Wow, an entire article, with gushing fanboy fantasies, all based on the phrase "brand new concept". Absolute garbage.
No, it won't.
Who would want to buy yet another 3DS model, after being burned by all the previous ones?
- The first model had a tiny, low-res, poor quality screen, no 2nd analog, cheap hinges, slow CPU and GPU, etc.
- The second model (XL) had a slightly larger screen, with all the same problems as the first one.
- The 2DS was a cheap Fisher Price quality toy, designed for young children (no 3D, non-folding, poor screens, etc)
So after screwing ever...
@ Stealth - Star Fox Zero is sitting on Metacritic with an overall score of 69, "mixed or average reviews", with many reviews talking about the terrible controls. It's getting far from "good reviews", no matter how much you wish it were.
Unfortunately most of the games you mention are in only one genre, RPGs. What a one-dimensional list.
Plus of course, you have to contend with the poor 3DS hardware, lousy 3D effect, lack of 2nd analog stick, poor battery life, etc. Not worth it at all.
It really doesn't.
You really mentioned Star Fox Zero as evidence of support for the Wii U? That game bombed, ruined by Miyamoto's obsession with gimmicks. Pretty poor example of support for the console.
Very doubtful. As pointed out by several others above, if it is "profitable day 1", it will most likely be underpowered, feature-poor, and based on yet another unappealing gimmick.
It's like holding a giant low-res TV in your hands, then having to divide your attention between your normal HD TV and the low-res gamepad. Awful.
You know someone is desperate when they try to bring 3DS and Amiibo sales into a discussion about the failure of the Wii U. Keep grasping at those straws, lol.
@ wonderfulmonkeyman - Seems like you're the one who can't count "bro". November of 2012 to now is just about 3.5 years. Almost no games have come out for the console in the last few months, and almost nothing is coming out over the next year. So no, you can't call it "4 years and a few months", when almost no games are even coming out.
If your Wii U breaks, is lost, or stolen, you won't have any choice but to "let go" of your VC collection. Nintendo still ties all digital purchases to hardware, not accounts; just one more example of how out of touch they are with modern gaming conventions.
The PS4 won't go away or be obsolete once the new version comes out, so this isn't a "3 year" life cycle at all.
There are almost no games coming out in the last year of the Wii U's life, and the library to date is very thin. Selling the console and games before the prices tank is definitely the best way to recoup some of your money, before all the stuff drops even more in value.
Yep, sell everything while you can still get a few bucks for it. Once the NX releases, the Wii U console will be just like the Wii is now; people can't even move those for 25 bucks a pop.
Once a fad fizzles out, like Beanie Babies, it's best to just dump the stuff.
Wii U consoles will be hitting the bargain bin later this year, there are very few good games in its library, and almost nothing else planned in its last year of life. Now is certainly not time to waste money on a failed product.
Nintendo Direct events are just preaching to their own small core of diehard fans, they have virtually no impact on the gaming community at large. The only reason Nintendo conducts Directs, is because they are too cheap to rent the space and pay for the staff at E3. Their Directs are certainly nothing to be excited about.
Unfortunately, Nintendo "Directs" are pretty much a waste of time, since they are mostly viewed by just Nintendo fans. They're not going to win over new customers by using Directs, which by the way basically stopped after Iwata died. He was the central person behind them, so now there really isn't anyone to take them over.
As for your childish comments about Sony, you just sound bitter about the most successful company in the gaming industry today. Underst...
No, but it basically stopped having more than a tiny trickle of games a year ago, and its final year of life will have almost nothing. In the end, it never generated much of a library, at all.
That's why you're "screwed".
"NX will be amazing"
Only in the minds of the most diehard Nintendo fans, a group that gets smaller and smaller as time goes by. The rest of the gaming community moved on to better consoles with better games a long time ago.