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WendigoJohnson posted:Yeah I guess the DC is sort of like a Bizarro Wii, I never really thought of it that way. Allthough the last year of the Wii's cycle was actually drought free for the most part, a system exclusive game was coming out like every month or so that was actually worth getting. I can't think of more than three games for the Wii in 2012 that I would want to play. Ever.
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Jan 30, 2013 08:09
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Off the top of my head: Xenoblade (NA) The Last Story (NA/PAL) Pandora's Tower (PAL) Project Zero 2: Wii Edition aka Fatal Frame 2 remake (PAL) Rhythm Heaven Fever (NA) / Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise (PAL) Kirby's Dream Collection (NA) plus Kiki Trick which was released only in Japan and has no hope in hell of ever being localised.
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Jan 30, 2013 08:28
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Guess that's just me but I don't count the anthology and therefore see three games I would ever want to play.
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Jan 30, 2013 08:29
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Yeah, I wasn't disputing your broader point, just listing everything I could think of for the sake of it. I checked Wikipedia and there were a few others I missed/forgot about: Mario Party 9 (NA/PAL), Inazuma Eleven (PAL), NPC Pikmin 2 (NA, only took 'em three years!) and Dragon Quext 10 in Japan.
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Jan 30, 2013 08:36
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 DOOOOOM! GLOOOOOOM!Edge posted:Wii U sells three million as Nintendo cuts sales targets
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Jan 30, 2013 14:45
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By those numbers the Wii had a better software attach rate then the freakin DS? How is that possible?
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Jan 30, 2013 14:51
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Iacen posted:
Wait! Wii U sold three million globally?! I thought for sure it'd be less. Folt The Bolt fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Jan 30, 2013 15:34
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Brit/EU goons, amazon.co.uk has dropped the price on some Wii U games: Arkham Asylum for 21 GBP Sonic Racing for 23 GBP Assassin's Creed 3 for 24 GBP Sold or fulfilled by Amazon, so free shipping within the UK.
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Jan 30, 2013 16:03
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I've been interested in this game, I tried the demo and it was pretty fun. I still don't know if I should get the Wii U or PC version and if it's actually as good as the likes of Mario Kart.
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Jan 30, 2013 16:07
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Jan 30, 2013 16:08
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Widdiful posted:I've been interested in this game, I tried the demo and it was pretty fun. I still don't know if I should get the Wii U or PC version and if it's actually as good as the likes of Mario Kart. It's kind of hard to compare to Mario Kart because it's not really trying for the same thing. It's much closer to something like Diddy Kong Racing, and it requires a lot of skill to get anywhere on the higher difficulties. As for Wii U vs. PC, Wii U has 5 player local multiplayer, but the PC version will have a better framerate and a couple characters that are exclusive. I highly, highly recommend it no matter which route you go.
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Jan 30, 2013 16:10
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Artix74 posted:It's kind of hard to compare to Mario Kart because it's not really trying for the same thing. It's much closer to something like Diddy Kong Racing, and it requires a lot of skill to get anywhere on the higher difficulties. As for Wii U vs. PC, Wii U has 5 player local multiplayer, but the PC version will have a better framerate and a couple characters that are exclusive. I highly, highly recommend it no matter which route you go. I wouldn't quite recommend it if you aren't, like, quite good at videogames. You're never going to get Ages if you aren't. I finally got through the last gate, only to see that the very very final gate requires 100% of the stars. I'm sad now. 
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Jan 30, 2013 16:29
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Artix74 posted:It's kind of hard to compare to Mario Kart because it's not really trying for the same thing. It's much closer to something like Diddy Kong Racing, and it requires a lot of skill to get anywhere on the higher difficulties. As for Wii U vs. PC, Wii U has 5 player local multiplayer, but the PC version will have a better framerate and a couple characters that are exclusive. I highly, highly recommend it no matter which route you go. This is the first Ive heard of the PC exclusive characters. Football Manager Total War: Shogun Team Fortress 2 Holy SHIIIIIITTTTT
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Jan 30, 2013 16:42
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It's a pretty solid game, I don't think it's quite as good as Mario Kart though. I did everything except for beating ghosts in time trial mode because that's just kinda boring. The game is surprisingly challenging, a couple of the traffic challenges especially took me a couple of hours of just retrying over and over. My only real problem with the game is that the items didn't seem that well thought out. Mario Kart has a much better balance. (Even though people like to complain about blue shells) The course design is great though, and the game makes way better use of the transforming vehicle mechanic than Mario Kart 7.
