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The Worrying Wii U

"My worries are not so much about the Wii U as they are brought about by the Wii U.

You may have heard that the Wii U launched last week. I have to admit to being a bit baffled by the thing. I want to believe that the Wii U is yet another notch in Nintendo’s creative belt and not what I fear: a lazy, opportunistic cash grab. As it stands the Wii U has me puzzled." - JTM Games

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Benjaminkno4927d ago (Edited 4927d ago )

Obviously it's still too early to tell.
I don't see Nintendo not making stellar first party games for this beast. They've already said they're pushing back their games to make room for other developers.
This article is premature.
"Worries not so much about the Wii U as they are brought about the Wii U."
WTF does that mean?

wiiulee4927d ago

as you said you didnt understand the wii and now you dont understand the wiiu which is really the ultimate system that could put out at this time..it has incredible potential,great third party support....so only you will be missing out and haters

mamotte4926d ago

"the Wii came with a strange new controller people couldn’t quite wrap their heads around."

Because motion controllers are way too hard to understand.

MilkMan4926d ago

Go to bed man, and go play your Black Ops 2 and let the adults worry about the future of gaming.

joethomma4926d ago

I wouldn't play Black Ops II if you bought it for me.

Deku-Johnny4926d ago

"The Wii was released a year before its competitors." I think there's some kind of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff going on.

mydyingparadiselost4926d ago

The wii released alongside the ps3 a year after the XBOX 360. this guy gets alot of just facts wrong in this article. He mentions games on the wii that came out long after the console release like they were available immediately. He also says it didn't launch with a mario, zelda, blah blah, then says it did have mario but ign just scored it low. Don't believe this article, it's rubbish. At least on the game fact parts.

joethomma4926d ago

Did you read the article dude? When I mentioned Mario/Zelda/Metroid it had nothing to do with the launch lineup. (Although I'm well aware Twilight Princess launched with the Wii.) I never said anything about IGN rating a Mario game low; I said IGN gave the Wii U a middling review.

joethomma4926d ago

Author of the article here. Totally my fuck up. As far as consoles go I'm only a PS3 owner, so I was only thinking about its release when I wrote that. It's been edited to clarify. If it helps I feel like a bit of a dick about it.

Deku-Johnny4926d ago

No worries, we all make mistakes. What's the point in life if nothing ever goes wrong?

mydyingparadiselost4926d ago

"Nearly everyone I know purchased a Wii at one point or another (myself included), and why not? Its overall quality not living up the hype of its sales has been well documented by this point, but let’s face facts: the motion controls were new and exciting, it was affordable even at launch, and a handful of its games — the Mario Galaxies, Twilight Princess/Skyward Sword, Xenoblade Chronicles, Brawl, the No More Heroes’ — were as good or better than anything Sony and Microsoft released this generation."
makes it sound like xenoblade, ssbb, and no more heroes were available anywhere near launch which they weren't. your completely right and i apologize about the nsmbu and system rating confusion, i did read the article just misunderstood. i'm not trying to harp and i'm sorry if it seems so, but lately it just seems many game journalists are taking liberties with facts lately.
I do like the article, it's long and gives alot of different points of view to as to how the wii was a success and how the wii u will have a difficult time emulating it, and I hope you the best in any more you write :-)

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7754d ago (Edited 54d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS53d ago (Edited 53d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer79d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi78d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure78d ago (Edited 78d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer79d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot79d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box78d ago (Edited 78d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno79d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay79d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno77d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK77d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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