GameZone's Lance Liebl writes, "It was pointless. Today's May 17 Nintendo Direct was pointless. We were supposed to learn about all of the exciting games we'll be playing on our 3DS and Wii U consoles. Instead, we got a September release date (not even Summer) for The Wonderful 101, yet another brief update on Pikmin 3 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, and some Sega eShop titles. "
The Nintendo Switch is potentially nearing its lifespan, and several Wii U games haven't found their way over as ports yet.
I think it's better to leave games like AC: Amiibo Festival and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash forgotten on the Wii U. Best case, they are mediocre games; worse case, they are very bad. It was a dark time for the Wii U, and the first only exists to sell Amiibo cards, whereas the second was put together in a couple of months with a shoestring budget, and it shows.
The rest of the list does have some really cool games, though. I would love to see a remake of Star Fox Zero with decent controls, and Xenoblade X doesn't require that much modification to work.
Same as Paper Mario color splash. One of the best wiiu games and getting even better with dual screen. Same reason why i prefer Splatoon 1
This article leaves out Nintendo's most controversial game to date devils Third.
I personally found the cover system really fun in that one compared to at the time most fps games completely lacking one.
Kirby is always ignored or forgotten by people, so good to see it mentioned here.
Play Kirby Canvas Curse on DS, and then play Rainbow Curse on Wii U, they're really fun and unique 'platformers' without any actual jumping.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.
you're acting as if nintendo didn't already state at the beginning of the direct that they would be talking about spring and summer releases (a.k.a things we already know about) and release dates. FYI September 15 is still part of summer since the official first day of fall is sept. 22. This direct was probably to get these games out of the way so we can get the real news in the pre E3 direct! Hell!! atleast we know Sonic Lost World is Wiiu exclusive! That's cool isn't it?
Love all these morons that were expecting Megaton bombs' really?? E3 will satisfy.
So? They said it wasn't gonna be anything big. I'm surprised they made new game announcements.
It was some interesting and new announcements, and while it wasn't the best Nintendo Direct, I thought it was pretty good. We now know that Nintendo and Sega have exclusive partnerships for Sonic games, we have release dates on Wonderful 101 and Pikmen 3, and we learned that E3 is going to be all about games and gamer's, and to top it all off, we get to play the demo's at Best Buy!
So, it wasn't the Bayonetta 2, Wind Waker HD, Mario 3D or Smash Bro's footage, but it was a nice taste to keep everyone interesting.
E3 is right around the comer man. Chill out.