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Pyro as Bill said:
bananaking21 said:
Pyro as Bill said:

NSMB Wii-U

I can buy every 2D Mario and a console to play them on bar Mari-U for less than the price of a Wooh. (includes shitty portable versions)

ZombU

Let's be serious. This is a Ubisoft FPS. $40-50 will buy me all the best FPS goodness for the past 5-20years on Steam. F-U Sean. Steam gives me far more gaming bang/$ and is the only "gaming" company looking for new audiences/gamers.

Wii-U Party aka Nintendoland

Please.

 

For those who aren't familiar with how Nintendo thinks they can play the game these days. They throw out what they think will be a 20M seller once a year (holidays) thinking that will be enough to sell the hardware. One AAA game and 2 B-games a year is all you're going to get (at most) but it isn't to cut it anymore.

Instead of launching with Wii FitU, Mari-U, Mario KartU, ZeldU, and a new IP or 2 that will blow your socks off, they play us in the hope that they can string us out over 5 years until the next overpriced piece of hardware comes along.

Odds are that Nintendo isn't going to produce the next "killer app". They might produce 'gamer apps' like Mario Galaxy if they haven't confused themselves too much but for the most part, they played their hand last gen, THEY HAVE NOTHING. Even if Nintendo can make new IPs on the level of Mario 64, OoT and Goldeneye it isn't going to be enough.

Nintendo can't compete with a super cheap (less than 10% of original production cost) 360, PS3 and most importantly Wii never mind the 720 and PS4 (if Sony hasn't died by then).

 

The only company Nintendo cannot beat is Nintendo.

 

What Nintendo should have done?

Forget about WiiU and give the Wii away for free without any Wiimotes or games. If you're going to start losing money on hardware, you might sw well do it on successful hardware. If this screen is so good they can bundle it with 'screen games' like they did for the balance board and motion plus. Wait until after 720 and PS4 play their cards and then release a real Nintendo console.

I'll take Starfox and Metroid (real one) and F-Zero for the Wii thanks. Fuck (the) U.

from your post i can clearly see you hate nintendo.... umm if they released mario U, smash bro's, zelda, mario kart all at the same time they will just end up competing against them selfs as they are games most nintendo fans buy, and they buy each one of them. as for creating new IP's i find that a joke. nintendo has proven that they wont do it for what ever reason (i personally believe is that they know if they do create a new IP it wont be ground breaking and wont be a high quality tittle)  

as to why buy a Wii U? easy, for mario and zelda.... zombie U? i would consider buying it if it was being released on the ps3 as it looks good, but not amazing... honestly if you dont like mario or zelda dont get a Wii U well i say this because one publisher hasnt said they are supporting the Wii U, and thats rockstar!! honestly probably my favorite game this gen (possibly ever to) is red dead redemption imagine missing out on the sequal because rockstart didnt support wiiU or missing out on the next max payne! (i loved max payne 3)  the PS4 and xbox 720 will most probably have support from third parties like this gen, the Wii U on the other hand doesnt seem to

Because CoD, NSMB, Wii Fit+ and Wii Sports Resort all hurt each other and evergreens like Mario Kart Wii, Brawl, WoW, and some spacey shooter on the xbox................right?

Stupid gamer. Stop posting now.

apparently having an intelligent discussion with you is impossible...  i didn’t insult you for you to insult me and you would be a complete moron to not understand how stupid it would be to release each major IP they have at launch. let me say each major IP that takes years to develop and create so after launch they won’t release another one of those games again on the wiiU for at least 2/3 years. ya seems like a perfect plan....



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DieAppleDie said:
You really want to get banned, dont you?


Pikmin bastards isn't bannable. Had I used the phrase real Nintendo fans use then I would probably get banned.



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the_dengle said:
Asking Nintendo to have a console Zelda game ready for launch...

Guess you don't realize Zelda games take more than 12 months to make.

Dismissing the Mario Land series as "shitty portable versions"...

...go home...

As for "one AAA game and two B-games," really? Just really?

If you're not convinced to buy a Wii U, fine. Don't buy it. But you'll come running to buy it eventually when you see Retro's next game, or Monolith Soft's next game, or the next Zelda or Metroid game.


To be fair, those B-games would be considered AAA on a HD console using a green and brown palette swap.



Nov 2016 - NES outsells PS1 (JP)

Don't Play Stationary 4 ever. Switch!

the_dengle said:
Asking Nintendo to have a console Zelda game ready for launch...

Guess you don't realize Zelda games take more than 12 months to make.

Dismissing the Mario Land series as "shitty portable versions"...

...go home...

As for "one AAA game and two B-games," really? Just really?

