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Nintendo Announces Updated Software Release Dates

Things have finally become a bit more clear as to what Nintendo's upcoming software line-up will look like. Today the company has issued release date information on it's upcoming titles in the first quarter.

1upgamer994851d ago

The Wii U list is not accurate. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate Feb21st.... http://n4g.com/news/1156688...
There are others too, but I don't feel like looking for the links.

sitharrefus4851d ago

Ya the Wii u list should also include the Eshop titles coming soon, and they forgot the Walking Dead, Monster Hunter, Pandoras Tower should be there since the Wii u can play Wii games..

crazy_man4851d ago

No Feb 21 is when they are releasing the demo.

March 19 is the launch.

1upgamer994851d ago

Sorry my bad...ooops...:)

JScotty284851d ago

I didn't post the entire list. At least half of it are titles most gamers don't care about. In the article it was never stated this was the entire list, just games worth mentioning. I do agree Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate was an omission. I've included it now. Thanks for the heads up.

mrbojingles4851d ago (Edited 4851d ago )

Can't wait to play Lego City

metroid324850d ago

U have missed way too many games very un professional ?

klecser4850d ago

"at least half of it are titles gamers don't care about"

Its statements like these that make me not want to visit your site now, honestly.

If you took the three seconds needed to post some of the niche games that a lot of people who come here care about we might have a reason to read your work. Etrian Odyssey 4 has had a lot of buzz from the target audience on n4g, and to say that its "not worth mentioning" hurts your cause.

JScotty284850d ago

Honestly, I appreciate that. I'm new to writing about the games industry and welcome all the constructive criticism I can handle. Even though I highlighted all the games I thought were the most mainstream, I absolutely should have included the entire list. We all learn from our mistakes, right?

JScotty284850d ago

Oh, and I see you took "most" out of my quote: "At least half of it are titles most gamers don't care about." It's a key word, very sneaky of you.

klecser4849d ago

And I do intend to be constructive, not mean.

I want good game writers to succeed. The biggest turn off to me is when game writers write to too specific of an audience. This usually manifests itself as personal opinions being projected unto other gamers. Its great that you have personal opinions. But it also doesn't help when you evaluate a game on your personal opinions only. Jim Sterling is a good example of an extreme of how not to do it. The only opinion that matters to Jim Sterling is Jim Sterling's opinion. He has zero empathy for other gamers.

Develop that empathy in your own writing. Acknowledge that just because you don't like something it doesn't mean that others won't like this. A good writing style to develop is leading paragraphs with: "Some gamers will appreciate this feature for X reasons, and many won't" as opposed to: "This feature is terrible." That last sentence is pervasive in game writing. I think part of the reason is that we are in a culture right now in which "anyone" connected to the internet can be a game writer, regardless of literary training. And it shows.

Be a good game writer JScotty. Please. ;)

herbs4851d ago

I have sad news for Wii U owners regarding Aliens Colonials Marines. It is being ported by an outside source Demiurge Studios. Gearbox isn't even developing it so you can most likely say goodbye to all those visual improvements that Randy Pitchford was so excited to talk about. It will probably end up a sloppy port with a worse framerate and zero visual improvements, also I predict that it won't be out until late March at the earliest.
I'm not trolling I'm just trying to inform the N4G community and I sincerely hope that Demiurge Studios does a great job and it ends up being the best version, I just have my doubts.

herbs4851d ago (Edited 4851d ago )

www.eurogamer.net/articles/201 3-01-17-aliens-colonial-marine s -coming-later-on-wii-u

www.eurogamer.net/.../2... - United Kingdom

Source^

It could still be the definitive version, Im just not getting my hopes up so I'm not overly dissapointed.

ElectricKaibutsu4850d ago

@herbs
Your link didn't work for me, but I found it through Google. You got a lot of disagrees but I personally appreciate the heads up.

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

PopRocks3594851d ago

Yeah, I want a source as well. Or is this just more BS misinformation?

hduce4851d ago

I hate to admit it but herbs is correct. If you go to Demiurge Studio's website, they talk about developing the Wii U version of the game. That doesn't mean its going to be an inferior port but I hope Demiurge has had enough time with the newest development kit and not try to port the game as if the Wii U was an xbox360/ps3.

1upgamer994851d ago (Edited 4851d ago )

I call BS....Whenever I post something that is news like that I almost always give a link, and since I just Googled your claims I call BS, as NOTHING says that at all in terms of sloppy port and framerate issues , in fact they say the opposite ...So Link Please? I am not going to post all of the Positive links about Alien, on Wii U. I've done it like 10 times already.

ElectricKaibutsu4850d ago

Too many games is the kind of problem you want to have :)

crazy_man4850d ago (Edited 4850d ago )

I agree...

AND I LOVE IT

Fire Emblem being my fav tho

animegamingnerd4850d ago (Edited 4850d ago )

it doesn't help that i am trying save up my money to get a wii u for my birthday in april and pokemon mystery dungeon and luigi's manson come out just 2 weeks before my birthday

Phil324850d ago

I'm interested in a lot of games, but the Wii U list is not anything that will sell consoles imo. I'd love to be wrong, though.

I'm wanting:
Rayman Legends (the demo was awesome)
LEGO City Undercover
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Wii U version)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates of Infinity
Castlevania: LoS - MoF

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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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Relientk7729d ago (Edited 29d ago )

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

PRIMORDUS27d ago (Edited 27d 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

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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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Deathdeliverer53d ago

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

0hMyGandhi53d 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.

AuraAbjure52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

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

EveryPlatformGamer53d 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.

-Foxtrot53d 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_Box53d ago (Edited 53d 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

Inverno53d ago

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

Eonjay53d 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.

Inverno52d 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.

Killer2020UK52d 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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