Kotaku changes its mind about Wii U and says yes!!

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RushJet1 said:

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KungKras said:

An editorial with zero comments?

Either way, NSMBW gets tonnes of flak and I cant fathom ehy, I agree. But in the end, the console being a good or bad desicion is just opinion.

It gets flak because it is perceived as lazy.  Nintendo needed a Mario game, so they just took an existing engine and made an expansion pack for it in HD essentially.  When this happens people get annoyed because we like change and because too much of a similar thing in a short amount of time deadens your perception of it.  If they had released a full 3D Mario game, it would have gotten a better reception. This is also why Mario 3D World kind of got a "meh" from a lot of people - it's a great game, but it's just "more of the same" in many peoples' eyes with 3D Land.  The same thing can be pointed at DK Tropical Freeze - it's a very similar game to the previous one but in HD, etc etc.

If they had released 4 Galaxy games since the first one, you could assume the same thing would start happening there, too.

 

It's a shame people only look at games on the surface to make thier judgements of it. It's a crime that Tropical Freeze still has less than a million copies sold.