With Nintendo Direct over and the Year of Luigi beginning, I believe there is a lot to look forward to in the coming months that lead up to E3. Clearly Luigi is the star, but Luigi fans are the true winners. However, Nintendo likely has much more to offer before the big show in June.
What did you think of the show and what do you look forward to most? Is your body ready for the Year of Luigi?
You can find every Nintendo Direct broadcast for every region after the break.
On November 16th, Reggie Fils-Aime will make another appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to talk about the Wii U before the console launches a couple of days later. I’d say it’s safe to expect we’ll see more of the Nintendo Land titles demonstrated.
Reggie Fils-Aime, the President of Nintendo of America believes that Miiverse — the Wii U’s response to the rise of social networks — is the systems “killer application”. He also believes that it will “pleasantly surprise people”. For the moment though, I’ll remain cautiously optimistic. Miiverse seems like an interesting layer in the operating system, but I’m not so sure it deserves the “killer application” title. Nothing about it seems to stand-out that much to me. I’m more than willing to be proven wrong though.
(via allthingsd.com)
Reggie Fils-Aime, the President of Nintendo of America, has made it clear that they “don’t believe in pricing a product and then having to reduce the price some short time later”, and:
When we had to do that for 3DS, it was a very painful proposition for us. And what we did with the Wii at $249 and leaving it there for, I think, about three and a half years is very much consistent with our pricing philosophy.
It’s probably an uphill battle to regain the confidence of some early adopters, but I think there’s more to lose from a price drop than they could ever gain. Any price drop within a year or so of the Wii U coming out would just be encouraging people once again to hold-off from buying a system on day one.
(via gamesindustry.biz)
At the moment, there’s no announced games that support the use of two GamePads. You won’t even be able to purchase a second GamePad from retailers. Reggie Fils-Aime has assured people, however, that:
The reason you don’t see games with two GamePads [at this event] is the technical ability to make two GamePads work was delivered to publishers after they started this current round of development.
(This is actually consistent with a rumour we heard a long while ago.)
And:
…you’ll see those two GamePad experiences at a later date; when those games are coming, that’s when we’ll make a separate GamePad available.
Of course, this won’t make the GamePads any less expensive. That might restrict the amount of two-GamePad experiences we see.
(via gamesindustry.biz)
Kotaku asked Reggie Fils-Aime — the President of Nintendo of America — the following question:
Will GameCube games ever come to the Virtual Console?
This is what he said in response:
That is a great question. And personally I would love for that to happen, but we have nothing to announce right now.
And this feels like foreshadowing to me. It might not be announced for a while, but I think it’ll happen.
(via kotaku.com)
When asked about connecting with friends via the Wii U, Reggie Fils-Aime said:
We’ve heard the community feedback on friend codes and we’re making it dramatically easier for you to connect with your friends.
But I wish they’d just copy Xbox Live. An account system with gamer-tags has been working well for the past few years. “Dramatically easier” could mean something in that vein, but Reggie’s inability to share anything too specific has me wondering if we’re in for another console cycle of lacklustre online experiences.
(via kotaku.com)