Poll: After today's big reveal, are you getting a Wii U?

[Eddie the head]

To be fair, most of the negativity is based on outdated/false info, so it's just people being a bit ignorant. "Herp derp, the technology is last gen (no it isn't), it's just more motion controll gimmickry (except it has a proper controller with all the buttons we'd normally expect), it's just more Mario and Zelda (except Nintendo is also working on and publishing Pikmin, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, the new 'X' project, amongst others)..."

You can't realy do a lot to change the mind of people who want to hate Nintendo. It's the 'in' thing right now. It doesn't matter that the Wii U now has more 'hardcore' exclusives than the 360 this year, by around a factor of five, as far as many people are concerned, Nintendo are the casual-kiddy crowd. If a SMT-Fire Emblem crossover and new Monolith Soft RPG won't convince them otherwise, I doubt there's much you or I can say.

I am going to go ahead and disagree with this. I don't see much hate here sure there is some. But 2/3's of the replays have been about how they just don't care. Apathy is not hatred. I don't care about the WiiU or the games on it, that dose not mean that I harbor some deep seeded hatred for Nentendo. No it just means I don't care. Nothing about them engages me. I don't hate them I just could't care less.

 

[drisky]

The games look good but its hard to tell how they will be when they come out. Also I still don't feel the need to buy a new console, their is still a list of ps2 games I want to get too, never mind 2 generations removed form it. I need a new handheld so I might get a 3ds or Vita soon, but I have no interest in any home counsels right now. I mean I still need to finish rayman origins, then get bayonetta, Xenoblade, the frist two pikmans, and kirbys epic yarn. I have plenty of old games that I want to play and it will be years before I'm looking for a new system.

 

[Viking Incognito]

I might get one if I didn't live in a boarding school

 

[Kroxile]

What big reveal? It's the same lineup of remakes, reboots, rehashes and ressurections as it always is. Nintendo are not even pretending to innovate anymore.

And yet millions of people still enjoy the games.

It's almost like something doesn't have to be completely original to be fun.

Or are those people all just sheep who can't have real opinions?

Keep in mind that a lot of these people who spout such drivel are the same ones who buy CoD every year.

OT: I'm already getting one for ZombiU and New Mario Bros. U. Bayonetta 2 is high on the list as well. Wind Waker HD and whatever Zelda and Metroid thats coming only solidifies the deal.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Yeah...no. Most of those games are crap except for the possibility of a few.

Xenoblade 2 (I liked the first)
Bayonetta 2 (Definitely enjoyed the first, yet very sad to see this game being a freaking Wii exclusive)
SMT X Fire Emblem (Keeping an eye on this one. Still not worth a console for but as an old fan of Fire Emblem, they better not screw it up)

The rest are either crap or just so mediocre that it's not even worth the $60 price tag. Lettle alone buying a console for.

-Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (eh...)
-Pikmin 3 (this is mostly a very subjective subject since this game is not for everybody. So I'm just going to say that it's not for me)

-Resident Evil Revelations (If you actually think Capcom is going to release a good or even decent Resident Evil game for the first time since Resident Evil 4, I feel sorry for you)
-Injustice Gods Among Us (A Mortal Kombat rip off? Chances are, a poorly done one? No thanks)
-Rayman Legends (Again, mostly subjective but I haven't gave a damn about Rayman since the PS1 version so pass)

Wind Waker HD doesn't count. I'm not going to be pathetic enough to buy an over $300, outed technology console for an HD (seriously how do you make an HD version of this game? The graphics are cartoons for Christ sake) version of Zelda. If I wanted to play Wind Waker, I'll just play on my well kept Gamecube.

Overall, not really impressed at all. The only other interesting game that will give any hope for this console besides the ones I mentioned is the new Super Smash Brothers game. If there was ONE game that could sell a console like the Wii U, it's a new Super Smash Brothers and everybody here knows it. XD

my feelings about it, not to mention all the games coming out in the next year or so will have my wallet by a death grip compared to a slight wii upgrade.

not worth it, i have so many other things i can spend 300+ dollars on for better entertainment value.

 

[Something Amyss]

Pikmin interests me, but not enough for it to be a bombshell. And I am more interested in it than most of the list.

So no, not getting a Wii U. At least, not based on this info.

