monster Hunter is a 3 year old port thats also on 3DS, which has 10x the install base. Those are all great games to own if u already have a Wii U but there not going to make people go out a buy a Wii U if u already have a PS3/360/3DS.
U need to stop being so literal, of course people dont mean it has 0 games, they mean it lacks software that will make u go out a buy a new $300+ console. For the first 8 months the only titles that could possibly fit that title for most were Nintendo Land & NSMBU. Pikmin, Lego City, Game & Wario are nice little support titles that can push hardware for a couple weeks but arent from huge selling mainstream series. This holiday has 3D Mario, DKC which are known to be strong system selling franchises and Wii Party/Fit which will show us how popular the Wii brand games still are. On top of that are a bunch of support titles, price cut and new bundles.
Im a diehard Nintendo fan but outside of Pikmin, there isnt any must have games for me personally until Oct/Nov so it only makes sense to wait for black friday sales. I have a feeling alot of people feel the same way and we will see sales improve greatly over the holidays.
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I still think it's a BS excuse. Nintendo designed the Wii U to get PS3/360 ports as a big part of the strategy behind the console. Call of Duty? Check that box, right Reggie? There aren't going to be many exclusives for the Wii U from third parties (or any console), that's simply the reality of the situation.
The PS4/XB1 have plenty of 360/PS3 multi-plats too and they are a major part of the lineup. If a game is releasing day and date on the Wii U with other console versions, it's a perfectly good game. I'm not including old ports like Mass Effect 3 or Need for Speed, but there's no reason Wii U owners should shun Splinter Cell: Blacklist or Rayman simply because they are on other consoles, they even use the gamepad better than most Nintendo games.
The system has games now. Plenty of them considering it's a 9 month old console, I'd argue it's library through its first September is better than the Wii in overall quality (far more games with a Metacritic of around 80 or better) and that so called drought is most definitely over. There are even really a fair number of games that show off the gamepad now too -- Nintendo Land, Zombi U, Game & Wario, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Wonderful 101, Rayman Legends, all make fairly good use of it, if this is an idea that Nintendo's hung their hat on, then people should be responding to it by now. Mario Kart/Mario 3D World barely use the controller.
The best third party game the Wii had at this point was Resident Evil 4 which was a port of a 2 year old game that had already been on two other systems.
If the logic behind the console is that people will buy it strictly for a handful of old Nintendo IP, then you might as well just call it a GameCube and be done with it.
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