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Jan 30, 2013 16:45
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KimT posted:It's a pretty solid game, I don't think it's quite as good as Mario Kart though. I did everything except for beating ghosts in time trial mode because that's just kinda boring. The game is surprisingly challenging, a couple of the traffic challenges especially took me a couple of hours of just retrying over and over. My only real problem with the game is that the items didn't seem that well thought out. Mario Kart has a much better balance. (Even though people like to complain about blue shells) The course design is great though, and the game makes way better use of the transforming vehicle mechanic than Mario Kart 7. I have to disagree with you on the items not being well thought out. Compared to Mario Kart, they were intentionally designed to be more down to earth and less destructive, making the game focus way more on driving skills than getting a lucky item.
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Jan 30, 2013 16:49
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KimT posted:It's a pretty solid game, I don't think it's quite as good as Mario Kart though. I did everything except for beating ghosts in time trial mode because that's just kinda boring. The game is surprisingly challenging, a couple of the traffic challenges especially took me a couple of hours of just retrying over and over. My only real problem with the game is that the items didn't seem that well thought out. Mario Kart has a much better balance. (Even though people like to complain about blue shells) The course design is great though, and the game makes way better use of the transforming vehicle mechanic than Mario Kart 7. It's certainly the hardest "kart" racer I've ever played. It's just a few notches under F-zero GX, actually. I disagree on the item balance, though. The only problems I have is that All-Star is too powerful and the rockets are confusing and pretty weak. Most of the items are just thinly-disguised versions of their MK equivalent, and I think that the Swarm is a much better way of handling things than blue shells. They almost always work, they usually slow down more than one player, and the player in first has the option of simply achieving nirvana and dodging all of them. That said, I hate the Burning Rangers level and traffic challenges.
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Jan 30, 2013 16:50
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theflyingorc posted:That said, I hate the Burning Rangers level and traffic challenges. The song makes up for any wrongs the track has. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUabQiXermY
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Jan 30, 2013 16:59
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greatn posted:By those numbers the Wii had a better software attach rate then the freakin DS? How is that possible? Wii Sports Resort (30.14 million) Wii Play (28.02 million) New Super Mario Bros. Wii (26.26 million) Wii Fit (22.67 million) Wii Fit Plus (20.48 million) Slapping 'Wii' in the name of a game was money in the bank.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:02
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Chaltab posted:Mario Kart Wii (32.44 million] It's still crazy to me that Mario Kart Wii is almost certainly the best selling game of the generation. They should be punished for ruining Battle Mode! 
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Jan 30, 2013 17:04
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greatn posted:By those numbers the Wii had a better software attach rate then the freakin DS? How is that possible?  I read a statistic several years ago stating that if the ONLY games ever released for the GBA ever were those four Mario Advance ports over the course of the entire system's life, the GBA would have still been a massive financial success for Nintendo. I can only imagine how well New Super Mario Bros. Wii U is selling. Also I notice when looking at these sales charts over the years that all three of the big console makers cheat with their pack-in games. Wii Play on the original Wii as an example, was counted as a best selling individual game (even though everyone who bought it did so just for the Remote) while Wii Sports was counted as a best seller in the US even when it was only available as a pack-in with a new Wii. So they kind of get the best of both worlds on paper whenever pack-ins and bundles are around. I'm sure they're counting Nintendo Land as a sold game even though it's bundled with the deluxe model in the US. Otherwise (going by the sales numbers on that link) it would mean that every single person that bought a Wii U purchased a minimum of three games at he same time which I seriously doubt.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:06
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So has it been confirmed that purchases are tied to your ACCOUNT, and not hardware? I'd love to upgrade all my hardware-tied Wii purchases to an account-tied Wii U purchases. Most of my library (on all systems I own) is downloaded games.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:07
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theflyingorc posted:It's still crazy to me that Mario Kart Wii is almost certainly the best selling game of the generation. They should be punished for ruining Battle Mode! If it makes you feel better, Wii Play is probably the real game of the generation if decide not to include system bundles. I know it makes you feel better.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:08
