Nintendo Wants Wii U The "Preferred" Console for Hardcore Gamers

[Suave Charlie]

Definitely can't see myself traveling to tournaments to compete on a WiiU. Just seems wrong.

How many people similar to me who play either xbox or ps3 exclusively getting the standard variety of games: fallout, skyrim, gears, uncharted etc. will look at the WiiU and think: "...Nah I'll wait for the 720/4 [or whatever]" Judging from my friends thoughts on it, quite a few.

 

[SageRuffin]

Nintendo may want it, but I very much doubt they're going to get it.

The name alone is a huge barrier. People don't think "hardcore" when they think Nintendo.

Nintendo isn't the issue, as the 64 was a good hardcore console for its time. It's Wii that will turn people off. Wii U being the only way you can make the name any dumber.

So no Nintendo, you wont be anymore core game than the Wii without a rebranding.

And the Nintendo 64 was over a decade ago. When most people think Nintendo they do not think of the N64.

Agreed. Nintendo hasn't really been for "hardcore gamers" (whatever the fuck that means) since the 64 days. Conker, Banjo, Mario, Killer Instinct, Perfect Dark, SSB, Pokemon Snap... good times were had by all.

Huh... I just noticed that most of the games I noted were made by Rare. Imagine that.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

PFFFFFFFFF....

Was my reaction to that title.

Maybe they'd be able to do it if they hadn't released so much fluff and gimmicks for the last however many years, marketed everything to casual audiences, and leapt at any chance to implement some new technology whether it improved the experience or not, and become thoroughly associated with childhood. Same as EA wanting to sell 5 million Dead Space 3 copies. And me wanting 100 dollars to materialise on my bed. Not. Going. To happen.

EDIT: And by the way, this whole handheld minimap thing? It's the exact process every new thing from Nintendo goes through. It should be doing something more involved than displaying a f***ing map, that's a gimmick if ever I've seen one. A couple of games will use it in interesting ways, and from then on, games that want nothing to do with it will just put a minimap on it, or some other inconsequential thing, and any other games that use it will largely be gimmicks themselves (like 'drink the water with the stylus' was for the touch screen).

 

[Evil Smurf]

what does hardcore even mean?

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

what does hardcore even mean?

My best guess is it means people who play games as a hobby. People who take their games seriously and would prefer to game than do something else. As opposed to casual, to whom gaming is something you can do as a family activity or to pass the time when waiting for a train or something, and who would just as readily read a book. But every answer to this is opinion.

 

[Waaghpowa]

Well to be fair, Nintendo will be the only console I will even bother buying unless Sony has a new Metal Gear game. Otherwise I would stick to just PC games entirely.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Well to be fair, Nintendo will be the only console I will even bother buying unless Sony has a new Metal Gear game. Otherwise I would stick to just PC games entirely.

There is going to be MGS 5 coming out.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118002-Hideo-Kojima-Confirms-Metal-Gear-Solid-5

 

[Waaghpowa]

Well to be fair, Nintendo will be the only console I will even bother buying unless Sony has a new Metal Gear game. Otherwise I would stick to just PC games entirely.

There is going to be MGS 5 coming out.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118002-Hideo-Kojima-Confirms-Metal-Gear-Solid-5

I just saw that. Though, as I said, I'll be mostly sticking to PC games, and most PS3 games I give a shit about will come out for PC anyway, The Wii U will likely get most of my attention. Say what you want about Nintendo's first party games, I find them consistently good and is the main reason I'm getting a Wii u in the first place.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Well to be fair, Nintendo will be the only console I will even bother buying unless Sony has a new Metal Gear game. Otherwise I would stick to just PC games entirely.

There is going to be MGS 5 coming out.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118002-Hideo-Kojima-Confirms-Metal-Gear-Solid-5

I just saw that. Though, as I said, I'll be mostly sticking to PC games, and most PS3 games I give a shit about will come out for PC anyway, The Wii U will likely get most of my attention. Say what you want about Nintendo's first party games, I find them consistently good and is the main reason I'm getting a Wii u in the first place.

Yea, I can't wait to see how Zelda looks on the WiiU. That's why Will get one.

 

[EHKOS]

Good luck with that when you've given up on improving your online service. People still take the piss out of PSN for not being up to standard, how exactly will WiiU's network be treated if they've said they aren't going to be able/going to try to catch up with either PSN or XBL?

