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Person 1:"Milon's secret castle? who wants that shit? Why isn't ultra-popular-title X out instead?"
Person 2:"Milon's secret castle? I loved that game, buying now"
But now, why is Castlevania 2 4 euro on 3DS, but 5 bucks on Wii U?
Where's my Megaman 5 and 6, Probotector 2? On 3DS, that's where. I could get the cheap price on two of those, having gotten them on Wii already, and as a weirdy completist I want those games on my Wii U screen beside their brethren.
I'm super surprised all the NES Megaman games are not on Wii U.
I remember when the idea of linking 3DS and Wii U shop accounts was mentioned first, there was conjecture that Virtual Console would be linked like playstation minis between PS3 and PSP, but I'm starting to think a massive conclusion was jumped to.
And wait, the US can redeem Club Nintendo points against Virtual Console games? How many points does that cost?
Beat me on 360: Raybies666
I remember when I had time to be good at games.
Dover is a fine person and deserves a raise and a promotion.
Am I doing this right?
Nintendo Network ID - PirateLuigi 3DS: 3136-6586-7691
G&T Grass Type Pokemon Gym Leader, In-Game Name: Dan
That would be terrible.
Nintendo Network ID - Brainiac_8
PSN - Brainiac_8
Steam - http://steamcommunity.com/id/BRAINIAC8/
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Hyper Dimension Neptunia.
Take the (pre-Wii U) console wars. Except all the consoles are magical girls, fighting alongside the hypothetical Sega Neptune, against the personification of software piracy.
I didn't make up a word of that. This is a real game that you can buy retail.
And it's a grindfest from hell.
Haha.... Wowwww.
Nah, I'm treating this alleged leak as I do with most; ignoring it until proof occurs.
Nintendo Network ID - Brainiac_8
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Does that apply to the reboot version, too? I heard that version improved a number of things from the first.
That said, it's exactly the direction they need to go with their systems.
I don't think I played the reboot. After 20+ hours or so of HDN I don't think I could play it even if it supposedly fixed things.
Hyperdimension Neptunia (series) which has entries on PS3 and Vita. I just thought the Virtual Boy comment was funny. It's moe consoles with their moe company/franchise friends fighting the villains which are moeifications of piracy. The later games are actually good. The first game... not so much, but it got a remake that's good!
Sega, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all get plenty of love. The Main Characters are Sega console characters because in this alternate world, they're still hardware manufacturers.
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..though we did sacrifice each others' lives occasionally to get to places. Without telling the other of us ahead of time.
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Heres me- I dont care about any game Nintendo offers anymore. we are on like iteration 10 of some of these titles. mario/zelda/metroid/golf/cart over and over to me its stale. But i firmly realize that's an opinion and do not deny anyone thier fun- ever.
Are people like me the main Nintendo problem or? what? 'Core' gamers dont like them anymore? Burnout from Wii being everywhere?
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Also, how stressful is Pikmin and how much multi-tasking is needed? That's always been my main problem with RTS games - I always feel like I need to do about a dozen things at once and it just gets super hectic and thus not very enjoyable.
1. If you don't care about Nintendo games, then you probably shouldn't buy a Wii U.
2. "Iteration 10" makes it sound like they keep slapping a new skin on the same game, but generally every new iteration of a core Nintendo franchise tries to do something interesting. But most games are iterations or mutations of games that game before them. Look at the CoD franchise. Or Final Fantasy. You should take the time to actually investigate some of the games to see if they're interesting or not, rather than writing them off as "iterations" without a look; if you have, cool, but in my experience people trotting out the "same old, same old" line never gave anything on the Wii U a fair shake.
I mean, look at Super Mario 3D World:
Here's a game that blends the controls and navigation of a 3D platformer with the level design sense of a 2D platformer, and it works beautifully. Should you write it off because it has familiar characters in it?
I played it. Its Mario. There's coin boxes and cat suits. I have access to a wii u, but don't own one so i have played a few of these. I baby sit/ run with a Nintendo die hard. Mario golf is generally hotshots golf only sometimes a lil better... that'll be a hell of a game DLC be damned.
Its not as innovative as you think. Its not as severe as my original statement could be perceived either. My point was If you take it at its base level as an outsider- its another Mario game. the comparison to COD and FF sure. but mario is like a 29 years old now? Cod's popularity is not that long tho....
You can ignore all that tho' -the thrust of my original poorly written point is- why are sales so bad?
I don't partake- but I don't want to live in a nintendo-less world.
If you want Nintendo to stick around, then you should probably partake?
And I didn't say "innovative", I said "interesting", though what a person finding interesting is subjective. It sounds like you're less interested in the skin; you're tired of seeing Mario? Mario's got more world-wide recognition than Mickey Mouse, he's not going anywhere, nor are the trappings of his game worlds. If you're tired of Mario but still want a Wii U platformer, try Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, maybe.
As for why are sales so bad? It's a combination of the following:
- People saying they're tired of the "same old" things from Nintendo.
- People who think the Wii U is just a tablet accessory for the Wii.
- People who think the Wii U is not back-compatable with Wii games or Wiimotes.
- People who wanted to wait for the Next Big Hardware (PS4, XB1)
All of which can be boiled down to:
- Nintendo has been terrible at marketing this thing. They hit paydirt with the Wii and tapped and unrealized market with a casual-friendly motion-controlled console, and they seem to have expected those people to all just upgrade because "new", but that market moved to smartphones. So, now Nintendo is stuck in a weird spot where their money market is gone, "core gamers" think they're too kiddy (largely because of the glut of kiddie shovelware on the Wii), and third parties don't want to make games for them because their the only ones not running x86, and thus it's more work to port to (allegedly).
That said, they have $Nintendo in the bank, they'll ride this generation out just fine. They're not going anywhere.
The age is irrelevant. Mechanically the last six mario titles are hilariously more divergent than the last ten COD games so whatever your beef at least nintendo tries to keep it fresh.
And you should actually play past the first level of 3Dworld because its way more than catsuits
And sounds fantastic.
I picked up Abyss and Child of Light. I love those Lunar Lander style games, so I played way more Abyss than I thought I would.
A 3DS successor makes no sense seeing as how the system is doing fine and has only really come into own in the past two years.
It's the best. I love the live instrumentation on everything, and it's so damn funky and jazzy and Dolphin Shoals is just the best.
I still don't see it. MAYBE E3 2015. But with Smash and Mario Kart 8 and a few unannounced titles I think they're not going to sink that ship just yet.
I would hope, should this be true, that I'll be able to transfer my 3DS games that I bought digitally to the hard drive of this fancy new console so I can play them on it also, and not just the ones I have cartridges for.