You can’t take what 1 guy on Twitter says as an official statement. It wasn’t. He just decided that since EA had already announced that they weren’t making Wii U games, it was a good time to state just what he personally thinks of the Wii U.

I’m gonna go ahead and assume that Origin has nothing to do with it. This whole dispute over Origin between Nintendo and EA seems to be accepted as fact by many, despite there being no evidence to support it and that the rumour originated from the IGN Forums.

Here’s what I think happened:

EA announces “Unprecedented Partnership” with Nintendo,…[Read more]

http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2013/05/18/wii-u-two-years-of-negative-brand-momentum/

Thought this was a pretty interesting analysis of why the Wii U is failing in the market, courtesy of the beautiful man child Jonathan Holmes.

And I’ll respond to your post later euske. For now I’ll just say I kinda agree and disagree with what you’re saying.

Actually Nintendo going 3rd Party wouldn’t really be great for consumers either. We need Nintendo to innovate and provide different approaches with their consoles (though maybe not for EVERY console generation), because nobody else is gonna do it.

Sure sometimes it results in some duds (virtual boy and possibly Wii U)and sometimes it alienates…[Read more]

It’s a 3 game deal. Basically Nintendo is getting Sonic Lost Worlds, Mario and Sonic Winter Olympics, and then another, currently unknown game.

I say nothing of interest about anyone or anything. Ever. Seriously about 99% of my tweets are to friends I know the real 3D land of life.

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So uh yea, things aint lookin too good. EA has 0 games in development for Wii U
The last time something like this happened, we got the Dreamcast, which then resulted in Sega going 3rd Party.

At this point, it’s safe to say that the Wii U has been, and will be, Nintedndo’s worst performing console. However, despite what this and what Euske said, I…[Read more]

We didn’t get Excitebots. Your VC games aren’t in 50hz. You didn’t have to put up with years and years of late releases/no releases. Consoles are much more expensive here too.

Some rare early releases and slightly (very slightly) better DLC aint a big deal

They’re getting rid of Online Passes because they’re waiting for Sony and Microsoft to implement Always Online restriction for their respective consoles. This also explains why they aren’t supporting Wii U.

Totally calling it (not really)

Well Nintendo are already doing that with Indies.
Free Devkits, free to use Unity Engine, Web Framework (HTML5/Javascript) and ease of porting iOS games will go a long way for indies. By this time next year I’m expecting there’ll be an absolute crapton of games/apps on the Wii U e-shop

I just thought I’d post it here.

If anyone is looking for a place to stay. Myself and Dreamlogic have an extra 2 beds available in the dorm we’re staying in. It’s about a 20 minute walk from the Convention Centre and apparently has a very nice view of the Space Needle thingy. It’s also quite cheap in comparison to most other hostels and…[Read more]

Fraser lamented the fact that he’s gonna have to wait ages to play this game, since they still need to play through T&T and Apollo Justice. So yea, not happening anytime soon I imagine

It’s not just the technology, it’s also the sheer amount of time it takes to make these games, coupled with large dev teams.
RE6 sold millions but also didn’t make a profit. I’m willing to bet that maybe if they did have 600+ people working on the game, it wouldn’t have cost so much.

The one saving grace is that several of the new engines, like…[Read more]

Not Mario and Zelda (I wouldn’t consider those AAA in the traditional sense anyway) but games like Tomb Raider, Hitman, Dead Space or Sleeping Dogs.
These games sell millions and are all considered dissapointments. I mean when both Tomb Raider and Hitman sell over 3 million copies and can’t turn a profit, there is a serious problem. You kinda see…[Read more]

I can see there being a bit of a AAA game crash, but consoles I don’t see going away for quite a while.

I actually think Nintendo’s 1st Party output, the Wii and 3DS in particular, has been some of the strongest it’s ever been. And for the 3DS, it has several games that are killer apps, though maybe not in the West. I know that Animal Crossing in Japan is fucking HUGE! It’s already sold well over 3 million and it ain’t slowing down.
Here in the West…[Read more]

Yea like @Bonefoot said, later this year we’re going to start seeing an absolute tonne of indie support. It’s not just the free devkits, it’s also the free use of Unity and easy porting from iOS. I know that’s not exactly the best reason to own a system, but I really feel like out of any developer, indies are the most suited to showing off what…[Read more]

ibun, I still don’t understand people complaints about the Wii U Pad. I mean it’s basically a standard controller. All the buttons, twin analogue sticks and shoulder buttons are there, it just happens to have a big old touch screen in the middle. Sure it may look a little weird, but it’s perfectly functional like any other controller (minus…[Read more]

Nope, they didn’t.

They did a 1st look and a multiplayer episode with Deacon and Kyle

I need to re-watch that, but I think he specifically meant a trailer for the brand new Zelda on Wii U, not ALLTP2