the man made the then-failure Gamecube profitable for the company, created the best selling handheld of all time in the DS, the second best selling home console in histroy with the wii, and the 3ds is already starting to turn around.
he's by no means doing a bad job in terms of success, it's just the direction he's taking nintendo that people don't like.
is this ONE guy going to program it for all these different platforms?
Drop the exclusive model to 299.99, throw in a pro controller. That's the best plan in my eyes. gets the pro controller exposure it sorely needs
You say that as if nintendo couldn't afford a major failure in the wii u, nonetheless a minor one (which i think it might be, but even the gamecube turned a profit).
what started as a mario game, became pikmin. Pikmin hasn't seen a game in almost 9 years until now.
more stories like this need to happen. they need to have enough IP's to where they can space them apart, and generate hype at their second coming.
i can only imagine the hoopla when F-Zero or Star Fox make their triumphant returns. why? we haven't seen them in almost a decade.
oh, and the Prime games didn't look and play similarly. good gameplay is good gameplay, and i realize that's subjective but you'd be critical of every sequel ever by that logic. it's a 2.5D platformer, good level design is all devs need to do. and since retro CHOSE to make a new DK, they must have some creative ideas up their sleeves, whereas theyre probably still brainstorming for a new metroid.
i think because collect-a-thons are dead at this point, and mario almost single-handedly owns the 3d platformer genre ever since galaxy.
but if you ask me, the new DKC games do feel a niche. they offer the same challenge their predecessors did (unlike NSMB) and make use of the technology that's come since the SNES games.
that's like saying:
maybe eric snowden is the bad guy!
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looks like steampunk L4D in silent hill
...my dream game :D
God why do people want a 64 2? It already has a sequel... 3 in fact. Sunshine and the Galaxy games ARE the sequels to 64, they follow the same formula they just don't dull it down to the basic platforming in 64. And if anyone thinks dumbing it down to 64's dated gameplay is a step forward has some pretty thick nostaligic goop in their noggins.
Otherwise, good comment. i fear that the "3D Land/World" series will develop NSMB syndrome in the sense that it gets put ont...
Sometimes i wish nintendo would incorporate more modern aspects to their VC re-releases. like sega and stuff do on XBLA. like bring the multiplayer aspect to super mario world online. get some leaderboards going like we're in the arcades. hell, if you took mario kart 64 or one of the old mario parties and gave it online people'd be throwing nostalgia induced money at you.
i doubt it could run a dolphin emulator, no.
the dreamcast version? probably
The wii u is looking great on the indie game front.
to be honest the second lost planet is a huge guilty pleasure of mine. me and my friend played through it multiple times to laugh at how campy it was.
the first one i didn't like, and this looks to be like the first one
yeah. even if the wii u under performs and becomes the first console they dont profit from (aside from the VB), they'll still have plenty in the bank from the 3ds and sheer amount of nintendo related merch sold everywhere
it doesnt, and i too wish it did. even if it was Super Smash Bros Conflict or Super Smash Bros Tussle
well greed would imply they get financial/consumer gain from shunning them. and they don't, it just makes them look worse!
i like how everyone disagreed when i said itd land somewhere between ps3 and ps1 sales, which is in fact just above 100 million.
Then liked the guy under me for saying they'd get just above 100 million -_-
there's just no good reason not to embrace indie's. nintendo's doing it, sony's doing it, everyone's doing it because they're lucrative and attract people. microsoft are making a huge mistake shrugging off indies when xbox live's most successful game is minecraft.
i would agree, the game actually brings the challenge of the classics. not sure where the negative reviews are coming from