A lot of people have been debating Nintendo’s decision to not hold an E3 conference this year. Our good friend Michael Pachter has given us his opinion and weighed in on Nintendo’s skipping E3 this year during his latest episode of Pach-Attack.
You can find his thoughts after the break:
It’s like Magitech armor from Final Fantasy VI, but a bit bigger and nothing like it.
Yuke’s has announced that there will be a video game tie in with the movie, Pacific Rim. The movie is available in theaters on July 12th in the US, however, no date of release has been announced for the video game.
Many people have compared the robotic voice of the movie (found in the trailer above) to the voice acting of GlaDoS from Portal and Portal 2. Unfortunately, everybody’s favourite psychotic nemesis is not in the movie.
Miyamoto, what are you plotting..?
A while ago, we showed you a picture from 4chan (seems legit) in regards to several games supposedly to be released this year for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. Many people, including myself, have brushed aside this news as fake (quite honestly, I still do), but CVG has revealed that Nintendo supposedly plans to release a new 3D Mario game for the Wii U in October.
Keep in mind that this same image from 4chan also states Super Smash Bros. 4 to be released for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U this year. I’m still not buying anything from the image until Nintendo officially announces something.
EDIT: I’d like to point out that the news is the release date for the new 3D Mario game, not that there’s a new 3D Mario game in the works, which has long been confirmed by Nintendo.
EA released the following message today in regards to the release, or indeed, lack thereof, of Madded 25n for the Wii U:
We will not be releasing a Wii U version of Madden NFL in 2013. However, we have a strong partnership with Nintendo and will continue to evaluate opportunities for delivering additional Madden NFL products for Nintendo fans in the future.
I’m tempted to just brush off this quote from EA, as many other blogs and news sites feel, simply because any support for EA now would be unheard of for the Wi U. Also, I’d like to point out that the game is being released on the 25th anniversary of the original Madden game, John Madden Football, on the Super Nintendo. Ironic.
Asda has revealed yet another price drop for the Wii U for the UK market. They are currently selling the Wii U basic bundle at £149, while the premium bundle is selling at £199. It appears the market for the Wii U in the UK isn’t too hopeful for the system; it’s almost as if the UK has unanimously decided to cut the price for the Wii U despite Nintendo standing strong for the current Wii U price.
If you still want to pick up a Wii U and are living in the UK, check out Asda for a cheap Wii U bundle while you can.
Nintendo decided to send the above message to all Wii owners of the world to push the idea that the Wii U is a totally new system from Nintendo and not just a small hardware update for the Wii. Hopefully this will clear up confusion among consumers unsure of purchasing the Wii U. This is likely the first step from Nintendo to showing the gaming community exactly why the Wii U should now be purchased.
In what ways do you feel Nintendo should make the consumer more knowledgeable about the Wii U?
Hey guys. Sorry about the week break, but I’m back for the Wii U Blog after raising $17,000 for Charity Water with The Elite Four: Charity Water. I’ll be posting more news when I get everything back to normal tomorrow morning. I’ll have much more to post tomorrow, but I likely won’t post it all in one big update.