Wii U Pre-Launch Discussion

Kinski · 13-09-2012 06:28PM

nitromaster wrote: »

225 pounds to ireland for the basic on Amazon UK...more along the right lines! :P
and, 264 pounds for premium:

£285 for the premium and £250 for basic there now...would have had to be in quick with that preorder. 350euro for premium over on .de, with most games 70euro. Not attractive pricing.

Edit: Actually, they're still mucking about with the prices, Premium listed as unavailable now, will be a few days yet before we know for sure I'd say.

jaydoxx · 13-09-2012 07:42PM

The Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2 and MonsterHunter 3 Ultimate. Must say the WiiU is off to a great start, better than Wii and 3DS by a country mile:D

Grumpypants · 13-09-2012 08:13PM

List of the games coming in the launch window

Publisher Title
2K Sports NBA 2K13
Activision Publishing, Inc. 007 Legends
Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
TRANSFORMERS PRIME™
Skylanders Giants™
Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013
Capcom Monster Hunter™ 3 Ultimate
Disney Interactive Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Electronic Arts Mass Effect™ 3: Special Edition
Madden NFL 13
FIFA 13
Frozenbyte Trine 2™: Director’s Cut
Gaijin Games Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT™2 Wii U Edition
TANK! TANK! TANK!™
Rise of the Guardians
Ben 10 Omniverse™
Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade
Nintendo Nintendo Land
New Super Mario Bros. U
NINJA GAIDEN 3: Razor’s Edge
SiNG PARTY
LEGO® City: Undercover
Game & Wario
SEGA Aliens™: Colonial Marines
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed™
Shin’en Nano Assault Neo
Tecmo Koei Warriors Orochi®3 Hyper
THQ Darksiders®2
Two Tribes Toki Tori 2
Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed® III
Just Dance®4
Marvel Avengers™ Battle for Earth
Rabbids® Land
Sports Connection™
Your Shape®: Fitness Evolved 2013
ZombiU™
RAYMAN® LEGENDS
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Scribblenauts™ Unlimited
Game Party Champions
Batman: Arkham City™ Armoured Edition

Mr.Saturn · 13-09-2012 08:23PM

Grumpypants wrote: »

TANK! TANK! TANK!™

So far, the only exclusive (excluding its arcade version) I'm curious in.

The tech-demo does't seem to hint at any online mode though, which is probably where this game'd yield the most fruit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIet51yyWmY

There's a four-player set-up of the arcade version in Star Amusements in Bray, if anyone wants to preview it, or has a hankering for its predecessor, Tokyo Wars.

Nollog · 13-09-2012 08:43PM

Have any retailers given a price yet?
Americans are being charged 300/350 right?
I expect the usual 1=1 conversion rate, but NoE are too chicken to give an RRP.

Grumpypants · 13-09-2012 08:57PM

UK is prices are
8GB model £210
32GB Model £250
Extra controller £104

So I would expect Euro prices of €259, €299 and €125 ish

Josey Wales · 13-09-2012 09:21PM

Grumpypants wrote: »

Extra controller £104

Wow.

I can't see myself getting a Wii U at launch but I will more than likely get one at some stage in 2013.

Grumpypants · 13-09-2012 09:31PM

Josey Wales wrote: »

Wow.

I can't see myself getting a Wii U at launch but I will more than likely get one at some stage in 2013.

That's for the extra "touch screen" controller i'm thinking the other ones will be around the 40 mark and Wii remotes work as a stop gap.

Kinski · 13-09-2012 09:32PM

Josey Wales wrote: »

Wow.

I can't see myself getting a Wii U at launch but I will more than likely get one at some stage in 2013.

Hopefully a 3DS (perhaps with CPP support) will be able to act as a second controller?

Don't know that there'll be many games utilising a two tablet set-up anyhow.

CastorTroy · 13-09-2012 10:13PM

And we're over a week before Japan.

