The art style for the NSMB series is horrendous. Paper Mario style would have been great.
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34,000 pieces of Wii U software were sold in the UK in January (incl. NintyLand)
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The art style for the NSMB series is horrendous. Paper Mario style would have been great.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
It's hard to read much of this without more context. The active systems with dozens of times the userbase sold dozens of times the software. What have other new systems' first Januaries looked like?
Does this mean that the Wii U is worth getting now?
I don't even think that would help. People won't spend £300 on a new console to play any 2D platformer, let alone one which, at first glance, looks exactly like the last three. It's an absurd value proposition.
Ken Masters
Banned
Horrible art and the worst music ever in a Nintendo game
outunderthestars
Banned
Also Nintendo already went to the nostalgia well with the Wii version. I don't know how many Wii consumers would see the new NSMB game and want to play it again.
Shovelware like Wario and WiiFit isn´t going to change anything. These days are over.
Ken Masters
Banned
Again, they banked on the success of th Wii carrying over without doing the proper work to support the Wii U
Those infatuated with the Wii either grew up or moved on to iOS
Nintendo would have had a better proposition if they hadn't released NSMBWii - if NSMB U was the first 2d Mario platformer on a home console in ages. Now, it's not even that. It's just the next in the line of titles that goes NSMB - NSMBWii - NSMB 2- NSMB U (and you could probably put SMB3DLand in there, too).
LOL, that is for you to decide. As for me? I am waiting to see, but I am sure it will have some great games when all is said and done. Anyway, I think you know what I was humorously getting at. All jokes aside, I don't want it to fail.
Zombie James
Banned
Cuter than the original IMO.
Oh man, this one got me.
I don't think you know what that word means.
outunderthestars
Banned
Neither of those games are shovelware. You just don't care for the games. Both series are highly rated and have sold well.
These gifs...!
I'm pretty confused as to what they were doing the last few years while our Wiis were in the garage.
I'm pretty confused as to what they were doing the last few years while our Wiis were in the garage.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Ken Masters
Banned
They pretty much stopped making Wii games 2 years before it died, what the hell were they doing?
Dave Meltzer
Banned
Can anyone make a valid reason for purchasing a Wii U either at launch or now? Even die hard Nintendo fans must admit there is nothing appealing about the system whatsoever beyond hoping for potential.
It´s cheap, fast produced (casual) garbage. Thank god it´s success died with the Wii.
I think part of the problem was having to develop for the 3DS as well. Sure that took up a lot of resources.
You really don't.
strangedopamine
Member
Are you sure you know what shovelware means?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shovelware
1. shovelware
1. Software that is hastily made, without proper testing, and 'shoveled' down consumers throats in order to make some quick cash.
2. Software that is preloaded onto a computer, that does nothing but slow down performance and does nothing beneficial, but is added in order to increase price or add appeal into purchasing a computer.
1. Battlefield 2: Special Forces Expansion Pack is a recent example of shovelware; it causes CTD's, system failures, massive performance decreases, and addresses NONE of the original game problems.
2. Frank bought a computer just because it had a lot shovelware preloaded onto it, and now it takes 45 minutes to start up.
2. shovelware
an array of haphazard software emphasizing quantity rather than quality
...because I don't think you do.
They were making 3DS software.
Until recently they haven't had the man-power to actually work on a full slate of 3DS/Wii U software, they are expanding a lot to try and stop these droughts in their release slates.
Then all of Nintendo's talent will leave, like Sega?
The 3DS lineup doesn´t look to hot either. Mostly remakes and rehashes.
No, it's really not that hard to read. WiiU with four new releases in January sold 73% of what the Vita sold with zero new releases.
That says all.
Just curious, what games came out on Wii U last month in the UK?
Father_Brain
Banned
Which reflects a fairly astonishing lack of foresight on their part, if accurate. Any big ramping-up should have happened while Wii U was in the earliest R&D phases, back in 2009/2010.
Not really subtle as you? Posters like you make real discussion almost impossible.
Given that you don't understand what shovelware is, I assume you count Mario Kart 7, 3D Land, and Paper Mario as 'rehashes'?
Yeah, if they were going to discard the Wii for 2 years they really needed to plan the successor better. If the Wii was still selling well and moving software they wouldn't be quite so desperate. Their hyper-conservatism led to them not making the most of the Wii boom, they should have expanded then. The problems they are having now are exactly the same as the ones they had with the Wii circa 08, when an Animal Crossing port and Wii Music were their biggest hitters.
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
SiNG Party
Marvel Avengers
NBA 2k13
Still, it's no shame coming second to the exquisite juggernaut that is the Vita.
outunderthestars
Banned
I think Nintendo grossly underestimated how much time it would take to create an HD content pipeline. Unlike other developers who started making HD content six to eight years ago, Nintendo is just now dealing with this transition.
Add in a 3DS platform that also now requires more complicated game development and I can understand how they are so behind in developing new games.
What I don't understand is why Nintendo didn't acquire or build more development studios while they were flush with cash and knew that a transition to HD was on the horizon.
...Did you just cite Urban Dictionary as a valid source? Haha.
Yup. Pretty clear there were some very serious organizational issues with Nintendo for them to apparently be caught so off guard.
I dont think it was arrogant to make the system weak. They did that with wii and it worked. But not to have wii play, excite truck, wario equivalents on launch is really arrogant
Oppo
Member
Props to Gleylancer for making this one.
The work done on Reggie's expressions when he is dancing is seriously top notch. well done.
Spot on.
How people couldn't have seen this coming is beyond me. Nintendo launched a dated console mere months before the next gen PS and Xbox hypetrain took off. Not only that, but their software just isn't great and people aren't seeing a demonstrable difference between the Wii U and consoles they've been playing for years. On top of all of that, their marketing has been terrible. Add all of those things together and this will be as close to Dreamcast as you can get.
Father_Brain
Banned
I think they either seriously underestimated the challenges in transitioning to HD development, or expected that third-party support would pick up more of the first-party slack. Likely both.
It's what happens when a company tries to be as conservative as it is ballsy.
There's a time to hold back and observe the market, and there's a time to go all out and set up your deck.