Wii U 'important for the world' says Nintendo

How exactly will it be good for the world?  Odd.

Didn't realize that Nintendo was making a console that will cure disease and feed the hungry. Don't oversell yourself, Nintendo.

will i be able to play wii version of metroid mario n zelda without that stupid wii mote ?. too lazy to wave that thing around 

Sony is the one REHASHING THEIR GAMES 

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So outdated hardware with a few gimmicks but it'll be cheap to buy. I'm not sold at all.

I guess it's important for the world to get a system with 5+ year old hardware and a bulky tablet for a controller.  Okay...

Important for the world. How does he back his claim up? All he says is that there a lot of second screen devices in living rooms today. How is Nintendo making one in any way important for the world.

This just sounds like a thinly veiled attempt to justify launching early as something other than a business decision to have the edge over their "non-competitors".

Nintendo will fail with the Wii U system if:

1. 3rd party developers don't support it. - likely if it is far inferior to Xbox Infinity and PS4.  Hardcore gamers will follower their favorite developers, Xbox and PS4 will have so much more to offer.

2.  casual Wii gamers have not been turned into hardcore gamers. - Very likely they are happy blowing the dust off and waggling their Wiis.  

3.  There is not some cool feature we haven't heard about yet. not likely. Most of the features are out minus the hardware specs.  The cool thing about the Wii is it was a totally new way of playing games.  The Wii U not so much.

4.  Finally I will not support Wii U, If Link does not have a grown-up full voiced and totally fleshed out story with great gameplay.

Nintendo it a trusted brand. For over decades people have owned Nintendo Systems. Where others lost to Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo survived by doing their own thing. I'm confident Wii U will do good. At first I was sceptical, but what Nintendo is doing is briliant. When the Wii released, not everybody had a HDTV. Now everybody has a HDTV. The Nintendo Wii generation is growing older, becoming teenagers or young adults. They now play different games. That's what Wii U is about.

As much as i have loved my consoles i have finaly dropped the old habit i already am building my new pc for the next generation.

Oh console peasants, you're all too funny.  "I want an overpowered, locked down and overpriced POS that uses the same gimped dual analog input device that was designed over a decade ago for 3D platformers so I can play my super realistik modern military first persan shooturz in HaychDee!"

If you're choosing shiny graphics over gameplay as the most important aspect in your gaming experience then you've truly missed the point of video GAMES.  In 5 to 10 years a console's graphics are going to be lacking no matter how much tech you cram into the box, the same is not true of the gameplay and as far as I can tell, the dual analog controller's days are numbered.  There are only so many gameplay opportunities with two sticks, eight buttons, a d-pad and two triggers and I'd say everything that can be done with a dual analog controller has been done years ago.

I'm personally getting sick of people using the "If people are focusing on graphics, then they are hopeless" line.....Just drop it cause you sound like an old excuse carelessly wrapped with what you hope to appear as genuine intent....

Yes, we want better graphics, smoother frame rates, and the best tech features first, and then second comes game play and the rest.....So we want it all.

How about I use your concept against you? here goes:

- Why don't you just settle for manually powered windows in cars?

- What's your need for climate control systems in our modern homes today? Why not simply use a fan?

- Why do you use ATM machines? Simply go withdraw your amount from the teller...

WHY u ask? Simple: This is what advancing and the future is about.

Same applies to graphics, and the gaming scene as a whole.

Give anyone the best game in the old days and let em play it in 8 - 6 - 32 bit mode....They simply will not, and not cause they are "snobs", but because we are used to new and modern standards.

Hence remakes these days of classic titles in HD form (which is not enough if you ask me, they should make them again from scratch using new tech and revised designs).

So please, don't use that argument anymore. It doesn't a lick of sense.

...When it comes to gaming, when selling at 300$ for a lower / outdated / trivial form of entertainment, it doesn't replace that of the state of the art / most advanced form of entertainment.

Heck, people might save a good 300$ - 400$ on the console, but in the long run, the price difference does not make up for the console's shortcomings in comparison to its competitors..

Briefly put, Nintendo's digging its own grave in the long run.

Differentiation is all good and applaud-able, but that's no long term strategy to tackle competition, and the core way to do so is via superior or matching tech.

How hard is it for either Sony or Microsoft to come up with something to match the Wii U in essence? if the Wii U gets any reception at all that is....Probably not hard at all.

As a company, and a vision for its self, Nintendo's spelling its doom.

Once you settle for a "Just make enough to survive" attitude in any business, expect a short if not deteriorating life span.

They'll probably end up like SEGA, selling its intellectual rights, and focusing its efforts on software development.

But he is right. When Nintendo is able to sell this at $300 while PS4 and Xbox 720 come at $600-$700, Nintendo will win anyway.

My problem is not the hardware but the software. The line-up has gotten worse and worse since... well since the NES! I think the last great Nintendo console was Gamecube. End of story. It wasn't so big because Nintendo failed to jump on the Online multiplayer boat and they sold it in a childish purple color. If they got down the online-MP and sold the black Gamecube at launch instead, things would have been a lot different IMO.

