Wii U marketing materials starting to arrive at retail stores

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Flame Lord said:
Not necessarily.
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If you would've read the rest of the paragraph you would've seen that I said "Five months till launch." but whatever :P

If ut somehow does come out in October then I am fucked money wise. I was saving for November damnit.

If Nintendo Land isn't a packin then that would be beyond dumb. Dumber than $250 3DS. Maybe that rumor about White/NL and Black/ZombiU was true, so they would sell it then. (Unless someone just made that up...which is likely.)

Gifs are crashing my iPad and people are sadly going off topic so time to bail out of this thread.
 
TheWednesday said:
If anything I think there's a case to suggest doing it this way is better. They're renewing and building the maximum amount of interest and hype for the system at a shorter time scale between the height of the hype and actual release day.
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I don't know about that. The casual audience isn't following any of this stuff anyway and will only pay attention when the mainstream promotion comes, and the hardcore audience is frustrated that Nintendo is keeping all sorts of important details secret. I'm sure even the Nintendo fanboys aren't happy about constantly having to run from thread to thread doing damage control about all this.

To me, it feels like Nintendo are acting like a superstitious gambler, who has a particular routine that they think has given them good luck in the past. Never mind that they tried the same strategy with the 3DS and had little launch success, it worked with the Wii, and so it has to work again.
 
Currygan said:
Launch games are made with showing the touchscreen in mind, that's the way Nintendo does it since that's WiiU's supposed selling point, and its been like this since forever (DS, 3DS, Wii, GC, GBA) so you cant expect an explosion of graphic awesomeness. You may not agree with their policy and that's perfectly fine. Graphically impressive games will surely come, but that's not Nintendo's main focus when they launch a console. Then you have ports and ports and a coupla original games, not mindblowing stuff indeed but also, not much effort involved I'd say
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I guess that is why I haven't bought a launch Nintendo console since N64. I guess I just have to realize that this isnt the Nintendo that I grew up on that would have a mainline Mario launch with systems. Now they release a bunch of port shit at launch and expect me to buy in on a promise. Oh well. I will grab a Wii U when they decide to put in enough effort to win me over. Plus I can buy these launch games for nothing at that point.
 
Bony Manifesto said:
The casual audience isn't following any of this stuff anyway and will only pay attention when the mainstream promotion comes
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Surely the short attention span/lack of awareness in the "casual" audience is exactly why a shorter blitz of hype and info as quickly as possible before the actual launch is exactly the reason this sort of thing works?
 
This thread went into the gutter >_>

Nintendoland might be a stand alone game, oh shiet. I hope it's priced accordingly if it is. No more than $30. I'm happy with $20.

Please Nintendo, ship this console in October. You'll thank me later :)

And Pikmin 3, oh snap Pikmin 3. Hell yeeeeah. Thanks shinobi, for starting up the hype engine for me ;o
 
Heavy said:
The Wii U launch line-up just feels really rushed, even more so than the 360's and PS3's. It's like they had to get it out this holiday no matter what. The lack of info and games at E3 was revealing. I'm pretty confident their first party will eventually be able to pump out something like the Zelda tech demo, just not for a while. Devs simply haven't had enough time.
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Lol... No. Even though there is still an NDA on some games (Darksiders 2/Black OPs 2), the not fully-complete WiiU launch window already steps all over the PS3/360 launch windows.

And E3 was specifically about launch window games. I'm assuming they are trying to avoid a situation where everybody gets hyped for games coming 1-2 years down the road, and being disappointed when none of them are available for launch, which happened to the 3DS.
 
Clearly here's a hype/megaton thread with all the crazyness! I can already feel the Wii U GAF taste that will be with us until early 2013!
 
shinobi602 said:
No one said "some of the best", that's why I said launch titles will probably look like that, with Square Enix tech demo probably being what games will look like towards the end of next gen.
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I hope so. That's the minimum of what I expect from launch games but we'll see.
 
Brera said:
It's maybe 2-3 months from launch and we don't know whats going on!
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Indeed. It sucks all the excitement out of it. Right now. I couldn't care less. What the fuck are you doing Nintendo.
Grow a pair and release pricing and launch date.
 
TheWednesday said:
Surely the short attention span/lack of awareness in the "casual" audience is exactly why a shorter blitz of hype and info as quickly as possible before the actual launch is exactly the reason this sort of thing works?
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But they can still do that mainstream blitz, even if they give the hardcore fans more detailed information now. The mainstream aren't watching Nintendo Direct presentations any more than the hardcore are watching The Ellen DeGeneres Show, so they could have different schedules for their marketing.
 
