Post by Fryguy64 on Jun 8, 2011 11:55:05 GMT -5
I hope the follow up to the Wii U is an always-on home hub... So there's a chance the name will become "Wii On U" ;D
This whole thing is bizarre. Nintendo has just shown an HD home console, backwards compatible with old games AND hardware, courting hardcore gamers and third parties, named it after their most successful home console since the SNES...
And everyone's kicking the shit out of it! I mean seriously, what the hell?!
Worse, everyone's retrospectively kicking the shit out of the Wii... again, the most successful console of this generation, the most profitable and the only one with Mario Galaxy on it. I rest my case.
Nintendo could have done with showing a game running on the hardware at the conference. If the game is due out in 2012, there must be software lined up for it that wouldn't fit on GameCube or Wii hardware (ahem, NSMBMii, Mii demos). That couldn't have helped their case.
But that's kinda how they unveiled the DS and Wii as well. They focused on the controls.
I guess what's changed between then and now is that showing off new control methods isn't a huge surprise as everybody's doing it. Nintendo now has to address their other issue of hardcore games... and while they promised to deliver this, apparently the world wanted them to deliver it yesterday.
Just show SSB4 running on Wii U, Nintendo! That'll sort your stock prices out ;D
This whole thing is bizarre. Nintendo has just shown an HD home console, backwards compatible with old games AND hardware, courting hardcore gamers and third parties, named it after their most successful home console since the SNES...
And everyone's kicking the shit out of it! I mean seriously, what the hell?!
Worse, everyone's retrospectively kicking the shit out of the Wii... again, the most successful console of this generation, the most profitable and the only one with Mario Galaxy on it. I rest my case.
Nintendo could have done with showing a game running on the hardware at the conference. If the game is due out in 2012, there must be software lined up for it that wouldn't fit on GameCube or Wii hardware (ahem, NSMBMii, Mii demos). That couldn't have helped their case.
But that's kinda how they unveiled the DS and Wii as well. They focused on the controls.
I guess what's changed between then and now is that showing off new control methods isn't a huge surprise as everybody's doing it. Nintendo now has to address their other issue of hardcore games... and while they promised to deliver this, apparently the world wanted them to deliver it yesterday.
Just show SSB4 running on Wii U, Nintendo! That'll sort your stock prices out ;D