CastorTroy · 13-09-2012 11:06PM

Only watched the European Direct now. I was impressed. If they had put on a show like that at E3 they would've stole the show.

That Nano Assault Neo reminds me of gameplay I've seen of Super Stardust HD.

Also nice impressions of Dirty Harry and Ahnuld in Lego City Undercover.

One thing I did notice though: No mention of the NFC capabilities again. Maybe closer to launch

smokingman · 14-09-2012 01:11AM

Jaziz lads that Black Ops 2 part of the yank presentation was fekin rapid!
Playing the game entirely on the U-Pad? I'll buy that for a dollah.
Playing on it while player two plays with the wiimote-nunchuk/pro controller on the TV while both of yiz playing online against other peeps? I'll buy that for long time dollah!

Getting annoyed now that I won't really be able to afford it 'til maybe xmas

...but I want me some blopsU...

ZombiU still looked good and the new trailer for Assassins Creed 3 looked pretty good too. 2d Mario can suck my goombas until he come back in a successor to N64/3dLand type Mario. A lot of the other stuff has piqued a whole load of my interest; said no smokingman ever....I really don't care for much else I've seen so far.

Now that I've got some confidence that my first person shooter urges might be met, I need a good driving sim....where's that "Project Cars" game when you need some recent WiiU footage of it after it was announced it was coming to the platform?

Josey Wales · 14-09-2012 08:26AM

There is a report on Kotaku about how the transfer of data from your Wii to the Wii U will work. Basically you need both machines connected to the internet and an SD card in the Wii U.

Sounds straight forward enough. I wonder though will Nintendo push out a firmware update for the Wii to enable the transfer. Considering how many Wii's have been soft-modded it would upset a lot of people I'd say.

cloud493 · 14-09-2012 10:11AM

I really cannot decide whether to get one now. On the one hand, I know the games I want will be coming, and I'm sure there'll be at least one thing I'd be interested in for launch, but on the other hand, I thought that about the 3DS. Think I'l wait for prices.

Star Lord · 14-09-2012 12:15PM

I'll be all over the premium, and I want NSMB U, ZombiU, Rayman Legends. Won't get all of those at launch, but we'll see...
From the launch 'window' I want 007 Legends and AC III.
Holding off on getting AC III until the Wii U version is out too will be really hard...

Buzzthebatgirl · 14-09-2012 12:57PM

If there is a launch party or midnight launch, then it's a big yes from me. Wouldn't be playing until Christmas, but it's best to pick it up early.

readyletsgo · 14-09-2012 01:04PM

So what is the story with the prices for Ireland?
I see on Amazon for the premium package its £349, on Zavvi they have it down as €400.02 or so, so will that work out to something insane like €499 here with a game?

I really want one, but again, the only thing on my mind is that, lego city is coming out on the wiiu but also on the 3DS, MHU is coming for the Wiiu and the 3DS too.

Do I actually need a WiiU?

ZombiU looks deadly! MarioU, not so sure still, love Nintendo Land, Bayonatta looks ok, couldnt get into the first one. RaymanL looks good. ACIII, yeah not too bothered.

It needs RE6 I think.

WeleaseWoderick · 14-09-2012 01:26PM

readyletsgo wrote: »

So what is the story with the prices for Ireland?
I see on Amazon for the premium package its £349, on Zavvi they have it down as €400.02 or so, so will that work out to something insane like €499 here with a game?

Amazon showing £299 now for the premium package

CastorTroy · 14-09-2012 01:33PM

The best value one on amazon would be the ZombiU bundle since, according to the listing, you get everything in the premium bundle, including Nintendoland plus ZombiU plus a Pro Controller. All for £329.

Will also wait for the price war and matching to begin like the 3DS. If it drops below £200 for the premium or at most £250 for the ZombiU bundle, I'll get one at launch

Star Lord · 14-09-2012 01:42PM

Does anyone know what Amazon are like for delivering consoles? Would it be delivered for launch, or just dispatched then?

