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9031 | 65.25% |
| No |
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1191 | 8.60% |
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808 | 5.84% |
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460 | 3.32% |
| Waluigi |
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1603 | 11.58% |
| Waa |
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748 | 5.40% |
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Katana Gomai posted:Modded Wiis can play ISOs from a hard drive so I guess they went all out piracy. Must be. Most of the homebrew crew were pretty against piracy and a lot of people with external storage relied on using the Wii itself to rip the disc images, so it immediately sounded silly to remove the drive. The original Wii also works pretty well as a cheap media center, and DVD reading goes out the window if you remove the disc drive (but I guess that doesn't matter if you're just pirating).
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Aug 5, 2013 18:47
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So Batman: Arkham Origins is going to have online multiplayer on every system except Wii U. Not exactly good news, but it's understandable since they're outsourcing the multiplayer development in the first place, and they're publicly saying it ahead of time and why they're doing it. Ubisoft saw this news and naturally thought they could one-up it. The Wii U version of Splinter Cell: Blacklist will be the only version without offline multiplayer. 
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Aug 5, 2013 19:10
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Are multiplayer modes an enormous sink on a project's resources or are companies just looking for cheap and easy corners to cut on the Wii U? I get this is all out of fear for poor sales but come the heck on dudes.
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Aug 5, 2013 19:12
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Jet Set Jettison posted:Are multiplayer modes an enormous sink on a project's resources or are companies just looking for cheap and easy corners to cut on the Wii U? I get this is all out of fear for poor sales but come the heck on dudes. Can you blame them? I wouldn't want to invest serious time into a WiiU game either. Even if WiiU had a bigger install base than ~3 million, the Wii showed pretty clearly that people bought Nintendo games and nothing else.
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Aug 5, 2013 19:47
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TaurusOxford posted:Can you blame them? I wouldn't want to invest serious time into a WiiU game either. Even if WiiU had a bigger install base than ~3 million, the Wii showed pretty clearly that people bought Nintendo games and nothing else. Because there was so much 3rd party stuff worth a drat on the Wii.
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Aug 6, 2013 01:59
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Neddy Seagoon posted:You better not be implying bad things about Okami I'm not about to say anything bad about Okami, but the Wii version's drawing mechanic is too unforgiving for me to get anything done, so...there's that. 
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Aug 6, 2013 02:18
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Pikmin 3 lets you do off-TV play with the Wii remote controls. It uses the sensor bar thats built into the pad for this. Pikmin 3 is awesome.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:20
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Gutcruncher posted:Pikmin 3 lets you do off-TV play with the Wii remote controls. It uses the sensor bar thats built into the pad for this. Pikmin 3 is awesome. Holy poo poo that bar actually got used for something. Wonder if they'll make it so we can play Wii games like that at some point.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:30
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Hey, Canadians looking for Wii Us. Target has beaten Walmart's price drop: $149.99 for Basic.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:43
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njsykora posted:Holy poo poo that bar actually got used for something. Wonder if they'll make it so we can play Wii games like that at some point. It's cool that it can do this, but what's even the point? It's so impractical. I don't understand why anyone would want to do it.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:49
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The only reason I can think of is that someone else is using the TV and you don't want to use Gamepad controls.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:53
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's cool that it can do this, but what's even the point? It's so impractical. I don't understand why anyone would want to do it. The point is its AWESOME
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Aug 6, 2013 02:53
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njsykora posted:Holy poo poo that bar actually got used for something. Wonder if they'll make it so we can play Wii games like that at some point. I didn't even think of this application for Wii games on the Virtual Console 
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Aug 6, 2013 02:56
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Supercar Gautier posted:The only reason I can think of is that someone else is using the TV and you don't want to use Gamepad controls. I have played Super Luigi U on the Game Pad only while using the Pro Controller because the TV was in use. It's pretty amazing that you can even do that as simple as it is.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:57
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Yeah if you have the stand from the deluxe pack you can just put it on a table and use it as a mini-TV.
