To counter-act the “WiiU has no games” argument, Nintendo seeks to remedy this by hosting a new Nintendo Direct broadcast to elaborate on and perhaps even announce some new titles for 2013.
“But Matt, when will this happen?” you ask. It’s much closer than you think! This upcoming Nintendo Direct will commence tonight. The notice given may have been little, but Nintendo are prone to drawing a crowd, not to mention that the time frame between now and showtime adds an element of excitement.
Five years ago, I couldn’t seriously picture myself engaging in as many digitally distributed games as I do now. They were all stupidly expensive, had no real benefit over the physical version and took way too long to download. Nowadays? They’re still expensive, but it’s become a more accepted method of acquiring video games, thanks to advances in internet speeds and cheaper, higher capacity hard-drives. But the more important point to factor in is that we’ve had that adjustment period, and now it’s not only just an accepted method of acquiring video games, but in some cases, it’s the norm.
But Nintendo’s sudden method to get people into switching over to digital distribution isn’t the best way to encourage this. Continue reading »
After two months of being rather quiet, Nintendo held yet another one of their Nintendo Direct broadcasts – dedicated mostly to more 3DS announcements, yet with some good nuggets of news for WiiU owners. Last time, Nintendo head Satoru Iwata declared 2013 to be the Year of Luigi, announcing Mario Golf: World Tour, Mario & Luigi Dream Team Bros, the New Super Luigi DLC for New Super Mario Bros U and in non-Luigi news, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. This time? Just as many big announcements. Continue reading »
With the Wii U upon us, it’s time we bid farewell to its predecessor, the Nintendo Wii. It won’t be remembered as fondly as previous Nintendo consoles; you won’t have people dragging their Wiis out like they do their Gamecubes or SNESes. On the contrary, it’ll be marked by certain corners of the community as Nintendo’s abandonment of the Core Gamers. For many others, it will be remembered as ‘the thing that plays Wii Sports’ or ‘the Super Smash Bros. box’
This wouldn’t be the case if things had been done differently. Continue reading »
[Update] The Australian pricing for the Wii U has come through and is as follows:
-AUD$349.95 for the Basic Package
-AUD $429.95 for the Premium Package
No word yet on the pricing of Accessories, but I wouldn’t expect them to be cheap at all… [Cloney]
[Original] The Wii U has kinda been shrouded in mystery since it was initially revealed way back at E3 2011. Sure, we knew most of the key details – but there was still plenty we needed to know about Nintendo’s leap into the current generation of hardware. Thankfully, the next few days are set to pretty much reveal the last key details about the system – starting with the final specs, as well as when it’ll be out and how much you’ll be playing able to get the damned thing. Continue reading »
Recently Nintendo held events at various EB Games stores throughout Australia. Those that rocked up to the event had the chance to not only try the new 3DSXL due for release August 23rd but also play the new Nintendo game due to be released on the 3DS systems this week, New Super Mario Bros 2. With naught to do that fine Saturday (one of the rare examples of good weather in Melbourne recently) I was in attendance and gave the game a fair bit of a whirl.
Hard to think just a matter of weeks ago was E3, wherein Nintendo pretty much shafted the 3DS in terms of news & announcements in lieu of the Wii U. Understandable, but kinda surprising that we didn’t hear too much, save for a vague announcement of “there’s going to be a seperate event later”. That seperate event happened today. Nintendo held another “Nintendo Direct” livestream, in which they revealed a 3DS revision, the 3DS LL, or as it’ll be known here, the 3DS XL. Continue reading »
Everybody knows that you never lead with your showstopper. Yet Nintendo started right away with perpetual smile machine Shigeru Miyamoto announcing Pikmin 3, a long requested title from Nintendo fans all around. Goodwill surounding Nintendo’s presser couldn’t be higher – surely the rest of the conference would be full of solid gold hits.
Yeah, about that… Continue reading »
With E3 set to officially begin tomorrow (at the ungodly hour of 2AM AEST), it was good to see Nintendo get the jump on everyone by holding its whenever the hell they feel like it livestream show “Nintendo Direct”. This time, the half hour stream was dedicated to showing off the Wii U, and some of the changes/updates Nintendo have made since we last saw it, and boy, did they make some rather interesting changes and additions. Continue reading »