MMGN writes: Nintendo is in a weird place. Its fiscal outlooks have been disappointing, but hardly disastrous, and its Wii U console appears to have found a place in the market, despite not really blowing anyone away.
For much of the past three or four years, Nintendo has been a “making up the numbers” gaming company, but that’s hardly a bad thing.
It’s allowed the company the flexibility to shift its focus to its fans, which is perhaps most evident in its Nintendo Direct conferences and shift towards a more play-centric E3 offering.
Third-party support continues to wane, but with games like Mario Kart 8, Super Mario 3D World and Tropical Freeze, Wii U gamers can hardly argue that the console lacks quality software, especially as both the PS4 and Xbox One languish between game releases.
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.
"Third party support continues to wane"
Not if you have the sense to count indies, it isn't, but I know that people around this neck of the woods think "OMG AAA STUDIOS!" whenever third party is mentioned, so it's pointless to go any further with that.
Instead, I'll stick to what has been pointed out again and again:
When it comes to releasing new systems, learn from the misfortunes of Sega's history, so that those mistakes aren't repeated.
Abandoning consoles to make up new ones when the others were failing, is a large part of why Sega's console brand went under.
It destroyed Brand Trust in their consumers and made people feel ripped off again and again.
For Nintendo to survive, they cannot repeat such a critical error, because unlike Sega, Nintendo's games are not suited for consoles other than Nintendo's own.
Their audience just isn't out there on other consoles, and there's too much competition from third parties for Nintendo to be able to gain any ground out there anyways.
You'd see people choosing an HD remake of The Last of Us[or something similar] over the next Mario every single time, on consoles other than Nintendo's own.
And more often than not, it seems, you'll see people insulting Nintendo's franchises rather than give them a fair chance, calling them everything from rehash[which is more than a little hypocritical given how much milking others do, too] to too childish for "adult" gamers.
These aren't the people that honestly want Nintendo's franchises.
Those people that really want the games badly enough to call themselves fans, have already done what they can to save up and get the system that gives these games a home to belong to, just like with any other console.
They need to keep themselves differentiated from the pack to stand a chance at making their games sell.
They need to show that they value their brands enough to keep making systems to support them, and to support those systems through their life cycles instead of dropping them at the first sign of low sales.
Dropping the Wii U to make a new console, or worse dropping the highly-successful 3DS before its time, would be the worst financial mistake that they could make at this time, aside from dropping out of consoles entirely.
well i fink the the new console isnt a console like the wii u but a console for thier QOL plan, its probably the best bet because if its a replacement for wii u why release mario kart 8 next month when the month after your unveiling its successer makes no sense to me, plus all the other games coming this year so the QOL is the safest bet for what the new system might be.
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I really do think the Wii U could do with some kind of re design or name change.
I couldn't believe that my friend (who plays games) did not even understand what a Wii U was. He believed it was just a new controller for the old Wii!!
I couldn't believe it and after explaining it to him he was quite shocked. I didn't expect to hear that a few years after launch
If it's a redesign of the Wii U, they might remove the Wii hardware considering they have shut down the online services for the Wii. It could be related to that. This will allow it to be a lot smaller than it is now.