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Aug 6, 2013 02:58
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njsykora posted:Yeah if you have the stand from the deluxe pack you can just put it on a table and use it as a mini-TV. This is what I've been doing and it's a great setup so far.
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Aug 6, 2013 03:03
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njsykora posted:Yeah if you have the stand from the deluxe pack you can just put it on a table and use it as a mini-TV. I didn't realize until just recently that I can use netflix on the Wii U gamepad. Makes for a nice portable TV to use while I am wandering around my apartment doing other things.
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Aug 6, 2013 03:17
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Wonderful 101 Blog Update #8: Wonder-Green! While I'm here... word is the next Nintendo Direct will be dropping very soon, and it'll focus on Pikmin 3.
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Aug 6, 2013 03:54
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Makob posted:I didn't realize until just recently that I can use netflix on the Wii U gamepad. Makes for a nice portable TV to use while I am wandering around my apartment doing other things. Come on, just say "while pooping" we all know what you mean.
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Aug 6, 2013 03:57
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:Wonderful 101 Blog Update #8: Wonder-Green! uh where are you getting this word is.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:01
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njsykora posted:Because there was so much 3rd party stuff worth a drat on the Wii. There really was but after launch no one bought it. Red Steel 2 was a really cool game and sold like poo poo, Goldeneye was a modest success, HotD:O's numbers were pretty low but Sega said they were happy with it, NMH2 flopped and I know there's many more if I went through my Wii collection. It seemed like any time a publisher decided to test the waters with Wii games it flopped except for Sonic and one Tiger Woods game.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:06
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Pixeltendo posted:uh where are you getting this word is. PR dude told me, it's not official (so you can come back and yell at me if it doesn't show up tomorrow).
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Aug 6, 2013 04:10
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MassRafTer posted:There really was but after launch no one bought it. Red Steel 2 was a really cool game and sold like poo poo, Goldeneye was a modest success, HotD:O's numbers were pretty low but Sega said they were happy with it, NMH2 flopped and I know there's many more if I went through my Wii collection. It seemed like any time a publisher decided to test the waters with Wii games it flopped except for Sonic and one Tiger Woods game. It almost feels like people purposely avoided buying good games on the Wii. It had all sorts of effortless poo poo that sold like mad, but anything cool or original just got ignored and/or not advertised at all.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:19
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As I understood it the August Direct was going to focus on Wonderful 101. At least that's what they said during W101's section in the last direct. I don't see much point in doing one on Pikmin 3 now it's out the door and W101's only 2 weeks away (haha I'm in Europe!).
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Aug 6, 2013 04:24
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Gutcruncher posted:It almost feels like people purposely avoided buying good games on the Wii. It had all sorts of effortless poo poo that sold like mad, but anything cool or original just got ignored and/or not advertised at all. It also had one of the weirdest Crossovers imaginable. Time Gal from the forgotten laserdisc game appeared as a playable character on Castle Shikigami 3. Also it should be noted that Arc Rise Fantasia is probably the closest thing we'll get to Manos:THOF in RPG form. But yeah the Wii has a load of decent smaller titles that were way better than most of the big games pushed onto the system. If Endless Ocean was marketed right it could have easily been a system seller. Xenoblade should have been a mass release instead of a Gamestop exclusive, and I really hope that X is a mass release. Because if X is yet again a GS exclusive they're shooting themselves in the foot. Xenoblade is a game just worth getting the Wii for, but Xenoblade sold like crap compared to stuff like Wii-Fit.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:25
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Gutcruncher posted:It almost feels like people purposely avoided buying good games on the Wii. It had all sorts of effortless poo poo that sold like mad, but anything cool or original just got ignored and/or not advertised at all. I love a lot of games on the Wii, but I'll admit that I did avoid playing any games that didn't really interest me in the first place. I avoided trying games on the Wii. Why? Because they gave me eyestrain. I think this is more limited to me than the general populous though, I honestly think that a Wii was better suited to a CRT (in fact I know it was) the problem being that games came in widescreen mode and thus that made the obvious choice for modern televisions over a CRT.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:26
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:PR dude told me, it's not official (so you can come back and yell at me if it doesn't show up tomorrow).
