General Nintendo sales/business discussion topic (previously: The Wii U Thread)

[Tornado]

"Setting our own sales"? What does that mean?

[Blue Blood]

"Setting our own sales"? What does that mean?

If they want to put a special offer on, it;s presumably much easier for them to do so than PSN, XBL and with the Wii.

If your Wii U is bricked beyond repair odds are that there's a serial number within the console's architecture that's able to let Nintendo transfer your data and account to a replacement console. It'd be similar to what Nintendo used in order to detect whether your 3DS was legible for Ambassador Programs.

This is exactly what the case is with the the DSi, and I would assume with all their other systems too. If you wanted to trade your old unit in for a new one, you'd have to get on the phone to their customer support and give them both your old and new serial number that'll be printed someone on the unit and they'll transfer it.

[Stacy]

This been posted yet?

Your Wii-U account is locked to the system you created it on.

So if anything goes wrong with your Wii-U, wave goodbye to your account. If you try and log in on another system, you get this message "This Nintendo Network ID has already been linked to another Wii U console."

Does that mean if you bought one and a year down the line you wanted to sell it you couldn't sell it because the account is hard locked to that Wii U or can you reset the account?

Got to admit that is a pretty shit move especially if you get a shit ton of DLC and say your system dies?

Edited November 19, 2012 by BW199148

[Detective Shadzter]

Video: Wii U Appears to Upscale Wii Games

http://spong.com/nib...scale-Wii-Games

[SuperLink]

Video: Wii U Appears to Upscale Wii Games

http://spong.com/nib...scale-Wii-Games

IS THIS LEGIT.

I'm gonna wait and hear more because that sounds a li'l too good to be true at this point.

[Chaos Walker]

"That's what we love about the new eShop," said Haveri. "We have the power to price our products as we please, with just some basic guidelines from the big guys. The to this is purely from Nintendos's side and they clearly see that [their] previous installments have not been up to par. We can set our own pricing and actually continuing on that by setting our own sales whenever we want. It is very close to what Apple and Steam are doing at the moment, and very indie friendly."

Oh gawd, yes. Another developer friendly system to take advantage of in the future. The game industry just keeps getting kinder and kinder to indie developers.

[Carbo]

GOOD NEWS!

Wii U transfer includes online data (MKW, Brawl, etc) so it seems like only specific titles are affected. Lostwinds is one game that can't be moved over.

Edit: Accidentally posted this in the NSMBU thread - New Yoshi's Island!

Implications of a new Yoshi's Island, more Metal Gear Solid, possibly more Metroid and Atlus localizing Soul Hackers? On top of Bayonetta 2, The Wonderful 101 and a new Smash eventually?

This is the best blunder Nintendo has ever done. GAF is comedy gold right now. Wii U console of the forever confirmed.

[SuperLink]

By the way, does anyone know if the online of Wii games is any better? Most Wii games like Brawl had really shoddy and laggy online, I just wondered if it would run better on WiiU.

[Thrippa]

Does that mean if you bought one and a year down the line you wanted to sell it you couldn't sell it because the account is hard locked to that Wii U or can you reset the account?

Got to admit that is a pretty shit move especially if you get a shit ton of DLC and say your system dies?

The account can't be easily transferred to another unit because it's linked to the current one. It's easy to remove from a unit, you just delete the data from the current unit; I did this with my DSi when I passed it on to my niece. Any account my brother may set up for her is now linked to that unit, which cannot access my account at all.

If your system dies, or you get a new one for whatever reason, Nintendo has to oversee the transfer of the account (when I investigated back when the black Wiis came out, you had to send both the old and new units in for this). Once the account is transferred anything purchased with the account can be accessed or downloaded onto the new machine, but no longer onto the old one. The current FAQ on the Support page says you can't do a Wii U to Wii U transfer at this time, so that may be added later.

Edited November 19, 2012 by Thrippa

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Implications of a new Yoshi's Island, more Metal Gear Solid, possibly more Metroid and Atlus localizing Soul Hackers? On top of Bayonetta 2, The Wonderful 101 and a new Smash eventually?

This is the best blunder Nintendo has ever done. GAF is comedy gold right now. Wii U console of the forever confirmed.

Possible new Yoshi's Island?

Yes....

Yes...

YES!!

For the love of all that is decent, please be true...

[Spooky Mulder]

The idea of the Wii U upscaling into HD excites me more than almost anything.

Can someone who picked up the system try to confirm this?

[SuperLink]

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wiiu/en_na/system_system_transfer.jsp?menu=how_to&submenu=wup-transfer-gi-data-multiple

Yay! You can transfer data from multiple Wiis, they will be merged on the WiiU! Very happy about this! Also those with hacked Wiis don't have to worry, your homebrew etc will stay on the Wii and I'm pretty sure the WiiU will not be damaged.

Also, the WiiU does not really upscale Wii games, it just has a better display because it's using HDMI rather than component. So ya it displays better, but it's not true upscaling. Still nice!

[Solkia]

The Wii can output HDMI through the USB ports iirc

[Detective Shadzter]

Destructoid's Wii U launch video

[Autosaver]

Nintendo confirms "hacking" was just a mock up left in the system.

It makes sense too considering the guy said when he tried to do anything, it wouldn't work. Also, every administrator email was the same. Finally, the game list seemed a little bit off - a majority of them were titles shown on the original miiverse sneak peak. Then again, those games could be leaks for all we know.

[Milo]

Flipnote Studio for Wii U.

....

That sounds excellent, loved the original DSi version.

[SuperLink]

Yeah I'm not sure Nintendo would put something like "metal gear solid" up there unless there was an mgs experience of some kind headed to the WiiU.. things like metroid and donkey kong perhaps less weird.

[Autosaver]

Free Wii U with purchase of twinkies...?

[Wraith]

SAMUS IS BACK?

OTHER M DIDN'T KILL HER?

OH MY GOOOOD

[Cola]

SAMUS IS BACK?

OTHER M DIDN'T KILL HER?

OH MY GOOOOD

Why would a single mediocre game kill one of Nintendo's biggest franchises

Going by that logic sonic should've been dead by the time the Saturn released

Edited November 19, 2012 by Cola

[Autosaver]

And even then, :Other M has generally favorable reviews.

[Wraith]

Why would a single mediocre game kill one of Nintendo's biggest franchises

Going by that logic sonic should've been dead by the time the Saturn released

And going by your logic we also should have had a new Starfox game a long time ago

[Dobkeratops]

Yeah I'm not sure Nintendo would put something like "metal gear solid" up there unless there was an mgs experience of some kind headed to the WiiU.. things like metroid and donkey kong perhaps less weird.

Doesn't have to be a new game. GC HD remake or as a VC title.

Or the terrible MGS3DS upgraded a bit so it can run at a stable framerate, Capcom style.

On that line of thought:

SAMUS IS BACK?

OTHER M DIDN'T KILL HER?

OH MY GOOOOD

Metroid: Other M U (HD Classic)

huehuehuehue

[Tornado]

Couldn't Metal Gear just be a port of HD Collection?

[SuperLink]

Couldn't Metal Gear just be a port of HD Collection?

Knowing Nintendo's lousy track record for the series even that would be a good thing.