Nintendo could still do it, but they'd probably need to hand the reigns to someone like Cerny to make it happen.
Kotaku: The Wii U Won't Be Getting Unreal Engine 4
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Nintendo could still do it, but they'd probably need to hand the reigns to someone like Cerny to make it happen.
Ninja Scooter
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It was a fluke in the sense that that audience, the one that made Wii a huge fad, the one that made Mario kart and NSMB into massive, 20
Million+ sellers, are not coming back. They latched onto the next trend they saw on Pinterest or Rachel Ray. We all have friends, family and coworkers who were big into Wii 5 years ago, had Wii parties, had their living room littered with plastic peripherals....now do any of them give two shits about Wii u? Hell do a lot of them even play video games anymore? The Wii was lightning in a bottle. It was the right gimmick at the right time. The Wii mote stuff was novel, easy to use and encouraged playing with groups. The Wii u is the opposite of almost all of that. There is nothing new about touch screen gaming in 2012/13.
Joe Molotov
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Starring in a video with a banana is the height of professionalism.
Shadow Hog
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TheDrowningMan
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Good luck getting publishers to focus on this mythical console. Fuck me.
maquiladora
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I dunno, I just saw it posted here in one of the other threads.
Psycho_Mantis
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People just try and pretend its just nintendo.......lol
The biggest reason for the contraction of the gaming market market right now is because of the collapse of the Wii.
Just a feeling you have eh? You could at least give us some reasons.
Sony's gaming division is not bleeding money.
I think they confirmed that picture to have been taking before/after the event. The thread on it was locked.
decoyplatypus
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This sounds like a reasonable estimate of what went wrong. I wonder what Nintendo's can do to limit the damage going forward. I assume that sales of Nintendo's own games will compensate for some of the loss Nintendo has taken on hardware, but is there any hope at all for creating or purchasing a new IP that could do what Halo did for Xbox (and Wii Sports did for Wii)? Or would Nintendo have needed that kind of title during the launch window (or at least well before PS4 hype kicked in) to make a difference? I mean, even if Nintendo wanted to start moneyhatting 3rd parties, and those might be some very expensive hats to compensate for potential sales difference, the games themselves wouldn't start appearing for years.
Games industry is so immature and there has been fiascos and scandals almost all the time. It's pretty disgusting if you start to think about it really.
Not too surprising. I'm sure they could make UE4 run on WiiU, but unless there's enough units there's no business incentive to (just like the way there's no reason to port games to WiiU at this point -- it'd be as costly w/ the returns involved of developing for Vita). At this point it makes perfect sense to bill it as the high-end engine, then if U somehow picks up megaton sales this holidays, they can just tell people "hey! we figured out how to make UE4 run on WiiU!"
soulassssns
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No "dudebro " confirmed?
No, it bled more money than they could ever make back and now they're in a position where they have to launch new hardware, which has traditionally cost them eight-figure losses.
They keep going it won't be in stores.
Smiles and Cries
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I believe the damage has been done anyway so even if Nintendo came out with something very powerful in a few years support for it is not guaranteed it is not the hardware these guys don't like it is Nintendo and what they stand for "Kids + Family + Fun" Nintendo does not have a core bone in its image so I agree they should stop pretending
Team up with Disney or something and move on
I don't blame 3rd Parties for doing what is best for business but the laughter just separates Nintendo even more
the damage will be hard to fix at this point
-GameWatch(?) posted an article about Nintendo's Miiverse GDC presentation not getting much interest
-They posted that pic along the article
-Thread was posted in here
-"lol"
-Apparently, the pic is either from before or after the presentation, as the ones doing said presentation are not even presenting anything (which explains the empty seats, people talking/playing on cellphones)
-GameWatch(?) never said anything else
-Thread was locked because there wasn't much to discuss since it was unknown when the pic was taken
So..noone knows, but it still been used as "lol".
If anyone that actually was here said anything would be better, but so far not even that.
I was literaly just going to say that it would be hilarious if there was only like 10 people in the crowd at Nintendo's E3 conference then you go and post that lol, Nintendo really are a pathetic joke.
Wow. Literally the laughing stock of the industry.
The best versions of all PS3/360 multiplats, and downports of all PS4/720 multiplats. That seemed to be the main prediction back in the chain of Project Cafe/Wii U Speculation threads. Those were the days...
The best versions of all PS3/360 multiplats, and downports of all PS4/720 multiplats. That seemed to be the main prediction back in the chain of Project Cafe/Wii U Speculation threads. Those were the days...
