Nintendo has bold ambitions for the Wii U. Released just yesterday in the United States, Nintendo's first high-definition console is aiming to reshape the way consumers not only play games, but also enjoy entertainment. It's a lofty ambition, but after the Wii took the gaming world by storm, betting against Nintendo does not seem to be the wisest move.
To get a deeper insight into Nintendo's plans for the Wii U and beyond, GameSpot caught up with Bill Trinen, director of product marketing at Nintendo. Talking to GameSpot from inside the Nintendo World Store in the famous Rockefeller Center in New York City during Nintendo's Wii U launch event Saturday night, Trinen spoke at length about the Wii U.
Other nominees include games like SimCity & Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
There are some good nominees in this list that are deserving to be inducted also, but I feel Metroid has had the most impact on the industry out of all of these. Look how Metroid influenced the evolution of the Castlevania games, and the "Metroidvania" subgenre of games have become a prevailing force in gaming today. Especially now, Metroidvanias are bigger than ever.
I can very much see Resident Evil being added later too, bc it really did popularize and define the survival horror genre. I would say that one is next in line.
If any Metroid game should get the honor it should be Super Metroid , it's perfection in my eyes . 30 years later and I still feel it's the most epic shit ever .
The GBA remake deserves it or Super Metroid, the original was a very sloppy and rushed game programmed in 3 months and it shows.
If you've never played the remake, it's absolutely a must play, fixes basically every flaw in the game. Check out ExoParadigmGamer's comparison video.
“Before even Kirby was born, HAL Laboratory released the super-cute puzzler Adventures of Lolo in 1989 and it has held up beautifully.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
Cultured Vultures: True Nintendo fanatics may know some of these, but we doubt that everyone knows all of these facts about the NES.
I bought always awakening and it's sequel off Amazon for ps4 I didn't know it was released for nes for retro people lol.
Now tell us the specs please
They need all the vc games and wii ware to be in the eshop
I really feel screwed by Nintendo the only reason I preordered it was because I thought it was going to be more powerful than the current gen consoles. They were pretty crafty telling us that it had 2GB of ram but not giving us the full specs and not mentioning that the ram is slower than he PS3 and 360. I traded in my 3DS, most of my PS3 games and accessories for store credit towards the Wii U and now I find out that it is not more powerful than the current gen but probably on par with PS3 and 360. Maybe Pachter was right all along.
I'm disappointed there are no demos on the Wii shop...
firstly devs has said the GPGPU is stronger than current gen and it has 32mb eDRAM compared to the 360 9mb also we know the clock speed is slower but does anyone know what clock speed means? thought not its basically the refresh rate of data going into the CPU but that means nothing until we know how many computations the CPU can do. for example and these are made up figures but just to give you an idea, the 360 has a 3.2ghz CPU and let's say the Wii u has 2.5ghz which is only 700mhz slower, on paper this sounds worse but if the 360 CPU can do 4 computations a clock cycle and the 2.5ghz can do 8 computations a clock cycle then the 2.5 is technecaly better in 2 cycles it does twice the amount the 3.2ghz can. also we need to understand the pipeline which is essencaily a production line feeding data into the CPU and how efficaint it is at doing so. also I doubt the ram speed is true do you think it could run a game like assassins creed if the ram was slower, textures wouldn't load probably not at all or take a really long time which isn't the case, you can't open something up and have a look at components to decide these thing. you'll need to run a full diagnostic which no one has done yet. don't believe everything you here and of devs are saying its a stronger console it probably is as there the ones working on it.