After the dust has settled, sales have dropped and having lost a large portion of the core audience, Nintendo has some serious work to do. Can the Wii U save the day?
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
The name "Hewson" carries a special weight for anyone who grew up during the golden age of British computing. As the son of Andrew Hewson—the man behind legendary publisher Hewson Consultants—Rob Hewson didn't just grow up playing video games; he learned to spell his name from their title screens. However, Rob didn't just rest on his family's 8-bit laurels. From leading major LEGO franchises at TT Games to tackling the high-stakes world of technical porting at Huey Games, Rob has carved out a unique path in an ever-evolving industry. In this candid interview Rob to discussed the burden and beauty of a family legacy, the technical "scar tissue" left by the ambitious Hydrophobia, and why porting a masterpiece like Inscryption to consoles is far more than a simple copy-paste job.
NE: "We rank the 10 best main series Super Mario games in celebration of the recent MAR10 Day with 2D and 3D included."
Best 2D, Mario World, best 3D, Mario 64. Can't say there's been a bad one, although Mario World 2 wasn't a true sequel. The Mario Land games were good (not the first one) and also Wario Land. I thought after Mario 64, Mario 3D World was excellent.
Naww, Nintendo has plenty of life left and will continue to impress! Trust me!
"Will this be the best generation yet for Nintendo?" How do you define best generation. For Nintendo it will be the Wii for us it is a contender. I am personally waiting. I can't afford multiple consoles and like this generation I didn't jump on the first console. At the moment to say could it be the best possible generation for Nintendo is very premature. The fact no official specs have been released suggests they are still finalising it. I think they unveiled to early. At the moment we are hearing hardly anything to do with the Wii U. Once specs are realised then we have a better picture on what the next Nintendo gen is going to be like
The only way I'll get a Wii U depends on a few things the price of the console, and what the launch titles are and what they will be like. Every gamer knows if you have shitty launch titles people will stay away from the system. Personally I want Nintendo to tighten up on some of the shovelware games they get some of those titles are not even worth buying. And that to can hurt a console with shovelware games that no one likes. Nintendo won't go down without a fight and the Wii U should be a decent little system.
It's weird the WiiU is a next gen console playing current gen games.
I just got a Wii. Loving the classics on VC.