Bony Manifesto said:
But they can still do that mainstream blitz, even if they give the hardcore fans more detailed information now. The mainstream aren't watching Nintendo Direct presentations any more than the hardcore are watching The Ellen DeGeneres Show, so they could have different schedules for their marketing.
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Holding back because of competition, according to Iwata.

Which is funny because Nintendo says they are never competing with Sony/Microsoft, but they sure as hell affect Nintendo.
 
Bony Manifesto said:
But they can still do that mainstream blitz, even if they give the hardcore fans more detailed information now. The mainstream aren't watching Nintendo Direct presentations any more than the hardcore are watching The Ellen DeGeneres Show, so they could have different schedules for their marketing.
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But does it really matter?

I mean yeah it would be nice if Nintendo would give GAF something to speculate for thousands of posts but does it benefit them in any way? When they start the media blitz about a month or so before release, in the best scenario they get both the casual and hardcore audience's attention at the same time and the hype reaches its max point just before the release date. All those months of complete silence don't really matter then.
 
Bony Manifesto said:
But they can still do that mainstream blitz, even if they give the hardcore fans more detailed information now. The mainstream aren't watching Nintendo Direct presentations any more than the hardcore are watching The Ellen DeGeneres Show, so they could have different schedules for their marketing.
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True, and fair point.

To be honest as someone who has spent hours pouring over and reading the Wii U speculation threads for the better part of the last 18 months, I feel I'm in that hardcore camp myself, and while Nintendo's strategy can be frustrating when you want that information, I'm still going to be giddy as fuck when that information does arrive.

After "that" E3 I even convinced myself I was going to wait on the system but I know once they start the hype campaign I'm going to be Day One for the thing. All the frustrations and the annoyances of Nintendo's strategy up to that point will be irrelevant. I'm already on the hype train with this and the box art thread.
 
ColdBlooder said:
Missing the case, moitor, PSU, harddrive, optical drive, OS...
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GTX 680 - $500
I5 2500k - $175 or so
8gb of ram- $40
Case- $75
PSU- $75
HDD- $50-100
Drive- $25
Monitor- Use your TV if you want

A PC that will murder next gen consoles for about $900 and that will do much more for much longer.
 
I don't know which threads go to shit faster: Vita or WiiU.

I really hope black is a launch color. I'll be standing in line at launch as always. There is something about launch day store lines that I really enjoy! :D
 
Heavy said:
The Wii U launch line-up just feels really rushed, even more so than the 360's and PS3's. It's like they had to get it out this holiday no matter what. The lack of info and games at E3 was revealing. I'm pretty confident their first party will eventually be able to pump out something like the Zelda tech demo, just not for a while. Devs simply haven't had enough time.
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Those demos were running on really expensive, hot, and power greedy hardware.
PS4/Xbox8 will probably not be as expensive, be enclosed in a smaller box (and thus not be able to get as hot - meaning weaker graphic card), and probably not have a power brick of the same strength as on a PC running watch_dog/Starwarsnextgen.
 
BELIEVE.


North American EST: November 21st, 2012
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North American PST: November 21st, 2012
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Europe: November 19th, 2012
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Australia: November 22nd, 2012
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Japan: November 19th, 2012
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GCX said:
I mean yeah it would be nice if Nintendo would give GAF something to speculate for thousands of posts but does it benefit them in any way? When they start the media blitz about a month or so before release, in the best scenario they get both the casual and hardcore audience's attention at the same time and the hype reaches its max point just before the release date. All those months of complete silence don't really matter then.
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I think it does matter. I'm not sure if you remember the lead-up to the 360 launch, but from June until November, Microsoft absolutely saturated the media with presentations of their launch titles. It was all anyone was talking about throughout 2005, and the console was sold-out everywhere for months after launch, which was quite a feat from a company that had done so badly in the last generation.

Okay, Nintendo are in a different situation, and are coming into this as undisputed winners of the previous generation, but I think they still have an awful lot to prove, especially to hardcore gamers, who had little to interest them on Wii. I can perhaps understand them keeping their own titles under wraps, but that they've effectively gagged third parties from showing off their Wii U titles just seems ridiculously hubristic.
 
meppi said:
Yeah that seems like a safe bet.

Have to say that I'm disappointed that kept the console's design as it is.
Would have loved to see something more unique and eye catching.
Even the GameCube, which got a lot of hate for no reason had a very distinct design which game the system itself personality.
The Wii U seems to be as nondescript as possible. Very vanilla looking.



God, I hope so...
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I don't have a problem with the WiiU design personally. It only resembles the Wii in the most basic sense. No one bitches that every iPhone is a rectangle with a touch screen and one button on the front. It is a very efficient design.
 
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