I was going back and forth on price for a while there between $300 and $350, but now I'm pretty convinced that it'll be $300. Gotta keep the price competitive with the existing consoles. I think they've learned the pricing lesson of the 3DS also..
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Freezie KO
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Hahaha. So I went to download Nyxquest, and I forgot how ridiculously horrible the Wii Shop is. I had 700 Wii Points (from years ago), and I couldn't even just get the 300 I needed to get Nyxquest. I had to pay another $10 for another 1000 points.
Well, now I'm downloading Nyxquest, and I still have 700 points. I guess I should also spend that before the Wii U.
Well, now I'm downloading Nyxquest, and I still have 700 points. I guess I should also spend that before the Wii U.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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TheGreatMightyPoo
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It'll be transparent Sadness.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Acid Ghost, same thing.
I played Portal 1 for the first time late last year and then played Portal 2 more or less immediately after it, and those two games go together so perfectly, two halves of one perfectly complete story, that putting them together in a WiiU compilation with nunchuk/pointer and Upad control schemes would be brilliant. And Valve is like a "Western Nintendo" (in terms of charm and gameplay being paramount) so it seems doubly fitting, lol.
Hmm.. I seem to recall someone in the thread predicting that it would double in size. It may well be that way.
Folks were also discussing who would be handling the Wii U, with some small degree of difficulty. When a media outlet's ability to discuss a console even-handedly is called into question so quickly, that speaks volumes to me.
I remember complaining about 1Up and G4's Wii coverage at the beginning of this generation, too.. hmm.. {*smirk*}
StreetsAhead
Member
'Pfft, all they have is Ubisoft shovelware, PS360 ports, Pikmin 3 and NSMB. It'll be terrible'.
Mixed. Half say they are doomed for random reasons, the rest say Nintendo has to show strong games to win the core audience.
Same here. I'm betting on $350. I don't think $300 will help their image, even thought it may be cheaper for the consumer.
Agent Unknown
Member
Whooooooo!!! 'Bout time someone made an MST3K E3 gif! Love it! Good job!
edit: Ah, so this gif has been around for awhile? Had no idea.
Hey, can you or someone make one using this gif where they're walking into the theater? Maybe just as they sit down a Upad lowers into their view with Iwata on the touch screen doing his hair toss? Or something like that. I've been conceiving it for awhile in my mind but still have no idea how to manipulate/make animated gifs (something I should really start taking a crack at):
GameplayWhore
Member
It's much easier than you'd think. You just make every frame as a separate image file, then you use any of several program to mash them together. I use a command line app called gifsicle.
snowdog1971
Banned
Think Red Steel 2, replace Wild West setting with Star Wars locations, replace samurai sword with light saber, replace Wild West weapons with blaster pistol, blaster rifle, Wookie bowcaster and samurai powers and finishing moves with Jedi ones and LucasArts would have a licence to print money. The Jedi Knight franchise is the best of the lot imo and it's criminal that LucasArts have not only neglected the franchise but haven't brought a 1:1 Star Wars game to the Wii when MotionPlus was announced.
Mr. MondayNight
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Off topic I know but being from Chicago I want the original of you avatar....
I think it's going to go pretty well, actually. Shane has got to back up the things he said here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=471110
There will probably be a lot of "If Nintendo does X or Y right" talk that is code for "We've heard Nintendo is doing X or Y right". On the other side of the coin they'll probably discuss the viability of the Wii U post Orbis/Xbox 8 (which will account for the majority of the doom and naysaying) but all in all I expect it to be a pretty decent Bonus Round for Nintendo fans.
Shadowlink
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Shadowlink
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They'll probably talk about price, power, and launch.
lordfroakie
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"My kids play ipads and are 5 years old!" "not hardcore enough" "next zelda needs to be 10 hours" "nextbox tablet will be better than wiiu" "nintendo sucks"
Agent Unknown
Member
Thanks, I'll check it out but if I can't get it to work I'm gonna come back and beseech the gif gods once more.
Agent Unknown
Member
Great minds think alike:
I hope for: SMG 3/Mario Universe or new Yoshi's Island by Good Feel
I expect: NSMB Mii
jump_button
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I do hope they have some next gen game for launch to show what it can do, If it all port its going to get tag for being this gen
Pachter and Satterfield are going to say things that will make the fanboys rage.
TheCongressman1
Member
Haha, that's what I was thinking! Who in their right mind would want that?
Why media outlets would want to write-off a chunk of potential audience, I'll never understand. I wonder how they'll handle it in the strange event where Nintendo captures the largest marketshare once again..They will say things that will make a Nintendo fan rage
Before ya know it, we'll be jammin' to that pre-conference techo music that Nintendo likes to play.
Agent Unknown
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They will say things that will make a Nintendo fan rage
I'm seein' double here.Hobbestetrician
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While you are most likely correct, wasn't it Satterfield that recently said there were reasons to be excited about the launch?
I expect Sessler to be even-handed yet skeptical (not in a negative way but in a 'we need to see more' way) about it, LA Times guy to talk about Apple in some capacity, and Geoff to mention 'hardcore' multiple times.
Error Macro
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I have somewhat of an uneasy feeling as the days count down. The journey is almost always the best part of anything, and our journey to E3 is almost over :\
Once it's over, that's it. The anticipation is gone.
Portugeezer
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Ehh.. that uneasy feeling might be your spidey senses telling you to get ready for the feces-flinging that is about to start.
Not necessarily. The anticipation will live on. You're going to switch from anticipation of E3 to anticipation of launch (hopefully) and then from then on anticipation of new content. It's the cycle of gaming.
Pachter certainly will. Satterfield? I'm not so sure. From everything I've heard, he seems to know some things about the Wii U that impressed him quite a bit. Things we don't know. He was already talking about this around last years E3, hinting at surprising announcements before Nintendo's press conference and wondering why Nintendo seemingly pulled them afterwards.
Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
Actually, it's 92,306 posts.
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In all seriousness, they might be discouraged that on this forum only one or two threads about Wii U are on the first page.
Give it another 48 hours.
jump_button
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I want to see 3D platformers and RPG make a come back in the next gen
Gahiggidy
My aunt & uncle run a Mom & Pop store, "The Gamecube Hut", and sold 80k WiiU within minutes of opening.
IdeaMan said that all of the 3rd party Wii U demos at E3 were running off SD memory cards and not BlueRay discs. He said this fact was very interesting.
So just Killer Freaks and Ghost Recon?
abstract alien
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If they bring back "carts"...
Error Macro
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Ehh.. that uneasy feeling might be your spidey senses telling you to get ready for the feces-flinging that is about to start.
Okay guys, I will try to keep a positive attitude.
I will anticipate the launching of feces! And new fecal content!
DXB-KNIGHT
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Spinning Newspaper "Nintendo Drops CDs again in favor of Carts!"
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