Even game developers who once spurned the Wii have reversed course and are now pumping out Wii titles.
In most months in the US, Xbox 360 titles outsell Wii and PS3 titles combined.
Other Wii U titles use the gamepad in the same way, and I suspect many more will later on.
There are simply no majorly anticipated Wii U titles on the horizon, and Rayman was supposed to break that streak this spring.
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Good because it will a good time next E3 2012 to show us proper footage of the Wii-U titles, and to demonstrate what developers are actually doing, instead of what could happen.
After a year of almost no worthwhile titles for the Wii, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was finally released.
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For now, this is one of my favorite launch titles for the Wii U, and an extremely impressive port for a new system.
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All footage was actually from Xbox 360 and PS3 titles, and not actual Wii-U in game footage.
New Zelda titles, especially, should help push Wii U sales.
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To begin with, November 18 is a Sunday, and Nintendo has released their high-profile first-party titles on Sundays for several years (including the Wii and 3DS systems).
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Wii Play previously held the top spot, but some pointed to the fact that it came packaged with almost every new Wii as evidence that it might have an unfair advantage over other titles.
So long as Nintendo can continue offering up a wide variety of content, and hopefully net a wider range of third-party titles, and offer their fans unique gameplay I think the Wii U will thrive.
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Having never owned a Wii, owning a Wii U has given me access to an enormous back-catalog of titles like Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, Skyward Sword, and Monster Hunter Tri to name a few.
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Two new consoles, the handheld PlayStation Vita and the Nintendo Wii U, introduced new gameplay options with touch screen controls and cross-platform titles.
Nintendo is counting on these games and third-party titles to drive hardware sales after a somewhat disappointing launch of the new Wii U console.
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Despite being distinctively last generation in its visuals, the Wii vastly outsold its competitors due to an innovative play style and quality (first party) titles.
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Not only was the game formerly an exclusive for the Wii U, but it was to be released during a time when the console desperately needs titles to get people interested.
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Satoru Iwata believes they need to focus on the sorts of first party titles which draw people to Nintendo, and also acknowledges that the marketing for the Wii U has been abysmal.
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Michael Pachter, a video-games analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities, predicts that the Wii will spawn a whole new generation of fitness and calisthenics games, going far beyond existing titles that use dance mats or video cameras (such as the EyeToy, which works with PlayStation consoles) to detect players' actions.
While it's not certain how many new titles will be available at launch time, at least 50 games will be available for the Wii U by March, Fils-Aime said.
Nintendo's strategy partly reflected the fact that the original Wii didn't work offer high-definition images and advanced graphics, a typical selling point for action titles.
Purchasing an entirely new console comes with the hidden costs of buying games and controllers and, with the Wii, sometimes another two pieces of a controller (nunchuck and Motion Plus) in order to play all titles.
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