Looks like Emily Rogers has been busy tweeting some juicy Nintendo information again. Apparently the Wii U will be getting a firmware update on Monday or sometime this week.
With its new ways of both creating and sharing user-made content, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has become the unexpected successor to Nintendo’s beautiful disaster of a social media experiment Miiverse.
Miiverse was insanity, and it was hilarious. It had a super strange community, there’s a bunch of YouTube videos about it.
I have smash ultimate, but haven’t checked out the new update. I’ll for sure take a look.
I'm interested to check it out as well. Haven't played Smash in a while now... I think it was my issues with having multiple people play at once. The controller drifting and input lag was terrible. Not sure if they fixed that yet, but it was a pain to play when I had 3-4 friends on at the same time.
Send your switch in not everyone have that issue, only one that listed that others experience is drifting issue but input lag and playing with 4 people do not have any issues
Nintendo is preparing to make some kind of announcement about the mysterious paid membership service.
I can’t wait to be disappointed. /s
Honestly I hope it’s great but I have my doubts.
If you expect disappointment then you get disappointment. I'll be interested in more details for sure but I'm not expecting anything grand. We know it'll be $20 a year which is a pretty good deal, there is some sort of free game per month like PS+ and XBL Gold so that'll be good, and then I'm expecting it to launch day and date with Smash Switch and possibly cloud saves attached like PS+ (but I'm not expecting it).
That's not true at all. Plenty of times I've been pleasantly surprised when I had low expectations. If you get disappointment, then it's because whatever it is you're getting IS disappointing.
If I expect disappointment I'll get disappointment. Not how that works actually I've been pleasantly surprised on many occasions expecting the worst. I expect some form of VC announcement possibly a subscription associated ala Netflix with virtual console. That would be grand.
I HOPE there's a voice chat solution other than what's been detailed.
I HOPE there's a detailed progression system wide system in place.
I'll GET none of that.
But we'll see if any of that comes to fruition I'll be pleasantly surprised after expecting disappointnent.
See how that works
@Sm00thNinja,
Hell the Switch itself is a prime example. I had very low expectations for it when it was first announced. So far I have been very pleasantly surprised with it.
I’m not holding my breath. Sony made various improvements to PSN before PS+ became an optional thing, and even moreso before it became a mandatory thing.
Nintendo on the other hand haven’t done much to improve NS’s online before the subscription service takes effect. The NS’s convoluted way of utilizing voice chat is even more proof.
It'd going to be a step up for sure. Hopefully they listen to fans feedback on what we like or don't like. They claim that the $20 will include a lot of value. We shall see.
Consider for a second they couldn't even have basic voice chat on a system that launched in 2017... (something Xbox OG did in 2001) this is going to suck.
Dude, it's not that cannot provide voice chat, they got the money and resources to implement these features and beyond. They just choose not to.
My only theory about why it's because the after all this is a Japanese company. Most of these features are appealing to western audience. You think the vast majority of Japanese like to do that? the games itself do not appeal their market so I can see why.
But now that they are trying to do this , you down them and not giving credit for? Cmon! at least let them announced before passing you judgement so fast.
Why would I give them credit when other systems have done it without an app (and better) over 15 years ago?
I expected this at launch. Waiting this long is embarrassing. The chat app is embarrassing.
There are more that just Japanese fans playing Nintendo games, the gaming world has a huge online focus now. This in unacceptable.
After shutting down a few months back, a few fans managed to collate Miiverse posts and save it on the internet.
Be prepared to wait 8-10 hours for it to finish downloading.
I'm excited for the update. Wonder what there going to add to the Wii U online experience.