Another positive Wii U article - are people finally warming up to Wii U?

Unfortunately Star Fox is commercially irrelevant like Metroid. If they do bring it back, it will definitely be a reboot that broadens the potential market for the IP.

I think the problem with Nintendo is lots of people (like me) don't really understand why people like it.

For the most part it's full of the same games rehashed every 1 - 2 years from the NES days. Seems to me it's built on nostalgia and the games don't even resemble what they originally were.

Sure you can say that for lots of games with sequels, but Nintendo takes it one step further. And more to the point the games originally were not even that great at the time, neither were the consoles. But then again the only system I owned back then was the Amiga which did not really have these sorts of games well nothing you can say was an exclusive that was system defining, the games had to stand out on their own and get recognition for being technical achievements.

I don't really see anything from Nintendo that resembles a technical achievement. Maybe that's just me, but I like to see games being pushed to the hardwares limits and new games to emerge that are new and refreshing from time to time.

@foxhound_fox:

That's fine but what they really need to bring it back to its roots. It was a great single and multiplayer game and was pretty damn fun. Didn't really like the changes they did to it on the Gamecube.

You have to play the games to understand why they aren't "rehashes" in the slightest, and are actually, usually, the pinnacle of the evolution of their respective genres at the time of their release.

And most of those comments came from idiots.

The Wii U is a decent system if it had been released 3 or 4 years ago. Nintendo made a huge mistake not offering an "HD quality console" years ago (in perhaps 2010) when the Wii fad started to fade and still made the mistake of targeting such low end hardware that offers no real appreciable advantage over the 360 and PS3. In fact it's CPU is weaker than Xenon for gaming! You can see worse slow downs in the Wii U versions of games like Assassin's Creed 3 and 4 than on 360. Nintendo could've had the first console to really support mainstream 1080p rendering instead of the 720p tradition that the Xbox One is set to continue for many games.

Im getting one for xmas as want 3d world is a good console and great that games will be £40 each instead of xbone/ps4's £55 each