gaming Could the Wii U be Nintendo's last console?

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Takes risks my arse! Constantly milking a game about saving a mentally disabled princess from a mutated turtle in a mushroom world, since 1985!

 

Yeah, Nintendo never takes risks.  They would never release a console with a tablet controller that has motion sensors in it.

 

Sarcasm aside:

Luigi's Mansion

Pikmin

Wii Sports

World of Goo

Wonderful 101

 

Nintendo is constantly funding new projects and new ideas in ADDITION to the usual suspects, which are always the ones to move consoles.  While Xbox One owners enjoy absolutely no games, Wii U owners will be playing Smash Bros. and Mario Kart.

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Survival horror game for the GameCube. Published by Nintendo. Rated M in the United States for Blood and Gore and Violence. Yeah, sure sounds like another kiddy Nintendo game, right? And then there's Geist, a M-rated FPS also published by Nintendo. Nintendo also published the Wii U port of Ninja Gaiden 3 outside of Japan, and handled the marketing for Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Don't forget the super-raunchy Bayonetta 2

 

Personally I never saw why people think Nintendo milks their franchises so much. Yeah I'll give them Mario and Pokemon, but even then if you remove all of the spin-offs they have a game at least every three years,or one to two games on each console, which I think is pretty healthy breather between major releases . The Zelda series has a pretty steady release of titles on both Handhelds and consoles. Most of their other franchises would usually have at least 1 or 2 games per console/handheld. That said, with the exception of countless spinoffs featuring Mario or Pokemon, the way the "milk" their franchises is still not as bad as other franchises this generation. 4 major Gears titles within the span of roughly 5 years, 5 Halos within the same time, annual releases Call of Duty, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed and just about every damn sports game ever made. And don't even get me started on Dynasty Warriors, which end up getting remakes of the goddamn remakes 

 

I also feel like the whole "all they do is remake games" mentality stems from the New Super Mario Bros series(personally announcing two more identical looking games after the Wii version was an idiotic idea). I would never call 3D World a rehash of Galaxy(though a poor example since it's similar to 3D Land), or Skyward Sword is a rehash of OoT or TP, etc. to me it sounds like a gross exaggeration. And what's even more asinine is when people bitch about how all they do is remake games while in turn bitch about how they still haven't remade Ruby/Sapphire or Majora's Mask; make up your damn minds.

 

That all said, I do agree on most of the criticisms Nintendo gets. First off compared to the Wii and especially the GC, the U has had a pretty depressing stream of releases in throughout the life span, and not just the third party titles, they need to pull a Gamecube and start going all out with all of their development teams and franchises. They also need to work on more new IPs, or at the very least work on old yet well loved IPs like Starfox, F-Zero, Metroid, Custom Robo, etc.(Hell personally I'd love to see a console remake of the first two Golden Sun games). I don't think it's as bad as many people say when it comes to Nintendo using established franchises, but I do agree that they could make a lot more games that help define the Wii U, much like how Uncharted help popularize the PS3, or Gears on the 360. Seeing games like Wonderful 101 and the surprisingly good Nintendo Land are steps in the right direction, but I still think they got a lot more ideas in them. And lastly they need to fix their third party support, and I'm not even saying they need to get the AAA developers, but the least they could do is try to court smaller and niche yet talented devs who could benefit from the U's cheaper development cycle as long as they're properly advertised. Get another Vanillaware game like with Muramasa on the Wii, get Suda to make No More Heroes 3, etc., they may not be as big names like Battlefield or Madden or GTA, but more games for it's library will definitely make the Wii U more appealing

Edited January 18, 2014 by Megas75

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>Implying that is the only game Nintendo makes

 

You just ain't seeing the bigger picture about Nintendo, instead having serious bias against Nintendo because most of their games are seemingly childish in nature. But then I might as well point out to you:

 

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, in its original form, had red blood. And there were bloodstains on some walls in the Shadow Temple. Red blood appeared again in Twilight Princess. Oh, and Majora's Mask is full of "mature" themes such as love, life, death, grief and the end of the world.
• Despite their "kiddy" appearance, Nintendo games are considered higher-quality than games published by Sony or Microsoft by both critics and gamers alike. The numbers don't lie.
• Without Nintendo reviving the American video game market (most game developers pre-video game crash of 1983 were based in the US), video games wouldn't exist anymore. Or, at least, not as they are right now.
• Nintendo and the PC are the only sources of actual innovation in the gaming industry today. Yeah, Nintendo has been conservative with their IPs and the Wii U ain't exactly powerful, but the Xbox One and PS4, which are supposed to be these super-powerful, "next-gen" consoles, barely raise the bar over the previous generation. The Kinect 2.0 is literally just a reskin of the Kinect 1.0, the PS4 is in reality very anti-consumer (it offers LESS customization options than the PS4 and has just about as much lies about what it can do surrounding it as the Xbox One) and both are too underpowered for what developers want to do with them. Nintendo, meanwhile, tries something different with weaker hardware and games for their platforms actually try new things instead of sticking to the "old" ways. The same thing happens on the PC, with all of the hardware and scalability options. Gives developers more freedom with what they can do with their games.
• Nintendo gave a lot of us here their childhoods. Remember that before you shit over them because "LOL NINTENDO IS FOR KIDS!"

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Survival horror game for the GameCube. Published by Nintendo. Rated M in the United States for Blood and Gore and Violence. Yeah, sure sounds like another kiddy Nintendo game, right? And then there's Geist, a M-rated FPS also published by Nintendo. Nintendo also published the Wii U port of Ninja Gaiden 3 outside of Japan, and handled the marketing for Conker's Bad Fur Day.

 

THANK YOU. This "Nintendo games are only for babies" nonsense is getting pretty old. This post rocks.