Lego City Undercover: The Story of Frank Honey, Waffles, and Building an Investigation!

edzepp

Man, I hope there'll be rumours of Bayonetta 2 going multiplat. Just to get their hopes up.

Still not serious.

UnbreakableVow

I'm still not entirely convinced Lego City Undercover won't go multiplatform if it sells well

skeldare

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I'm still not entirely convinced Lego City Undercover won't go multiplatform if it sells well

It's published by Nintendo.

Brainiac 8

Apparently published AND funded by Nintendo.

Stranger things have happened though.

UnbreakableVow

Mass Effect was published by Microsoft

Brainiac 8

I think this is a bit different sort of like the Bayo2 thing where Nintendo funded the project.

skeldare

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Mass Effect was published by Microsoft

You're pulling that card are you?

edzepp

Well, the 'funded' part may hurt the chances of a move more than the 'published' bit.

UnbreakableVow

That would be really weird!

I can see why Nintendo would go in for that, but TT has Scrooge McDuck levels of money at this point, and it makes no financial sense for them to lock themselves in completely to one system, especially the poorest-selling one

skeldare

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

That would be really weird!

I can see why Nintendo would go in for that, but TT has Scrooge McDuck levels of money at this point, and it makes no financial sense for them to lock themselves in completely to one system, especially the poorest-selling one

Because TT aren't dicks?

edzepp

That would mean that Tecmo Koei are like...uber dicks.

UnbreakableVow

I'm not sure if what you're saying means anything

There are words there, but they make no sense

skeldare

edzepp wrote: »

That would mean that Tecmo Koei are like...uber dicks.

To be fair, Nintendo didn't fund Razor's Edge. And it wasn't published by them in Japan.

edzepp

I'm aware. Just failing to make a joke, apparently.

UnbreakableVow

If Nintendo didn't lock in a perpetual exclusivity contract, that's their own damn fault

There is nothing "dick" about moving your product to a much larger audience if there's no legal hangup stopping you

It is called "being smart"

urahonky

This is just a preview of what the Bayonetta 2 thread will look like, I'm sure.

skeldare

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

If Nintendo didn't lock in a perpetual exclusivity contract, that's their own damn fault

There is nothing "dick" about moving your product to a much larger audience if there's no legal hangup stopping you

It is called "being smart"

I'm sure they have a exclusivity contract with TT for Lego City.

Delphinidaes

urahonky wrote: »

This is just a preview of what the Bayonetta 2 thread will look like, I'm sure.

Most likely.

I don't mind though, because it will sell more WiiU's

UnbreakableVow

No, that's just silly

Bayonetta 2's producers have gone on record saying they just could not fund a sequel and that the project couldn't exist without Nintendo

TT's financial situation is that of a late-90's rap video, just throwing money everywhere

There has to be something greater in this for them somehow

Capt Howdy

urahonky wrote: »

This is just a preview of what the Bayonetta 2 thread will look like, I'm sure.

Remind me to stay out of the Bayonetta thread.

UnbreakableVow

There is a Bayonetta 2 thread, and it's not like that at all

Bayonetta is a solid enough product that it could conceivably sell systems to some

It's the reason I bought a Wii U

But Lego games are just sort of fun distractions, not really system sellers, so I think that's why you'll see more "aw man!" comments than "Gotta get a Wii U for this" comments

UnbreakableVow

Here is the best possible scenario for this game:

It releases to decent sales. Nothing mind-blowing, because it's practically impossible to have those considering the install base

However, Lego game prices tend to drop like rocks, and hopefully since it's published by Nintendo, that won't happen. Keep it at $50. When more people buy a Wii U this fall, and in the future whenever they finally stick more Mario on it, people will snap up Lego City

skeldare

Considering the amount of commercials I've been seeing for this game, I'm expecting pretty decent sales.

Izzimach

Does the game actually use the platform specific interface (the touchscreen)? I mean, that would make it much less likely to go multiplatform in the future. A guy can hope I guess.

Brainiac 8

Izzimach wrote: »

Does the game actually use the platform specific interface (the touchscreen)? I mean, that would make it much less likely to go multiplatform in the future. A guy can hope I guess.

It uses the pad pretty significantly actually. It has the city map, it feeds seperate video that gives you updates via the characters from the game, and it's used as a scanner on the tv to find hidden items and hidden criminals.

