Adam Tyner

Nintendo posted their updated release schedule.

Mario Kart 8 - 5/30/14
Super Smash Bros. U - Winter 2014
Bayonetta 2 - 2014
X - 2014
Hyrule Warriors - 2014
Yarn Yoshi - TBD
Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem - TBD
Zelda U - TBD

So, yeah...! X is slated for 2014 in the U.S. (I was expecting a localized version to creep somewhere into 2015.)

Gizmo

I have no idea what X is.

Adam Tyner

Basically a Nintendo version of Skylanders:



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Keeping up with the Q&A from the investor meeting. They're developing new hardware, as you'd expect them to, but it sounds like they're planning on riding out the Wii U.

Music

NFP = New Fucking Plan!

but will probably be Nintendo Figure Play

fumanstan

Nintendo Finger Play?

Michael Corvin

New Fucking Pokemon

DVDChris

Interesting. Nintendo Free Play?

For those with the 32GB Wii U, how quickly did you fill up your storage. I saw Groupon has the Skylanders Wii U console bundle for 215 with a $25 credit.

bippitty

I read somewhere that it was Nintendo Figurine Platform.

The Questyen

I've got 30-40 downloadable & Virtual Console games on mine and I'm not close to being filled up yet.

Adam Tyner

By and large, the games are pretty tiny. Super Mario 3D World is only 1.7 gigs (!), Wind Waker HD is 2.6 gigs, and Pikmin 3 is 3.9 gigs. That's if you download 'em too; even less if you buy physical copies. I'd imagine a lot of the indie stuff is measured in hundreds of megs rather than gigs.

Gizmo

Buy an external hard drive and forget about it.

DVDChris

Yeah was thinking of getting an external HD. 32GB seems so small to me, so I could save the money for the HD.

Gizmo

External HDDs are pretty cheap. I think a 320GB or 500GB can be had for like $40-$50. I'd go that route over a 32GB if you don't care about the Black color.

Plus you can sell the special Skylander and probably make enough to buy the external drive.

Adam Tyner

Mazje

I'm betting this turns out to be basically Skylanders, reskinned.

However, how cool would it be if they designed, say, a complete Kirby game. The usual stuff you find in a Kirby game, gamplay, characters, etc. You can play it through and never even know about the NFP stuff. However, if you have, say, Luigi, you can play through the game as Luigi, with whatever benefits his character has.

Luigi's Mansion, but now you're Link.

Legend of Zelda, but now you're Samus. And you can switch at any time and play as Princess Peach.

If they did something that wide-reaching, it would be more than just a gimmick/ripoff. It would be pretty revolutionary.

However, I'm betting it's a Mario Party/NintendoLand series of games with toys.

PerryD

I have each of these games along with a 3.5GB Wii Fit U, and I am passing on getting Donkey Kong Country since at nearly 12GB, it would fill up the remaining space on my 32GB model. Mario Kart will be reasonable size at around 5GB. At some point, probably in the fall, there will be enough games that I want or sales that I will participate in, that will require me to add an external drive, but I would like to hold off as long as I can, just to distribute the already overpriced Wii U system cost.

Remember that the 32GB only has 26GB usable, I think the 8GB only has around 3GB usable space, so no digital Pikmin 3 without the external drive.

mattysemo247

The funny thing about Nintendo Skylander ripoff thing, is that Nintendo ended up passing on an exclusivity deal for Skylanders in the first place. They don't seem to be making the best business decisions lately.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/rep.../1100-6419051/

mhg83

For the extrnal HD; Do you still need to have one that plugs into the wall? Or can you now use a USB powered one?

fujishig

Why revolutionary? It's still coding things into the game but restricting access to them unless you buy the DLC/statue/whatever. What's stopping them from doing that now?

I still can't believe it took them this long to do this, and also that they didn't start with Pokemon. My daughter, who is heavily into Skylanders and recently into Pokemon, would love it. And that Rumble Blast game with the Gamestop exclusive figures was a poor substitute. Heck if they did Animal Crossing figures that came into the game, I'd buy them.

Heck, how is Skylanders not even out in Japan? You'd think it would sell pretty well...

Anubis2005X

I've only used a USB powered one and it has worked fine...

Adam Tyner

We won't know how revolutionary (or not) it is until E3. It has the potential to do some pretty creative things, though.

For instance, let's say Luigi is always available as a player in Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart, no matter if you have the figure or not. If you do really well in Smash Bros. and save your Luigi data to that figure, maybe Luigi could start Mario Kart with better stats. That sort of thing...play in one game influencing another...enhancing rather than paid unlocking.

Will they do that? Probably not, but let's be optimistic!

fumanstan

Mario Kart 8 reviews are all really good.

A few -

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/15/567...8-wii-u-review

http://kotaku.com/mario-kart-8-the-k...iew-1576700883

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/05/15/ma...er-conversion/

Metacritic at 89 right now. http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/mario-kart-8

chess

I don't know about all this NFP bullshit, but Mario Kart looks kind of amazing.

Do want!

How do they make me want to buy the same stuff so many times?

mhg83

I had a blast playing the Wii version. A free game sweetens the pot. Gonna get Windwaker. Is the online for the Wii version still up?

chess

Oh man, it's got that Galaxy music. Hnng.

I feel my credit card slipping out. Excuses are already being made. It's totally for my kid.