They can't do that.
That's pulling a Saturn.
The controller uses a touch interface not seen since the age of pre-iPhone. It's a joke when $50 dollar Android tablets have better touch screens than the one on the WiiU.
2013 - No unified account? Really? So much for trusting Nintendo with digital purchases.
Pikmin 3
Wonderful 101
ZombieU
Spring to mind instantly I don't even own a WiiU.
Basically gaming discussion is boiling down to this:
Nintendo is dying/dead.
OMG Killzone
Graphics are king.
The article is factually incorrect.
They say.
No is doesn't. It's got a low quality, relatively low contrast low res touchscreen. 854 x 480 pixels. Which would get laughed at if it was a true tablet.
I'm talking about Skyward Sword, which sold 3.7 million units.Can we be real for a moment?
There aren't 4 million people who are excited to spend $300 to play a re-skin of an old Zelda game that now looks like the games that they were playing on machines that cost them $250 three years ago.
We can argue semantics all day long, but in terms of how the actual market perceives these consoles the Wii U is not "next-gen" in the same sense that the PS4 and Xbox One is, and yet the price does not reflect that.
From the perspective of someone who only plays Nintendo games, it's a step forward. For everyone else, it's nice to see Wii games look like how we wanted them to last generation. The Wii U is not going to sell the Wii U, the Game Pad is not going to sell the Wii U, the name "Wii U" is definitely not going to sell the Wii U, the only thing that's going to sell this machine is better messaging (for the more casual audience - but they're not all coming back regardless), better value (for everyone), and more genuine, high-effort Nintendo games (for the audience who knows what "Wii U" is but it's actually not a good thing for them).
No is doesn't. It's got a low quality, relatively low contrast low res touchscreen. 854 x 480 pixels. Which would get laughed at if it was a true tablet.
I can´t remember the iPad2 getting laughed at.
Oh come on.I think we can all agree that Wii U is dead and beyond saving.
I can´t remember the iPad2 getting laughed at.
The 3DS vs Vita thing already prove that people do not care about power that much. The PS2 was also the least powerfull of the console war and won. The Wii was also the least powerful of the bunch. The only thing not going for the Wii U is that people think it's a Wii Accessory. Not a console. It's really it.
Aside from hosting a late port of GTA V, Wii U (and Wii) were more than capable of hosting GTAIII-San Andreas. The latter is arguably still superior. I'm sure a lot of users would've bought them.Then whose fault is it for not being released on wiiu? You know the answer: Nintendo isn't in the 90's anymore. They would gladly have a main GTA on their system.
You noob. It's all about 4K/120fps and mega super antialiasing now.LiveFromKyoto said:1080p IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD AFTER WATER AND OXYGEN.
Thing is iphone screen is not designed for gaming...how many times did you thought you hadnt touched the screen but it still activated some move set? Happens to me all thew time on most android games ive played. Capacitive screens are horrible for games...at any slighr touch it will register....so yeah android tablets dont have better touch screens for GAMING...not my nexus 7 at least....The controller uses a touch interface not seen since the age of pre-iPhone. It's a joke when $50 dollar Android tablets have better touch screens than the one on the WiiU.
2013 - No unified account? Really? So much for trusting Nintendo with digital purchases.
I see, then maybe Nintendo is in more trouble than I assumed.I'm talking about Skyward Sword, which sold 3.7 million units.
Thing is iphone screen is not designed for gaming...how many times did you thought you hadnt touched the screen but it still activated some move set? Happens to me all thew time on most android games ive played. Capacitive screens are horrible for games...at any slighr touch it will register....so yeah android tablets dont have better touch screens for GAMING...not my nexus 7 at least....
Use your money to:
Nintendo should be kicking out a huge amount of 1st party games. Double the production. You have to make up for the lack of 3rd party short term
- Enhance your 1st party studios.
Release all future versions of the WiiU without a gamepad. Update/patch/rework any games you have control over to not require the gamepad, and update them over your network. 3rd parties won't use it, and it only adds cost to the system with very little benefit. It hasn't caught on, and no one cares about it.
- Ditch the gamepad
Not for exclusivity, just for support. They will continue to put their worst teams on your games, and possibly not develop on your system at all. Pay them. Pay them to develop a quality port for you.
- Start moneyhatting 3rd parties
Well, you see Nintendo is a big player in the games industry and their home console is desperately struggling at best and already irrelevant at worst. You will likely see more journalists and game enthusiasts discussing this in the future as well.
It's been said 10 times already but yeah, silly article.
