nah, you are correct. ZombiU multiplayer is played with 1 player on the gamepad and 1 player using either a Wii-U classic controller pro or Wii remote+nunchuck setup.
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nah, you are correct. ZombiU multiplayer is played with 1 player on the gamepad and 1 player using either a Wii-U classic controller pro or Wii remote+nunchuck setup.
Inferno313
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Yeah I just checked on my copy. It does work with Wii Remote+Nunchuk! I thought I'd have to pick up a pro controller to try it.
Yeah, same here. Please let us know what you hear.
Fox Mulder
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I think the WiiU was a stupid name given Nintendo's recent history of similarly named products like the DSi or DSXL. Those actually were iterations on existing hardware, so it's not a huge stretch if people are genuinely confused what the wiiu is. They should have called this the Super Wii or Wii 2.
metalslimer
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I really don't see a lot of confusion in terms that the Wii U is a new console. I saw many kids asking for the new Mario game and their parents saying no because they didn't have a Wii U. The 3DS had confusion because it looks exactly like the DS, had multiple iterations with different letters, had boxarts that looked like the DS, and the launch lineup was terrible. Wii U has none of those problems. The huge console in the demo stations also highlights that it's not a controller for the regular Wii. If consumers could figure out the Kinect crap, I think they'll be fine here.
Anticitizen One
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The beach/water levels actually have some of the best graphics in this game. i ended up doing that part later and I actually enjoyed it. Fairly easy too
The perfect Dark
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I love Nintendo and I am a fan since 1989 ( 3 years old). I bought every console and I will buy the WiiU in 5 days. It will always be my favorite company.. But ...I honestly think that "WiU" is a stupid name. Everyone who is not a "core" gamer thinks this is just a new controller for the Wii.
metalslimer
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No, not all of them do. And the fact that you cannot buy the thing separately quickly differentiates it. And the completely different section in gaming sections of stores. And the completely different boxarts. I'm not saying Wii U was a great name, but people are seriously overplaying the confusion card.
The perfect Dark
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I hope this is true.
KennyLinder
Member
I don't have so much time for games these days so I've set myself a rule for Wii U titles (half serious, half joke). I am only going to play 60fps games. I don't mean I'll play any shite just because its 60, I mean I only want to play games that run at 60. Should be good for Nintendo and Platinum (here's hoping) games.
We will see how long this rule lasts ha!
We will see how long this rule lasts ha!
I still hear people at Futureshop asking if their DSi will play 3DS games. You underestimate consumer confusion. It might not hurt sales this holiday season and people might mostly figure it out in three months, but there's still a segment of the population who will never understand it until someone sits down with them and explains it very slowly.
Depends on how much you want Zelda I guess. Possibly Pikmin too.
metalslimer
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And these people wouldn't have understood if the name was any different. There are people that want to play Mario on their PS3s so no some people will never be gotten to. Many people get confused by the Apple branded iterations and the difference between them. I'm not saying it affects no potential customers. I'm saying that if sales underperform it will not be a significant factor to discuss.
A portion of the before mentioned might know that a Wii 2 (if the Wii U was named that) is the successor to the Wii, as stupid as it sounds. Most people that have no tech insight will be able to tell you that an iPhone 4 is a newer version of the iPhone 3. I'm not sure something like Super Wii would have been as crystal clear, but I think most people would understand it.
Anecdotal evidence will vary, but in my experience the name is a big problem. I took a Wii U to Thanksgiving and had to constantly explain that no, the Wii U was a completely new system. It wasn't an iterative upgrade. It wasn't an add-on controller. It wasn't a handheld. And that was with the Wii U right there in the living room.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
The latest Official Nintendo Magazine Podcast is up. (#41)
Obviously, it's all about the Wii U Launch - you might find it a bit UK-centric though.
http://medialib.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/podcast/onm_podcast.xml
Obviously, it's all about the Wii U Launch - you might find it a bit UK-centric though.
http://medialib.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/podcast/onm_podcast.xml
metalslimer
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The same thing will happen with any other console that comes out.
PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
Took me roughly 40 minutes. Reports claim it's over a gig.
Those same people where in an uproar when the recent court cased proved Samsung's iPhone was the same as Apple's. I was at Gamestop a few months ago when a woman asked if they had any Nintendo Xbox 360's and fought with the clerk when he tried to tell her Microsoft made it. No matter what they do people are going to be confused.
Fox Mulder
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took me like an hour, but that was launch day. Just use the time to charge the gamepad, since it didn't have much life out of the box and almost died on my initial setup while downloading some other patch.
The perfect Dark
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So.. I want a new Wave Race, F-Zero, Diddy Kong Racing, Star Fox, Snowboard Kids, Turok and Banjo. How are the chances ? 
Freezie KO
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Do you have a copy of War and Peace handy?
