Wii U

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii, Wii U | 101 Comments

EA dropped its support for Wii U long ago. The publisher’s last game was Need for Speed: Most Wanted U, a title that shipped in March 2013.

EA’s chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen explained why the company is no longer creating games for Wii U during the UBS Global Technology Conference. At the end of the day, “the market is too small,” he said. This applies to Wii as well, though the limelight on that console faded long ago and support for it was expected to end with the introduction of Wii U a few years ago.

Below are Jorgensen’s comments in full:

“We don’t make games anymore for the Wii or the Wii U because the market is not big enough, the PS Vita – the Sony product – we don’t make games for that anymore because the market is too small, so it’s all about the size of the market. As one of the largest software producers we have all of the manufacturers of equipment coming to us to try to sell us on their equipment and giving us development kits to try to build software for it. So we’ll build software for various ones but we’ll really wait and see how big the market is going to be.”

While EA has moved on from Wii U, perhaps it could support NX in the future. CEO Andrew Wilson stated a couple of weeks ago that the company will “evaluate any and all opportunities” concerning Nintendo.

Source, Via

More: Blake Jorgensen, EA

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 0 comments

We give Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash one final look in the video below. Check out some of the different modes the game has to offer.

More: Camelot, Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 11 Comments

Update 2: And now it’s apparently back!

Update: Out of stock now!

Pre-orders for The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD went up on Amazon U.S. last week, but we know that those of you in Canada have been waiting on some news. Finally, reservations are up for you guys as well. You can reserve the Zelda: Twilight Princess HD bundle on Amazon Canada here.

More: Amazon, Canada, pre-order, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

Guitar Hero Live has received a discount over on Amazon and Best Buy. It was originally going for $100, but it’s now down to $70. You’ll save $30 with a purchase.

More: Amazon, Best Buy, Guitar Hero Live, sale

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 10 Comments

For our friends in Europe, we have a new deal to share pertaining to Xenoblade Chronicles X. You can pick up the game’s special edition for only €51.90 over on Amazon France. That’s €18 off the normal asking price – quite a good deal!

More: Amazon, sale, Xenoblade Chronicles X

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U, Wii U eShop | 11 Comments

This month’s EDGE review scores are as follows:

Halo 5 – 8
Guitar Hero Live – 9
Life is Strange – 8
Rise of the Tomb Raider – 8
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate – 6
Yakuza 5 – 7
Tales from the Borderlands: Season One – 8
Need for Speed – 4
Prison Architect – 8
Broforce – 8
Minecraft: Story Mode – The Order of the Stone – 6
Rodea: The Sky Soldier – 2

More: EDGE

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 3 Comments

This week’s issue of Famitsu has another update on Genei Ibun Roku #FE. The magazine introduces the Bloom Palace, and also share more about battle elements. Find the information rounded up below courtesy of DokiDokiKusoge’s translation.

– Bloom Palace is basically your home base in the game
– It’s run and managed by Chiki
– Chiki is the key visual character of a voice software
– This is where you strengthen your characters
– Can also talk to your Mirages as well
– This is an important place to them
– As your characters become better Mirage Masters, you gain the ability to use Radiant Unity
– You can then have your characters learn various abilities and skills that activate in battle
– In battle, your Mirages can transform into powerful weapons known as Carnage
– Carnage Unity is a system designed to create new Carnages
– Attack power is different for each weapon, but also element and the sorts of skills they learn
– The key to all of this is Performer power
– Performer is an energy that is gained largely through defeating enemies
– Depending on the enemy you fight, the kind of Performer that can be gained varies
– Mirages can undergo Class Changes
– The way this happens is largely the same as in FE
– You need Master Proofs
– Once you’ve gained these, you can perform class change
– Ex: Chrom going from Lord to Master Lord or Overlord
– Pegasus Knight can class change to Falcon Knight or Dragon Knight
– Social Knight can change to Paladin or Dark Knight
– Armor Knight can change to General or Berserker

Source

More: Atlus, details roundup, Genei Ibun Roku #FE

Posted on 9 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in Videos, Wii U | 3 Comments

Xenoblade Chronicles X is a deep and complex JRPG with tons of customization options available to the player. The combat and character advancement systems are no exceptions to this – you can choose from a total of 16 classes and each of those has multiple abilities (called “arts”) available to them. Check out the video below, which showcases every single art of every class:

More: Monolith Soft, Xenoblade Chronicles X

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 2 Comments

Polygon has put up the latest video in its “Devs Make Mario” series. In today’s feature, Towerfall creator Matt Thorson creates a level in the game. View it below.

More: Matt Thorson, Super Mario Maker

Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 14 Comments

COGconnected managed to obtain a copy of the North American Xenoblade Chronicles X Special Edition. Take a look at an unboxing video of the product below.

More: Monolith Soft, unboxing, Xenoblade Chronicles X