I must not be part of this world.  Interesting.

I don't think Wii U is necessarily important for the world, but it is significantly important to Nintendo. It represents their first jump into HD gaming, after sitting it out last gen. At the same time, they have to prove that Wii U isn't going to get left behind with next gen 3rd party games and can have the same, if not better, experiences found on its competitor's systems. Nintendo created a challenge for itself with this past generation, and Wii U has to overcome the negative perception of the brand.

Being the first out the gates is extremely important, but so is sustaining the lead. When the Wii came out it was totally different from any consoles we've seen. That ingenuity was enough to make a clean break from the PS3 and 360. However as the years passed, the games just weren't just up to par. I saw a lot more bargain basement games from the Wii library than the 360 and PS3. Eventually people did start to get bored... I would like to see Nintend embrace more 3rd party developers with AAA releases than relying on their inhouse development team to carry them.

Nintendo has had their day. Now they completely suck and they just need to step down. Every product gets increasingly worse and more childish.

I clicked on this article because I wanted to know HOW the Wii U is "important for the world" according to Nintendo. Umm..So, I read the article. HOW is the Wii U "important for the world"? Both Sony and Microsoft also want to differentiate their consoles. That's not how you're gonna "impact the world," Nintendo. Just one or two points to support the argument would've sufficed.

"We have not changed our strategy. In other words, we just do not care what kind of 'more beef' console Microsoft and Sony might produce in 2013," he said. "Our focus is on how we can make our new console more GIMMICKY than [others]."

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If people are still concerned about graphics you are hopeless. Haven't we enjoyed 8-bit games or highly pixelated engines? Graphics aren't going to make a game great, ingenuity and functionality will. With that being said, I think Nintendo  is going to be able to do something Sony/Microsoft can't do with their systems... Doesn't mean Nintendo won't bow out of hardware after this generation though.

Fallout sucks

While being a horrible system, I don't think the Wii was ever a lack of trying as much as a bad idea in general. Graphics aside the Wii just doesn't have enough power it seems for the ideas it tried to tackle. Motion delay was a huge fault in the Wii, and the Wii Motion Plus didn't change that (it just made your flails more accurate, not real time). With the Wii U I think the biggest mistake is a bad concept. I just don't like the touch screen controller. It has nothing to do with tablets or smartphones or anything like that, I just don't like it. I hope that it turns out to be great but I don't think its going to as enjoyable as the next Xbox or Playstation. My hopes are high, my expectations are low.

Wii U will have better graphics than current gen

Please, the Wii U is only up to current generation specs - so technically, Nintendo will finally be releasing a current generation console. Shame it will be all gimmick and little substance just like the Wii.

The last decent console Nintendo released was the Gamecube.

I'm willing to bet that launch window Wii U games are going to take the most advantage of it's controller, and as time passes by it is going to be used for mediocre and uncreative (if that's a word) uses.

The Wii U isn't next-gen. Nintendo have only just managed to break into CURRENT-gen with the Wii U.

The real reason they don't "care" about the competition is because they CAN'T compete, in terms of both hardware AND software. Nintendo rely on gimmicks to sell their product. Fortunately for them, consumers buy into these gimmicks.

If it's anything like the Wii, then I'll pass. I will not sit here and say that the Wii didn't have its moments, but the overall quality of games was sorely lacking compared to X Box and PS3.

I think it's pretty much agreed upon that Nintendo really needs to capture more 3rd party support in order to survive this time around (something they are working hard on).  The problem that they face with that is that it costs money to develop games... lots of it and while they may (or may not) have to ability to offer something different than the other current-gen consoles, developers aren't going to be so keen on creating a game that they will release on the 360 and PS3 but then have to sink more time and money into in order to create additional material/content for the Wii U.  Devs only have so many resources and time to make a game and the industry just isn't doing that well, so as a consequence I predict that too many 3rd party games will have throw-away additions on Nintendo's console just to stay within deadlines and budgets, instead of the killer material and possibilities that I'm sure the Wii U will be able to provide.  The only way to avoid this is to go old school and have 3rd party devs create games exclusively for the Wii U and plenty of the big boys already said they'll never go back to being console specific again.  It just doesn't make sense financially for a lot of them, which is really what it all boils down to in the end.

There are different ways for companies to stay relevant against its competition.  Differentiation is one of them.  Nintendo may be smart in taking this approach because it clearly cannot compete graphics-wise with the XBOX or Playstation.  To some degree, it worked in their favor with the Wii.  Without the Wii, I doubt there would be a Kinect or, probably more directly, a Playstation Move.  I think it's wise of Nintendo to acknowledge that they cannot compete in that way with Microsoft and Sony.

Now, let's just hope it's worth buying!

Besides Mr. Iwata, everyone knows the Wii U is just the Gamecube to GBA link cable thing all over again.

That feature sucked because it had no real practical use. Oh look, I can have a map on my GBA! Or...I can just push pause and avoid having to look back and forth at different screens.

It was a bad idea in the Gamecube days and I'm not convinced it will be any better now. Kind of like 3D in the 80s and today, just a fad.