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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - I'm a Nintendo fan and I just accepted that Wii U is N64 2.

 

Have you accepted ?

Yes =( 145 53.11%
 
No =( 41 15.02%
 
Ain't nobody got time for this 85 31.14%
 
Total:271
Soundwave on 02 December 2013

No Wii U .... *I* am your father!



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Lonely_Dolphin on 02 December 2013
NightDragon83 said:
Wii U isn't even comparable to any of Nintendo's previous consoles because it's in its own league... of suckiness.


^I came in here to say this! Though also, at the same time, it should be in it's own league of awesomeness in terms of games!

STRYKIE on 02 December 2013
NightDragon83 said:
STRYKIE said:
NightDragon83 said:
STRYKIE said:
NightDragon83 said:
Pavolink said:
No. It's GameCube2.

Nah, the GC was actually in a tossup with the Xbox for most powerful console of the gen, while the Wii U is a gen behind.  And for all the talk about Nintendo's lack of 3rd party support over the past few gens, the GC received a pretty good share of 3rd party games, many of which were superior to the PS2 versions in terms of visuals.


I'm just curious here, but can you give me like a dozen or so examples where this were the case between 2001-2004? Because to my understanding GC versions of multi-platform games were almost always deemed the worst of the pack. Even Sonic Adventure 2 took a performance hit on the Gamecube, a port of a freaking Dreamcast game.

Just about every single multiplatform game that was released on the GC looked either the same or better than the PS2 versions, depending on the developer.  Sonic Adventure 2 was just that... a port, so that's not an accurate comparison.

The most notable difference is between the GC and PS2 versions of RE4...

(snip)

Bolded: Erm...

 

And for the record, I've played RE4 on both GC and PS2, I know what the differences are. But this is why I said we should go by the peak of the generation (which for the most part is agreed to be 2001-2004), Vectorman didn't exactly move any Genesis/Mega Drives.

I see, well here's a few other examples...

Clone Wars (2002)... all three consoles...

Splinter Cell:  Chaos Theory (2004)

Prince of Persia:  Warrior Within (2004)

NFS Underground 2 (2004)

Interesting, although up against the Xbox versions, it still proves my point that GC was still never a go-to system for multiplatform/3rd party games games. Poor guy got fucking nuked in the SC3 comparison.



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STRYKIE on 02 December 2013
EricFabian said:
NightDragon83 said:

I see, well here's a few other examples...

Clone Wars (2002)... all three consoles

(snip_

PS2 had a huge library, but omg, what a shit graphics lol

To be fair, that was just showing I was wrong about the GC having the worst versions of multiplatform games, which I concede, none of them are particularly demonstrative of their respective full potential.



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ListerOfSmeg on 02 December 2013
FrancisNobleman said:
The reason for my acceptance:

Knack just sold more than Mario 3D World. A game that has Mario on the title, and a high 90 on metacritic. It is gonna be on the top 10 list of games when this gen is done, and yet, knack is outselling it.


No it didnt. Uk sales are not WW sales dude. Your acceptance is based off of something that doesnt exist?



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curl-6 on 02 December 2013
FrancisNobleman said:
The reason for my acceptance:

Knack just sold more than Mario 3D World. A game that has Mario on the title, and a high 90 on metacritic. It is gonna be on the top 10 list of games when this gen is done, and yet, knack is outselling it.

IN ONE COUNTRY.

FOR ONE WEEK.

PS4 LAUNCH WEEK.



bigtakilla on 02 December 2013

Welcome to the next gen! Where people will not actually do any research into anything, spout off nonsense and state that it's fact. Worldwide sales aren't in yet for 3D World or Knack, they just know Knack sold more in the UK (which has sold more PS4s than Wii Us).



Metallicube on 02 December 2013

Ehh.. Gamecube is about as far from normal as you get. Super funky controller and a purple lunchbox console with a handle, complete with a ton of quirky, niche titles, including a cell shaded cartoony Zelda and a Mario game which centers around cleaning off mud with a jet propelled water pack on a tropical island.

The libraries are also (as of now) very similar..

Nintendoland = Mario Party 4/5/6

Zombi U = REmake/RE 4

Pikmin 3 = Pikmin 1/2

Wonderful 101 = Pikmin 1/2/Viewtiful Joe

Sonic Lost World = Sonic Adventure 2 Battle

Zelda WW HD = Zelda WW

etc..

The tablet controller is also reminicent of the GBA to GC connectivity

Wii U is essentially a Gamecube disguised as a Wii. Not that that's a bad thing necessarily, as I enjoyed some aspects of the Cube, but that is why the console is selling similar to the Gamecube, because the console itself is very similar to the Gamecube.



Frogger on 02 December 2013

Good thing I'm a proud casual gamer.



Soundwave on 02 December 2013

 

To be honest it looks more and more like Wii was just kind of like a break out motion game fad for Nintendo, there's a pretty clear trend in their console business otherwise ...

 

 

Wii U simply may be the continuation of what's been happening to Nintendo's console business for a long time now.