14-09-2012 02:13PM

CastorTroy wrote: »

The best value one on amazon would be the ZombiU bundle since, according to the listing, you get everything in the premium bundle, including Nintendoland plus ZombiU plus a Pro Controller. All for £329.

Will also wait for the price war and matching to begin like the 3DS. If it drops below £200 for the premium or at most £250 for the ZombiU bundle, I'll get one at launch

yup give to two weeks i bet amazon will be making bundles just like vita 3ds etc

steve_r · 14-09-2012 03:50PM

So I read about Nintendo's TVii functions on this link:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33199_7-57512253-221/nintendo-tvii-tries-to-succeed-where-google-tv-has-failed/

How do you guys think this would work over here? Would it be a flyer at all?

Deano7788 · 14-09-2012 03:50PM

CastorTroy wrote: »

The best value one on amazon would be the ZombiU bundle since, according to the listing, you get everything in the premium bundle, including Nintendoland plus ZombiU plus a Pro Controller. All for £329.

Will also wait for the price war and matching to begin like the 3DS. If it drops below £200 for the premium or at most £250 for the ZombiU bundle, I'll get one at launch

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/42003/zombiu-wii-u-premium-pack-doesnt-include-nintendo-land/

Actually it seems that ZombiU and the controller are instead of Nintendoland.

CastorTroy · 14-09-2012 03:57PM

Deano7788 wrote: »

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/42003/zombiu-wii-u-premium-pack-doesnt-include-nintendo-land/

Actually it seems that ZombiU and the controller are instead of Nintendoland.

Still decent value. So ZombiU replaces Nintendoland and the controller is free? Or am I wrong?
Sorry, can't access that site from work. Wonder why work would block sites that could limit my productivity.

CastorTroy · 14-09-2012 03:59PM

Netflix, RTE Player and youtube maybe, but think that would be it. Unless they convince Sky to let them in on the Sky Plus

Deano7788 · 14-09-2012 03:59PM

Smyths have their prices up:

http://www.toys.ie/Wii-U-Console-White-!117560-prd.aspx

Basic model is €320.

http://www.toys.ie/Wii-U-Console--Black-Premium-Pack--Nintendoland-!125012-prd.aspx

Premium is €380.

http://www.toys.ie/Wii-U-Console--Black-Premium-Pack--ZombiU-!125594-prd.aspx

ZombiU pack (apparently doesn't include Nintendoland:() is €420

Deano7788 · 14-09-2012 04:00PM

CastorTroy wrote: »

Still decent value. So ZombiU replaces Nintendoland and the controller is free? Or am I wrong?
Sorry, can't access that site from work. Wonder why work would block sites that could limit my productivity.

Well Smyths are charging €40 extra for the ZombiU pack anyway

nitromaster · 14-09-2012 04:02PM

Deano7788 wrote: »

Smyths have their prices up:

http://www.toys.ie/Wii-U-Console-White-!117560-prd.aspx

Basic model is €320.

http://www.toys.ie/Wii-U-Console--Black-Premium-Pack--Nintendoland-!125012-prd.aspx

Premium is €380.

http://www.toys.ie/Wii-U-Console--Black-Premium-Pack--ZombiU-!125594-prd.aspx

ZombiU pack (apparently doesn't include Nintendoland:() is €420

Ouch. the pre-order i got in at Amazon for 270 pounds for the premium is looking quite tempting right now! :pac:
(a few got a 200 pounds price...so lucky if that's honoured!)

nitromaster · 14-09-2012 04:37PM

I'm in for the premium system, New Super Mario Bros, Rayman, probably ZombiU, probably everything on the eShop, and i'll see about other games yet

Princess Peach · 14-09-2012 05:01PM

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

I'll be all over the premium, and I want NSMB U, ZombiU, Rayman Legends. Won't get all of those at launch, but we'll see...
From the launch 'window' I want 007 Legends and AC III.
Holding off on getting AC III until the Wii U version is out too will be really hard...

Also Just Dance 4

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