Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii, Wii U | 0 comments

Shin’en boss Manfred Linzner has offered some high praise for the Wii U’s hardware.

In an interview with ONM, Linzner delivered encouraging sentiments that the console is easy to develop for and its power can be utilized properly. He said that the studio was able to easily run a fairly complex game world containing “thousands of animated objects”.

According to Linzner:

“The Wii U hardware has a great architecture and, most importantly, it is easy for developers to utilise its power. For instance, we have a very action-heavy game with literally thousands of animated objects, but had no problems rendering the complete gameworld, twice, for the Wii U controller display in two-player mode.”

Linzner later made a suggestion for Nintendo. He feels that the company should re-release Wii software for the new console in HD. These games, Linzer believes, “would look and play better than many current titles.”

“You could easily take many original Wii titles from Retro Studios or Nintendo and release them again in HD and they would look and play better than many current titles. I believe that the most important resource in game development is the developers, rather than the actual hardware.”

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It’s sad to say, but it’s unfortunately true: Ninja Gaiden 3 was one of the worst entries in the franchise. Despite the poor reception, Tecmo Koei and Team Ninja haven’t abandoned their plans to bring a new version of the game – Razor’s Edge – to Wii U.

Based on what’s been said about Razor’s Edge thus far, the mechanics are similar to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. However, there are new gameplay elements and the overall experience has been “reworked” for Wii U.

Team Ninja’s Yosuke Hayashi has stated that the studio has “listened to the feedback” from the original game and also “reexamined what the series was, what the game was, what people want.” With the Wii U edition, Hayashi said that the title “just tries to be its best”.

According to Hayashi:

“For Razor’s Edge, we listened to the feedback (from Ninja Gaiden 3) and we reexamined what the series was, what the game was, what people want. We’re going back to rethinking what the series means. The concept for the Wii U version of Razor’s Edge is for it to be its own action game, an action game that doesn’t try to be anything else. It just tries to be its best.”

Razor’s Edge must be halfway decent if Nintendo has faith in the product, right? The Big N plans to publish the title when it launches on Wii U.

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If you ask me, we need a “NBA 2K” game with Walt Frazier on the box! I know that there’s no way that’ll happen, though.

Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

Game Critics has announced the winners for its “Best of E3 2012” awards. We’re posting the Nintendo-related winners below, but all of the selections have been added to our sister site.

The original nominees were posted last week and can be accessed here.

Best Hardware/Peripheral
Wii U
(Nintendo)

Best Fighting Game
Injustice: Gods Among Us
(NetherRealm Studios/WBIE for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U)

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 0 comments

The image above comes from a recent issue of the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told the publication that the Wii U will be priced “reasonably”. Iwata additionally stated that the company will do everything its power to avoid the same mistakes made with the 3DS.

Speaking of the portable, Iwata says that Nintendo is improving costs of the system. The 3DS has become profitable once again, and the company overall should become profitable by March 2013, the end of the fiscal year.

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Even though E3 2012 has come and gone, it’s still unclear if Call of Duty: Black Ops II is in development for Wii U. Its creators have hinted at a version for Nintendo’s upcoming console, but nothing has been confirmed.

Treyarch director of communications John Rafacz remained quiet when asked about the possibility of a Wii U edition recently.

Rafacz did throw out one nugget, though. He said that “any technology that can enhance the Call of Duty experience is worth considering”.

According to Rafacz:

“Right now we’ve announced that the game is coming for 360, PS3 and PC. Announcements regarding any other SKUs just haven’t been made. When you talk about any technology that can enhance the Call of Duty experience, that’s a technology that is worth considering. There’s that core Call of Duty experience and that is what fans expects, so anything that helps advance that is worth considering.”

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Posted on 11 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, DS, News, Wii, Wii U | 0 comments

01/02. [PS3] Resident Evil 6 (Capcom, 10/04/12) – 1516 votes
02/01. [Wii] Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online (Square Enix, 08/02/12) – 1295 votes
03/03. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 (Nintendo, 06/23/12) – 946 votes
04/04. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 (Capcom, TBA) – 822 votes
05/05. [3DS] Animal Crossing: Jump Out (Nintendo, Fall 2012) – 570 votes
06/07. [PS3] Final Fantasy Versus XIII (Square Enix, TBA) – 490 votes
07/14. [PSP] Nayuta no Kiseki (Falcom, 07/26/12) – 424 votes
08/11. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo, August 2012) – 421 votes
09/06. [PS3] Yakuza 5 (Sega, December 2012) – 394 votes
10/09. [3DS] Rune Factory 4 (Marvelous AQL, 07/19/12) – 387 votes
11/23. [PS3] Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Konami, 2013) – 385 votes
12/27. [3DS] Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (Atlus, 08/30/12) – 378 votes
13/17. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey IV (Atlus, 07/05/12) – 371 votes
14/12. [PS3] 2nd Super Robot Wars OG (Namco Bandai, TBA) – 359 votes
15/19. [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (Nintendo, Holiday 2012) – 355 votes
16/15. [PS3] Robotics;Notes (5pb., 06/28/12) – 351 votes
17/16. [PS3] Persona 4 Arena (Atlus, 07/26/12) – 347 votes
18/21. [PS3] Dead or Alive 5 (Tecmo Koei, 09/27/12) – 318 votes
19/20. [PS3] The Last Remnant (Square Enix, TBA) – 304 votes
20/08. [PS3] Toki to Towa (Namco Bandai, TBA 2012) – 298 votes
21/10. [3DS] Culdcept (Nintendo, 06/28/12) – 281 votes
22/13. [3DS] Bravely Default: Flying Fairy (Square Enix, TBA 2012) – 278 votes
23/18. [PS3] The Last Guardian (SCEJ, TBA) – 242 votes
24/22. [PS3] Atelier Ayesha: Alchemist of the Ground of Dusk (Gust, 06/28/12) – 239 votes
25/28. [3DS] Fantasy Life (Level-5, TBA 2012) – 233 votes
26/24. [PSV] Soul Sacrifice (SCEJ, TBA) – 232 votes
27/26. [PSV] Hatsune Miku Project Diva F (Sega, 08/30/12) – 228 votes
28/–. [PS3] Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Namco Bandai, 09/13/12) – 179 votes
29/–. [PS3] Final Fantasy X HD (Tentative) (Square Enix, TBA) – 175 votes
30/–. [PS3] Max Payne 3 (Rockstar Games, 09/06/12) – 174 votes

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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Amazon Germany has added in a boxart image for the Wii U version of Darksiders II. The question is, will this be the final box template for the console? Is it official?

I have my doubts that the final Wii U boxart is set in stone, but it’ll probably look something similar to the image above.