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Neo Rasa posted:I read a statistic several years ago stating that if the ONLY games ever released for the GBA ever were those four Mario Advance ports over the course of the entire system's life, the GBA would have still been a massive financial success for Nintendo. I can only imagine how well New Super Mario Bros. Wii U is selling. Actually, we know that. "Joystiq posted:Regards software, Nintendo shifted 11.69 million Wii U games since the console's launch on November 18, The best-performing games were the bundled-in Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U, coming in at 2.33 million and 2.01 million respectively.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:09
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Artix74 posted:Actually, we know that. I feel bad for those 1 million kids who got Tank! Tank! Tank! and/or Funky Barn instead.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:18
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Owning FunkyBarn gets you VIP status in the FunkyBarn club on the miiverse. Speaking of miiverse anyone know when we'll be able to do those private communities cause that's gonna own
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Jan 30, 2013 17:24
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theflyingorc posted:I wouldn't quite recommend it if you aren't, like, quite good at videogames. You're never going to get Ages if you aren't. My girlfriend and me have been slowly grinding through the game for the last couple of weeks. So far we have everything 2-star'd and about ten events 3-star'd. As weird as it sounds for a kart racer, you actually get better at the game as you play, it has a real sense of skill progression that the Mario Kart series hasn't had since the original SNES game. Playing Sonic made me aware just how stale and formulaic Mario Kart has become, to the point where I will probably just skip Mario Kart Wii U entirely because there is no way it can get better. To point out just a single aspect, I was genuinely in shock that Sonic had both an Adventure Mode and Grand Prix, because I saw Adventure first and figured "ok, so it's one of those racers". The idea that a kart racer could have both didn't even occur to me because Mario Kart, through seven iterations, never deviated from 50cc, 100cc, 150cc and mirror Grand Prix. Dr. VooDoo posted:Owning FunkyBarn gets you VIP status in the FunkyBarn club on the miiverse. Speaking of miiverse anyone know when we'll be able to do those private communities cause that's gonna own Speaking of the MiiVerse, I hadn't used it in a while and I can't believe there still is no way of sorting them other than "newest" because that's already getting hella convoluted. Also my favorites aren't at the top and am I missing something or is there really no way to search for the NSMBWiiU pro player videos other than following the guy who posts them?
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Jan 30, 2013 17:28
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Dr. VooDoo posted:Owning FunkyBarn gets you VIP status in the FunkyBarn club on the miiverse. Speaking of miiverse anyone know when we'll be able to do those private communities cause that's gonna own WiiFitU is gonna be the first game to use the private communities.
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Jan 30, 2013 17:32
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So in the Miiverse I keep seeing these really amazing drawings from console owners and loving them, but I'm seeing some with gradients and shading and such that are definitely NOT hand-drawn...how are they doing that?
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Jan 30, 2013 20:42
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SyHopeful posted:So in the Miiverse I keep seeing these really amazing drawings from console owners and loving them, but I'm seeing some with gradients and shading and such that are definitely NOT hand-drawn...how are they doing that? From what I've been able to discern, painstaking use of the eraser tool.
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Jan 30, 2013 20:44
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Artix74 posted:Yeah, that's a good list. ZombiU, NSMBU, and Sonic Racing get my vote as well, though I didn't get Nintendoland, so I can't say anything about that. NintendoLand is seriously worth getting a Deluxe unit instead of a Basic by itself. It's so much fun when you have friends over, just make sure you have enough Wiimotes for everyone. Mario Chase and the Luigi's Mansion games are seriously the best of the bunch with enough friends playing. The Donkey Kong one is pretty fun for one player, too. EC posted:Man, I'm bummed. A few months ago I saw that Nintendo was putting out a history of Zelda ("Hyrule Hystoria") and I preordered it immediately. I forgot about it until it was delivered tonight. It's fantastic...but it seems to have a LOT of information from Skyward Sword, which I haven't played yet. Speaking of the Hyrule Historia, is it not being sold in stores? I couldn't find it in any local comic shops or Barnes and Noble. If I can't find it in any stores soon I'll definitely just order it online, but I was hoping to just score a copy without having to wait on it to ship...
