Need for Speed: Most Wanted is coming out a few months later on Wii U, but it sounds like it’ll be worth the wait. Criterion Games is putting in a lot of effort into the game. Most Wanted will feature the best visuals across all of the console releases, and Criterion even added in a few exclusive modes.
This is kind of an anomaly. Thus far, very few third-parties have brought their ‘A game’ to Wii U development.
But Criterion seems to be a believer in what Nintendo is doing with Wii U and feels that its technology is underrated. Below you’ll find comments from various staffers on the team speaking positively about the console.
Resident Evil: Revelations’ console version has a few new elements. Among them are randomized enemy and item locations. Capcom’s Mike Lunn has confirmed the feature to GameSpot, which has been added in in hopes of making Revelations “a little bit more scarier”.
According to Lunn:
“One of the things we’ve really done to make the game a little bit more scarier the more times you play through it is by randomising the position of enemies and items and all that good stuff. So whenever I walk around this corner next time there could be a guy there. You’ll never know.”
Gamasutra is reporting (or should we say tweeting?) that cumulative three-month Wii U sales have fallen 38% versus Wii’s first three months of availability in the US. If true – which it sounds like it is at this point – Nintendo’s new console sold just 55,000 units in the country last month. NPD tracked sales for five weeks this time around as opposed to the typical four, so Wii U moved only 11,000 units per week.
55,000 systems sold isn’t even close to the Wii’s January 2007 performance. Back then, the old console moved 436,000 pieces of hardware.
This news comes hot on the heels of a poor performance in the UK. January Wii U sales were at a measly 34,000 units, according to data collected by Chart-Track.
Nintendo has opened the official Japanese Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon site. Find it here.
There are a whole bunch of clips scattered throughout the site – over 50 in fact. We’ve compiled all of the footage above – there’s well over 15 minutes of gameplay!
NPD Group has released a listing of the top ten best-selling games in the U.S. for the month of January. The results can be found below.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (360, PS3, Wii U, PC)
- Far Cry 3 (360, PS3, PC)
- Just Dance 4 (Wii, 360, PS3, Wii U)
- NBA 2k13 (360, PS3, Wii, Wii U, PSP, PC)
- Madden NFL 13 (360, PS3, Wii, PSV, Wii U)
- DmC: Devil May Cry (PS3, 360)
- Halo 4 (360)
- Assassin’s Creed 3 (360, PS3, Wii U, PC)
- Skylander Giants (Wii, 360, PS3, 3DS, Wii U)
- FIFA Soccer 13 (PS3, 360, PSV, Wii, Wii U, 3DS, PSP)
