I'm waiting on a few of the Wii U games to come down in price as well. I think prices will have to come down so they can shift units.I am actually looking forward to a few Wii u games. Granted, I am a bit behind, but I should be able to get all of these for a total $60 or less very soon: ACIV, Need for Speed: MW, Lego City Undercover, and Wonderful 101.
Also interested in DKC: TF and NES Remix 2. I would be completely satisfied with all this, the games I already have, and a decent WWE game.
Not to get off Wii U topic too much. No offense, but if you knew about gold going in, you really have no one to blame but yourself. I agree it is shitty for MS to put Netflix, Amazon, F2P, etc behind a paywall and I really think Phil Spencer is going to announce they are getting rid of that at E3. It's rubbing too many F2P developers the wrong way and creates bad will with consumers, even though many of them would buy gold for MP gaming. I gladly pay the $3-4 a month because I like to play online, I like my servers to be up and secure, and to be honest, while its not much, I like getting free games from Games with Gold. Before its said, I know PS+ is better and I have that as well. Just a nice little perk.I honestly don't bother with Miiverse, I don't see the point of it since I can get whatever information I would need about a game online and can look it up in seconds on my iPod touch or iPad. Besides, the time I spend sitting on miiverse could be time that I am playing games.
MS's scam that you must pay for gold or have your console severely restricted is also getting very old right now, yes I knew about the scam when I bought the console I just didn't realize it would be restricted that much. Its especially a scam that you have to pay for gold just to access netflix on the console when you are paying a separate subscription to use netflix anyways. Anyone who pays for gold on a 360 is a chump, IMO, sorry but its a total waste of money when you can get the same thing on a PS3 or Wii U without having to pay anything. I don't even play multiplayer online games, so that makes gold even more of a waste for me, if they just let us use apps on the system I would not be here complaining now. That $35-60 fee for gold adds up quick over the years, especially when you realize you are spending money on something you could get for nothing elsewhere.
For less than the price of a year of gold assuming I didn't have another device that played netflix, amazon video etc I could easily pick one up that would let me do those things for free for life after I paid the cost of the device.
It's bad. It's really bad. Most people said it was bad last year but some folks were guessing that Nintendo was skipping the big press conference because of Sony and MS's new consoles. That's clearly not the case this year.I don't know if this is a good or bad thing, but Nintendo is skipping an E3 conference again this year:
http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-skips-e3-press-conferences-announces-nintendo-digital-event-273961.phtml?nav=mobile&mode=mobile
In theory I don't think it's a terrible way of doing things, although last year's execution was pretty bland. Hopefully they get someone other than that boring bald guy to lead it, I don't think he's actually ever played a video game in his life.
They can be there all they want but the regular media doesn't write lengthy articles on video games and they don't dedicate 30 minute blocks of airtime to it. They recap a few things and take a few sound bites from press conferences. It's foolish to think that the video game press that 5-10 million people follow is more important than the press that 330 million people follow. The core gamer is important but Nintendo doesn't have that audience.Yep, and then in a few years when E3 is no longer a thing and the other big game companies start doing their own digital press conferences people will go "wow this is so new and edgy!"
Its really not a big deal. The press blows it up to be something huge while people on messages boards just eats up what the gaming press tells them.
Nintendo is still going to be there. There will be demos and a tournament and everything. They are even doing the Best Buy demo thing again which was great last year they did it because people that cant go to E3 got a chance to demo Nintendos new games.
Really, their Nintendo Directs are all over CNN?And yet, everything that was in their direct was STILL all over all news outlets and their games were shown off. You can still take clips from their direct and show it so I don't know why you think that makes a difference at all.
The problem last year was the direct as laggy at times. But from what was said, they are going to show the direct live at an event at E3. Is there a really a difference if its a direct or they are on stage painfully trying to get through their conferences?
Honestly, a lot of the conferences were really bad last year because there is so much dead time that isnt need it and not comfortable on stage trying to talk.
Mircosofts conference was pretty bad least year. EA as well.
That's the point of E3, it's the only event non-enthusiast press (mainstream) attend. If only core gamers bought video games there would be no industry.Who the hell watches CNN for video game news? lol
So the people that dont really matter anyways?The generic casuals who think the only video games made after 1995 are Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, and Madden.
You can't attend something when you don't exist anymore.Again, Nintendo's current strategy is not working. I see no reason to believe doubling down on it will help. They're going to do a smash tournament that will get no press. Given their presence there, I wonder if they'll stop attending altogether in a few years?
To core gamers that already own their system, sure, none of it matters.It doesn't matter where they announce stuff. The only thing that matters is what they announce. If they announce that their upcoming games include a new StarFox and Metroid games and that they managed to guilt trip Capcom into making MegaMan Legends 3, it will spread regardless if it is from a press conference or a Direct.
You're confusing "casuals" that moved onto phones and tablets with the more regular gamers that buy 2 or 3 games a year, usually some sports game, a shooter like COD then maybe 1 or 2 other games. They aren't the casual market that left, they're the regular people that play games less than you do and won't upgrade their consoles early.Wait a minute... so Wii catered to casuals and so the hardcore gamers left them. But now WiiU not being at E3 is bad because they're not going to get the casuals. Got it!
This MK8 deal is pretty shitty for folks that bought the 8GB console at launch. They got a horrible deal and now probably can't even download the game they get free.If negativity had a mortal form, its name would be Blaster man.
Seriously.
I was pretty much joking with that complaint because of the post I replied to. That said, there were actually people on CAG that bought that 8GB console. It seemed really dumb at the time.That's like saying people who bought the original DS and DS Lite get screwed out of the eShop because it was introduced on the DSi and later. Not to mention that most of the people who bought the 8GB console don't get digital games anyway. Never mind that many upgraded to the 32GB console anyway. Or that the system was discontinued less than a year in partially because nobody bought the damn thing.
You're really reaching if that is your main complaint.
But then compare that to the $330 Mario Kart bundle or the Zelda WW bundle I got for $225 on Black Friday...I got an 8GB console because I didn't give a shit about all the 'virtual console' games that I still had on their respective original consoles, and I knew the 10% bonus wasn't going to be worth it for me. Besides, I'd much rather get a 1.5TB External HDD for your 8GB WiiU than spending $100 more for an extra 24GB of embedded non-removable storage.
How effective are flash drives? I know Nintendo doesn't recommend them. How are load times? I assume you're using one of the rear USB ports?Why not just plug in a flash drive if you need more storage, its not rocket science here.
I got the 8GB system because it came with skylanders and I plugged in a flash drive, no problems.
I have already preordered Mario Kart 8 so the free game sounds great to me!