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Jan 30, 2013 21:23
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I have been playing a lot of Sonic Racing recently but I still prefer Mario Kart because it's all about the local multiplayer. The blue shell thing is mentioned a lot, but in the majority of cases a skilled driver will win despite being hit by a blue shell. They can be annoying in single player mode, but I would argue the AI 'cheats' far more in Sonic Racing. Which is probably why the difficulty is so high. I have seen a few occasions where a CPU player has thrown snowballs and other items backwards towards me from a long distance when it would have made more sense for them to aim for a closer CPU directly in front of them. In the higher difficulties it seems as if CPU players are actively are trying to make it hard for you to win, as opposed to trying to win the race themselves. Don't get me wrong, Sonic is an addictive game with high production values, but whether you prefer it depends on what sort of player you are. Ultra-competitive core-gamers will probably prefer sonic, but MK is better for those who just enjoy playing for fun with friends.
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Jan 30, 2013 21:43
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Xenomorph posted:So has it been confirmed that purchases are tied to your ACCOUNT, and not hardware? Nintendo said pre-release that all your purchases are tied to your Nintendo ID. You Nintendo ID is tied to your system...
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Jan 30, 2013 21:51
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So your account is recoverable, that is if you want to go through bullshit bureaucracy levels facing a police report to prove a stolen wii u or sensing your broken wii u in instead of say, putting in a password and filling in an online form.
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Jan 30, 2013 22:09
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Xenomorph posted:So has it been confirmed that purchases are tied to your ACCOUNT, and not hardware? As far as anyone can tell, the answer is "it is tied to both". However, if you sell your WiiU, you have no way to get your account back without purchasing your original Wii again. Yes, this is all solvable with a small webtool that allows you to log into your Nintendo Network ID. Why this doesn't exist is a good question.
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Jan 30, 2013 22:20
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Considering that Nintendo has a plan to have a mobile Nintendo Network app for your phone, I'd imagine some sort of way to recognize accounts outside of the system are coming. The better question is why did they not make this available from day one?
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Jan 30, 2013 22:37
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FPzero posted:Considering that Nintendo has a plan to have a mobile Nintendo Network app for your phone, I'd imagine some sort of way to recognize accounts outside of the system are coming. The better question is why did they not make this available from day one? Resources allocated elsewhere. It's pretty obvious that Nintendo scrambled to get their software ready on time.
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Jan 30, 2013 22:40
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theflyingorc posted:Resources allocated elsewhere. It's pretty obvious that Nintendo scrambled to get their software ready on time. Well we see how that one worked out. *Wonderful 101* *Pikmin 3* *Wii Fit U* *Game and Wario*
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Jan 31, 2013 00:02
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Folt The Bolt posted:Wait! Wii U sold three million globally?! It almost certainly is less, but how much less is unknown. That number is not "units sold", it's "units shipped". The number shipped just means how many units Nintendo has sent to stores. Unless you're in a Wii situation where units are not generally available on store shelves, units shipped is a bigger number than units sold. It correlates roughly to the number of units sold, but there is some variance between the two barring a scenario where demand outstrips supply.
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Jan 31, 2013 00:16
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greatn posted:Well we see how that one worked out. *Wonderful 101* *Pikmin 3* *Wii Fit U* *Game and Wario* He's talking about the OS, considering the five-hour mandatory day one update.
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Jan 31, 2013 00:17
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greatn posted:Well we see how that one worked out. *Wonderful 101* *Pikmin 3* *Wii Fit U* *Game and Wario* In the system itself. The clearly way-too-hastily assembled Wii U OS, the eShop, etc. thefncrow posted:It almost certainly is less, but how much less is unknown. That number is not "units sold", it's "units shipped". The number shipped just means how many units Nintendo has sent to stores. Unless you're in a Wii situation where units are not generally available on store shelves, units shipped is a bigger number than units sold. edit: getting different statements from different sources. Anyone have a link to Nintendo's statement? theflyingorc fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jan 31, 2013 |
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