Author Topic: Wii U in Review (News & Rumor Consolidation) (Read 417656 times)

Caterkiller · « **Reply #175 on:** August 16, 2012, 12:53:51 PM »

Castelvania Lords of Shadow 2 coming to PC but not Wii U. How many people have Wii U's? Zero. How many people have PC's? lots!

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/CastlevaniaLOS/status/236082848061329408

Lame! I hope Wii U pulls a Wii and shuts this guy up.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #176 on:** August 17, 2012, 06:23:23 AM »

What sort of Accomplices might we see in a Mario game?

shingi_70 · « **Reply #177 on:** August 17, 2012, 09:21:21 AM »

Quote from: Caterkiller on August 16, 2012, 12:53:51 PM

Castelvania Lords of Shadow 2 coming to PC but not Wii U. How many people have Wii U's? Zero. How many people have PC's? lots!

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/CastlevaniaLOS/status/236082848061329408

Lame! I hope Wii U pulls a Wii and shuts this guy up.

Sounds like pretty sound logic to me.

The chances of the Wii u pulling a wii are very slim and its in a odd position when it comes to support. Its not in a Wii position with tons of hyper and it not in a 360 position where it was a decent sized leap and got a ton of engines and games first.

And sadly it isnt just 1 game. So far we have

Castlevaina: lords of shadows 2
Bioshock: infinte
Army of two: devils cartel
Remember me
Crysis 3

And that's just naming a few

ThePerm · « **Reply #178 on:** August 17, 2012, 12:11:57 PM »

yeah lots of people have PCs, but do they have the particular video cards you support or enough memory? The audience for that sort of thing shrinks dramatically at that point. Consoles are suposed to have an affordable amount of power. Granny wants to play Castlevania cus its on the pc, but she can't play it on her IBM ps/2 model 30.

Ceric · « **Reply #179 on:** August 17, 2012, 02:32:51 PM »

The last few years its been less of a problem to find games on the PC that outstrip you Computers ability to be playable. I have to think Steam and WoW is to thank for a good amount of that.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #180 on:** August 17, 2012, 03:05:38 PM »

Quote from: shingi_70 on August 17, 2012, 09:21:21 AM

where it was

The Wii U isn't even out yet, so I think its a little unfair to talk about it in the past tense.

tendoboy1984 · « **Reply #181 on:** August 17, 2012, 07:26:49 PM »

Quote from: Caterkiller on August 16, 2012, 12:53:51 PM

Castelvania Lords of Shadow 2 coming to PC but not Wii U. How many people have Wii U's? Zero. How many people have PC's? lots!

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/CastlevaniaLOS/status/236082848061329408

Lame! I hope Wii U pulls a Wii and shuts this guy up.

So you want the Wii U to get a ton of casual shovelware games and almost no support from 3rd-party developers?

And that guys logic is ridiculous. He's comparing a PC to an unreleased console. Of course no one has a Wii U, cause it hasn't even been released yet. Are developers really that stupid?

Caterkiller · « **Reply #182 on:** August 17, 2012, 07:53:48 PM »

Quote from: tendoboy1984 on August 17, 2012, 07:26:49 PM

Quote from: Caterkiller on August 16, 2012, 12:53:51 PM
Castelvania Lords of Shadow 2 coming to PC but not Wii U. How many people have Wii U's? Zero. How many people have PC's? lots!

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/CastlevaniaLOS/status/236082848061329408

Lame! I hope Wii U pulls a Wii and shuts this guy up.

So you want the Wii U to get a ton of casual shovelware games and almost no support from 3rd-party developers?

And that guys logic is ridiculous. He's comparing a PC to an unreleased console. Of course no one has a Wii U, cause it hasn't even been released yet. Are developers really that stupid?

You lose your keys yet?

@Shingi
The Wii had fan hype but had very little 3rd party hype! That's why we keep hearing stories how developers wish they wold have jumped on it sooner. I certainly don't expect the U to pull Wii numbers but it certainly isn't impossible.

At least now we have really good 3rd party games from the get go with 2 exclusives not including Nintendos stuff.

Kairon · « **Reply #183 on:** August 17, 2012, 08:01:35 PM »

I wonder what Nintendo's internal projections for the Wii U are. They said 10.5 million in the Fiscal Year ending March 31 for Wii and Wii U combined right? Give the drastic decline in Wii sales, does that suggest 6 million or even 7 million Wii U worldwide sales by March 31 2013?

Louieturkey · « **Reply #184 on:** August 17, 2012, 08:13:59 PM »

Quote from: Kairon on August 17, 2012, 08:01:35 PM

I wonder what Nintendo's internal projections for the Wii U are. They said 10.5 million in the Fiscal Year ending March 31 for Wii and Wii U combined right? Give the drastic decline in Wii sales, does that suggest 6 million or even 7 million Wii U worldwide sales by March 31 2013?

