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Wii U system review: Next-gen gaming starts with a bang,...and a system update I Gimme Gimme Games

Gimme Gimme Games writes: "You may not understand why the Wii U is next-gen and you may not understand why it’s new features (Miiverse and the Game Pad) are important but once you spend some time with the console you will not want to live without it."

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Reaper99374197d ago

Yes it does, 720p and barely 30FPS...mind blown.

yabhero4197d ago

What games have you been playing?
Assuming you actually own a WiiU?

PopRocks3594197d ago (Edited 4197d ago )

Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U run at a very solid 60FPS. Thanks for your attempt at total ignorance and/or dishonesty.

EDIT: Found out Blops 2 was not so smooth. Oh well, point stands. Nintendo's games look good and run well.

Reaper99374196d ago

Yes 60FPS and Nintendo land and SMB U are really pushing the graphical envelope.

PopRocks3594196d ago (Edited 4196d ago )

That isn't the point. If we're talking about performance, then the Wii U has proven itself to handle that just fine, even if only with smaller games.

There are games on the 360 and PS3 that don't reach the graphical standard of Nintendo Land (I won't say NSMBU since I agree that that game doesn't really look very different from its Wii predecessor) and still don't run with a smooth framerate at 720p.

If Nintendo pumps out a large scale Metroid and Zelda game that looks great AND runs at a solid framerate with at least 720p resolution, what will you say then?

Everyone wants to talk about how the Wii U has no games to show its graphical capabilities. If that's how you want to see it, fine. But where did this notion that launch software dictates the future of the console even come from?

Go back and look at the 360's launch games and tell me how well they fare to games that come out for the platform right now.

jbgamer4197d ago

When the ps4 and 720 come out, IGN Showed where they are not nearly as powerful as their fans want them to be reality check the wii u can do 1080p and 60fps, their versions of COD, and ME, are the only console versions to run at 1080p sorry but reality is graphics do not matter anymore, if that was the case the ps3, and 360 would have beat the wii, they did not, if it is nintendo that people want then there is nothing you and the rest of the fans of sony, and microsoft can do about it, just enjoy your machines and quit trying to ruin others good time just because you do not like something does not mean there are not those who do enjoy it. Sorry video games do not live, and die by what you, and the sony, and microsoft fans want life is just not that way.

wiiulee4197d ago

agreed wiiu is a fantastic system with all kind of possibilites..i understand why haters are hating

daclynk4197d ago

Wii U is awesome. so sad that many people are missing out.If you are a GAMER and not sure to get it or not try it out first if a friend has one.You will be mind blown by what the Gamepad can do. This is the Future people.

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Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group

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Profchaos2d ago

Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform

H92d ago

Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal

OtterX2d ago

That is some serious brain gymnastics you have going on there. 🤔

H92d ago

I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that

ZeekQuattro2d ago

Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣

Kneetos1d 4h ago

At least they are safer from layoffs with Nintendo then any other company

banger882d ago

I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.

Relientk772d ago

Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."

You can't make this crap up lol

Profchaos2d ago

Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base

In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release

SonOfOsiris2d ago

Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day

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Game Developers Have Begun Confirming Nintendo Switch 2 Support

Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.

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How Many More Victims, Like Garry's Mod, Will Nintendo's Hurtful Crusade Create?

Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."

RiseNShine19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.

gold_drake19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.

nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.

people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly

mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.

zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.

nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.

its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.

but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.

Inverno19d ago

Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.