@ Neonridr - So where were Devil's Third and Fatal Frame? And why were things different in previous E3 conferences, where Nintendo was happy to showcase games that were NOT coming out in those same years?
Always the same old, same old from the diehard Nintendo fans: excuses, excuses. You must get tired of constantly having to spin things to try to make Nintendo look good?
While I agree overall with your ideas, item "b" on your list is never going to happen. Nintendo is extremely conservative when it comes to hardware design, specs, and features; their goal for over a decade has been to keep manufacturing costs as low as possible, to keep their profits high (look at the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U). They are a very risk averse company, and simply wouldn't make the sacrifices necessary to make cutting edge hardware anymore.
And unfortunat...
Unfortunately, it's diehard Nintendo fans like the author of the above cited article, that are contributing to the decline and failure of the company that they love so much. By continually making excuses for every bad product, decision, and game from Nintendo, they encourage the company to "stay the path", not to change and evolve with the times.
When a company fails to deliver products that people want, they should be called to task for that, not praised and e...
I agree with you that the Wii U is overpriced, considering the specs and features it offers (in comparison to the PS4 and XB1).
Unfortunately, it's really too late to salvage the Wii U with a price cut. The reason is that there just aren't enough games out for the system now, and very few coming in the future. Without a decent library of games (current and future), there just isn't a compelling reason to buy a Wii U at all.
Let's hope that Nintendo has indeed learned something from the 3DS and Wii U: that gamers don't want silly gimmicks tied to low-spec hardware, they want genuinely solid gaming systems that can deliver great experiences for years. Something the Wii U completely failed to do, and even the 3DS has been mediocre at best.
"Nintendo you have a chance here. The NX can be the next gen console everyone wanted but no one offerd. You can have hardware three years ahead of PS4/Xone. Make a console that will actually run every game at 1080p 60 frames with 4K support. Get those third parties and play the angle "better on NX". Abandon the whole Wii/Mii brand and abandon Amiibos. or at least don't make them a focus like you are right now."
You do know that none of what you wrote a...
Well said. The Nintendo we all knew and loved, the company that put out the fantastic NES and SNES in the 80s and 90s, is long gone. What really dragged them down was their obsession with cheap gimmicks tied to low-spec hardware, to set themselves apart from the competition. That approach worked (for a while) with the original Wii, but failed miserably for the Wii U. The gamepad gimmick drained a lot of resources away from the base console, leaving the system unable to compete this generation...
It's the same old thing from the Nintendo apologists like this website and the blindly loyal diehard fans: excuses, excuses, excuses. When will they actually step up and demand better products from Nintendo? When will they stop pointing fingers everywhere else but at the company that brought them such huge disappointments? Where is the accountability?
Just because the gamepad has a "gyroscope", doesn't mean you need to force that gimmick into your games as well. I can already see the problems with this approach; forcing people to juggle their attention between the TV and the gamepad actually takes away from immersion in a game, rather than enhancing it. Kirby's Rainbow Curse is the ultimate example of this problem, in that game you have to focus 100% on the gamepad, so you don't even get to enjoy the game on the big...
No matter how much you want the Wii U to be "current generation", just because it released in a certain time frame, the reality is that most people consider it to be a part of the last generation consoles. The specs and features of the Wii U are really more in line with the PS3 and 360, and even then, it often can't even match those older systems.
If Nintendo wanted the Wii U to be a competitive part of the current generation consoles, they should have done a mu...
Pretty sad how far Nintendo has fallen. E3 hype is through the roof for the other two consoles, yet almost nothing is being said about the Wii U at all. Just a few old crumbs like another ancient Earthbound port, an ugly video of Fast Racing Neo, a new name for Mario Maker, almost nothing else. Hard to believe that the Wii U can survive much longer with virtually no content, seems like this coming year will be its last one.
No, they really can't "make a huge mark", they're all but forgotten as far as this generation of consoles goes.
Last year's presentation by Nintendo may have been amusing, but it didn't change the status of the Wii U at all; nothing that Nintendo does this year will make a difference either.
Let's hope that the NX isn't another low spec, feature lacking system centered around gimmicks, like Nintendo's last two consoles. ...
No, just the Wii U is dead in "America", and the rest of the world too. An unappealing gimmick tied to low-spec, feature-lacking hardware just didn't work for Nintendo, this time.
The PS4 and XB1 are both doing very well, and have a bright future ahead of them.
I'm sorry, but this article is nothing more than fanboy excuses, for a game released at full price ($60), but severely lacking in content. If any other developers released a game like this, with such limited features and meager content, they'd be raked over the coals. But Nintendo does it, and it's diehard fans try to spin it into a good thing.
It's always the same thing from the Nintendo faithful: excuses, excuses, excuses. Very sad.
@gamingpro - The real question is, why are the diehard Nintendo fans always desperately running damage control for a company that completely failed to deliver what gamers wanted, this (or even last) generation? Every single bad decision or poor product from Nintendo is defended and rationalized by a tiny core of diehard fans that simply make endless excuses and point fingers everywhere else.
And apparently, those "competitors" can indeed hold a candle to Nintendo G...
Really, this game's problem is content, period. There just isn't enough included, and it's clear that Nintendo released the game before it was finished. They're desperate for revenue, so they came up with the sleazy approach of releasing an unfinished game, then saying that "free content" would be coming out later. Plus they set a ludicrous price ($60 MSRP) for a game with a meager amount of content. This game really should have cost around $20, for the tiny amount o...
Please don't try to make excuses for the Wii U's pitiful, meager internal storage. It's diehard Nintendo fans like you that encourage the company to continue to produce low-spec, feature-lacking hardware like the Wii and Wii U.
As for the Wii U "only needing 32gb", how well does that work for games like this:
NBA 2K13 - 20gb
Batman Arkham City - 19gb
Lego City Undercover - 19gb
Assassin's Creed 3 - 17gb
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Agreed. All Nintendo is known for these days, is their obsession with cheap gimmicks to try to differentiate themselves from the competition. The Wii was crippled by its waggle gimmick and poor hardware, and the Wii U was ruined by the gamepad gimmick (also coupled with very substandard hardware).
Thankfully people came to their senses, and refused to be suckered by this approach a second time. It's time for Nintendo to exit the gaming hardware business, and just go soft...
Exactly. There is hardly any content in the game to begin with, and they act like releasing "free" DLC is some big noble cause. In reality, the game was a meager offering with very little to offer, released too early, and they're desperately trying to add more content to make it at least half baked.
In a few months, everyone will have forgotten about it, and it will go in the bargain bin just like W101 did. Another forgotten new IP from a company that just c...
Who cares to count only first party games by each console developer? The real point is the overall games coming for each system, from all developers, not just first party devs. And on that count, Nintendo just has very, very little coming in the future, and the Wii U looks to be winding down to the end of its life.
At this point, it seems like Wii U will be mostly mothballed by late 2016, with a few games coming out that holiday and straggling into the next year, but not ...