It uses the pad to the degree that TT are not allowing you to have off tv play with it.

Also, as @UnbreakableVow said, I wouldn't consider what Tecmo did as anything bad. They need to sell units, and Ninja Gaiden 3: Less Poop Edition just wasn't selling well. Them moving the game to the other consoles is rather cheap for them and it'll give them a few more sales to those not tricked by the first version of the game.

But as for Lego City, Nintendo may have gone to them and said, "Here's a bucket of money, please let your open world original Lego game be exclusive to us, we have some more money in the back that will make development less stressfull. Plus the woman in the van is named Tina, request of her what you please."*

*Get your mind out of the gutter, Tina sells ice cream!

UnbreakableVow

Reminder that Rayman Legends uses the pad to a pretty significant degree as well

Just saying!

If companies want to port and make money (and companies love to port and make money), they will find a way unless there's a legal reason stopping them

skeldare

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Reminder that Rayman Legends uses the pad to a pretty significant degree as well

Just saying!

If companies want to port and make money (and companies love to port and make money), they will find a way unless there's a legal reason stopping them

You really are full of sunshine and rainbows today UV.

Brainiac 8

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Reminder that Rayman Legends uses the pad to a pretty significant degree as well

Just saying!

If companies want to port and make money (and companies love to port and make money), they will find a way unless there's a legal reason stopping them

I agree with this, companies know how to find and use loopholes. In the end I really hope this does well, as it looks fantastic, and I love the use of the pad. I know that come next week, I will be supporting the game with my purchase.

I'm not sure what the official relationship is with TT and Nintendo when it comes to this project, so I guess we'll just have to see how the game does and what the results are with TT. My source however did say that Nintendo's lending of Tina to the TT team was part of the deal.

urahonky

Raymand Legends was basically off screen play... So it didn't really rely on the gamepad.

UnbreakableVow

Only in a Nintendo fanboy's world would thinking the game may be played by a larger multiplatform audience at some point be considered not being full of sunshine and rainbows

I hate Rayman personally but I think it's fucking awesome that they're porting it for the people who enjoyed Origins on their traditional consoles and don't want to buy into the whole Wii U thing

UnbreakableVow

It's fucked that they delayed it for Wii U, though

skeldare

urahonky wrote: »

Raymand Legends was basically off screen play... So it didn't really rely on the gamepad.

There are specific parts where you actually use the gamepad to control Murfy.

urahonky

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Only in a Nintendo fanboy's world would thinking the game may be played by a larger multiplatform audience at some point be considered not being full of sunshine and rainbows

I hate Rayman personally but I think it's fucking awesome that they're porting it for the people who enjoyed Origins on their traditional consoles and don't want to buy into the whole Wii U thing

Wat. Do you remember the shitstorm that happened when FFXIII was announced as PS3 only, only to be multiplatform in the end?

Brainiac 8

Naw, the more people that support games in general the better.

Anything that keeps anymore good companies from folding and keeps good people in their jobs.

urahonky

skeldare wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Raymand Legends was basically off screen play... So it didn't really rely on the gamepad.

There are specific parts where you actually use the gamepad to control Murfy.

Yeah, but you could take those parts out.

UnbreakableVow

Not really? I remember jokes about it being a million discs on the 360

But then the game came out and no one gave a shit really

Partly because it was FFXIII, and partly because who cares? More people get to play a product, without significant sacrifices. That's awesome.

skeldare

urahonky wrote: »

skeldare wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Raymand Legends was basically off screen play... So it didn't really rely on the gamepad.

There are specific parts where you actually use the gamepad to control Murfy.

Yeah, but you could take those parts out.

And they are. Those parts are apparently going to be exclusive to the Wii U version. Still more than just off screen play.

urahonky

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Not really? I remember jokes about it being a million discs on the 360

But then the game came out and no one gave a shit really

Partly because it was FFXIII, and partly because who cares? More people get to play a product, without significant sacrifices. That's awesome.

I'm just saying that it isn't just limited to Nintendo like you claimed above. Shitstorms happen on all sides.

Brainiac 8

I remember the dark day when Bayo2 was announced as WiiU exclusive.

Neogaf still hasn't recovered. :P

UnbreakableVow

Fair enough