IGN - To remain at the center of gaming's future. Nintendo needs its new machine to be a big hit.
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
"Sony and Microsoft do innovate, they contribute new ideas. But they do so at a slower pace and without the sharp daring of Nintendo. They are the trundling tank corps in gaming’s victories over other forms of entertainment, but Nintendo is the screaming dive-bomber."
I stopped reading the article right there. It just shows you how big of a nintendo fanboy the author is.
Gotta love the Nintendo brown nosing article. Wii U has to succeed because if it doesn't, Nintendo loses money and mindshare. End of story without the fanboy slant.
"It is time for gaming to go back to the core and appease the people who have been with gaming for years if not decades"
Gaming already caters to the core gamer, i've been playing games since Bubble Bobble had queues forming in the arcades and i'm more than happy with what is available to me as someone who doesn't play gimmicky games like rockband, just dance etc.
Gaming just has a far wider audience to cater to these days. You shouldn't hate on the casual market as the rest of us 'core' gamers have more than enough to keep us occupied. I've got like 80-90 PS3 games, there are simply not enough minutes/hours/days/weeks/month s in a year to get through em all. :)