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Wii U: What Nintendo Got Right

GamesAbyss writes:

"Written on the DNA of many a gamer, especially those who are now married and with families of their own, is a bright red logo: Nintendo. Regardless of the Atari's place in the world at the time, it was the original Nintendo Entertainment System that truly made gaming a viable industry and home hobby. Fast forward 30 years, after countless Super Mario Bros. adventures, and Hyrule dungeons, and you arrive to the modern age of gaming."

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Benjaminkno4145d ago

If anyone in the industry has risen to their peak, fallen quicker and harder, but still galvanizes millions of fans, it's Nintendo. They took a risk going family oriented in the beginning. It may still pay off when Spring and Summer roll out their big guns. Nintendo has to have something out of their sleeve to come out for the 2013 holidays. It's going to be a head to head match-up between Microny, or SonySoft. I can't wait to see the converging war for gaming market share. I'm leaning more towards XBox for the time being, but I'm not ruling Sony out. Nintendo will always be around even if their shareholders force them to push a cell phone to the market. Let's just all hope the death of console doesn't become realised.

I fear Nintendo's resiliance, Apple's invasion, and a down gaming industry might stifle the possibility of enough room for one of the other's chances. The stakes are high.

deafdani4145d ago

"If anyone in the industry has risen to their peak, fallen quicker and harder, but still galvanizes millions of fans, it's Nintendo."

Dude, you spelled Sega wrong.

caseh4145d ago

'If anyone in the industry has risen to their peak, fallen quicker and harder, but still galvanizes millions of fans, it's Nintendo.'

But they haven't fallen though, they shifted close to 2m units across all its gaming formats in November. At which point does that equate to a bad thing?

Benjaminkno4141d ago

I would say the Gamecube was a pretty hard fall, especially compared to SNES.
Don't get me wrong, I loved GC, but it was a dud in terms of sales and market share. Third party sales on their systems were pathetic, still are.

chukamachine4145d ago

It wasn't the new controller that's for sure.

felidae4145d ago

i own a 360 and a PS3 but the Wii U controller is the best thing that happened to gaming in a long time.

Nintendo is on the right track!!!

deafdani4145d ago

Oh, the new controller is one of the things that Nintendo got right with the Wii U. SO VERY RIGHT.

Haters gonna hate.

TongkatAli4145d ago

Wii U is my main home console and NSMBWU is a blast. I dare you to get bored of that game, the game is too good. The best 2D Mario game.

mcstorm4145d ago

At the moment the 360 is my main console at home but I own a PS3 360, PSV, 3DS and now a WiiU. I have to agree with what your saying about it becoming your main home console. I got MrioU, ZombieU, Sonic All Stars, Nintendo Land and COD BO2.

ZombieU is a very hard game or so I have found so far but I like that side of it as its not a run and gun game which we have seen far to many of this gen. To me is something fresh to the market like the res games were when they 1st came out but this is not a game everyone will like abit like Alan Wake was. This was my game of 2010.

I agree about MarioU to me this is the best version of 2D Mario since the SNES days. Im loving it.

Nintendo Land has been the game that shocked me the most it is really fun and could be a very good party game you keep going back to.

Sonic All Stars although not an exclusive works well on the WiiU and Wii controller and to me is as close as anyone has got to DK racing.

COD BO2 is also another game I was shocked with. I am not a COD fan I have not owned a COD game since MW2 as I would rather play Halo but picked it up to see what a run and gun FPS game would play like on the WiiU controller and I am impressed at how well it plays and the game is fun and because there are not 100s of thousands of people playing the game you seem to get less campers to.

I got the WiiU because I thought it looked an interesting console and now I have had it a few weeks I am finding the console a very good experience and could see it becoming my main console for next gen if the 3rd party keep supporting it.

I don't think the WiiU will be a Wii where millions of people buy it to pull out at partys and xmas I see more gamers picking up the console this time round and I see the WiiU next xbox and PS4 sales being closer next gen rather than have one that is way out in the lead.

felidae4145d ago

i hope Sony and Microsoft will have a controller with built-in touchscreen, too!

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Wii U games that still haven't been ported to Switch

The Nintendo Switch is potentially nearing its lifespan, and several Wii U games haven't found their way over as ports yet.

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Vits4d ago

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.

Z5014d ago

How would XCX work without dual screens functionality?

Cacabunga4d ago

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

Profchaos4d ago

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.

Stevonidas4d ago

Devil's Third is HIGHLY underrated.

repsahj4d ago

They should remake Starfox to the switch 2. Very beautiful game during gamecube days.

Chocoburger3d ago

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.

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Nintendo's Massacre Of The 3DS And Wii U Is Finally Complete, Regrettably

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."

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8 of the most useless amiibo figures ever released

A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.

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