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zorg1000 on 13 November 2016
Kai_Mao said:
zorg1000 said:

This is what it needed as a bare minimum

Price cut to $99.99

Super Mario 64-2

Mario Galaxy 3

Pokemon MMO

Exclusive Zelda

Metroid Prime Trilogy HD

Metroid Prime 4

Super Metroid HD

Eternal Darkness 2

Beyond Good & Evil 2

Open-world 3D Donkey Kong

Star Tropics Reboot

F-Zero

Pokemon Snap 2

Star Fox without motion controls

Animal Crossing

Paper Mario Thousand Year Door HD

Diddy Kong Racing 2

Wave Race HD

Mother 3

Kid Icarus Uprising 2

Luigi's Mansion 3

Ice Climbers Reboot

That's a lot to cover for Nintendo's dev teams, especially since they were still green to HD development. Few of the proposed games are a hard sell because they haven't sold that well in the past to warrant more games (I.e. F-Zero, Eternal Darkness), Sakurai is/was not interested in making a Kid Icarus Uprising sequel, Ice Climber (while considered classic, was not necessarily well received back then) has been irrelevant outside of Smash, and Star Tropics is like Murasame, great game known by hardcore fans but not really known among the casual gamers. Plus not sure how Game Freak would work out a Pokemon MMO due to mostly putting their efforts on their mainline games that are on handhelds. And $99.99 is asking Nintendo to take a huge loss that could do more damage if it doesn't sell its entire stock at least. Even the GameCube wasn't able to build much momentum at $99 and it had majority of the hits back then.

Unless you're kidding.. Maybe they'll be able to do it now since their divisions are now able to communicate better due to moving into one HQ and they've gotten the HD experience down. Remember even Sony and Microsoft had a tough time out of the gate back in gen 7 with HD.

whoooosh



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gb0923 on 13 November 2016

Nintendo has not screwed anyone over. I am honored to own a Wii U. Nintendo has a product that they are selling. People didn't buy their system and they want to give the games (btw this is a rumor) a chance on the switch. You knew what games were available when you bought the system. The Wii U is still getting a Zelda Breath of the Wild release. They have no history of screwing over their fans. What do you think they did? Do you think they approached these third party developers and said: "We want you to not support our Wii U console." No they did their best and honestly helped a doomed system still manage to sell 14 million consoles. They came up with a perfect solution - to merge handheld and console together. They have screwed no one over.



Magnus on 13 November 2016
oniyide said:
i'm waiting for a list of games that could've came to Wii U to make people feel they didnt get ripped off

An exclusive Zelda and not porting Smash, Mario Kart, Splatoon and Mario Maker to other systems, but make sequels instead.



Mr.GameCrazy on 13 November 2016
RavenXtra said:
The games still exist on Wii U, they didn't take anything away from fans. If you played the game and enjoyed it on Wii U, I don't see how it affects you in any way that it exists on another Nintendo platform. Pretty sure people who bought the NES, SNES, N64, GBA, DS, or Wii aren't feeling burned that a lot of the high-profile software from those platforms are on Wii U.

I agree. I think the OP is overreacting a bit.



unmannedrobot on 13 November 2016

Lol, when did you become my voice of reason?

 

 



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zorg1000 on 13 November 2016
Magnus said:
oniyide said:
i'm waiting for a list of games that could've came to Wii U to make people feel they didnt get ripped off

An exclusive Zelda and not porting Smash, Mario Kart, Splatoon and Mario Maker to other systems, but make sequels instead.

Sakurai likes to work on different projects between Smash Bros releases, he directed a couple smaller Kirby games between Melee & Brawl and directed Kid Icarus between Brawl & Smash 4.

Either he begins work on Smash 5 right away which  releases in 2018 and doesnt get to make a new game until after that or he makes a new game which releases around that time and Switch doesnt get a Smash Bros until 2021 at the earliest.

By releasing an updated port they can get Smash on the system early in its life they get the best of both  worlds, Smash early in Switch's life along with another game relatively early on.