 

[Windcaler]

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

That is the only game Im even remotely interested in so no I dont plan on getting a Wii U. I cant justify buying a console for a single game

 

[NightmareExpress]

Planning on it, but today has no effect on me.
9 years ago, after entirely beating Pikmin and Pikmin 2, I declared that I would buy the third.
I also have hopes for a good Zelda title. Will wait for a price slash on the console, though.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Liek Ive said before, and like Ill say now. There are 2 games I am interested in. ZombieU and Rayman. So no..I'm not buying a whole console for 2 games when I have hundreds apon hundreds of other games I can play on my PC.

 

[TehCookie]

Hell yeah I'm getting one! In a few years!

I'm patient and can wait for it and the games to go down in price before I buy them, if I really want it I'll wait til Christmas sales even though it's a year away. It's not like it's going anywhere.

 

[Blue Musician]

The only interesting one for me is Resident Evil Revelations (please take note that I'm not a Resident Evil fan, and will probably wait a while to get a copy of the game if it's proven to be worthwhile), but it's also coming to PC, so no, I'm not interested in the Wii U.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Nope, not even remotely interested in any of those games. Zombie U really hooked my interest, but from what I've read it is a pretty flawed game and even if it wasn't I'm not going to buy a console for one game (well, expect the time I bought an N64 for Goldeneye). I have a PC and that does me fine for work and games, I'm not enough of a gamer to feel the need to buy a console as well.

 

[GrimHeaper]

How many of these games allow me to use that Xbox looking controller instead? I really don't want to use that over sized game boy.

Almost all of them since they have identical button layouts.

Thanks for that, I was hoping for it.

I'm going to make sure every thing is clear before I purchase a Wii U, but I'll most likely wait till some more games are released.

Not a problem, Blunty did a rather in depth review of the system as a whole including the launch line up, the controllers, how it all felt to use, etc, that I found rather informative and helpful, here's the first part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ai0P-ui40

Should help to clear things up for you it did for me. The lack of analog triggers is bizarre but hardly a big issue when they're only really helpful for racing sims. I'm sold on it tbh, there's a bunch of games I already want and tonnes on the horizon so I'm up for it.

Oddly a lot of what people seem to dislike about the console seems to be seeping from ignorance about the hardware.

Yeah, actually this system in particular is doing much better than the game cube and Wii as far as the line up goes. Comparatively, the Wii U also has a better line up than either the Xbox 360 or ps3 had back when they were at a similar point in their launch cycle, so all in all it's probably a safe future purchase. Of course, the PS3 and 360 also hit right around the decline of the local video game rental industry and the rise of review insanity, so that probably colors some peoples opinions on the titles available.

The line up is really good for the stage in it's life with a lot of interesting games just over the horizon, honestly it's a good lineup if you ask me the PS3 and 360 had dreadful launch lineups comparitively.

It has all the shit people seem to want like the CODs and AC's of the world, two franchises I have come to lose interest in, but it has platformers. I grew up in the 90's. I like my platformers. As I've said elsewhere there's 10+ games I want already out or coming very soon, so I'll be ordering mine with haste.

But I was more referring to ignorance about the hardware itself, the controller and the options available to players. It reeks of the "let's hate Nintendo" bandwagon and I've seen an increase around The Escapist in "der it's kiddy there's no COD!" type posts, which is something I do not expect on this site. IGN or GameSpot, sure, whatever, but not The Escapist.

That's how things are on the escapist now. Anyway you are right the Ps3 and 360 did indeed have horrible launch lineups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_launch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_launch
Not that the wii's was that much better, but still. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_launch
The wiiU lineup as pretty much blown the old lineups out of the water people are just really jaded now.
http://wiiudaily.com/wii-u-games-list/

 

[GrimHeaper]

WiiU is a pretty horrible system. None of those games interest me anyway apart from Bayonetta 2, which I'm not buying a whole system for.

I'm still waiting for the original Wii to drop in price in order to play Xenoblade Chronicles.

This can't be anything but sarcasm.
The wii costs 100$.
If you want it to be cheaper good luck, but by that time Xenoblade will cost 200$ used.
It's currently $82.98 used just so you know.
Yes, Xenoblade is a highly desirable game indeed.

 

[The White Hunter]

How many of these games allow me to use that Xbox looking controller instead? I really don't want to use that over sized game boy.

Almost all of them since they have identical button layouts.

Thanks for that, I was hoping for it.

