If they want it to sell really well, they should put a picture of Mario wearing Batman's costume on the cover. Instant multi-million seller, haha!
I feel like the idea has been stolen from somewhere!
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Wii U Speculation thread IV: Photoshop rumors and image memes
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I feel like the idea has been stolen from somewhere!
(I knew you'd like that, haha!)I feel like the idea has been stolen from somewhere!
That how we think.
99% of consumers see that and think "oh FUCK 10/10? I gotta buy this shit!"
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If you dont have a PC
For some reason thought the first came out on PS3, guess I was wrong.
This was the period where Valve/Sony weren't friends though.
Yeah, but the rest of GAF refuses to believe that there's an NDA.
Foot, meet mouth.
I thought the splash of red on black and white was pretty tasteful...when it was just a splash.
They dumped the whole damn bucket in there. All of the red.
The rest of GAF is under Nintendo Disbelieve Agreement.
DaSorcerer7
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LoL so true but I suspect come E3, they'll come around. Maybe...
Yup, their rise and NOA's fall coincided with my moving to the US this gen. I thought coming here would end my need to import
I'm planning to move back to that side of the pond in the next year, so I fully expect NOE and NOA to reverse roles again. My major decision regarding the Wii U rests on whether to get a PAL or NTSC console at launch.
DaSorcerer7
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http://gamasutra.com/view/news/1690...re_donor_for_social_mobile_games__analyst.php
Not sure if this is new or old. Article posted today on gamasutra.
Not sure if this is new or old. Article posted today on gamasutra.
Yeah, it's possible Ghost Recon doesn't make Wii U's launch.
I get that its two different markets...
But does no one see the problem when they talk about disappointing specs... and then the emergence of smart phones and tablets?
Draw Something, Angry birds, Temple Run, Cut the Rope, Fruit Ninja aren't what I would call graphical showcases, but some of the best known/selling titles on the device.
One day, folks will realize specs don't sell hardware.
That's a large part of what will make this E3 so much fun. They're going to see something convincing, and they have a few ways to deal with it.. they can dwell in denial, troll, implode, go into outright "yeah.. but" attack mode, or come into acceptance.
And I don't speak of just the haters - I speak of the Nintendophiles as well. If Nintendo somehow bombs, we'll see fireworks on that side of the aisle as well.
frankie_baby
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yeah just like the wii sold 35% of what the gamecube did due to disapointing specs, am i right!!!
The game is planned to be released end of May for consoles (DS/PSP/PS360) and mid-June for PC. They still have some month to finish it for launch (let's say with a September Wii U launch).
DaSorcerer7
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has nintendo ever been this quiet for so long?
Analysts predicting disappointing sales because of lower-than-expected tech? lol
Since when did cutting edge tech dictate who runs the shop?
GameplayWhore
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Wow, this is the first developer to actually speak from a standpoint of sane development. "~If we make a good game that could sell on any platform, it's better for the bottom line that if we made a shitty game focusing on features of one platform.~"
It's been weak, surely, though there have been some interesting tidbits:
Hmm, that's too bad. I was looking forward to Ghost Recon. I was very interested to see how they were going to bring it to Wii U. F2P-digital delivery on Wii U eShop? Full priced retail? Combination of budget retail cost + DLC?
Six years ago they did something similar
I'm pretty sure that this length of silence is unprecedented for Nintendo. The payoff had better be damn good. And I think they know this.
Ubi knows firsthand that new Nintendo console shoppers can make their holiday a very cheery one, even with middling software..
They weren't so quiet about the Wii. Not even close.
You are right in that case but poorly a minority of "fanboyz" think so.
Red Arremer
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DaSorcerer7
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That's why I feel this is going to be nintendo's most impressive showing ever.
We didn't know anything about the games for the system. Except for Red Steel two(?) months in advance.
Did I not just say that you should never pay attention to analysts?
Agent Unknown
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Haha. Win.
When there's so little news, it's hard not to pay attention to every little dumb article relating to Wii U lol.
