Wii U Gets First AAAE of the Gen

Super Mario 3D World got a 9/10

Cumulatively, the Wii U officially has more and better games to offer than the PS4 and Xbox One's hilariously bad lineups.

Two AAAEs for Nintendo on the same day... GG guys

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Well done Nintendo.

I thought to first one was A Link Between Worlds? Anyway, this game looks great. Can't wait to play.

Nice, game looks amazing

Well,aside from the 7 AAAE´s on the PC this year that is. :P

HNNNNNGGGGG. Would buy if I had a WiiU. Would buy a Wii U if I had money.

It's a good time to be a hermit with a sheepy side!

That's for the 3DS.

Referring only to consoles, PC works on a different level entirely :)

(GotY is still Brave New World!)

Nintendomination.

Imagine being stuck with a Ps4 or Xbone

Which is of this new generation.

Pretty nice actually i want it but not buying a wiiu till it hit $99 but im hoping i get one for free this Christmas lol

Zelda games > Mario games

Ever since Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine the Mario games have been crap.

Referring to consoles only

The title is "Wii U get first AAAE of the gen". A Link Between Worlds is on 3DS. Different system.

nah, it's a last gen AAAE, it looks absolutely delightful though. makes me want a wii u. a $100 price drop and you got me nintendo.

3D Land was amazing. 3D world will undoubtedly be great.

This generation game. Sorry. Generations are defined by time, not power.

Otherwise it's like saying that you are in the same generation as your dad if you both are equally intelligent. In other words, it makes no fucking sense.

Well said.

Wii U purchase confirmed. Thank you Shigsy <3

He's not talking about the Wii U specifically. He is saying, of the next generation consoles, Wii U is the first to get a AAA title.

But it's all okay, he just said he was referring to the new consoles.

Still not worth it to buy a Wii U though.

And we all know the mario formula, yes it's a good game but we've played it countless times now, so it's an experience you can miss out on without any worries.

console generations are most definitely defined by power (i.e. the 8,16, 32/64 bit eras).

why are you comparing video game consoles to family members? lol

God..........I would love to play Mario and Zelda again.

I'm just not willing to buy a Nintendo console for only those titles.

I think im all mario'd out for this entire gen after owning mario 3d land and super mario bros wiiu.

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I love it! Can't wait to play these extremely high quality games this Friday. I definitely made the right choices with my systems so far (3DS, Wii U, wait until PS4 gets games). It's working out real well.

Wow 6ofps video review! :O Looks smoother than I thought!

Nintendo still got dat magic.

Console generations are also defined by time frame. This is the next generation of Nintendo hardware.

I am using that analogy because the word 'generation' comes from that analogy: the next generation iPad means the new iPad, as in the latest one that has been released. Similarly, the next generation consoles refer to the newest consoles released, that includes Wii U. Sure, it's hilariously outperformed in terms of power, but it's still a part of this generation.

The Wii U is the next stage for Nintendo. By definition, Wii U is a next-generation console. Just gots to deal with it.

great, WiiU needs a price drop tho.

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Anyone who has played any of the recent 3D Mario's knows who ignorant this quote is. This is the only series where I really have no clue what I'll be doing from one moment to the next.

Seems like the standard Mario formula to me though.

What is the standard Mario formula?

Bravo Nintendo.

Absurd fantasy world ridden with beasts and Mario gets some new power-ups to defeat the baddies.

If you played Mario 64, you played every 3D Mario imo. (and I've played them all btw)

so, let me throw a hypothetical out there. let's just say nintendo scraps the wii-u and decides they want to compete with the ps4 and xbox one horsepower-wise. they go ahead and release a comparably powerful console sometime in the next year or two, would that be considered the next gen after the ps4 and one? of course it wouldn't, that's just silly.

95 on Metacritic.

Reminds me of another game that came out this year.

Every Mario game plays different. That's the point: you never know what you're going to be doing next, you never know where you are going to be going.

Your attempt to reduce Mario to a formula is literally the same as me saying, for any book ever written: there is a conflict, character interactions, and an attempt to resolve that conflict. It's asininely broad.

took exactly 1 year, congrats sheep

Depends on when they would release it. Would they release it in 2014? It'd be the next generation of Nintendo hardware competing in this generation of consoles.

Would they release it in 2016-17? It's be in the next generation by the traditional five year cycle all consoles get.

I just don't find that Mario offers a lot of new things to the table, in the end it's still a Mario game. Although it's a good game, it's a game you could miss when you've played most 3D mario's imo.

Well, it is the platforming king. God, I want this game. Would suck to have a PS4 or Xbox One instead of a Wii U.

Thats not really an achivement when its been one year longer in the market and the new consoles just released

I will say that Mario hit a problematic patch with Mario 64 and Sunshine, but if you haven't played Mario Galaxy 2, you need to. Mario came back to form when that game hit and he hasn't faltered much since.

Mario is at its creative peek at this moment which is crazy considering he's been around for well over 25 years.

so now there's a "traditional 5 year cycle"? it's all a convoluted mess and you know it. console generations have always been defined by power.