WC writes: Yesterday, Nintendo announced to the world that the Wii U will be shipping in North America on November 18th, Europe on November 30th, and Japan on December 8th. They also announced a two tier pricing structure. The “standard” edition will retail for $299 and the “deluxe” edition will run for $349.
As with any console launch though, your decision to purchase comes down to one thing… the software. This list compiles five “launch” games that we think will be essential when it comes to your decision to buy a Nintendo Wii U this holiday season.
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales
Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.
@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol
Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.
If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.
Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.
Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite
I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts
I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.
Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.
We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.
I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.
I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.
those are not essential to everyone. Zombi U may be the best on the list, but Black ops is not an incentive to get a wii-u. its on other consoles. only incentive is for the nintendo fanboys who only own nintendo consoles
I never got into black ops on any console nintendo will be my first i deffo want it bigtime and i have the option to play it in bed with the small screen, " talkn about chilling out while gaming" hehe
There are many other games also, some of us have not played games like Batman or Darksiders2.
And both of them, especialy Batman wil be a cool experience on the WiiU because of the controller.
im dont trolling these articles.. I thought someone would answer my questions but i guess no one can answer cuz no one knows.... Ill try this one last time..
is there evidence of chatting during online play or cross game chat? why is there only 3 AAA core titles releasing simultaneously as ps3/360 out of like 30? Are accomplishments officially built into the games? will indie titles be released along side ps3/360 versions? how far can u go from the system with the tablet running games? Is BF3 still coming out? are any games native 1080p? Does it have Bluetooth? Is bayonetta 2 coming nx yr or no official date? Can u IM ppl without the security delays?
Plz & thank you for any information regarding these questions.. Plz no speculation, only proof.. I am very interested in this system but i know too little about these things
Do you guys think Nintendo will do hd remakes for like mario galaxy 1 and 2 , metroid prime trilogy, skyward sword, donkey kong country returns, brawl , etc.? I sure hope so because I never owned a wii and I plan on getting the wiiu.