If they can produce that many, I think they can sell them.

Kairon · « **Reply #185 on:** August 17, 2012, 08:31:04 PM »

In contrast it appears that the Wii moved a little under 6 million units worldwide by the March following its launch. Somehow, I suspect that Nintendo is betting that the Wii U will be a significant success on the same level as the Wii U, a very high target indeed.

Of course, this is assuming drastically reduced Wii sales numbers of about 4-5 million this fiscal year, almost a 50% drop since last year. Actually, given the extreme end-of-life for the console and depressed NPD numbers, that doesn't sound that much of a stretch.

Caterkiller · « **Reply #186 on:** August 17, 2012, 08:32:35 PM »

Black ops 2 for Wii U is found in a resume.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/17/wii-u-version-of-black-ops-2-appears-on-resume?

Kairon · « **Reply #187 on:** August 17, 2012, 08:34:43 PM »

Quote from: Caterkiller on August 17, 2012, 08:32:35 PM

Black ops 2 for Wii U is found in a resume.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/17/wii-u-version-of-black-ops-2-appears-on-resume?

T_T

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/31370

Caterkiller · « **Reply #188 on:** August 17, 2012, 08:35:42 PM »

I'll be taking my old title of "not BlackNMild" now.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #189 on:** August 17, 2012, 11:29:09 PM »

Quote from: Caterkiller on August 17, 2012, 08:32:35 PM

Black ops 2 for Wii U is found in a resume.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/17/wii-u-version-of-black-ops-2-appears-on-resume?

Why is there all this smoke and mirrors cloak and dagger bullshit about a Wii U version which should have been announced the same time as the PS360 versions?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #190 on:** August 18, 2012, 09:30:00 PM »

Marvel Avenger: Battle for Earth

Project P-100

Let's just say that if you were forcing me to choose between 1 Super Hero game over the other, I would probably slap you for even making the 1st choice an option.

Caliban · « **Reply #191 on:** August 18, 2012, 09:32:19 PM »

I choose... not the 1st choice.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #192 on:** August 19, 2012, 12:12:58 AM »

Another game in development, supposedly for Wii U's eShop

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michelle-trahan/1b/7b5/179

This is apparently another title coming to Wii U thanks to Nintendo aggressively seeking out not just indie studios, but also mobile studios to work on digital games for the eShop.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #193 on:** August 19, 2012, 03:02:22 AM »

Star Beast sounds like a cool title from the name, but the fact its coming to the mobile platform might mean its just one of them casual touchscreen games that you play just 15 minutes at a time.

Caterkiller · « **Reply #194 on:** August 19, 2012, 03:35:32 AM »

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on August 19, 2012, 03:02:22 AM

Star Beast sounds like a cool title from the name, but the fact its coming to the mobile platform might mean its just one of them casual touchscreen games that you play just 15 minutes at a time.

And potentially becomes the next Angry Birds which you play for 15 minutes at a time once every hour.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #195 on:** August 20, 2012, 01:19:03 AM »

Another Wii U Middle ware becomes official

http://www.umbrasoftware.com/en/2012/08/14/umbra-now-an-official-wii-u-partner/
Umbra powers Mass Effect 3 & Guild Wars 2

ThePerm · « **Reply #196 on:** August 20, 2012, 03:07:22 AM »

Star Beast sounds like a code name for Star Fox. Kind of like how movie studios use fake titles for their projects when they are filming on location.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #197 on:** August 20, 2012, 03:25:46 AM »

Quote from: ThePerm on August 20, 2012, 03:07:22 AM

Star Beast sounds like a code name for Star Fox.

If that's the case I'm sure investors will be delighted that Nintendo is supporting mobile platforms like they said they should.

ThePerm · « **Reply #198 on:** August 20, 2012, 05:11:31 AM »

well yeah, on the other hand it would be possible to outsource some game assets and not tell the team what the game assets are for and then use those assets because they would be more original that way. When people think of star fox they think of that box that is star fox, but if assets came from some other project then that would expand star fox. Think about how the assets from Doki Doki Panic enchanced the Mario series for the rest of eternity.

but really i doubt they are connected. just a coincidence.

also the investors should shut the **** up, they support a mobile platform, its called 3DS. Next handheld should just have phone capabilities to shut them the **** up. They should make it like an Iphone and call it Gameboy.

edit: and because i like making mockups even to things im joking about.....

shingi_70 · « **Reply #199 on:** August 20, 2012, 08:40:04 AM »

Why should investors stay quiet about legitimate concerns.

Seeing as how the trdtional handheld market has shrunk everywhere but Japan as a shareholder I would be wondering how Nintendo would react to the growing mobile phone/tablet sector. I mean the other two seem to have solutions on how to tackle this growing trend.

Anywho I'm hoping the Wii U browser has good html5 support since it wont have flash.

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