Wii U

Posted on 12 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

The Wii U eShop can’t be too different from what’s offered on the 3DS store, but Nintendo still hasn’t said much about it.

As the wait for actual information continues, Trine 2: Director’s Cut producer Lauri Hyvärinen says that the eShop “sounds very promising.”

“Nintendo is taking online very seriously with Wii U. Everything we have seen and heard about the Wii U eShop sounds very promising.”

Hyvärinen also discussed his hopes for the digital store. So long as it isn’t expensive to update titles and the certification process is easy, he’ll be happy.

“Our hopes as developers are quite simple: inexpensive updating and easy certification process. That’s really it. If the Wii U eShop can deliver either one of these, or even both, then we will be very happy!”

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An Additional 29 Games Are Planned Through the End of March

REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Nintendo is unleashing the largest launch-day video game lineup in its history for its new Wii U™ home console. When Wii U launches in the Americas on Nov. 18, 23 games from Nintendo and its third-party publishing partners will be ready to play as well. These include Nintendo-published games like Nintendo Land™, New Super Mario Bros.™ U, SiNG PARTY™ and NINJA GAIDEN™ 3: Razor’s Edge, as well as third-party powerhouses like ZombiU™ from Ubisoft, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II from Activision Publishing, Inc., Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two from Disney Interactive, EA SPORTS™ FIFA Soccer 13 from Electronic Arts and Scribblenauts™ Unlimited from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

“We’re making sure that Wii U owners will have great games to play from the moment they open the box, and that a steady stream of fun new games is always on the way,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America’s president and COO. “We have something for everyone, from new franchises to creative new approaches to familiar favorites.”

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When Reggie comes on for short interview segments rather than the whole show, there usually aren’t a ton of interesting revelations. Still, his appearances are always a good time, so be sure to watch GT.TV later this week!

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This comes from Tekken Tag Tournament Two (TTTT) producer Katsuhiro Harada:

“That was an an idea from our side that they approved. We also told them we wanted to use the stars for invincibility and they were OK with that. We do use some of the sound effects from Mario and remix some of the music. Some of these are things we really wanted to do, but we thought Nintendo would not be OK with. They actually were and they made it into the game as you can see. They were very cooperative. We didn’t expect to get as far as we did. There aren’t many third party games that go as far with Nintendo properties so you can see how understanding they were this time.”

Sounds like Nintendo might be opening up to a few more developers in the same way that they have with people like Capcom in the past. Though, I doubt that Namco Bandai will be developing any Zelda games anytime soon…

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I don’t think there was ever much doubt that Assassin’s Creed would go the way of Halo or Call of Duty, but just in case you were concerned that AC3 would wrap things up a bit, we’ve got some good news:

“Should they decide in the future to do other stuff, there’s plenty of room to explore, plenty of seeds that have been planted that won’t conflict. It was my intent to provide pay-off and to answer questions for those who are invested in them. It should provide a fairly lengthy ending that will also give room for answers and pay-off.” – Lead writer Corey May

It should also be noted that Corey claimed to have no knowledge of additional entries, but I think we all know how things are bound to play out. It’ll be Mass Effect all over again!

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The 3DS version of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate won’t have online play. To make up for that, the development team implemented save transfer functionality with the Wii U game. Three 3DS players and a Wii U player will be able to experience the title together through local Wi-Fi.

Monster Hunter chief Ryozo Tsujimoto told Eurogamer:

“We wanted people to play together. We know there are some people who want to play online. Unfortunately with the 3DS version you can’t do that. But we have made this feature so you can play together. You can have your friends bring their save data to your house and have a Monster Hunter party. One person will play on the big screen and three other people will play with their 3DS versions. People can continue their save data from what they had before and go back home and update their data on their Wii U.”

As for why the 3DS version doesn’t have online play, Tsujimoto explained:

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