We didn't know anything about the games for the system. Except for Red Steel two(?) months in advance.
But at least by this time we know more or less about how the console would work.
Now? NOTHING.
Agent Unknown
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That's amazing, it's right up there with their legal victory against Universal regarding Donkey Kong. I love how Nintendo laid the smack down on powerful and arrogant American companies and didn't let anyone bully them back in the day.
We knew about Elebits, Madden, Red Steel, Golf Pangya Revolution, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, Avatar, Spongebob, etc.We didn't know anything about the games for the system. Except for Red Steel two(?) months in advance.
Same here. Nintendo could conceivably hit us with surprise after surprise after surprise for 75-to-90 minutes. It'd be such an incredible amount of information to process.. GAF would be an absolute madhouse. Naysayers would have no idea which angle to attack through first. Nintendo fans wouldn't know where to start with their wishes and questions. I don't think that this scale of information dump/surprise has ever beempn attempted at E3. This is huge!
HYPE!
I predict Beyond Good And Evil 2 to be a Wii U launch title.
Don't yell at him! It was surely a mistake on his part.
Don't yell at him! It was surely a mistake on his part.
GameplayWhore
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«The Wii U, which Olson and Connor expect will ship in the fall of this year with a price tag of $299 or greater, is forecast to sell only 35 percent of the volume of the original Wii during its first 14 months, due to "disappointing" hardware specs and competition from the mobile games industry.»
Wait, what?
A) The original Wii was substantially supply-constrained for the first 14 (and many more) months. Performance 35% of that would be a little below Gamecube levels*. Frankly, this seems a bit off given the continuing momentum of existing Nintendo software franchises. It would have been better (albeit still terrible) to try to figure out how much Wii's sales demand for the first 14 months were and then take a third of that, even though that's pretty impossible. They're forecasting a nearly dead system despite the market for console gaming having grown markedly since the PS2/GCN/XBX generation.
B) The Wii was far more disappointing in hardware specs for its time than the Wii U. It used an out of date type of gpu (lacking, for instance, modern shaders), whereas the Wii U's is out of the gate not out of date (it pretty much will have all relevant gpu features that the competing future system are expected to have. Moreso, while the Wii was phenomenally slower than the competition from Day One, the Wii U will be the most powerful system on the market for perhaps as much as a year.
C) I can't speak from authority about competition from the mobile games industry, but neither can the analyst here. There's one slightly similar feature between the Wii U and the market segment involving cell phones and tablets, and beyond that the systems are substantially different. This seems to be the case where the system principally caters to the home console market and also extends a small reach into the mobile market. That would seem to suggest an expansion of the relevant markets that the system can appeal to, not a constriction from one market in which the manufacturer was previously dominant into a market in which it is not.
In conclusion: I don't have the answers, and I really can't say how well the system will sell, but the analyst here misses several important points in his single sentence. This may throw off the given projections.
*Gamecube was considered a crushing defeat in a market much smaller than the current one.
evilromero
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I think you guys quickly forget every E3 before this one. Nintendo has always gone for long stretches without any info on a new system. This is nothing new. And don't expect a fanboy E3. It never happens.
Red Arremer
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Would be a very odd choice, given how there never was a Nintendo system with a Darkstalkers game (as far as I remember) and, most importantly, the style of Darkstalkers (mixing really dark/grim imagery with humorous cartoon art). Not to mention the last "hardcore" fighting game on the Capcom made exclusively for a Nintendo console (Tatsunoko vs. Capcom) bombed.
As much as I'd love to see a Darkstalkers, I doubt it.
I invision E3 to be like a GAF gif image. Just Reggie, Iwata and Miyamoto mouths flapping and insane amount of game reveals one after another after another in a giant blur of gaming madness.
All would be forgiven for Ubi as far as I'm concerned. I honestly think I'd shed a tear of joy in that event.I predict Beyond Good And Evil 2 to be a Wii U launch title.
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