Wii U To Launch In Key Markets By Years End, Wii U Full of Possibilities

Well, now at least the obvious is confirmed -- launching in the major regions by the year's end.

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On top of that, Yoshinori Ono from Capcom (the man behind the recent fighting games like Street Fighter IV) stated in an interview:

"What was shown at E3 is not a reflection of everything that this console is going to be able to offer. We have been trying the development kits and some of its new characteristics will improve its possibilities. It isn't something like Kinect or similar accessories, it's something different.I can't tell you more about it because, if I do, Nintendo will send assassins to finish me! But let's say that Wii U will be a console with so many unique possibilities that it will be difficult to show them in the box they are going to sell it in, or be published in magazines and other media."

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What makes me excited personally is to see a top tier fighting franchise of sorts headed to the Wii U, assuming he is actively developing for it -- I hope for Street Fighter x Tekken or Super Street Fighter IV of some sort.

End of the year... I was expecting this thing around summer.. Hell at E3 we will hear about the new xbox.

Regarless, I will wait a while on the xbox, I am sick and tired of unreliable consoles... Nintendo usually makes a very durable/reliable system.

End of the year... I was expecting this thing around summer.. Hell at E3 we will hear about the new xbox.

Regarless, I will wait a while on the xbox, I am sick and tired of unreliable consoles... Nintendo usually makes a very durable/reliable system.

Lach0121

To be honest, no console should launch during the summer. Systems don't usually sell well unless they're launched during the holiday season. This is why I don't think the Vita's going to have an exceptional sales performance. Now, I would have loved to see the Wii U genuinely more powerful than the current consoles instead of about par, but they continue to rely on gimmicks instead of making the graphics the best they can. I know that's a negative thing to say, but that's just how I feel. Nintendo hasn't been a serious competitor in my eyes since the Wii came out. JustPlainLucas

If they weren't a serious competitor then we wouldn't see the competition being influenced by Nintendo's action.

This happens time and time again, every generation.

To be honest, no console should launch during the summer. Systems don't usually sell well unless they're launched during the holiday season. This is why I don't think the Vita's going to have an exceptional sales performance. Now, I would have loved to see the Wii U genuinely more powerful than the current consoles instead of about par, but they continue to rely on gimmicks instead of making the graphics the best they can. I know that's a negative thing to say, but that's just how I feel. Nintendo hasn't been a serious competitor in my eyes since the Wii came out. JustPlainLucas

[QUOTE="JustPlainLucas"]To be honest, no console should launch during the summer. Systems don't usually sell well unless they're launched during the holiday season. This is why I don't think the Vita's going to have an exceptional sales performance. Now, I would have loved to see the Wii U genuinely more powerful than the current consoles instead of about par, but they continue to rely on gimmicks instead of making the graphics the best they can. I know that's a negative thing to say, but that's just how I feel. Nintendo hasn't been a serious competitor in my eyes since the Wii came out. Haziqonfire

If they weren't a serious competitor then we wouldn't see the competition being influenced by Nintendo's action.

This happens time and time again, every generation.

Resident Evil 6 pretty please! :P

If they weren't a serious competitor then we wouldn't see the competition being influenced by Nintendo's action.

This happens time and time again, every generation.

Haziqonfire

hot seller during Christmas.

Aljosa23

To be honest, no console should launch during the summer. Systems don't usually sell well unless they're launched during the holiday season. This is why I don't think the Vita's going to have an exceptional sales performance. Now, I would have loved to see the Wii U genuinely more powerful than the current consoles instead of about par, but they continue to rely on gimmicks instead of making the graphics the best they can. I know that's a negative thing to say, but that's just how I feel. Nintendo hasn't been a serious competitor in my eyes since the Wii came out. JustPlainLucas

"But let's say that Wii U will be a console with so many unique possibilities that it will be difficult to show them in the box they are going to sell it in, or be published in magazines and other media."

Honestly, I see that being more of a red light than anything else. "Possiblities" sound great and all, but unless they're realized and evident, it's just talk. I heard more than enough of this kind of developer speak the past few years to simply just take it all with a grain of salt and shrug my shoulders at the end of the day. Something all too similiar was said about the 3DS just about a year ago from various developers, but it hasn't really panned out to anything extraordinary as we speak. Heck, most of the system's games would just as easily be as good, if not better, elsewhere, in fact.

I can see the "Playing=Beliving" kind of mentality that's trying to be presented here, but I'm just not buying it, not with what I've seen and not with the "play it safe" attitude that this industry has been all too comfortable with of late. If the Wii couldn't spark such an outspurt of inspiration for developers to think outside the box for a moment, I definitely don't see its more conventional-built successor doing it.