(10-18-2013, 01:06 AM)Shonumi Wrote: @dh2005 - Well, personally, I can stand to buy a system to only play a handful of games. I really only bought a 360 to play all of the Halo games (except Wars and ODST) + Tales of Vesperia and Star Ocean 4. Ditto for the PS3; I only wanted it so I could play Tales of Xillia (which wasn't even scheduled for localization when I got a PS3, and it came out almost two years later). I really only want the Nintendo staples (Mario, Mario Kart, Metroid, Zelda, SSB, F-Zero, Kirby), so I'd end up buying the system sooner or later. I'm not saying the Wii U is going to be a hit with me, but I usually end up getting systems regardless of how many games I play on them. I might just be frivolous or something :p
Absolutely. I think there's more common ground between our points of view than maybe you realise. I bought the Wii U specifically because of Nintendo's Triple-A franchises - but eleven months later, I'm still waiting for my decision to be vindicated.
New Super Mario Bros. U wasn't very good. It was quite good, but that's not good enough. I traded it before I finished it because the jumping mechanics got so massively on my tits, and I wasn't willing either to suffer through them or to adjust my game (twenty years spent playing Super Mario World, and suddenly Mario starts sticking to walls...? No-fuckin'-thanks). Pikmin 3 was good, and I keep meaning to go back to it - but it hasn't grabbed me so tightly that I've felt compelled to.
Of course, there will be a great Zelda game for the U eventually. Of that I'm certain. But we kinda need it now - and I'm not just talking about Wind Waker HD. And if a Metroid game to rival the quality of Prime were released, honestly, I'd stop moaning instantly. Mario Kart needs to step back from the baby-ish bullshit of Mario Kart Wii if it's to get my interest (my flatmate and me played Super Mario Kart through SNES9x a few nights ago, and I honestly believe that the franchise was never as good again...). The other franchises you mentioned I do enjoy, but less so.
And yes, the PS3 did have a crap start. But the PS3 didn't have two next-generation consoles hitting the market within a year of its release, whereas the Wii U has - and that represents a serious problem. People don't give a shit about the Wii U now, and I believe they'll give even less of a shit when there are two technically superior machines with mammoth promotional budgets behind them competing in the same space.
But wait!!! Here comes the evergreen Nintendo apologist (again, I used to be one...) with the same old riposte... "Nintendo has never been about processing power - it's all about the games". Okay, then. So where are these fucking games? The software highlight of the U's first year is an HD remake of a decade-old game. I've said it before, and I'll say it again - not good enough.
I would love to be wrong. If the U fails and Nintendo withdraw from the home console market, we'll be left with Sony and Microsoft - both of whose machines are essentially the same, with common software. It will mean the death of diversity, and I don't want that - but Nintendo aren't exactly giving me reason to keep the faith.
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