If you're not convinced to buy a Wii U, fine. Don't buy it. But you'll come running to buy it eventually when you see Retro's next game, or Monolith Soft's next game, or the next Zelda or Metroid game.


No offense but the first couple Mario Land games were pretty sub-par to say the least. That series wasn't worth playing until the superb Wario Land.



bananaking21 said:
Pyro as Bill said:

Because CoD, NSMB, Wii Fit+ and Wii Sports Resort all hurt each other and evergreens like Mario Kart Wii, Brawl, WoW, and some spacey shooter on the xbox................right?

Stupid gamer. Stop posting now.

 

apparently having an intelligent discussion with you is impossible...  i didn’t insult you for you to insult me and you would be a complete moron to not understand how stupid it would be to release each major IP they have at launch. let me say each major IP that takes years to develop and create so after launch they won’t release another one of those games again on the wiiU for at least 2/3 years. ya seems like a perfect plan.... 

 

That's an immature way to think. Games don't hurt games. When people play games, they are more open to playing other games that they wouldn't have previously played. 

The top 5 of any previous gen should be ready at launch for a new console along side the piece of software that the new console needs to lauch for. IE if there is no new piece of software, then why release a new console.



Nov 2016 - NES outsells PS1 (JP)

Don't Play Stationary 4 ever. Switch!

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Mrio land games were better than anything else on the market for the GB except for maybe DK land games



sorry but this is a troll thread with that title.

Why ask a question then SLAM everything you think is wrong with the WiiU.

Also ZOmbiU is not a FPS its a sruvival horror. Clearly shows the only thing you have played in the last 10 years are FPS.

The only way you will know the answer to your loaded question is simply go to the official WiiU thread and make up your own decision instead of proviiding reasons "why I am not going to buy a WiiU".





 

 

Pyro as Bill said:
bananaking21 said:
Pyro as Bill said:

Because CoD, NSMB, Wii Fit+ and Wii Sports Resort all hurt each other and evergreens like Mario Kart Wii, Brawl, WoW, and some spacey shooter on the xbox................right?

Stupid gamer. Stop posting now.

 

apparently having an intelligent discussion with you is impossible...  i didn’t insult you for you to insult me and you would be a complete moron to not understand how stupid it would be to release each major IP they have at launch. let me say each major IP that takes years to develop and create so after launch they won’t release another one of those games again on the wiiU for at least 2/3 years. ya seems like a perfect plan.... 

 

That's an immature way to think. Games don't hurt games. When people play games, they are more open to playing other games that they wouldn't have previously played. 

The top 5 of any previous gen should be ready at launch for a new console along side the piece of software that the new console needs to lauch for. IE if there is no new piece of software, then why release a new console.


let me explain it this way.... people dont crap money! if they are gonna spend 300 bucks on new hardware and 50 bucks on a new game there probably done spending money maybe they buy another game... but if they see 6 of nintendo's biggest IP's at launch and they can only buy 2, they will only buy 2 and miss out on the other 4. yes your idea of releasing all the games at launch will give the Wii U a bigger launch. but it will kill the maximum number the games could sell and kill post launch support for the system



Cobretti2 said:
sorry but this is a troll thread with that title.

Why ask a question then SLAM everything you think is wrong with the WiiU.

Also ZOmbiU is not a FPS its a sruvival horror. Clearly shows the only thing you have played in the last 10 years are FPS.

The only way you will know the answer to your loaded question is simply go to the official WiiU thread and make up your own decision instead of proviiding reasons "why I am not going to buy a WiiU".



It's a shooty shooty game. If I only cared about shooty shooties I'd have never owned a console.



Nov 2016 - NES outsells PS1 (JP)

Don't Play Stationary 4 ever. Switch!

ZombiU isn't an FPS. It's a survival horror with both first and third person perspectives. Of course, if you're one of the Dudebro CoD crowd you won't like it anyway...no aim assist, no auto-regenerating health. It'll probably be far too difficult for you to finish.

You've also got to take into account that Nintendo have surprisingly been forward thinking with their hardware and architecture choice. All 3 consoles next gen will be architecturally similar and each of the GPGPUs will have the same feature sets meaning that games will be easily portable to and from the U and PS4/720. Surprisingly the Wii's lack of power wasn't the main reason for the lack of big third party multiplatform games, it was mostly down to the GPU (thanks to their insistence of bringing Gamecube backwards compatibility) having a nonstandard rendering pipeline. The U won't have this problem.

You're going to end up getting a next gen console that's 3 or 4 times more powerfult than the 360, a console that whilst won't be as powerful as the PS4 and 720 will be in the same sort of ballpark (think PS2 (U) - Gamecube (PS4) - Xbox (720)) and the console with the best quality first party titles.

Personally I think it's going to be worth buying a U for ZombiU alone. It really does look like the dog's bollocks.