Backward compatibility is what it needs. This gen I had a X360, PC and Wii for playing things, but the list of PS3 exclusives has grown enough that I have been tempted on more than one occasion to pick one up. If the PS4 had it, 100%, it would be my console of choice moving into the next gen as I can keep playing the latest stuff and also fill the hole I had in this gen.
But if enough stuff keeps coming to PC and such I might not have to worry with consoles at all moving forward.
@JustArtificial My only fear of having Nintendo move its games off their own hardware is then they would be competing with a lot more games. Right now I worry that Nintendo games sell well because what else is there on the hardware? You bought the hardware you have to buy something right? Are you going to pick a Nintendo game (which has a high probably of being fun) or a 3rd party something that was done by a "B" developer team to 'test the waters' of the system? Yeah, you buy Nintendo games.
If they were on another system, with real competition, I'm not sure they would do that well.
@nintendoboy16 @Plasmid_king Actually having Nintendo on other systems would really work out well for me. I could play the new iterations of franchises I like without having to buy the hardware that can't play anything else but those few games I want. It would get a great reception from me.
As an avid gamer the opportunity to buy a Wii U hit really this month. I did some research into the games available for it and the games coming to it. It was a no-brainer for me to just pass.
I usually skip a generation of Nintendo products before I buy again because their franchises are so stale that it takes a good generation for me crave more of what I have been playing since the NES / SNES generations. They also have a very poor track record of fixing the things that annoy me with their games. I really wanted to get a good edition of NSMB as the Wii edition was so frustrating to me (not as a platformer but because of the motion gimmick and multiplayer aspects) that I have no interest in revisiting the franchise until they fix many of the features with it, which they didn't in the U edition.
Still a solid pass with little to no hope on the future to convince me otherwise.
@obsequies - PortalJumper93 is right. If you have lots of Xbox friends, or like 4 player local multiplayer then this is a good option. But if you have a PC, and those reasons aren't convincing to you, there is no reason to get near this game at all on the X360.
No the industry has profited at the expense of stupid parents that spoil their kids.
I also find it highly ironic that a multi-millionaire senator has the gall to tell any industry that it is wrong to do anything for 'the lust of money'.
How about the controls? You mention that you have to use the Wiimotes, which I'm assuming means you also have to use the motion control 'shake' to do one of the actions? Can people still put themselves in bubbles whenever they want by hitting 'A'? Do the bubbles still get in everyone's way and stop your jump / timing when you hit them? When someone dies does it do a mini-pause of the game, screwing up the timing of everyone that doesn't suck in the game?
And lastly castles, are they still the equivalent of playing the waterfall level from contra for every one of these? If the answer is yes to any of these it looks like this game is a solid "Pass".
Very interesting that the review didn't have a single 'bad' item on it even though there were so many things wrong with the first NSMB's game on the Wii.
I think I have been bit before by the promises of a Virtual Console. Every week coming to the Wii thread to see what they released this week, knowing full well they could release them all at once probably... I refuse to be strung out again only to see many of the titles I wanted never make the list.
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