Dear Reader:
You are viewing
a story from GN Version 4.0.
Time may not have been kind to formatting, integrity of links, images, information, etc.
Reggie explains why the Wii U won't sit and collect dust
"...it is a fair statement that typically in the latter part of a system's lifestyle, there are fewer games that come out, that is an absolutely true statement. But I think you have to put this in complete perspective. If you look at this current generation and you look at the top five [best-]selling games, four of those five are Nintendo-published first-party games playing only on the Wii.
So we've got a pretty good legacy that if you buy our hardware, that there are gonna be some great games for you to buy, and games that you're going to keep coming back to time and time again.
So as a consumer thinks about Wii U, asks 'Should I jump into this proposition?' Aside from the 50 games that we've talked about during the launch window, am I feeling pretty comfortable that there's gonna be a lot of great content for me to buy? Absolutely.
And the best part is that now with HD capabilities and a strong online system, third-party are gonna bring their best content to the Wii U. Because those were two key barriers that if I'm creating the latest Call of Duty experience and I'm looking to bring it to the Wii a year ago, in an SD format without a robust online experience, they made the decision not to do that.
Now with Black Ops 2, certanly we're getting the latest, best effort from [developer] Treyarch, and bringing it on our system.
...the fact is that in the Wii U we've built a lot of capability. And during the Nintendo Direct that happened last night or two nights ago, overnight Wednesday to Thursday, we showed a lot of specs information for the Wii U: the fact that it has an extremely large RAM built into the system, the fact that the discs are high-capacity [25gb] discs. And so we've got a system that, based on our review of the world and our architecture, it absolutely's gonna hold up and bring the best content from third-party for a long, long time." - Reggie Fils-Aime
This is part of a verbal tennis match between Reggie and our friend Stephen Totilo. The two go back and forth on whether the Wii has been collecting dust in its later years. Check out the full conversation here.
So we've got a pretty good legacy that if you buy our hardware, that there are gonna be some great games for you to buy, and games that you're going to keep coming back to time and time again.
So as a consumer thinks about Wii U, asks 'Should I jump into this proposition?' Aside from the 50 games that we've talked about during the launch window, am I feeling pretty comfortable that there's gonna be a lot of great content for me to buy? Absolutely.
And the best part is that now with HD capabilities and a strong online system, third-party are gonna bring their best content to the Wii U. Because those were two key barriers that if I'm creating the latest Call of Duty experience and I'm looking to bring it to the Wii a year ago, in an SD format without a robust online experience, they made the decision not to do that.
Now with Black Ops 2, certanly we're getting the latest, best effort from [developer] Treyarch, and bringing it on our system.
...the fact is that in the Wii U we've built a lot of capability. And during the Nintendo Direct that happened last night or two nights ago, overnight Wednesday to Thursday, we showed a lot of specs information for the Wii U: the fact that it has an extremely large RAM built into the system, the fact that the discs are high-capacity [25gb] discs. And so we've got a system that, based on our review of the world and our architecture, it absolutely's gonna hold up and bring the best content from third-party for a long, long time." - Reggie Fils-Aime
This is part of a verbal tennis match between Reggie and our friend Stephen Totilo. The two go back and forth on whether the Wii has been collecting dust in its later years. Check out the full conversation here.