NES Remix went to Wii U because it needed more power than 3DS offers

When trying to showcase the powers of the WiiU compared to the Xbox One & PS4, maybe borrowing games from 30 years ago isn't the best way to convey the message.

Yes, Nintendo is terrible company for making games. Now, if they were like Sony - once charging for online passes, making people re-buying year old games and cutting lose of all their developers - Nintendo would be a "great" company. According to Sony fanboys.

If they did a SNES Remix, would the Wii U not be up to the task? I kid. In all seriousness, start releasing SNES games on the 3DS already. It took you THREE YEARS to put Super Mario Bros 3 on the eShop... I don't get why that's necessary if you have the tech to run a single NES game. Surely you're not programming each one separately to run on the device rather than doing what an emulator essentially does. Get to work on SNES games already... I'm beginning to regret going legit with my 3DS as far as retro gaming goes.

lol..bullshit! ..there's already NES games on 3DS...you know the ones you gave free to early adopters. :P

look "and it just would have been more difficult to do it for the 3DS. I think that's really the answer. It's just that the Wii U had the machine power we were looking for in order for us to build the software we envisioned from the get go."

To me, it just looks like Nintendo wanted a quick cask game, and the 3DS would have taken too long. Notice how the "sequel" is already coming out?

The only way this could make sense is if they wanted breathing room to write ridiculously inefficient code. And that's not something you should be admitting to the public.

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I don't think people understand that how much power a game needs from a console isn't just measured by how it looks, like 2d games for example, many just assume that basically everything can run it because it's just 2d, but it's just not that simple. There's a lot of things going around in a game and 3DS might not just be able to handle it even if the game looks just 8-bit.

lol it's not a perception. The WiiU is underpowered relative to the XboxOne and PS4.

And as for 3DS not having enough power for NES Remix, I call BS.

It's annoying that Nintendo make VC titles and titles like this only available for the WiiU. Does the WiiU have so little going for it?

To third-part developers from Nintendo: "The Wii U is powerful enough to run remixes of games that are 30 years old. Develop for this powerful piece of hardware... please."

Not sure I really believe this considering how good emulators run on old systems and emulators are complete hacks. Nintendo has the actual code needed...

If Nintendo believes that people will believe this story, they must have been taking in something very strong

I lol when I read this, the 3ds cannot handle such classic 8 bit games made 30 years ago on 30 year old tech. Seriously !

The Sega team doing their 3D remakes could have pulled this off on 3DS fine... on top of making it look amazing in 3D. 3D+Parallax Scrolling is a match made in heaven.

Someone once told me that the 3DS was more powerful that the Vita, they clearly lied.

and yet the 3DS plays NES games fine on the virtual console.

i'd say this is marketing talk for buy Wii-U we're releasing a collection of classics that'll let you play in new ways.....ooh forget about 3DS, that's so old school.......

don't get me wrong the game actually appeals to me but I'm not getting Wii-U for one game, sorry.....

I just watched the video, all the games are 8-bit games there is no excuse for that. They just want to sell more WiiUs with this.