I've been thinking this for a while.
Nintendo to announce secret brand-new types of games for Wii U soon
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Just a meme. Seriously, just a meme.
I bet one of these new game will be a cards based game with NFC features by Miyamoto. Last year when talking about the NFC in 2 interviews, he referred to its potential in relation to cards games, highlighting how to be able to include real cards in the equation could open interesting gaming prospects.
Behold the secret brand-new types of games!
What this should be is expanded versions of the NintendoLand mini games sold on the eShop as $5 downloads and marketed as individual apps/games/experiences.
I'm convinced that if Nintendo had not bundled them all together and instead marketed them as separate "apps" the narrative would be very different right now. People would be citing Animal Crossing: Sweet Day and Mario Chase as must have apps for the Wii U rather than dismissing NintendoLand as kiddie play.
I'm convinced that if Nintendo had not bundled them all together and instead marketed them as separate "apps" the narrative would be very different right now. People would be citing Animal Crossing: Sweet Day and Mario Chase as must have apps for the Wii U rather than dismissing NintendoLand as kiddie play.
To follow on my previous post, here's the translation I made of one of the interview (from French, it was a Gamekult interview):
When talking about the NFC and how this technology enable new ways to interact with real stuff, he said >
My rough translation : "And you know, what's extremely successful on smartphone at the moment, at least in Japan? Cards collection games. But these are virtual cards. What interests me are the real cards. It's why I think the Wii U has more potential."
When talking about the NFC and how this technology enable new ways to interact with real stuff, he said >
My rough translation : "And you know, what's extremely successful on smartphone at the moment, at least in Japan? Cards collection games. But these are virtual cards. What interests me are the real cards. It's why I think the Wii U has more potential."
DisenLedZep
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Was really optimistic until: “new types of games.”
This will be casual, small games.
Could be good though. But don't expect AAA titles.
Also:
This is what I hoped as soon as they reveal NintendoLand.
This will be casual, small games.
Could be good though. But don't expect AAA titles.
Also:
This is what I hoped as soon as they reveal NintendoLand.
Peter Bazooka
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Fire Emblem already came out though.
Well... If you are only waiting for AAA titles it might, and probably will, be. But some of the smaller games released lately, like Pushmo, end up being a surprisingly good experience. If these unannounced games turn out to be just as good there will be no reason to be disappointed, in my opinion.
Why would you be disappointed when they say the traditional types of games has been announced and this is for something different, probably akin to Wii Sports?
LiveFromKyoto
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Good. If they did they'd be redundant and have no reason to exist. Whether or not they've succeeded with this one console, they've shown multiple times there's gobs of money to be made by servicing all the people who aren't the portion of the 18-34 year old male audience who want that.
And I say that as somebody who really liked BLOPS II.
No it isn't just a meme.
I'm talking all conceptually. Chill out a little bit. You could form a business strategy and fuck it up. They aren't releasing their games right now so obviously I'm not suggesting that everything is going "according to the master keikaku". Maybe in the end it would've been better if they hadn't released it. We don't know. Maybe sales pick up after Pikmin and that year will end up not being wasted and the plan was sound.
If you're trying to suggest that Iwata is making this entire strategy up to excuse his situation, you won't get me to agree with you at all. I've not seen any convincing evidence yet that Nintendo was going after anything other than the traditional gamers at first. All I've seen are assumptions by people wanting to re-write Nintendo Land as a failed Wii Sports, how anyone could actually play that game and say it was an attempt at Wii Sports is something that I'll never figure out. I just assume that most people who talk about that game haven't played it. My mom would never be okay with grinding out coins from the ridiculously hard Donkey Kong to collect gachapon re-orchestrated Metroid soundtracks.
LSauchelli
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New types instead of 'new games' makes me think of either: F2P, table games, or maybe 3DS/WiiU dual releases.
I do think Nintendo should go after niches of other systems that might be ignored by MS and SONY on their new consoles. Like DC era SEGA & Wipeout fans or even court some PC games that make good use of the Wiipad (eg Noitu Love 2)
But the FPS crowd hell no.
I love how you are ignoring the extremely core focused 2014 games in order to effectively whine.
i don't think they'd take the time to build an audience for games that they didn't plan to keep releasing. even the Wii kept traditional games releasing throughout its life span, we'll probably get more on the u
shinra-bansho
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There is no need to rewrite anything. I've seen you dispute that Nintendo Land was the system's Wii Sports before. It was. It's plainly obvious. It was intended to sell the tablet USP to an expanded audience. The intent was obvious even if the execution and outcome weren't replicated.
Nintendo wasn't purely going after traditional gamers at launch. Their flagship titles were a bridge title that found unprecedented success with the casual market and a title intended to showcase their tablet controller. They mustered token 'core' support and thought it sufficient to attract the traditional market they lost with the Wii. They tried to go after everyone concurrently, ending up with an unfocused product offering that failed to appeal to any particular market.
It does not echo the strategy taken by Microsoft and Sony whatsoever.
Kai Dracon
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Funny enough, I'd like to see an expanded Wii Sports U. Still play Wii Sports Resort to this day.
I've played that "casual rubbish" a lot longer than a lot of six hour long $60 "hardcore" games.
I'm finding it really hard to care about this. This is something that should have be talked about and revealed long before the Wii U release. To give even more reason for people to actually the the system while they had a year head start over the other new systems.
Get the feeling this is fairly new and a response to them finally accepting they will not be getting third party support and the little they do have could easily go away. I wonder if the response they got at E3 also played a part in this being said.
Get the feeling this is fairly new and a response to them finally accepting they will not be getting third party support and the little they do have could easily go away. I wonder if the response they got at E3 also played a part in this being said.
I agree that we did think it was. I thought it was the Wii Sports up until I played it. I think everyone on the internet did. It took until I played it and really thought about what they were doing with that game until their strategy just sort of clicked with me and I realized that we were trying too hard to think about their games in terms of their previous strategy. It was obviously meant to sell the tablet, that much is clear. However, I don't agree that it could've been the social phenomenon. I think it's pretty obvious why that would've never happened. The game was originally a Mii- game. They rewrote it to include Nintendo characters. They weren't trying to use the game as a bridge to sell us Nintendo characters, we had it backwards. It was using the Nintendo characters to sell traditional gamers onto the new platform and the new control methods that we hesitated to adopt on the Wii.
They did push out NSMB:U on the platform early. However, if you look past their launch titles and into the games they were focusing on developing and publishing at this time - Pikmin, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Smash, Bayonetta, X, the early focus on traditional gamers becomes much more obvious. The amount of resources they have dedicated to those games is obviously much higher then their focus on casual games.
Outtrigger888
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"How would YOUR GAME use the WiiU Gamepad?"
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=632451
Woot.
edit: Doesnt mean what i typed will happen. Definitely a chance, tho.
JetBlackPanda
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FFS!! With that bump
Outtrigger888
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My mistake.
This was suppose to be posted in the wii u games 2014 thread. Which is where i got the quote from.
This was suppose to be posted in the wii u games 2014 thread. Which is where i got the quote from.
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