pls pls pls gimme a rundown of what is so fucking new of wii u. becasue i dont get it. so far it looks like it will have some pseudo hardcore titles. and that was fucking all. i dont even know what thw  screen in the controller does.

let's gain a little perspective here-

say you like nintendo. you know.. you like mario and shit. zelda. they're good games. you like good games. you like deep games. you like challenging games. you bought a wii... and you got kind of screwed by nintendo. seemed like they didn't really -care- about you. see.. you were missing out. you missed the good games unless you had a 360 or a ps3. unless nintendo showed you something, you were just gonna leave.

well. nintendo just showed you something.

furthermore- nintendo just showed your mom something. she wants her kids to be happy. she wants her kids to spend more time in the 'family' room. well, now her kids can play their games in there without disturbing anybody else. and her kids can still play games with her. and her older kids can still play good games. her older kids might even go 'yeah, you should get a wii u. it'd probably be best for the whole house.'

maybe /you/ don't care about wii u, and maybe a good chunk of the market doesn't.

but a /whole/ lot of the market is paying attention now. if nintendo follows through on this, they've got a winning strategy.

What are microsoft and sony trying to do? appeal to everybody. addons, man. things you have to go out and buy. plus, they're in danger of doing what nintendo kind of did. introducing a whole bunch of shit you didn't even really want, and telling you that you've got to play games with it. they're trying to appeal to everybody, and sony (at least) seems kind of screwed. the 360 looks like it's setting up to be your home 'everything' center, and the ps3.. is getting hacked.

so microsoft's presser.. showed a whole lot of kinect. core gamers don't like that. sony's presser.. I don't even remember. I remember a cheap 3dtv. woohoo. I don't want a 3dtv. nintendo's presser? damn.

well the "new controller" is certainly interesting.

So far we're getting just about nothing that we didn't already know.

Also true.

CAVE STORY 3D

games lookin good otherwise tho

HOLY SHIT GUISE LUIGIS MANSION

Was the original really that great?

Man- Kid Icarus Uprising looks pretty freaking sweet.

Link's Awakening will be available for the E-shop by the end of the day. Game-Boy color edition.

Oh snap, Four-Swords adventures is coming to WiiWare for free.

Wait - I think Four-swords is for Dsi free. not wiiware. I could be wrong, though.

The problem is that those setting offer no new gameplay or true noticeable improvement too (bulletstorm? scoring + throwback badasserie of old shooter?), there is less risk in the derivative FPS than in a single nintendo core franchise. What was the latest leap in fps?

Mario galaxy is a bit more than mario 64 rip off (unlike sunshine which had been mock for that), it plays entirely differently (full exploration of gravity setting), it's more like the call of duty of mario games (linear with some big variation of gameplay aesthetics ie less labyrinth). Call of duty used to be innovative when introduce the first time (ironically for going away with the badass hero and reaching a more human frailty level).

Zelda still need a shack up.

agreed on every point.

[8:32:49 PM] Glukoms: jack tretton doesnt play games
[8:33:02 PM] Sorario: the only game he looks like plays is "eat the cake"
[8:33:06 PM] DavidCaruso: uh why would business executives pl - HAHAHAHA

Comedic gold.

Cheap suspense whores.

Intro video. For future reference, they might want to go a little easier on the Movie tie-in games.

On snap, was that a quick clip of machinarium that I saw?

yup yup. there was some machinarium

-ohgodhejustsaid90minutes.

geez.

this had better be good.

So is it just me, or are they late?

Well, that's it for Ubisoft. They had some decent content, even if their actual presentation was...annoying. I'm LOVING Rayman, definitely bumped near the top of my must-have list. I was seeing a decent amount of appealing gameplay. Far Cry 3 looks like it could be a good experience, even if some of the writing and voice acting was grating.

So far I'm giving the edge to EA.

Whoof. Got an hour break until Sony is up. That one's going to be pretty big. I'll take the opportunity to actually get some work done.

Rayman was absolutely excellent. It represented a lot of what video games ought to be, in my opinion.

Listening to some seal of quality- "Fate Patterns"

Very good chipstuff - http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/2970/seal-of-quality-fate-patterns/