I'm going to make sure every thing is clear before I purchase a Wii U, but I'll most likely wait till some more games are released.

Not a problem, Blunty did a rather in depth review of the system as a whole including the launch line up, the controllers, how it all felt to use, etc, that I found rather informative and helpful, here's the first part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ai0P-ui40

Should help to clear things up for you it did for me. The lack of analog triggers is bizarre but hardly a big issue when they're only really helpful for racing sims. I'm sold on it tbh, there's a bunch of games I already want and tonnes on the horizon so I'm up for it.

Oddly a lot of what people seem to dislike about the console seems to be seeping from ignorance about the hardware.

Yeah, actually this system in particular is doing much better than the game cube and Wii as far as the line up goes. Comparatively, the Wii U also has a better line up than either the Xbox 360 or ps3 had back when they were at a similar point in their launch cycle, so all in all it's probably a safe future purchase. Of course, the PS3 and 360 also hit right around the decline of the local video game rental industry and the rise of review insanity, so that probably colors some peoples opinions on the titles available.

The line up is really good for the stage in it's life with a lot of interesting games just over the horizon, honestly it's a good lineup if you ask me the PS3 and 360 had dreadful launch lineups comparitively.

It has all the shit people seem to want like the CODs and AC's of the world, two franchises I have come to lose interest in, but it has platformers. I grew up in the 90's. I like my platformers. As I've said elsewhere there's 10+ games I want already out or coming very soon, so I'll be ordering mine with haste.

But I was more referring to ignorance about the hardware itself, the controller and the options available to players. It reeks of the "let's hate Nintendo" bandwagon and I've seen an increase around The Escapist in "der it's kiddy there's no COD!" type posts, which is something I do not expect on this site. IGN or GameSpot, sure, whatever, but not The Escapist.

That's how things are on the escapist now. Anyway you are right the Ps3 and 360 did indeed have horrible launch lineups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_launch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_launch
Not that the wii's was that much better, but still. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_launch
The wiiU lineup as pretty much blown the old lineups out of the water people are just really jaded now.
http://wiiudaily.com/wii-u-games-list/

Yeah the Wii U launch lineup is pretty solid, especially if you include that stupid "launch window" thing Nintendo harp on about. Peoplea re far too jaded, they're also quite ignorant, claims of no new IP's for the format.

Y'know...
Except ZombiU, The Wonderful 101 and a new RPG from the studio behind Xenoblade (it has fucking mech suits!), not to mention nobody knows what retro ware working on, could be a new IP, could be a really kick ass reboot!

 

[The White Hunter]

WiiU is a pretty horrible system. None of those games interest me anyway apart from Bayonetta 2, which I'm not buying a whole system for.

I'm still waiting for the original Wii to drop in price in order to play Xenoblade Chronicles.

This can't be anything but sarcasm.
The wii costs 100$.
If you want it to be cheaper good luck, but by that time Xenoblade will cost 200$ used.
It's currently $82.98 used just so you know.
Yes, Xenoblade is a highly desirable game indeed.

XEnoblade currently has nothing on the Metroid Prime Trilogy, I've heard that goes a fair way over $100 nowadays, just grabbed it for £40 here in the UK.

The WIi has some solid games, but if anybody hopes to pick one up cheap with those games they need to do it now, I've been prowing for stuff I've missed and a fair few games are getting expensive. Both Kirby games now command more than their original RRP, for example.

 

[GrimHeaper]

How many of these games allow me to use that Xbox looking controller instead? I really don't want to use that over sized game boy.

Almost all of them since they have identical button layouts.

Thanks for that, I was hoping for it.

I'm going to make sure every thing is clear before I purchase a Wii U, but I'll most likely wait till some more games are released.

Not a problem, Blunty did a rather in depth review of the system as a whole including the launch line up, the controllers, how it all felt to use, etc, that I found rather informative and helpful, here's the first part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Ai0P-ui40

Should help to clear things up for you it did for me. The lack of analog triggers is bizarre but hardly a big issue when they're only really helpful for racing sims. I'm sold on it tbh, there's a bunch of games I already want and tonnes on the horizon so I'm up for it.

Oddly a lot of what people seem to dislike about the console seems to be seeping from ignorance about the hardware.