Eteric Rice
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If I were Nintendo, I'd be concerned at this point.
If it were me, I'd probably try to buy up some promising third parties.
If it were me, I'd probably try to buy up some promising third parties.
Brainiac 8
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I added another post and explained my thoughts more thoroughly ...in the end I could be way off base.
And yes...Sony's gaming division is still bleeding money...just not as badly as their other divisions.
In order to post a profit Sony has been selling practically whatever isn't bolted down.
Dave Meltzer
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It wasn't confirmed either way.
Feel like the thread should be unlocked now we've got an insight in to how devs laugh at Wii U tbh
Really?
freenudemacusers
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I wonder if this has more games.
They should have been concerned in January. Now they should be freaking out.
Psycho_Mantis
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Funny thing is he said bleeding not bled. Learn the tenses please because I agree that they have bled money.
What does this topic have to do with Vita?
i hope he's fired soon. dude has done shit
Dave Meltzer
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He'll talk about the great partnerships with Ubisoft.
Nintendo needs to somehow shine this E3. it's going to be near impossible with the ps4/Durango reveals/hype but they need to find a way to steal the show. otherwise the Wii U will be utterly crushed.
Bingo was his name-o
The Nintendo handheld/console hybrid, supported by mainly Nintendo games sounds like the best option. Nintendo can support 1 platform properly, just not 2 at once. They still should expand though, open a few studios in Europe and the US. Then they won't even need those 3rd parties. In 5-6 years traditional console gaming might not even be around anymore anyway. So then there even wont be 3rd parties.
Plinko
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:lol...what does this even mean?
Show off rehashed Mario/Zelda and call it a day.
Judging by the as usual cryptic (or gibberish) Google Translation GameWatch seemed to be critical of the low attendance:
Remind me again of these 3rd party business successes? Just like... 5 different examples lately? Because I can give you dozens of sad examples that ended up in bankruptcy or studios breaking apart.
Sony's about to launch a new console, I'm pretty confident the next P&L will show their gaming division bleeding more money.
i hear this repeated so much and i just don't buy it at all. maybe if we repeat it so much, it'll become true? it gets repeated often, so it must be true? i personally believe that families are the most sure-fire audience for any new console. there just isn't as much device substitution there.
Majmun
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-GameWatch(?) posted an article about Nintendo's Miiverse GDC presentation not getting much interest
-They posted that pic along the article
-Thread was posted in here
-"lol"
-Apparently, the pic is either from before or after the presentation, as the ones doing said presentation are not even presenting anything (which explains the empty seats, people talking/playing on cellphones)
-GameWatch(?) never said anything else
-Thread was locked because there wasn't much to discuss since it was unknown when the pic was taken
So..noone knows, but it still been used as "lol".
If anyone that actually was here said anything would be better, but so far not even that.
Thanks for sharing and explaining. Hahaha
Nintendo just can't catch a break with the Wii U. All this negativity surrounding it.
Amazing response though :lol
Man.. I remember those good old Wii U spec threads with lherre, Eaty, wsippel, Ace, BY2K, IdeaMan, Übermatik and all the other crazy people - back then UE4 on Wii U was something we loved to see and all we got were vague statements like "Fish, meet water". It was amazing :lol
Yeah, this is going to be a Nintendo only console first and foremost, I'm fine with that since I'm getting the other two down the road. But man, Wii U only users will miss almost everything
Man.. I remember those good old Wii U spec threads with lherre, Eaty, wsippel, Ace, BY2K, IdeaMan, Übermatik and all the other crazy people - back then UE4 on Wii U was something we loved to see and all we got were vague statements like "Fish, meet water". It was amazing :lol
Yeah, this is going to be a Nintendo only console first and foremost, I'm fine with that since I'm getting the other two down the road. But man, Wii U only users will miss almost everything
They would get those unique games anyways, plus battlefield 4 and ue4 games too :\
Come on, crowd psychology is more complex than that. If I was attending I would have laughed as well just because it's an unexpectedly humorous reply, not because of some evil third party agenda. "Hahaha... no" is pretty dickish, but some massive assumptions are being made. Reading the text in your head also isolates it from any context.
Now, if there was whooping, clapping, standing ovation and all that noise, it's a different story.
Now, if there was whooping, clapping, standing ovation and all that noise, it's a different story.
It's true in as much as that all tangible evidence so far suggests its true. Sales certainly do.
SonicMegaDrive
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That sounds great, in theory.
In reality, will a lot of developers step up to the plate and actually make any relevant games for the machine?
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