So! Nintendo have finally announced their successor to the highest selling console this generation the 'Wii', which has the highest selling game of all time, and the highest amount of consoles sold and shifted since it's launch, will all being obsolete to their competitors; Playstation and Xbox. Which was hell of a smack in the face for them. The Wii lacked power, good graphics, a robust online and a large thrid part support. But through those troubled scales, it swarmed the public and their interest. Why? Innovation, and offering minimal features to the crowd. the Casual Crowd lapped it up, it was cheap, accesable and fun, and people didnt mind paying £170 for a console compared to the staggering £350 PS3 wanted when they were released. Besides no one actually had 'Motion Controls' in their own home before, apart from their tacky Time Crysis, or Eyetoy. It was more eye opening to the games industry than the Ipod and the App store.

The Wii-U.

So there we are, Nintendo's future console, seems like a modern ****Wii, with a Ipad with buttons for a controller. But the thing that strikes me most is the combination of controllers, you can uses that tablet thing, or the original Wii-motes to control your games. A interesting mix to casual and hardcore crowd, no doubt the Casuals will want to keep playing their wii sports ( or Wii-U Sports, as it could be) yet the hardcore, will have this meaty new controller to play their hardcore games ( Such as Call of Duty or whatever ). Another thing to note is the High end graphics, with Hdmi support, which is a major push seeing as Nintendo has stayed away from it.Another thing i was excited about the new Wii-U, is the 3rd party support. Activison, Sega, Square Enix, Thq etc etc. They are no doubt going to be a part of the new Wii because of what Nintendo has achieved in the past. Sega's Aliens: Colonial Marines is goign to be a launch title, and even one of my favourite series Metro: the Last Light will be availible at lauch, seems to be good things to come.

So in total im intrested, very interested in what Nintendo is bringing to table in the future.

Here's just a short list of the top 5 Games im looking forward to playing in the future. Enjoy!


Cubic Ninja -

Elder Scrolls 5 - Skyrim.

Mass Effect 3

Battlefield 3

Modern Wafare 3

Yes, Leveled up to Quad Damage ( Lvl 8 ) :D

Hello! :)

To start off, I went out to see Bring me the Horizon in Newcastle 02 academy, and it was fantastic, so much better than last time i saw them, and Oli Sykes wasn't as pretentious, good times, good times. Onto another note, for charity I waxed my legs, and painful experience but hey, me and my friend made around £80 for Child Leukimia, so its all for a good cause :')

Ciao.

Just a heads up, that 4 3DS Games reviews will be up by the end of the week, and possibly some 360 games. Ciao :)

Well, I've had the 3DS in my hands for about 2 weeks now, and have bought 4 games with it; Pes 2011, Street Fighter 3D, Lego star wars 3 and Samurai Warriors. The Verdict? : Potentially Brilliant. I'm using the word 'Potentially' very strongly. The 3DS is a powerhouse and the ability to generated 3D images without glasses on a handheld is incredible stuff, but alas what's great tech without great Content, Software and Games? We've seen this all before with the Wii. Graphically not brilliant, but the motion controls were great at the time, but disappointing software and internet capabilities of the Wii were its downfall, no to mention 85% of it's games are shovel ware.

We the 3DS has some great content, and some more will be released in May ( most notably the E-shop ). But the content on the 3DS gives me mixed feelings. AR games are a nice, yet cool addition but in the whole scale of things they don't add to much to the package and the content within AR games is light anyway. Face raiders is fun for about 10 minutes, having a friends/family's face on the screen and shooting it is great fun, yet ultimately short lived and repetitive. The camera is a mixed bag as well, it is nifty to take 3d photos , the crispness and quality of the camera is somewhat poor, but thankfully there are options to edit the photos.

But there are quite a few pro's to the 3DS, the look of the actual 3DS is stylish and modern ( although im a bit iffy with the 3 tones of blue on it ), The build quality of it is excellent and the new addition of the Nub is far better than its competitor ( PSP, awful, awful Nub ). The sheer power of the handheld is staggering graphically and controls are superb. The top widescreen is very good and is of great quality. One gripe of the 3ds could be the Battery life, but some third party companies are making power paks that double even triple the battery life, for around $20.

Overall:

Build Quality: 9/10

Hardware: 9/10

Built in software: 6/10

Overall: 8/10 : Buy it. ;)

So, a giant leap in the gaming world. The 3DS. Pre-ordered it a while back, and should be sitting comfortably in my hands 25Th March. Which is 3 days after my birthday luckily enough. I am aiming to get 3 launch games with the 3DS, Lego Star Wars 3, Samurai Warriors and Super Street Fighter 3D edition. So life should be sweet. But what most impresses me about the 3DS is the technology behind it. If someone said to you 5 years ago ( Hell even 2 years ago ) You can now play handheld games in 3D WITHOUT glasses, I probably would of labelled them a utter mad man. I'll be honest. I've never a played a game in 3D ever. So which is why im so excited to play it, Zelda in 3D? Pro evolution Soccer in 3D? Resident Evil in 3D? Yup, The 3DS is going to have one hell of a great year. But what troubles me the most is the amount of shovelware the old DS consoles got. Hell's Kitchen, How to be a Ballerina or Even How to draw. Sigh. Truly some awful crap. But Nintendo have promised Hardcore games such as ourselves will have Hardcore games. As much as I like how Nintendo are pushing it I'll believe it when I see the hardcore games coming out for it. http://www.shinyshiny.tv/5nintendo-3ds-640-1.jpg I also bought Pokemon White more recently, fantastic game, which really is pushing more and is a lot better than its numerous predecessors', and after the awful SoulSilver, it's nice to have a true pokemon games. Ciao Ciao Gamespotters.