What IS wrong with PSN? I've heard people say they hate it a lot but they've never said why. I use it and I like it.

 

[FoolKiller]

It sees the Wii U as the perfect add-on to that style of living; the ideal second console in a core gaming household.

The ideal second console? That's a defeatist attitude.

If they really want me to start to play that then give me a more ergonomic controller, and not a stupid tablet. It looks neat to begin but not comfortable for the longer stretches of gaming.

 

[Keslen]

Hardcore players don't like playing games with an etch-a-sketch.

That's a pretty big hurdle for this console to overcome to reach that demographic.

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

Y'know... I, for one, am willing to give them a fair shake at my business. I pretty much hate the Wii due to its controls, which are its defining feature and therefore my hatred is pretty fundamental. That doesn't mean that the hand-held screen thing they seem to be working on with this Wii U isn't an innovative and possibly really good idea. I'd like to get my hands on some game I like and try it out before I nix its potential place in my console collection at the very least. I cut my teeth on Nintendo back in the day, and up until the Wii never had a reason to shun them like I've felt compelled to do these past few years.

 

[krection]

I would like to present to all of you, Nintendo when it's thinking of things to do and say:

 

[Vault101]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHA

oh lord...sorry..but.what?

if they can tell me how the Wii U is going to be better than my PS3 then by all means..try and convince me

You don't have to like the Wii. But Nintendo is the only one of the three who's bread and butter business is videogames. If they were to go under, then gaming would lose the only dedicated company. The other two companies are only in gaming for as long as it keeps their stock prices up. Nintendo is in gaming for the long haul.

An industry where gaming consoles are dictated entirely by non-gaming companies would be a sad fucking place indeed.

what difference does that actually make? weather thats truw or nor the Wii is still a peice of crap in my eyes....

Nintendo's main buisness might be gaming...but they are still a buisness (who seems to be wanting to cut in on the "social" pie) I don;t even think Nintendo started out as a gaming company way back when

 

[Vault101]

Last time they went down this road it was for "Mature" gamers, and we got "Conker's Bad Fur Day". Lets hope they learned from that mistake.

Really, all they have to do is get 3rd parties back and they'll be fine. The loss of every 3rd party to Sony during the N64/PS days was bad and they never really recovered the 3rd party support since then.

"conkers bad fur day" was made by RARE

 

[Vault101]

Funny post is funny.

1. Short answer, no. Long answer.... well, still no. If the "hardcore" gamer wanted high end specs, they wouldn't be playing on the PS3 or 360, but on a high end PC. Ya know, that's high end specs, not 7 year old technology that wasn't high end even on release.

that doesnt mean you don't want your console to not have some decent power

just look at the Wii....it was pretty much a gamecube which ment alot of the best multiplatform games (99% of all games I give a shit about) arnt on it

just because you have a console doesnt mean you want to settle for last gen graphics/hardware


[quote/]3. You don't have to use the tablet controller. Unless the game was specifically designed to be played on the tablet controller, you can use the Pro controller without problems. And I doubt that the "core" developer will try to do something innovative when porting th next Battlefield of Duty. Seriously... EA, Activison? Innovative? The Pro controller was specifically designed to be used in games like CoD and BF.[/quote]
I think you can only call somthing "innovative" after it proves itself to be inovative

[quote/]. HAHAHAHAHA.... no good exclusives... damn you made me laugh really hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_U_games[/quote]

HAHAHAHAHA

you do realise alot of those you could probably get on current systms? or...THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN OUT FOR MONTHS

its only good for somone who has been gaming undera a rock and might want to catch up on those titles they missed

 

[FantomOmega]

Well to be fair, Nintendo will be the only console I will even bother buying unless Sony has a new Metal Gear game. Otherwise I would stick to just PC games entirely.

MGS 5 got officially announced today by Kojima himself. what are the odds?
I guess the Wii is outta luck then?

 

[FantomOmega]

It sees the Wii U as the perfect add-on to that style of living; the ideal second console in a core gaming household.

The ideal second console? That's a defeatist attitude.

If they really want me to start to play that then give me a more ergonomic controller, and not a stupid tablet. It looks neat to begin but not comfortable for the longer stretches of gaming.

Actually Nintendo said during E3 that there will be a "standard" controller for (hardcore) gaming (It looks like a Xbox 360 controller knockoff but with the Dpad and Left analog positions SWITCHED) which sorta makes the tablet controller redundant