In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

I agree, really super mario 3d and mario kart 8 should have been launch games.

nintendo were niave to think everyone would flock to it on brand name alone.

They thought that because of the huge success of the Nintendo Wii,they thought power wasn't important and really it's basically the Wii 2 with a massive tablet controller that has [censored] poor battery life.

I'm knocking it but on many counts I really have had more fun with it than the other 2 consoles,I only wish they would focus more on the mature market,that's why developers are delaying releases of games like Watchdogs and cancelling other on the Wii U because nobody is going to buy the bigger games on a Nintendo Wii U when they have a Playstation 4 or Xbox One

Think it was 18 months later they actually released stuff worth purchasing the console for,I bought it because of my love of Zelda and the awesome Pikmin game

Edited by time2die (Wed 07-May-14 16:19:07)

I got it for 3 wii exclusive games initially. one of them is made by the same dev who made lost oddysey which is probably the best jrpg in previous generation.

I dont know what the hell is going on with the wii-u, commercially its a complete failure, but I feel this is about much more than the hardware.

Now days deals are made all the time, cash changes hands for exclusives etc. and I get the impression sony has their own developers in their pockets, microsoft has their's also, nintendo has noone just their own 1st party releases, they seem to think they dont need to pay for games to be developed on their system. Zelda wind waker isnt really a wii-u game, its a enhanced port for the wii-u so the wii-u after all this time is yet to have a native zelda game. The gamepad has the shortest battery life I have ever seen for a gamepad and if you seen the news article I posted it looks like they originally had a bigger battery but then reduced it to cut costs. If I compare it to say my vita, which isnt just a screen it also has a gpu/cpu etc. the vita has a battery that lasts about 10x as long and it charges faster as well. The gamepad on my wii-u has a sticky button, I usually only ever see sticky buttons on cheap 3rd party controllers or really old 1st party ones, my brand new wii-u controller has the problem. Plus the huge brick required to charge it urrrgh. Really bad design choices. The wii-u is obviously weak for this generation and in particular its cpu is very weak, but at the time it was the most powerful console when released yet it didnt get any support then, which is why I think its not all down to the hardware, unless developers knew at that time the future specs of ps4 and xbox1.

All I can do is compare it to other consoles I have and this is what I see.

The club nintendo website is still not complete about 2 years or so after the product is launched, in addition I registered my console and its yet to show on the site, when I registered my ps3 on psn it was instant. I contacted nintendo reps and have yet to have a reply.
The nintendo tvii feature which is used for iptv services, is yet to launch in europe, nintendo have a website they made in feb 2013 stating its coming soon, that same page is still there now in may 2014. They kept the app on the wii-u just it doesnt do anything.
No iplayer/itvplayer yet the ps4 already has these.
Nintendo's famous virtual console which I have seen way too much hype for has a massive 8 snes games on the wii eshop, seems all but abandoned.
The wii-u and even wii seems to have barely any budget games. I frequently brought games for both ps3 and xbox360 for £15-20 6 months or so after release, a 4 year old wii game costs £60, 2 year old wii-u game £40 etc.

I dont fault them making mario games, it is a good franchise and mario u is brilliant, mario 3d is brilliant. mario kart clearly a good franchise, as many competitors clone it. But its too few games, more are needed. Yes quite possibility with more different types of games, but adult themed games I think simply arent in nintendo's dna. The wii-u is too expensive for a 8 year old. Not powerful enough for adult themed gamers. and for whatever reason (is probably related to hw spec but probably also other reasons) 3rd parties wont touch it. The touchpad that comes with it I think also will confuse the sort of gamers who got attracted to the wii.

Also how marketing have we seen from nintendo? seems nothing compared to sony and microsoft.

Even though they don't seem to be marketing the Wii U very well they do have some decent games on it as of today.

They are obviously arrogant in there ways and like i said i really don't think that it will be to long before they bring out new hardware in some form or another.

This is exactly why the Nintendo system is where it is today�..

This is Nintendo Vision

That no adult minded gamer is slightly interested in one little bit,sort of there version of Skylanders for Kids.

In reply to a post by time2die:

Isn't that from the guys that did Dead Island which was not that exciting once it got released and after the awesome real time trailer.

It is indeed although it now has free running style gameplay to it as well so a little like Mirrors Edge with zombies, I actually quite enjoyed playing Dead Island co-op with a few mates, made a change going from most games being shoot first, melee if in trouble to being mainly melee combat and save the gun for when you are being over run. I thought the 10mins of gameplay shown looked pretty darn good.

Post the link mate to this 10 minute video of the gameplay save me searching for it. Saying that if it looks and plays anything like Dead Island its a game i won't be buying .

You mean this.

It looks way better than Dead Island but still has the terrible Australian Voice overs

Not even a release date so i doubt this will even make 2014 .

Have to admit matey it looks very nice and has some amazing set pieces and lovely tropical island graphics to match.

SOLD

Edited by time2die (Thu 08-May-14 14:49:17)

As expected...Delayed

That was the video I saw mate, I thought it was 10mins but it was obviously 12mins. It did have a release date of 1st quarter 2014, then it was put back to 2nd quarter 2014 and I did fear the worst when I have heard nothing new about it for a while.
Agree with the voice overs they do sound a little ropey to say the least.
The 2 games I really liked the look of in Dying Light and The Division both pushed back to 2015, I better not mention anymore games I want as they will be pushed back to next year as well, at this rate I'm going to be playing a slightly less buggy BF4 until 2016 lol.

Don't forget Watchdogs mate in a few weeks and Wofenstein a week next Tuesday,as you can see by my later post it's been confirmed that dying light is now delayed until 2015 so I put that game for now well out of my memory banks as I'm only really interested in what's coming up quickly on the horizon as we have a severe game drought on these next gen consoles