Yesterday’s Super Smash Bros. news was highlighted by the confirmation of Mega Man’s inclusion. Obviously this took a great amount of work on the part of both Nintendo and Capcom. Mega Man is Capcom’s baby, and without their input, you wouldn’t be seeing him in the new Wii U and 3DS game.
The collaboration between Nintendo and Capcom is something that Capcom senior online/community manager Brett Elston emphasized on Twitter:
Nintendo doesn’t “care” about Mega Man more than Capcom. Those are logos. PEOPLE on both sides made SSB happen. That design is collaboration
— Brett Elston (@Brelston) June 12, 2013
Years in, I still understand the frustration. But digging to find the negative with something this positive hinders the conversation
— Brett Elston (@Brelston) June 12, 2013
Ubisoft’s two newest games, The Crew and The Division, aren’t coming to Wii U as far as we know. Still, it’s tough to knock the publisher’s support. Rayman Legends, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Watch_Dogs, and Assassin’s Creed IV are all due out before year’s end.
Tony Key, senior VP of sales and marketing at Ubisoft, recently said that the company will continue investing in the Wii U and believes it is capable of thriving on the platform.
“We did not take a big risk with all those launch titles on Wii U. [Wii U game] development isn’t expensive — some Wii U games are versions of games for other platforms, like Assassin’s Creed. And we continue to invest in that system. We have just as many titles coming on Wii U this year as we did after launch, because the system isn’t as resource-intensive to make games for it. We continue to believe that the Wii U will find its audience. We saw some good games [during Nintendo Direct this week]. We’re confident that the Wii U is a good place for us to do business, and we can make money there.”
Super Mario 3D World draws inspirations from all kinds of older Mario games. When it comes to multiplayer, the Wii U game more or less lifts the bubble mechanic from the New Super Mario Bros. releases. Players are placed in a bubble when they fall behind and are kept together with the main group.
Director Koichi Hayashida discussed Mario 3D World’s multiplayer while speaking with Eurogamer:
“I guess you could say that the one influence from New Super Mario Bros that we do feel strongly is the use of the bubble as a catch-up mechanism in multiplayer. But when we came up with this game we were actually thinking along completely different lines, and that is how to make the gameplay focused on multiplayer when you have a 3D environment, a world for people to run around in rather than just in one direction. I think that’s taking the gameplay into some very interesting and different directions.”
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will host its annual “Video Game Week” starting on Monday. Nintendo fans will be most interested in Friday’s show, where Game & Wario and Super Mario 3D World will be making appearances.
Also worth mentioning, a demo of Watch_Dogs will be shown on Wednesday. Activision will be bringing Call of Duty: Ghosts on Thursday.
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