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General-3 / Re: April Fools!

« on: April 01, 2012, 03:47:37 PM »

According to digitalsomething.com, a japanese magazine has received word on the first download games announced for Wii U.


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General-3 / Re: April Fools!

« on: April 01, 2012, 02:03:53 PM »

this is a post from another thread.  But could be interesting. 


http://www.digitalsomething.com/news/708.html

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General-3 / Re: April Fools!

« on: April 01, 2012, 02:01:39 PM »

Take this with a grain of salt.  It is April 1st.  But this seems plausible. 


http://www.digitalsomething.com/news/708.html

It sounds plausible, but I don't think it would be in their best interest to sell games later in the Wii life cycle for digital download when they could offer older titles like Fire Emblem or even the Metroid Prime Collection, which are no longer available, for a rational price. Even with the Wii, they didn't have that many games availalbe right off the bat. The flaw in this is that it's too good to be true, and it's April 1st, but they did source a Japanese name, though I've never heard of it.

I agree with you.  But if it is true, they are covering their bases for launch.  Though, I am a little surpassed they didn't include Metroid Prime, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Kart Double Dash, or Smash Bros as a launch download.  But we don't know what Rare is working on yet. 

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General-3 / Re: April Fools!

« on: April 01, 2012, 01:29:45 PM »

Take this with a grain of salt.  It is April 1st.  But this seems plausible. 


http://www.digitalsomething.com/news/708.html

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General-3 / Re: April Fools!

« on: April 01, 2012, 01:27:35 PM »

Sorry.  This is in regards to the Wii U's online store. 


Take with grain of salt.  But it seems believable. 


http://www.digitalsomething.com/news/708.html

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General-3 / Re: April Fools!

« on: April 01, 2012, 01:26:18 PM »

I came across this.  Take it with a grain of salt.  But it would fall inline with what I expect. 


http://www.digitalsomething.com/news/708.html

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U Price and Release Date Guess Thread

« on: March 25, 2012, 09:50:37 PM »

Yeah, I'm speculating that if Nintendo can launch earlier with a significant amount of time before Black Friday, they might benefit via a higher attach rate. You have to give early adopters time to play their launch games, and then maybe a month later they'll be tempted to come back to double dip for Black Friday sales or for Christmas.

I agree with you.  Not to sound like a broken record.  But I think it also leads to higher sales of older ports that are coming from PS3/360 like Batman, and Darksiders.  I am waiting to play these games until Wii U launches.  But if they launch against a slew of new games like AC3, COD (rumored), RE6 (rumored), MoH (rumored), I don't think most of us will play Batman or Darksiders.  Nor will many of us give Killer Freaks or Ghost Recon a chance. 


I think that price ($299 to $349?) and release date are just as important as launch lineup.  Cause we know Nintendo will deliver first party stuff, and I think we all assume at this point, the big releases that are third party Xbox 360 and PS3 are mostly coming to Wii U as well.  COD, MoH, GTA5, Madden, Fifa, TW, NBA 2k, Epic Mickey 2, Mass Effect 3, Dead Space 3, etc.


Reggie said we wouldn't be waiting until E3.  Hopefully we start hearing things soon.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U Price and Release Date Guess Thread

« on: March 25, 2012, 07:28:18 PM »

I think it would be smart for Nintendo to launch in the US in early September and stagger the Japan and Europe release thirty and sixty days out.  It should hopefully ease the supply chain.  Nintendo had a problem with the supply chain with the worldwide release of the Wii. 


The other reason it would be smart is it will allow Nintendo to launch with 8 to 10 games and stagger releases thereafter September thru December.  It would be good will with the third party developers.  Releasing 15 to 19 games at launch would be awesome.  But you will run into one big problem.  The smaller third party games will get eaten alive.  For example if Nintendo launches with 2 or 3 Nintendo developed games like Pikmin, Retro's games, and Super Mario Mii, Assassins Creed 3, Darksiders 2, COD Black Ops 2 (or whatever it's called), Ghost Recon, and smaller.


You know Ghost Recon  and Darksiders 2 will get eaten alive by COD, Nintendo, and Assassins Creed 3 if released at the same time.  This allows the smaller releases, a better chance to sell their products. 


Release in September with 8 to 10 games.  Maybe it's Pikmin, Wii Sports 2, Darksiders 2, Ghost Recon, EA Sports game (Madden or Fifa), Batman Arkham City, and a kids games.  Then starting every week or two after they can release games with the natural release dates.  Assassins Creed 3 at the end of October for example.  This would make the most sense to me and maximize game sales. 


This allows early adopters to purchase the systems early and will free up system availability by the holiday season in November and December.