nephilimdj
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Nintendo has that covered
Crazy this gets leaked a month before release, be interesting to see if extra effort goes into this port
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Minecraft Wii U Edition rated by Pegi
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Nintendo has that covered
Crazy this gets leaked a month before release, be interesting to see if extra effort goes into this port
fredrancour
Member
looking forward to lurking the media create threads if there's a retail sku in japan. splatoon and smm would have more company in the "wiiu games with legs" club
If Phil has good in his heart he would also work with Nintendo to get Diddy Kong Racing on Wii U. And i dont mean the shitty DS version.
Smiles and Cries
Member
are we saying this releases later today?
I can't see anything beyond a quick port of the 360 version and maybe some Nintendo skins and gamepad features.
PEGI is European, so December 11th, I believe.
Astral Dog
Member
sales, probable NX port in the future
Again PEGI is UK so that release date is actually 11-12-2015 if you're in the US
i.e tomorrow
Lupin the Third
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Nah, Europe also uses Year-Month-Day (greater->smaller) system. Also if you go to the site, everything below it is 2015-11-06, 2015-11-05, etc. This is def. November 12th.
Also did we REALLY need that image at the top of the new page? Really?
It's like GAF is in the business to never gets the facts right. Microsoft sealed the deal with Mojang/Notch at the time of the Vita release.
Oooh, well then that's exciting! If this can drop on a dime, what else may be waiting for tomorrow/this upcoming week?
Sakura
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Lord Azrael
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If you check other dates on the site they're formatted year-month-day. So... today.
About the "release date" on PEGI's website, it's not necessarily the actual release date. There's two possibilities:
- if the publisher actually gave the release date when they sent the game to PEGI, the game won't show up on the website until that date, and the date appearing on the game's page is the actual release date;
- if the publisher didn't give a release date (because they didn't know for sure), then the game will appear on the website whenever the rating has been given, and the "release date" is actually the date of rating.
Example:
This game didn't come out on October 17th, and in fact, hasn't been officially announced for Europe yet iirc.
So no, Minecraft will not necessarily come out today... it's definitely possible, but highly unlikely.
- if the publisher actually gave the release date when they sent the game to PEGI, the game won't show up on the website until that date, and the date appearing on the game's page is the actual release date;
- if the publisher didn't give a release date (because they didn't know for sure), then the game will appear on the website whenever the rating has been given, and the "release date" is actually the date of rating.
Example:
This game didn't come out on October 17th, and in fact, hasn't been officially announced for Europe yet iirc.
So no, Minecraft will not necessarily come out today... it's definitely possible, but highly unlikely.
Probably. Is this the famouse tantalus game?
I don't know, I'm just so used to date mix-ups between day/month placements that I don't even stop to think about it.
Month/Day/Year is factually better, just sayin'
Lupin the Third
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NinjaCoachZ
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Lupin the Third
Member
I would be pissed because, as an indie retailer, I couldn't have even ordered it except as a replenishment (likely post-holiday).
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Exactly, deliberately keeping a product a secret from retailers would be a really dumb move on so many levels.
If it is a stealth release it could maybe be digital-only with a physical copy somewhere else down the line, but who knows.
You forgot Samus in Halo.
Just like the Vita was saved by it!
Lupin the Third
Member
Indeed. Sure didn't win Sega any favors back in May 1995....
The Spoony Hou
Member
I was wondering why that Minecraft clone had such a big discount... 
Actually, it is the best selling vita game in japan so far
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Microsoft bout to take dat Nintendo monay
baudelinog
Member
Nintendo buys Microsoft!
fredrancour
Member
1. Japanese sales might help Nintendo a bit over there. If MC can have sales legs on vita it can have sales legs anywhere.
2. People (probably mostly kids) who still play minecraft regularly now view it as a gaming staple. Getting Minecraft U may likely mean having minecraft NX ready day 1. That day-1 support is either the first step in remedying the worst 3rd-party support in industry history, or is one of the more effective bandaids to the situation that could be there. It isn't a competitive advantage so much as a necessary step to avoid being drastically behind.
3. maybe they'll gimmick it up with official nintendo content.
4. Offscreen play is fantastic and this should hopefully support it.
Then again, it didnt hurt Minecraft physical sales on the 360 releasing the digital version a year before.
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Deleted member 125677
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They are indeed very late with this, but I've always felt the Wii U would be a perfect fit for Minecraft. I'm pretty sure my kids will go from playing the tablet and Vita versions to the Wii U now, since it should be much more intuitive and comfortable to build stuff with the stylus/gamepad.
Yeah but from what I understand Vita didn't need to be saved in Japan (or not near as much).
Daria Morgendorffer
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Would buy for my little siblings, maybe it'd have character skins unlocked with amiibo or something, I wouldn't mind that.
I would totally buy Samus armour DLC for Halo 5.
DaSorcerer7
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If Tantakus is behind this you have no worries there.
Flintty
Member
Holy shit...
Amiibo support to import your Smash Amiibo characters would also be legendary.
It could happen.