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Wii U Gets Its First Free-To-Play Game Today

NowGamer: ''Wii U’s first ‘freemium’ title in the UK will be downloadable from today, Nintendo has announced.''

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Murad4099d ago

Awesome, I'm glad Nintendo is starting to take the same route Valve has been taking. I'm actually looking forward to buying the Wii U once the price goes down and that all of the bugs and errors are fully removed.

aceitman4099d ago

I don't know y they say free to play, there demos

Murad4099d ago

Are they? I didn't bother going to the site, I only checked the name. Never mind then, I guess Nintendo still hasn't learned their lessons yet.

mrbojingles4099d ago (Edited 4099d ago )

The first table or so is free, then you pay for additional tables after that.
Tank Tank Tank is freemium in Japan as well
Ghost Recon Online will also be freemium on Wii U as well.

Yodagamer4099d ago (Edited 4099d ago )

No this is free to play, you download zen pinball 2 for free, then you get extra tables by paying more quit commenting on something you don't know about

Rockefellow4099d ago

If it works at all like the PS3/Vita versions of this game, then it most definitely is more of a demo than an actual game. It's freemium, beyond one or two tables.

I had two dozen tables from the original game that carried over, so it made it a much lesser deal for me, but Wii U owners don't have that benefit

pepsilover_20074099d ago

@Rockefellow that is the definition of free to play, you get only so many things to do, but then you pay to get more content. It's just how the developer implements it. So technically this is free to play.

Zhipp4098d ago

Yeah, they are essentially demos. I do remember reading that the Wii U has everything needed for microtransactions, i.e. the heart of the free-to-play model.

Realplaya4098d ago

That's because the developer needs to get paid.

metroid324098d ago (Edited 4098d ago )

Demo's are smaller FTP offers a preview of everything.

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stone_cold4099d ago

is free to play means open-world ?

elhebbo164099d ago (Edited 4099d ago )

wtf? no free to play means that the game is free.. to play. being open-world is irrelevant.

Rockefellow4098d ago

Yeah, it's an awesome open-world pinball game. Mind-blowing stuff, really.

Lord_Sloth4098d ago

lol The image is just plain mindblowing. XXXD

WeAreLegion4099d ago

It's only "free" for the first few minutes. When you reach a certain score, it stops. I've played it on PS3 and Vita. You have to pay to do ANYTHING

jeffgoldwin4098d ago

is free to play means free to play with girls you can find on the wii u? if so, im so gunna cyber kiss one using /kiss or however you do that command on that wii u controller

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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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Looking Ahead: The Lingering Questions About the Next Mario Kart

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."

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Yi-Long7d ago

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.

gold_drake7d ago

there wont be a new one until the switch 2 comes out.

nintendo needs their bangers early on