isiolia wrote:I don't think it'll be seen as innovative necessarily. The only "innovation" the Wii hardware brought is motion controls, and opinion is decidedly mixed on those. Otherwise you're left with marketing/product positioning, which if you're not a bean-counter at Nintendo, was certainly not a win/win.dreamcast4ever83 wrote:This system will have a ton of rare and hard to find game's that one day collectors will be paying a high price for on ebay.
Despite some of the titles its gotten, the system has been mostly bad for third party developers. It has gotten a lot of fairly unique titles, but most of them are low budget projects. Some of them probably because the developers didn't have the money for HD development. Some of them because that's all the developer was willing to risk on the platform where only a minority of non-first party games do all that well (scan down the list here for example).
That may well result in a long list of hidden gems on the system down the line, with relatively few copies out there hidden amongst the stacks and stacks of shovelware.
This is true there are a lot of titles that are "shovelware" and there are also very very good games that did not appear on that Wiki list. Elebits, Geometry Wars, Skycrawlers Innocent Aces and Sin and Punishment are a few examples. Agree with dreamcast4ever, there will be unique Wii titles that will be hard to find later on.
ZeroAX wrote:But the Wii U remains a big question mark. Nintendo needs some MUST HAVE software pronto. Let's hope Dragon Quest X in Japan, and New Super Mario Bros Wii U (seriously?) help it sell many Wii Us at the start so to have a viable install base for smaller publishers and developers to take advantage of its "non-graphic whores" audience, and come out with small quirky games that can become successful with less sales.
Agree, the tap here and there to add a platform for Mario is pretty lame, Wii U Rayman also has that silly tap tap action on the touch screen. The Nintendo Land package of mini games looks pretty good as a sellpoint. The concept of multiple party games to get the whole family involved just like the Wii did with Wii Sports. My bet is it will be a bonus packin on the deluxe box. The main stand out on Wii U Batman over other editions was the motion as an option and not mandatory for say "flying" the batwing and the touch screen as an inventory.
Wii U Review 1080p and Traditional Control
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