Nintendo Wii U Thread

[Rogue Trooper]

In fairness though, MS not been in the console buisness as long as Nintendo and thus lack franchises of thier own to 'exploit' as it were.Attempts at creating established franchises on Xbox 1 were hit and miss:

Blinx, Brute Force, Quantum Redshift (MS just threw money at Curly Monsters and said we need something to match Wipeout Fusion, developers signed a 2-game deal, which MS walked away from).

There was a Freelancer Sequel (Starlancer-Freelancer-Freelancer 2) in the works (footage of it is on youtube), but MS canned it.Halo Wars? soon as it was done, MS closed studio (gutted as these were people who the did Age Of Empires games).

Rare had Kameco 2, Conker 2, a Deus Ex inspired Perfect Dark:Core in the works, but MS put them onto Kinect stuff.

[onthinice]

I am really impressed with what I have seen of the Wii U. Not saying I will buy one anytime soon but it seems Nintendo has this system going in the right direction.

[TL]

Hmmm, I am getting less impressed.

The main reason being that the staff on the Nintendo stand PROMISED me that all the things that were wrong with the games I played back at Play Expo were going to be fixed and apparently they havn't. This seriously makes me doubt Nintendo and this console can be a success.

[onthinice]

Laird what is your middle name Scrooge? I am disappointed that the Nintendo Power magazine is down to one final issue but I still hold out hope that the Wii U will be a success.

Pretty cool that someone can watch tv, while you still play the Wii U on the small screen controller. No more fights about shutting the system off because of a missed program.

[TL]

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell is definately NOT a Wii U fan!!!!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/inventor-of--pong--says-nintendo-s-wii-u-launch-this-week--will-fail--112905598.html">http://uk.news.yahoo.com/inventor-of--p ... 05598.html

[dcultrapro]

yeah I just posted that in the thread I started, I could've SWORN I posted it here too but apparently not lol, nevermind!

[onthinice]

I heard they have only sold over 400,000 units. That is a failure by today's standards.

[Shadowrunner]

I heard they have only sold over 400,000 units. That is a failure by today's standards.

To be fair that's all they had available and they did sell out. I think they do that on purpose for console launches though, create more demand.

[onthinice]

Really? I remember 500,000 units being the sales goal.

[tomwaits]

Surprising to me that there's not much marketing/hype for the console. Not sure if Nintendo knew all the consoles would sell out until after the holidays and didn't bother advertising or if there's no interest. One of my kids announced that we had the new Wii U during 'share time' at elementary school... none of the kids in the class knew what it was.

[TL]

I see that Nintendo are claiming they sold out yet there are loads of reports of the Deluxe packs still sitting on the shelves in game stores.

[onthinice]

That is interesting.

[dcultrapro]

so the Wii U is pretty much fcuked then huh guys? To put into context HOW fcuked it is, black friday week sales, the week it released, hit 400,000.... the same week saw 750,000 XBOX 360's sell... thats pretty shameful that a brand new release could be trounced so handily by a 7 year old frickin console huh?

[TrekMD]

Well, a few posts back Laird renamed it the FU, so I'd say he nailed it! 

[dcultrapro]

yeah... I think they just REALLY badly timed this release to compete with COD and Halo and it just blew up and shat all over their faces. Shame but you guys know how I feel about Nintendo and Sony, maybe it'll make room for Sega to pop up next year with an uber awesome new console that is light years more powerful than the xbox and ps3 and will toast you some waffles at the same time!! And I'll inherit £30mil when I turn 35 as well  " title="Roll Eyes" /> lol