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Are you ok with killing the Wii U so early?

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No 277 46.40%
 
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DM235 on 11 January 2016

I am totally ok with Nintendo moving on, as long as Zelda is their swan song on the Wii U. Even if they were to keep it around longer, I don't expect Nintendo to release another Super Mario Bros. or Mario Kart game for it. I can already get all of the indie or 3rd party games elsewhere. The only game we may lose because of it would be Metroid. Chances are, Nintendo already decided that the next Metroid entry would be for the NX.



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Pavolink on 11 January 2016
CaptainExplosion said:

Four years still feels like too little. That's what happened with the Saturn/Dreamcast transition, and why consumers fell out of love with Sega. Do you want that to happen with Nintendo?

They have shifted their resources to NX. In 2017 you can expect rush low content/quality games like Amiibo Party, Triforce Heroes, Federation Force and Mario Tennis. Do people want a full year of that solely to say "it had 5 years of `support`?"





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fleischr on 11 January 2016

I think the better way to ask this is:

Would you be okay with a sudden WiiU resurgence that postponed the arrival of NX?

Looking at 2016's lineup and the continued strength of other WiiU games, that very well could happen.

Though given the fact they haven't announced a genuinely new HD platform, action, RPG, or shooter since 2014 should tell you where this is going.



I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016

Magnus on 11 January 2016
Soundwave said:
AEGRO said:
If i were a Wii U user, i would be fucking mad that my console is going to the slaughter house in less than 4 years since its release.

There is no other way around it for me. I firmly believe in long generations. It is better for the consumer, for the developer and the console maker.

If Nintendo keeps doing this 0.5 gens, i dont see how they will be competitive in this game. Unless they are fine with sub-20m consoles like the Wii U, because people are not going to support it nor developers.

What half gens?

You guys got 6 years last time for the Wii. Every other Nintendo console has gotten 5 years. This one is 4. 

A half generation is 2.5 years of support. 

If anything this just evens out the Wii being a year longer than it should have been. 

And long generations aren't that great either, it means you are stuck playing games on outdated technology for longer. The industry isn't a bunch of 10-year-old boys any longer that needs mommy/daddy to buy them every new console, a lot of people would be willing to embrace a different model IMO. 

Nintendo game experiences have always gotten better with better hardware unless you're going to sit there with a straight face and say Splatoon and Bayonetta 2 and so on would have been better on the original Wii. So why be afraid of something that's ultimately good for the player? 

This generation looks like it will be a long one, so 4 years is pretty much half a generation.





Pavolink on 11 January 2016
CaptainExplosion said:
Pavolink said:
CaptainExplosion said:

Four years still feels like too little. That's what happened with the Saturn/Dreamcast transition, and why consumers fell out of love with Sega. Do you want that to happen with Nintendo?

They have shifted their resources to NX. In 2017 you can expect rush low content/quality games like Amiibo Party, Triforce Heroes, Federation Force and Mario Tennis. Do people want a full year of that solely to say "it had 5 years of `support`?"

Yes, so that Nintendo doesn't look like Sega during the 90s.

So, you prefer them to damage the brand with low sales and low quality games for another year, swimming in the pool of irrelevance, rather than moving on to the next "big" thing, just to not have the same perception than Sega in the 90's, although the circumstances are different.

 





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AZWification on 11 January 2016
KungKras said:
AZWification said:

What did the SNES have in 96 besides Mario RPG and Dream Land 3?

Mario RPG is awesome!

Also didn't Killer Instinct come out then?

Of course Mario RPG is awesome, but it was still only one game. Regarding Killer Instinct, it came out on the SNES in 94. A KI game did come out in 96, but on the N64!





                
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c03n3nj0 on 11 January 2016

It doesn't matter to me. I still have a whole backlog of quality Wii U games I can purchase, and I never cared about an online community so if Miiverse dies I don't mind either.

The Wii U is all about local multiplayer. That's not going to go away with the release of the NX.



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Thunderbird77 on 11 January 2016
AEGRO said:
If i were a Wii U user, i would be fucking mad that my console is going to the slaughter house in less than 4 years since its release.

There is no other way around it for me. I firmly believe in long generations. It is better for the consumer, for the developer and the console maker.

If Nintendo keeps doing this 0.5 gens, i dont see how they will be competitive in this game. Unless they are fine with sub-20m consoles like the Wii U, because people are not going to support it nor developers.

I want to see the math you did to get that less than 4 years, not to mention the imaginary 0.5 generations.





Thunderbird77 on 11 January 2016
JNK said:
RolStoppable said:

I think that Nintendo's new system will not try to enter symmetrical competition with Sony and Microsoft, therefore the timing of the launch doesn't matter.

well there are 2 possibilities:

1. NX will be similar to wii and e extreme sucessfull for casual player and games like wii sports, just dance and co.

 

2. nx will be a "real console" like gamecube/N64 so competition for ps4/xbone.

 

If the 2nd scenario is true, it will fail. Many of my friends who got a 8th gen system got the system, most of their friends had. Nobody of them would ever considering buying an nx, exspecially if they just bought an ps4 this/last year.

There are many scenarios and none of them include your wrong notions of what a "real" console is.

So, you think your very limited number of friends is an indicator of anything? What about the two thirds+ of gamers yet without an 8th gen system or those that were early adobters of this gen? price? concept? games? everything that actually matters for a console's success?





Thunderbird77 on 11 January 2016

 

Magnus said:
Soundwave said:

What half gens?

You guys got 6 years last time for the Wii. Every other Nintendo console has gotten 5 years. This one is 4. 

A half generation is 2.5 years of support. 

If anything this just evens out the Wii being a year longer than it should have been. 

And long generations aren't that great either, it means you are stuck playing games on outdated technology for longer. The industry isn't a bunch of 10-year-old boys any longer that needs mommy/daddy to buy them every new console, a lot of people would be willing to embrace a different model IMO. 

Nintendo game experiences have always gotten better with better hardware unless you're going to sit there with a straight face and say Splatoon and Bayonetta 2 and so on would have been better on the original Wii. So why be afraid of something that's ultimately good for the player? 

This generation looks like it will be a long one, so 4 years is pretty much half a generation.

This generation looks like it will be the opposite of a long one. For starters, neither of the three consoles had amazing hardware when compared to what's best in 2012/2013.

midrange said:
slab_of_bacon said:

 

Games on all platforms are limited in scope due to hardware limitations.  

 

let me rephrase. Games on the wii u are limited to the weakest hardware for current gen home console gaming. It wouldn't be a problem if the performance of the hardware was close to that of the competition, but let's be real, the ps4/xbox1 run laps around the wii u

You're not making any sense on that. No one will look at wii u games and think they were limited by hardware.