The following information comes from a source supposedly closely involved with manufacturing and distributing Nintendo products...
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.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "10 years. It’s been almost 10 years since the last mainline release in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart 8 came out for the Wii U in 2014 and became the best-selling game for the system by a sizeable margin, and later pulled the same magic trick on the Nintendo Switch under the stage name Deluxe. All in all, it's sold nearly 70 million copies over the last decade and is still selling like hot cakes to this day, so it’s no wonder Nintendo has been in no rush to replace it. However, with rumors of a new system being just around the corner, and reports a few years back that a new Mario Kart is indeed under way, it seems the era of 8 might very well be drawing to a close. It’s an exciting prospect to be sure, but after two Nintendo systems with Mario Kart 8 at their heart, a lot of questions remain about how Nintendo will choose to follow it up."
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.
nintendo needs their bangers early on
I keep telling people that the controller isn't as expensive as it would seem.
People look at the $60 controllers today and use that as their base logic for thinking the Wii U Pad costs "$100-$150" to make. But what people got to realize is that the controllers we're paying for now are OVER-PRICED. Notice how the price in console drops, but the price in controllers don't. Technology gets cheaper as the years go by, yet the controllers for the most part keep constant. So the $50-$60 price tags on these controllers are basically bullshit and it's just the companies making maximum profit.
Anyway $300 seems just right. It's either that or $350, that's my prediction.
That sounds about right, but sadly it will be outdated soon. I'm not trying to be negative, I like the Wii U, but when the PS4/XBOX 720 come out, it will become like the Wii with more developers choosing the more powerful system to create multiplatform games. The Wii U will be high tech and advanced for a year more, but after that it will become like the Wii. Successful, but most of the quality games will come from first party devs.
It's gotta be more than that. 3DS was first priced at $250. Why would a new console only be $50 more?
$300 dollars sounds reasonable, though we don't know much else about the console's capabilities, so we should take this with a grain of salt. If true, though, as long as there's a killer launch lineup, Nintendo could be in a pretty advantageous position for the 2012 holiday season.
I can't help but think that if this is true, at that price point it wont be the 6x better than the ps3 it was rumoured to be? I really do think it will other the graphics of a ps3/360 but with less power and the controller being the selling point that makes it different.