Oh dear... I didn't expect so much to be wrong in here after only 250+ posts...
Can we go at least ONE day without someone stating that someone's completely subjective personal opinion is inherently wrong? This is just offensive.
How long till it comes out for 3DS?
It looks fun, but like $8.00 on the eshop fun, not $250 launch day fun.
There's a lot about this game that doesn't make much sense. It looks OK, but damn if I were them I'd bundle NSMBU with the system and repurpose this thing down the road because I don't see it as a system seller, especially if it can't even justify the system.
This is pretty much the worst possible thing Nintendo could do to showcase the Wii U--implementing a game that gains nothing from using the TV and would work perfectly on a smartphone or tablet (where it would be sold for $0.99 or free).
Yeah, I mean, if this is the only game in NintendoLand and the only thing at launch, what are they thi- wait, what? IT'S NOT? Then what the hell is everyone so cheesed about?
That's not to say that Nintendo can't also release this kind of software, but I mean it's not exactly putting your best foot forward when your messaging is "Nintendoland is a software compilation designed to introduce you to the Wii U's unique strengths, much like Wii Sports was for the Wii" and this is the output.
Yeah, I mean, why would Nintendo stop showing content for this or any other game prior to launch? How stupi- wait, what? There's a conference in 2 days and a whole 2 months til launch? Then why is this considered Nintendo "not putting its best foot forward" as if this is the last and only forward momentum they have to offer? If anything, I'd say it was Nintendo giving GameInformer an "exclusive" to show off the weakest game in the compilation prior to conference and save the good stuff for 2 days from now. Again, what's the big deal?
The WiiU uses a stylus? Gross. Is it 2002, and I'm on my blackberry PDA or something?
No, I'm pretty sure what's sad is a touch screen that uses a stylus in 2012.
Tell me about all the new tablets coming from Wacom and Samsung with resistive touch screens.
The highly-touted and highly-advertised Galaxy Note. But since it doesn't fit your argument, I'm sure you'll use a weasel word or two or move the goal posts in a vain attempt to continue on.
If they're putting out individual trailers for the mini games and spending all that time at e3 talking about it. I really doubt it.
Yeah, it's not like Nintendo has ever done that before.
Nope. Never.
I would have much rather them released a Metroid Blast trailer. Seems like it would do a lot more to show off the system. Even Animal Crossing: Sweet Day or Luigi's Ghost Mansion do a much better job than this. I get the feeling that if I end up owning Nintendo Land, this will be the game I never touch.
Like I said above, this is Nintendo throwing GameInformer a bone. You'll see it in 2 days.
I think that's a pretty thin USP and carves out a very very small niche. The Nintendo Direct video and Iwata's subsequent statements introducing the Wii U controller made a pretty bold and audacious case for a new paradigm in using both the personal screen and the home screen. "Let other people see what you're doing" is a pretty unambitious way of executing it.
It's less than 1/12th of a game! Not every single thing on the WiiU has to justify itself through exhaustive feature use, just like movies are not required to all be high art blockbusters or just like how musicians aren't required to use every instrument invented to make something worthy of being called music.
Why must each any every game - no, PORTION of a game - come down to a damned referendum on usefulness of the controller with Nintendo nowadays? You don't see other games get shit for not using every button or not using analog control. Heck, the N64 was built around the idea that analogue wasn't necessary for everything, did we have these discussions then, too? NO, of course not. And if anyone did, they were quickly dismissed. What's the difference now?
Just so we're clear, you're all aware that this is one mini game among 12, right? It's not its own stand alone game.
I really wonder.
If I wanted to play minigames using a touchscreen. I will stick to my .99 cent (or free) iPhone games thank you very much.
Seems like a far better deal than forking over $60 for a compilation of them.
The Wii offered gamers a new experience unlike anything else out there.
The Wii U on the otherhand is a lame attempt to bring iOS/touch gaming over to the console space.
As an iOS gamer, I have a fairly good idea of what the appeal of iOS gaming actually is.
The biggest appeal of iOS gaming is convenience, and price of entry.
It's awesome that I can use the phone that I always have with me, to play a free or .99 cent touch game that I dont need to be infront of a tv to play, I can even play while at work.
I don't even know what to say to this.
Asymmetric gaming is in general rubbish
Great, a developer aggressively dismissing a way of gaming that some people would actually find appealing, thinking it's disguising a failure in design. Remind me who you work for again? I want to know which developer with stagnant/regressive ideology not to invest my money with.
