It's coming.

I'm not getting one at launch, but I'm definitely interested if the library develops.

 

Wow, pessimism on a Dolphins forum! Unheard of. :shifty:

Anyway, Nintendo's event is going on right now. Japan already had their event, and that controller is wildly expensive. Granted, Japanese prices are always inflated relative to US prices (roughly double in most instances), but that doesn't bode well.

 

Wow, November 18 in the US. That's almost a full month before Japan.

I think the $350 bundle is a good bet. Charging cradles and a bundled game, albeit Nintendoland.

TVii is interesting.

 

Words cannot describe my dislike of Reggie.

 

Anything Mario, especially Galaxy 2, NSMB Wii, and the criminally unknown and ignored Super Paper Mario.

The Wii's version of Scarface was apparently actually good.

I'd say Okami, if not for the existence of Okami HD on other platforms.

Zelda: Twilight Princess, if you haven't played it already. It's basically a good version of Ocarina of Time. (No, I don't like OoT.)

Metroid Prime Trilogy and Other M.

 

I'm in "wait and see" mode. Nintendo has earned back my goodwill now that they've released Xenoblade and The Last Story in the US, but there's still nothing on the console that would make me buy it. It also feels like more of the same rather than something new, at least with this initial game lineup.

I really miss the days when launch titles were good. Maybe the SNES spoiled me, with one of the best of all time (Super Mario World) and another (Super Mario All-Stars) coming with the console, and games like Actraiser and Soul Blazer available right away.

 

The NES and N64 weren't slouches either. The NES had Mario AND Duck Hunt on one cart, and the N64 had Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64 shortly thereafter.

I don't know when launch lineups started to decline, but this is something that really, truly used to be better about the gaming industry. I'm not just being a whiny old man when I say that.

 

Reviewers love it, if that means anything, though most of the launch games don't use it in any way that actually adds anything to the experience. The Verge loved how it worked with Ninja Gaiden 3.

 

Wii U just got a $50 price cut, and a $300 bundle with Zelda: The Wind Waker HD will be available on September 20, 2 weeks before the game is available at retail.

And Nintendo just announced a $130 version of the 3DS without the 3D depth called the 2DS.

I'm actually thinking of getting that Zelda-bundled Wii U.

 

It's a little silly, but Nintendo needs SOMETHING to counteract the iPod Touch.

 

Wow. This thread is barren. So, I take it no one will be playing Mario 3D World coop with me any time soon… :lol:

Nabbed a Wii U for Christmas, specifically the version bundled with Wind Waker HD. I'm going to have fun with strictly Nintendo games over the next year on this thing. After that I'll probably sell it.

 

They went for the appliance/toy approach again like they did with the Wii. Problem is, the non-gamers who bought the Wii have moved on to the iPad, and Nintendo then "discovered" its weathered core fanbase. I love me some video games and grew up on Nintendo, but I play less and less of their products every year. It's not as compelling anymore.

They'll probably announce a new system in 2015, right in time for no one to care.

 

The Mario 3D World, Wind Waker HD, Smash Bros, and Mario Kart 8 announcements were enough for me to finally take the plunge. I'd like this to be my next-gen console but, sadly, it won't be. Just not enough support.

Well, in the meantime, there's always the PC. Go go Steam sales.

 

I don't think CoD players are interested in the Wii U, and I don't think they want a Nintendo themed anything. Nintendo also shouldn't need a tie-in with any third party game, that just doesn't make sense to me.

Nintendo needs a "wow" moment. Probably a combination of a new console and a Zelda game that puts Skyrim to shame—kind of like Zelda 1. :lol: It's ironic that the most popular game type now, the non-linear open world, is what we were originally playing on the NES (Metroid, Zelda). Get legitimate third party support even if you have to pay for it—imagine if a The Last of Us sequel came only to a Nintendo console—and just start with a clean slate.

 

You took my example too literally, I think.

Bayonetta isn't really a triple-A franchise. It's fairly obscure at best despite its quality.

 

Welp, the eShop is back up so now I can set up my Wii U!

The setup isn't too great. I don't think it's as atrocious as it was at launch, but it's still an unending series of questions and menus. Not sure what a PS4/XB1 setup is like, but I don't recall my PS3 being this difficult to set up out of the box. You have to manually sync the controller with the console; I know for sure Sony and Microsoft make sure their controllers are synced out of the box, and even the Wiimote was synced out of the box with its console.

There's no way to cancel out of the NNID setup; you either set up as a new user or enter your NNID. Problem: if you don't have the latest software update, it won't let you enter your NNID, so you're forced to create a new user and then retroactively enter your NNID. That's a little silly and could have been solved simply by checking for a software update at the beginning of the process. Enter your network details, it checks for a software update, it downloads/installs the software update, restarts, and then you go through a streamlined setup. That would be the real way to go.

Additionally, I'm not a big fan of Nintendo's interface design. The text menus are great, perfectly suited for a 10 foot interface and very legible, but navigating between different apps/menus is awful. I thought having basically a tiny tablet for a controller would mitigate that, but so far, nope.

Anyway, 75 minutes after turning the Wii U on, it's time to download Wind Waker HD and try out Mario 3D World.

 

So, here's an interesting piece of potential news. I say potential because the ultimate source is VGChartz.