"Good job" ripping off their loyal fans with a huge scam that requires you to buy a new version of a console you already own, just to play one game? Yep, they certainly know how to fleece their loyal suckers . . . I mean fans. :)
You mean like Rainbow Curse, where you have to spend 90% of the time looking at a crappy, low-rez, 6" screen instead of actually looking at your big screen TV? The gamepad was a disastrous gimmick that ruined the Wii U, let's hope the NX or whatever they call it isn't based on a gimmick as well.
Too bad you have to buy a completely new version of the 3DS (even if you own any of the older ones) just to play this one game. What a huge scam by Nintendo, no wonder they've become so irrelevant in the gaming community.
While you put forward a lot of good ideas, you do realize that this is Nintendo we're talking about? They're the last company that would put this level of technology into any of their gaming hardware.
As proof, just look at all their gaming systems over the last decade or so. DS, 3DS, Wii, and now the Wii U are all way behind the curve in terms of specs, sporting old technology and lacking in even the most basic features.
While it's nice to fan...
LOL Wii U
Really pitiful that the Wii U only includes ancient, slow USB 2.0 ports, when USB 3.0 had been out for over 4 years when the console was released. Add to that the complete omission of an ethernet port, and it's very clear that Nintendo cut every possible corner in the design of the console, to accommodate the high cost of the gamepad gimmick. And of course they scaled back the base console specs, including a weak CPU, weak GPU, no internal HDD, and a measly 2gb of RAM (with only 1gb usea...
Everything you wrote is really nothing more than fanboy fantasies. So what if a handful of low-production games still sell for "30 or 40 bucks" 10 years later? I bet I could easily find many original XBox games that are also selling at relatively high prices, considering they also came out more than a decade ago (and the original XBox was much better than the GameCube anyway).
Splatoon isn't going to "sell consoles" in any appreciable numbers, and I ...
Lol, funny stuff dude! Welcome to Fantasy Island!
Let's hope that whatever it is, it won't be weakly-specced hardware based around yet another gimmick, as all their recent hardware has been (DS, 3DS, Wii, Wii U). It's time for Nintendo to get back to what they used to be great at, producing solid gaming hardware and great games. They've really lost their way for over a decade, and they just can't afford more mediocre products with poorly integrated gimmicks anymore. If they can't even be remotely competitive when it...
What an embarrassing article.
Shame that Nintendo did such a poor job in designing the Wii U. Like the Wii before it, they designed a feature-lacking, low spec console, threw in a mediocre gimmick, and hoped the suckers would buy it. Too many people were burned by the crappy Wii, and weren't going to be fooled again. I could have predicted this disaster, as could many others. But Nintendo was arrogant and stubborn, and they ultimately failed, this generation.
No, it really won't. Wii U is all but dead, nothing can change that now.
Unfortunately the Wii U really is a failure, and Nintendo is directly to blame for that. Had they put more effort into the design, and not based it around a mediocre gimmick, it might have had a chance. Sadly, the old Nintendo we all loved, the one that designed the fantastic NES and SNES, is long gone. The current Nintendo is nothing but a pale shadow of its past greatness.
Splatoon looks awful. Bland, low-detail, boring graphics and silly gameplay. I think it will sell worse than W101, and that game bombed hard.
Sad that Wii U owners have so little to get excited about, but they have only Nintendo to blame for the situation. Let's hope that the NX or whatever they call it is better designed, and isn't based on gimmicks like all the recent Nintendo hardware. If it is gimmick-free, I might even buy one!
The games aren't "amazing" unless you're a diehard Nintendo fanboy. And Nintendo hasn't been known for "well-built consoles" for over a decade now, all if their recent consoles have been gimmicky, feature-lacking, and woefully underpowered. Gamers don't want cheap gimmicks tied to poor hardware, they want solid gaming consoles that can deliver cutting edge games, something Nintendo lost sight of many years ago.
Wow, Nintendo really needs to get their act together. First Rainbow Curse bombed because they ruined it by making you play the game on the gamepad (without any buttons), then Mario Party 10 bombed because of the awful controls and crappy gameplay. Shame they can't seem to put out good products anymore.
This game is garbage. They force people to play the game on the dinky, low-rez gamepad, without any buttons or triggers, so you can't even enjoy it on your big screen TV. Yet another epic fail by Nintendo, whoever came up with the idiotic design of the game should be fired.
I think that Nintendo is desperately trying to find a purpose for the gamepad, but sadly they've once again failed.
If you want the definitive version, check out Nano Assault NEO-X on the PS4, 121mb and it looks fantastic. Much better version than the Wii U one, runs at a higher resolution and frame rate.
What can they learn, how to make simplistic, cartoony, low-rez/poor textured games that take up very little space? I think the industry moved past that about a decade ago, so more like Nintendo could learn from everyone else.
@ OtakuDJK1NG "amazing games on Wii"? LOL please, the Wii was full of garbageware and waggle trash, the console has been all but forgotten now, and the waggle fad fizzled out years ago. The Wii was a fad that caught on with casuals for a while, then died an early death years ago, while the 360 and PS3 are still going fairly strong. Gimmicks alone don't make for a good console, just look at the Wii U for proof.