The problem is not about nintendo console power right now. They are simply out of the market, at least "that" market. More power will eventually give them more third party games, even if that's not even sure. Iii mean look at the WiiU. It should have every big PS360 games then.. And the problem is they won't do anything with that graphical power.
Look at Mario 3d World. You can be sure it was a pain in the ass to create those graphics for them. Now imagine they have something like a PS4, or even more. What do they do now.. Honestly there is nothing to change for the models. You can run all that at 1080p with perfect IQ, maybe add a modern light system ala Drive Club... That's it, the graphical style is there. And do you know what ? People outside Nintendo fans won't even really care for the update.
This is always a problem of people buying nintendo consoles for nintendo games. So you won't have every third parties. The only actual way, for Nintendo, to take back the crown, is to set its own new standard for videogames. That means to release a Metroid that makes every high profile FPS and TPS look like an old piece of shit (gameplay wise). That means making a Mario that is so progressive and revolutionary that dudebro will want to try it just for the sake of tasting the new age of videogame.
And all that means having some balls back, and putting the money in the right place. And it won't be done in a week.
But that's not their strategy. Their strategy will probably be to find an alternative funny way to play to catch the attention of the mainstream, over and over.. Of course we already see the limits of that.
I heard the same thing about how Wii games wouldn't benefit from 360 hardware. They obviously need to create a game that centers around better hardware. Not the other way around.Look at Mario 3d World. You can be sure it was a pain in the ass to create those graphics for them. Now imagine they have something like a PS4, or even more. What do they do now.. Honestly there is nothing to change for the models. You can run all that at 1080p with perfect IQ, maybe add a modern light system ala Drive Club... That's it, the graphical style is there. And do you know what ? People outside Nintendo fans won't even really care for the update.
I'm talking about Skyward Sword, which sold 3.7 million units.
Windwaker HD obviously sold well under 4M units as there aren't even 4M Wii Us in the world right now.
Unique take on:
ZombiU (Survival horror)
Wonderful 101 (Hack 'n slash/Beat 'em up)
Game & Wario / Nintendoland (Mini game collection)
Pikmin 3 (... whatever genre Pikmin is!)
Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate (Monster Hunter genre)
But is the gaming press pushing an anti-Wii U agenda?
The controller uses a touch interface not seen since the age of pre-iPhone. It's a joke when $50 dollar Android tablets have better touch screens than the one on the WiiU.
2013 - No unified account? Really? So much for trusting Nintendo with digital purchases.
I grew up loving Nintendo... but they could make SO MUCH MONEY if they would swallow their pride and become a third party. Their hardware just isn't anything special - and hasn't been for years.
Truly depressing for someone raised on Nintendo.
Or they're finally seeing Nintendo for what they've become. A company that releases ill thought out weak hardware with minimum game support with a joke of a CEO who's only defence is to constantly apologies for their piss poor performance.
If it was any other company, they would have got crucified a long time ago.
Record breaking PS4/X1 sales are proof of Sony and MS incredible efforts in supplying consoles like never before. The Wii U also sold out it's initial alloted numbers in launch.
The test comes after the holidays.
You can be profitable off of a 12-15M userbase. Nintendo is just awful at pushing out software and services. When they do eventually push out what they can, it turns out great, though.
"When it comes to the scale of software development, Wii U with HD graphics requires about twice the human resources than before," Miyamoto said. "Please allow me to explain that we may have underestimated the scale of this change and as a result, the overall software development took more time than originally anticipated just as we tried to polish the software at the completion phase of development. However, we are almost out of this phase, and we are also trying to create something unique utilizing an easier development approach called 'Nintendo Web Framework.'"
And I for one am tired of seeing PC games looking amazing while my console versions struggle to maintain 30fps. Now I own a PS4, I feel like I can breathe again, away from the suffocating exhaust from outdated hardware struggling to stay contemporary. Next-gen has cleared the air.
only Nintendo is far worse here than Sony was.
This... I... I can't... dude... wtf!?
Seriously.
W-T-F.
I don't disagree that the gamepad screen is far from ideal, but keep in mind that the ppi on the gamepad is actually slightly better than the iPad 2. The iPad 2 ppi is 132, while the gamepad's is 158. While I would have preferred a better res screen or just no gamepad at all, I doubt increasing their costs with a more expensive display would have benefited Nintendo at all.iPad 2 had almost twice as many pixels as the Wii U controller.
That's true in the short term, and of course the GameCube was profitable at 22M.
But game development costs continue to rise and if Nintendo home console sales are stuck at <20M, at some point you squeeze out all the profit. And we know game development costs have risen for Nintendo, Miyamoto commented on it and it's been cited as a reason for game delays.