Christopher Buffa (Prima games): The holiday season is arguably the best time to be a gamer, with so many titles releasing week to week. We already covered Microsoft and Sony’s Xbox One and PS4 lineups, respectively, and now it’s Nintendo’s turn with its innovative console, the Wii U.
Despite a recent report that Activision won’t bring Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare to the system, you needn’t worry, as Nintendo has a slate of quality games that’ll keep you busy well into 2015.
Former Nintendo of America staffer talks about concerns the company had about Hyrule Warriors and it damaging the Zelda brand.
Masahiro Sakurai, the director of Super Smash Bros., explains why he believes online play isn't a good fit for the series.
I feel bad for Smash fans. Those guys have been trying to maintain the scene active for 20+ years and get nothing but hate from Nintendo.
Sakurai explains how he and Nintendo still don't understand how the internet works.
FTFY
Exactly, online play would be wonderful on Smash if Nintendo gave a crap about their online services. To be fair though, Nintendo's online offerings would be great if it were 15-20 years ago lol.
I've always said that Nintendo is either innovative and ahead of the curve
or 20 years behind, no in between
I’m sorry, but if a game is MP then there’s no f*cking argument that can justify no online MP. What he says about competition being different from just playing with friends shows me how out of touch these people are.
It’s not until a new generation that understands things steps in to clean-house that we’ll see some evolution here.
His argument is nonsensical. "You'd be limited to just playing people from your region". As opposed to being limited to playing people FROM YOUR COUCH!
What I don’t get is how do you not have competition and experience the same issue if you have a friend that’s way better than you?
It's a big fighting game so online multiplayer is a must. Competitive smash is the only thing I see fun in these games anymore asides from the big character reveals, singleplayer is laughable and you ain't gunna have people over for couch gaming much.
If Nintendo makes a new smash, it needs a huge evolution for singleplayer/couch play to be enjoyable for me any more. But we all know they'll just do a deluxe edition for their next console lol. They really need to up their servers as well.
I can't imagine Nintendo producing a better smash game than ultimate. Roll it forward with a deluxe edition maybe with an extra character or two and call it a day.
Some other developers can try pushing platform fighters to the next level, because I don't think Nintendo is up to the task.
They already created a better smash brothers game than ultimate when they created melee
he sounds more like is trying to justify Nintendo ineptitude to create a proper network infrastructure in order to Smash Brothers work properly online.
Bayonetta's character design and abilities have changed a lot since the series debuted in 2009, with new costumes and dark arts in every title.
I'm only really interested in Bayonetta 2. Kind of a sad year if you're not a Smash fan. Wish Street Fighter could come to Wii U.
Bayonetta 2 and Smash are Day 1's for me. Everything else will be picked up on Black Friday, mainly a good assortment of 3rd party games to help out with that issue the best I can since I'm a multi-console owner.
SSB for me! Nothing else interest me, but yay!!
Yoshi's Whooly World is next year?!? GDI!!! I really want to play it!
Aww...not really a whole lot to get excited about. Too bad. Holidays are built for gaming. And chocolate. In pajamas.