This same thing applies for those other games. If Breathe of the Wild stayed a Wii U exclusive, Switch wouldnt get a Zelda title until 2021 at the earliest.

One of the big issues Wii U had was that it had too few big games and many of them released too late in its life. By releasing these updated ports, Switch gets these big hitting franchises early on while also allowing these teams to get a 2nd game out relatively early on it its life.

I know you feel shafted by Nintendo but try looking at the big picture, in the long term this will be beneficial to Nintendo and its fans.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

Cobretti2 on 13 November 2016

this thread s still alive?

i thught everyone pretty much confirmed they disagree with you 10x over.



 

 

Magnus on 13 November 2016
zorg1000 said:
Magnus said:

An exclusive Zelda and not porting Smash, Mario Kart, Splatoon and Mario Maker to other systems, but make sequels instead.

Sakurai likes to work on different projects between Smash Bros releases, he directed a couple smaller Kirby games between Melee & Brawl and directed Kid Icarus between Brawl & Smash 4.

Either he begins work on Smash 5 right away which  releases in 2018 and doesnt get to make a new game until after that or he makes a new game which releases around that time and Switch doesnt get a Smash Bros until 2021 at the earliest.

By releasing an updated port they can get Smash on the system early in its life they get the best of both  worlds, Smash early in Switch's life along with another game relatively early on.

This same thing applies for those other games. If Breathe of the Wild stayed a Wii U exclusive, Switch wouldnt get a Zelda title until 2021 at the earliest.

One of the big issues Wii U had was that it had too few big games and many of them released too late in its life. By releasing these updated ports, Switch gets these big hitting franchises early on while also allowing these teams to get a 2nd game out relatively early on it its life.

I know you feel shafted by Nintendo but try looking at the big picture, in the long term this will be beneficial to Nintendo and its fans.

Nintendo's inability to manage a consistent release schedule isn't an excuse for shafting their customers. Whatever Nintendo does in the future doesn't give me back the money I spent on their crappy system or the games that they ported to other platforms.



zorg1000 on 13 November 2016
Magnus said:
zorg1000 said:

Sakurai likes to work on different projects between Smash Bros releases, he directed a couple smaller Kirby games between Melee & Brawl and directed Kid Icarus between Brawl & Smash 4.

Either he begins work on Smash 5 right away which  releases in 2018 and doesnt get to make a new game until after that or he makes a new game which releases around that time and Switch doesnt get a Smash Bros until 2021 at the earliest.

By releasing an updated port they can get Smash on the system early in its life they get the best of both  worlds, Smash early in Switch's life along with another game relatively early on.

This same thing applies for those other games. If Breathe of the Wild stayed a Wii U exclusive, Switch wouldnt get a Zelda title until 2021 at the earliest.

One of the big issues Wii U had was that it had too few big games and many of them released too late in its life. By releasing these updated ports, Switch gets these big hitting franchises early on while also allowing these teams to get a 2nd game out relatively early on it its life.

I know you feel shafted by Nintendo but try looking at the big picture, in the long term this will be beneficial to Nintendo and its fans.

Nintendo's inability to manage a consistent release schedule isn't an excuse for shafting their customers. Whatever Nintendo does in the future doesn't give me back the money I spent on their crappy system or the games that they ported to other platforms.

they arent shafting anybody, you have been asked this dozens of times, how do those games coming to Switch change the fact that you got to play them on Wii U for 2-3 years? How does Breathe of the Wild being cross-gen affect you?



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gabzjmm23 on 13 November 2016

what ripped off? imagine, Nintendo didn't release the Wii U, and released MK8, Smash bros, and other titles in Wii, all in non-HD. Would you think Nintendo Switch would come out in 2017 if the Wii was still around and no Wii U came?

Wii U is the introduction to us of Nintendo HD games which is great. and we have the gaming hours hundred if not thousands that kept on playing these Wii U games.