Sure. The problem is that the same type of person who is easily confused (by Wii U or any system) is exactly the same type of person that made the Wii a huge success. Nintendo is not helping themselves one bit in a tight market by calling it a "Wii U" when a "3DS XL" exists.
KojiKnight
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So.. I want a new Wave Race, F-Zero, Diddy Kong Racing, Star Fox, Snowboard Kids, Turok and Banjo. How are the chances ?
Wave race: low
F-zero: Low
DKR: almost zero
Star Fox: Good
Snowboard Kids: Zero
Turok: Zero
Banjo: On Nintendo hardware? Zero. Anywhere else? Practically zero.
Fox Mulder
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So.. I want a new Wave Race, F-Zero, Diddy Kong Racing, Star Fox, Snowboard Kids, Turok and Banjo. How are the chances ?
-1000%
Nintendo has forgotten they have wave race and fzero.
PhoenixDawn
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Just checking in on this thread, what does the disc drive in all of your Wii U's sound like when a disc is in. There are times when mine is pretty quiet and unnoticeable but at other times it sounds like it's spinning excessively fast or something. Just want to check if this is normal or if I should try my luck switching it in to get a quieter Wii U drive.
Despite me saying I don't want one until TW101, my brother picked up the deluxe bundle for me as an early Christmas gift. Hmm. I'm really wary of the GamePad apparently dying after a couple hours, the neverending firmware patch and other problems. I think I'll leave it in the box until they start fixing their product. :-\
nVidiot_Whore
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"Some people are confused about every product" is a very simple way of looking at it. What you are referring too is a study Apple used in court where people would often identify Galaxy S2's (IIRC) in store as iPhones. That's barely even relative to this discussion, as the issue there was that they.. do look pretty similar. And many people think the iPhone is the only phone that looks that way. So they walk into a store, see a rectangle with a screen with icons, and go "iPhone." Not remotely relevant to a device being identified as a successor to a previous device.
Nintendo themselves discussed the potential confusion after their first E3 showing.
KojiKnight
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Normal.
metalslimer
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The people who made the Wii a huge success have mostly moved on anyway. If Nintendo was banking on that market for their success, than they have a huge problem anyway.
Ein Bear
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So.. I want a new Wave Race, F-Zero, Diddy Kong Racing, Star Fox, Snowboard Kids, Turok and Banjo. How are the chances ?
Well... if we're lucky, we might get Star Fox?
And if we're REALLY lucky, it won't be shit.
Wrestlemania
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Did anyone work out if the update downloads any faster if you use a USB ethernet adapter?
Well, They added an F-Zero game in Nintendo Land so I don't think they have totally forgotten about it.
Freezie KO
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Mine does this too.
Yeah, I hope they can add a favorites list that you can add posts to, a search engine in the backend for searching for post content, and some trending lists (like Twitter lol). At least for now, you can look at posts by user, by community (reverse chronological order or by popularity), and some games like NSMB has tags. However, over time as the Wii U community grows, it's going to become more about interaction with your friends and followers/followed users rather than the general community.
metalslimer
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Well wired connections are inherently faster, so it should.
The perfect Dark
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Wrestlemania
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Well it depends on what the limiting factor is. It'd be pretty weird if it was the wifi connection speed.
ZedIndyLil
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I want a new Wave Race where the gamepad screen is an underwater cam showing coral reefs and shit.
So.. I want a new Wave Race, F-Zero, Diddy Kong Racing, Star Fox, Snowboard Kids, Turok and Banjo. How are the chances ?
Star Fox and F-Zero are possible, I'd say. I think I remember hearing that SF643D sold quite well, and Miyamoto seems to recognize that people want a new F-Zero, and putting a minigame based on it in NL must indicate something.
Wave Race is very unlikely.
Everything else has a big fat 0% chance of happening.
Baconsammy
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The killer app for the touch controller would be Minecraft. Come on, Notch, make it happen.
nVidiot_Whore
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Wireless connections generally surpass your internet connection speed and then some, unless you have a bad wireless network.
MartyChin was complaining of poor performance over wired earlier in the thread. But that could be his own network issue, cabling being used, etc.
If your wireless network isn't outperforming your internet connection, you need a new wireless network.
If you have gigabit at every point you should be outdoing your wireless on an internal network, but even that can commonly revert to speeds slower than a good dual-band N router.
MartyChin was complaining of poor performance over wired earlier in the thread. But that could be his own network issue, cabling being used, etc.
If your wireless network isn't outperforming your internet connection, you need a new wireless network.
If you have gigabit at every point you should be outdoing your wireless on an internal network, but even that can commonly revert to speeds slower than a good dual-band N router.
I want that to, but I'm not getting it. :-(
PhoenixSFT
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I would buy that soooo fast.
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