Yeah, actually this system in particular is doing much better than the game cube and Wii as far as the line up goes. Comparatively, the Wii U also has a better line up than either the Xbox 360 or ps3 had back when they were at a similar point in their launch cycle, so all in all it's probably a safe future purchase. Of course, the PS3 and 360 also hit right around the decline of the local video game rental industry and the rise of review insanity, so that probably colors some peoples opinions on the titles available.

The line up is really good for the stage in it's life with a lot of interesting games just over the horizon, honestly it's a good lineup if you ask me the PS3 and 360 had dreadful launch lineups comparitively.

It has all the shit people seem to want like the CODs and AC's of the world, two franchises I have come to lose interest in, but it has platformers. I grew up in the 90's. I like my platformers. As I've said elsewhere there's 10+ games I want already out or coming very soon, so I'll be ordering mine with haste.

But I was more referring to ignorance about the hardware itself, the controller and the options available to players. It reeks of the "let's hate Nintendo" bandwagon and I've seen an increase around The Escapist in "der it's kiddy there's no COD!" type posts, which is something I do not expect on this site. IGN or GameSpot, sure, whatever, but not The Escapist.

That's how things are on the escapist now. Anyway you are right the Ps3 and 360 did indeed have horrible launch lineups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_launch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_launch
Not that the wii's was that much better, but still. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_launch
The wiiU lineup as pretty much blown the old lineups out of the water people are just really jaded now.
http://wiiudaily.com/wii-u-games-list/

Yeah the Wii U launch lineup is pretty solid, especially if you include that stupid "launch window" thing Nintendo harp on about. Peoplea re far too jaded, they're also quite ignorant, claims of no new IP's for the format.

Y'know...
Except ZombiU, The Wonderful 101 and a new RPG from the studio behind Xenoblade (it has fucking mech suits!), not to mention nobody knows what retro ware working on, could be a new IP, could be a really kick ass reboot!

The escapist has been like this for a long while.
I would say aside from ignorance there is also the "I don't want to try new things" syndrome in which most of these people saying they aren't interested in anything besides one or 2 games. Which I find as a ludicrous statement.
You would have to be a very narrow minded to say that. I mean your interests would have to be very limited.

The games look good but its hard to tell how they will be when they come out. Also I still don't feel the need to buy a new console, their is still a list of ps2 games I want to get too, never mind 2 generations removed form it. I need a new handheld so I might get a 3ds or Vita soon, but I have no interest in any home counsels right now. I mean I still need to finish rayman origins, then get bayonetta, Xenoblade, the frist two pikmans, and kirbys epic yarn. I have plenty of old games that I want to play and it will be years before I'm looking for a new system.

You'll have to get the 3ds because of ace attorney 5.
Oh and it having a large list of games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_3DS_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_Vita_games
Granted these are outdated but vita isn't getting that much support.

 

[The White Hunter]

SNIP

Yeah I've noticed it before here but it seems to be reaching fever pitch with the launch of new hardware these days, especially when it's Nintendo hardware, I can kind of understand it with the Vita, because it's a damn expensive system with not much support and some stupid systems forced in by Sony, but the 3DS and Wii U are getting a lot of great support and are relatively inexpensive things (the Wii U is a good £150 cheaper than the PS3 was at launch) with some interesting new tech open to more creative gameplay experiences.

Not to mention that a touch screen is a great thing for games when done right and combined with traditional controls, at the least it can minimise the time you waste faffing with items in menus, and at it's best it gives us games like The World Ends With You....

I want a TWEWY sequel on the Wii U now...

I'm personally fairly optimistic about next gen hardware and I do get excited for it and I'm not afraid to admit that new toys fascinate me. I still remember being blown away by Mario Kart DS back when I got my original brick DS, best Mario Kart ever for me.

Edit: The Escapist is also rampant with people who seem ready to hate things they haven't played, or have watched the cutscenes on youtube, or have played for 10 minutes in the store. That always agitates me, you can't form a reasonable and well rounded opinion of a game in 10 frigging minutes or from watching it online.

Also, 3DS games, Luigi's Mansion 2, all the other first party guff is great fun too, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is fucking brilliant!

 

[cikame]

There's a game i came a across yesterday called something something 101, that looks fun, and i'm a huge Bayonetta fan, but i also don't like anything else on that system right now.

It's worth noting the 360 launched with about 8 games i wanted to play, with the promise of about 10 more in its near future, that's why i got it.

 

[Kathinka]

so...what is this suppoed huge reveal about that i have not heard of in any way yet?