Fucking Pikmin 2 update on wii? The wii isn't floundering, it dead and everybody be knowin' that. This be the most cynical barrell scrapping, udder squeezing "fuck you give yo money before i ax fo mo" move Ninty have pulled in a while. You're pushing me baby!...I'll probably still get it.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/05/14/pikmin-2-for-wii-gets-a-release-date

Is this thing out this year then? Loads of mainstream ports being 'confirmed' by Blockbuster then?? Havent heard hardly a thing from Nintendo.

Wii u needs to distance itself as much as possible from Wii and this 'fire sale' is fucking up the waters. New concept, fresh start, reinvention not retread.

Blue Swirl wrote:

I don't see what else Nintendo can really do.

Remove 'Wii' from the name, make the box not look like a chamfered Wii.

Perhaps not the game for you then, but I found it had great subtlety and strategic depth, especially if you were trying to complete the game without losing any pikmin and even more so if you were trying to do so with a 9 day deadline (or 8 in the case of Pikmin 2).  That, and it had bundles of charm to boot.

Re-releasing Pikmin 2 now is a very sound decision which should help gather momentum for the launch of Wii U Pikmin, which I'm sure will be an excellent game.  All will become clear soon enough at E3 though.

Not to be dismissive but I havent seen anything on this that really stokes my fires. To be honest, I just want good games that keep me immersed. Its been several years since touch screens and waggling shook up the gaming world and I still havent played anything with those mechanics that grabbed me.

I have realised I am the problem in this scenario. As an old dog, I dislike the new fangled tricks, with their waggling and touching and so on and so forth.

I understand Red, while the waggle mini game stuff is fun for a while when applied to a full on adventure game it is just a pain more than anything. I mean could you imagine playing Skyrim if you had to wave your arms about!!!!

Liveinadive wrote:

I understand Red, while the waggle mini game stuff is fun for a while when applied to a full on adventure game it is just a pain more than anything. I mean could you imagine playing Skyrim if you had to wave your arms about!!!!

I would be waving skyrim goodbye and playing something else.

Oh yeah. Now we're barking!

Liveinadive wrote:

I understand Red, while the waggle mini game stuff is fun for a while when applied to a full on adventure game it is just a pain more than anything. I mean could you imagine playing Skyrim if you had to wave your arms about!!!!

It works very well in Skyward Sword. One of the better aspects of it in fact.

Not that I've found waggle very useful in most cases, just a few examples where the game design works well around it. The pointer capability of the Wii remote is probably its most genuinely handy feature.

Well with the wiimote support it looks like they're not going to distance it too much, although that may be no bad thing. All those people buying the Wii that never gamed before might not even make the connection without "Wii" being used, and just dismiss it as a normal console.

Okami would actually be great on the Wii U, wouldn't mind playing that.

Ninty have been very quiet about the Wii U, but I guess it will all kick off at E3 yeah.

What would catch my interest is something that genuinely makes good use of the controller other than Zelda, which there'll be a massive wait for, and that isn't a mini/party game. I mean, Wii shovelware aside, a good wario ware etc. on the Wii U will be entertaining, but if Nintendo are actually serious about moving the medium forward rather than just bringing non gamers into the fold, then I'd like to see the control scheme used to add depth.

Best thing I can think of at the moment is something like Total War, or another strategy game, where you can plan attacks, large troop movements etc on the screen, and use it for secret messages/diplomacy with other players. And then have real time action take place on the telly. That would require multiple Wii U controller support though.

All I have seen of the screen so far is it doing stuff that can already be done but in a slightly different way.
Yeah it is cool to have an inventory on another screen or hold it up for Batman's detective stuff but that isn't revolutionary.
The launch line up so far from Ninty is O.K but there is nothing there that is a console seller really.

It's all just a bit meh at the mo. E3 will be the big showcase so I'm expecting atleast one of Mario, Zelda, F Zero, Smash Bros, Mario kart or Starfox to help sell this thing.

Remember when Nintendo made new IP?

Apart from maybe Smash Bros there's people here that won't remember or even been alive when the original versions of those came out.

Choke wrote:

It seriously needs the next installments of GTA, COD, Bioshock and Tomb Raider if Nintendo seriously expect to market it as a console for the hardcore.

Who said that they do?  The Wii managed to be astonishingly successful without ever appealing to the so-called 'hardcore'.  In fact, the secret of its success was its appeal to a market which was anything but.

grand theft auto - f zero edition.

well, i`d buy it.