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Aug 6, 2013 04:26
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Crawfish posted:That's a bummer if true. That game has already taken up significant portions of so many other directs, and has even had it's own focused direct from memory. I guess they do this as some sort of advertising, but I wonder if it really helps at all. Surely everyone who watches Nintendo Directs have already decided whether or not they're buying Pikmin.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:36
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njsykora posted:Wonder if they'll make it so we can play Wii games like that at some point. AngryCaterpillar posted:I didn't even think of this application for Wii games on the Virtual Console If I correctly understand what little of the internals we know so far, the chip that encodes and transfers to the GamePad (which leet haxors call the "Starbuck") is an upgraded version of the a similar chip used by the Wii ("Starlet"). When in Wii mode, this chip turns back into Starlet, so it can't redirect video output and then encode and transfer it to the GamePad, as it's too busy doing Wii things that Wii games need to assume it's doing (recall that the Wii doesn't really have much in the way of an operating system). Nintendo probably thought it was too expensive to include a separate Starlet chip to enable Starbuck to still operate during Wii mode (and test it with their back catalog). On the flipside, the GamePad itself uses a protocol closer to Wi-Fi than straight Bluetooth like the Wii, so you probably couldn't even use it as a screen-less controller, either. Of course, if someone knows more, feel free to correct me. And possibly raise my hopes.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:40
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If they wanted to have specific Wii games available on Wii U in Wii U mode with gamepad support, they would have to be ports, but it would be a rather super easy port.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:44
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:While I'm here... word is the next Nintendo Direct will be dropping very soon, and it'll focus on Pikmin 3. Hopefully DLC details. I also hope they'll give us some info on the so called "Summer update".
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Aug 6, 2013 04:48
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:PR dude told me, it's not official (so you can come back and yell at me if it doesn't show up tomorrow).  Anyone see any ads for Wii U on TV? How's that big promised advertising push going so far?
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Aug 6, 2013 04:52
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Quest For Glory II posted:Man Nintendo's marketing really is putting on the full court press. Hey guys there's a new direct coming, maybe. I dunno. We'll see. Are you just trying to find things to complain about Nintendo for the sake of it?
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Aug 6, 2013 04:57
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SeANMcBAY posted:Hopefully DLC details. One of the things Miyamoto has hinted at for Pikmin 3 is replay sharing; the mere fact that he's even mentioned it publicly suggests it's a done deal and they're already working on it, but I wonder if it's something they'd actually charge for or if it'll be part of a free update, separate from DLC.
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Aug 6, 2013 04:58
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Maybe it will have something to do with the secret code thing going on in pikmin 3
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Aug 6, 2013 05:19
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Pixeltendo posted:Are you just trying to find things to complain about Nintendo for the sake of it? drat dude, lighten up. He's got a point, it's pretty funky that Nintendo still hasn't really put much PR muscle at all into the Wii U. I don't think I've seen a single ad for it ever, and if the Directs are supposed to be a big marketing tool then they should be publicizing when they're coming out or at least making some kind of noise about it.
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Aug 6, 2013 06:06
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Gutcruncher posted:Come on, just say "while pooping" we all know what you mean. Yeah, yeah. Its handy to be able to play some games while doing that too. Hopefully more games have that feature for it.
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Aug 6, 2013 06:09
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I've definitely seen more TV ads here in Australia in the lead-up to Pikmin than I have previously (by "more" I of course mean "a number higher than zero").
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Aug 6, 2013 06:16
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Quest For Glory II posted:
Seeing a lot of Pikmin 3 ads lately.
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Aug 6, 2013 08:10
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I can see why Nintendo wouldn't advertise much yet. Why push a system before there's enough games in the library to not disappoint the consumer? A large part of their target probably hasn't even been through a new console launch yet, so being extra cautious on when to pull the marketing trigger might not be a bad decision in the long run. Either way, I'm pretty happy with the console and a steady trickle of games is finally starting. Can't wait for Tropical Freeze, but I was almost alone in the Best Buy demo line compared to the Mario games.
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Aug 6, 2013 08:12
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