It's time for the latest Week in Review! Join Shawn Long as he reacts to the first Watch Dogs Wii U screens, a look at the potential Smash bundle, Reggie's confidence in 3rd parties returning, and much more in this jam packed episode!
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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.
Wii U recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, and in honor of the occasion, new data has revealed the top ten best-selling games of all time in the United States.
Xenoblade Chronicles X needs a remake when Switch 2 comes out! The game was fantastic, and it looked great! Better than most Switch games.
It isn't going to happen though. Monolith soft said "it is way too big", and would be too costly. I would absolutely buy that again, especially a remake or even a remaster.
Xenoblade Chronicles X should have sold better.
One of the games I'm grateful that I found in-stock at GameStop before they quickly cleared nearly all pre-PS4/One/Switch games from their stores.
Perhaps if the series sold a little more on Switch, it would be worth it to do a port. If only some of those Pokemon numbers went to Xenoblade...
I don't see how it would be too costly for them, when even a 1:1 Switch port would sell far better than the Wii U version ever did. It'd sell a million copies easy. Also, it is kinda crazy how good that game still looks.
Thank you homebrew community for breathing life into the system Nintendo spent years trying to forget.
One of my favourite systems for homebrew along with the Xbox, vita and ps2
Huge library of great games with a modded Wii U. Virtual console, including injections, emulation, Wii U, Wii and Gamecube games with Nintendont on vWii.
Please port Xenoblade Chronicles X, I'm shocked it hasn't happened yet since everything else pretty much got ported to the Switch.
Reggie thinks 3rd parties will come to WiiU
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Being out of touch with reality is not a blessing.
You know, this really sucks because I like Nintendo. They make class A first party games. But they also make a lot of bad business decisions. Region lock, and the whole new 3DS not being released in the USA until sales get better. Not releasing their new console until the Wii U has been fully used to its potential (lol...)
And now this. I feel like Sony and Microsoft aren't beating Nintendo, they are beating themselves. (And I said Microsoft too because all though the Wii U has sold more, it's been out longer and the monthly sales are losing to the Xbox One)
The only support they're getting from 3rd parties is JP support, family games, and developers who Nintendo deems worthy of making spin offs of their IP's (aka Hyrule Warriors, Pokken Tournament, etc...)
Most core 3rd party developers (especially western) are done with Nintendo, and I don't many of them are even going to try when they release a new console. People buy Nintendo consoles because they're affordable ($300 or less or they won't sell), and to play Nintendo IP's (multipalts are better elsewhere, thanks to the hardware limitations or having a max $300 budget, and frankly Nintendo puts their focus on the wrong areas).
Until Nintendo makes a high end console, 3rd party games will rarely show their face. But as soon as they make a $400 console they're going to get stomped in sales. They're stuck in horrible middle ground, and IMO they're best off staying with the lower power, $200 - $300 console, building up their first party studios to make more exclusives, and focus on selling their first party games.
The past means little. It all boils down to money. It is a monkey see industry. Let's say one major publisher decides to bring a new AAA game Nintendo's way because they feel they can get better sales being the only major publisher supporting a big game on it without competition from it's competitors and trying to get support from Nintendo loyalist for throwing the Wii U a bone. There was a time Nintendo had great 3rd party support. It can happen again even if, not the highest of likelihoods.
I disagree that 3rd parties are able to make more money easier off MS or Sony directly. If, Sony and MS weren't giving 3rd parties money and if, there wasn't a tainted perception on the Wii U and the games were equal quality, dlc, price and release dates then sales would be comparable.