{"id":49705,"date":"2013-01-24T09:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T07:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49705"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T07:51:42","slug":"nintendo-wii-u-new-games-line-up-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49705-nintendo-wii-u-new-games-line-up-wip","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Wii U new games line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has revealed plans for the Nintendo Wii U console. These include a number of games from top franchises such as Zelda and Mario, and technical enhancements to the console.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming Wii U game releases:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two Zelda Games:<\/strong> Wind Walker HD remake, and a new Zelda title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Mario game:<\/strong> The Nintendo EAD Tokyo Software Development team that created the Super Mario Galaxy games for Wii and Super Mario 3D Land for Nintendo 3DS is working on a new 3D Mario action game for Wii U. The game is scheduled to be playable at this year&#8217;s E3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mario Kart game:<\/strong> Nintendo is working on a new instalment of the hit Mario Kart franchise. This game is also planned to be playable at E3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Yoshi game:<\/strong> The team that created Kirby&#8217;s Epic Yarn is hard at work on the first console game to feature Yoshi as the main character since 1998&#8217;s Yoshi&#8217;s Story for Nintendo 64. Takashi Tezuka, director of Yoshi&#8217;s Island and Yoshi&#8217;s Story, is supervising the development of the new game, which is set in a fanciful world of yarn and textiles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wii Fit U Communities:<\/strong> New features coming to Wii Fit U include letting players create user communities on Miiverse from within the game. Community members can discuss exercises, BMI or weight changes and other health topics with other players as a way to encourage one another to reach their fitness goals. Similar functionality for other games is also planned.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0CyH8Na_Hck\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pikmin 3 Photos:<\/strong> The upcoming Pikmin 3 game includes a feature that lets players use the Wii U GamePad as a camera to share the same perspective as Pikmin and take close-up pictures of landscapes and creatures in the game and share them in Miiverse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wii Party:<\/strong> A new instalment in the Wii Party franchise is planned to launch this summer. The game features various play styles, including one that lets both players compete head-to-head using just the GamePad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RPG Mashup:<\/strong> Nintendo has begun many collaborations with outside development partners to bring the best franchises and experiences to Wii U. In one such partnership, Nintendo and Atlus are working on a collaboration that features the Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei franchises. A video trailer for the game was shown in the Nintendo Direct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Game from Monolith Soft:<\/strong> Tetsuya Takahashi and the team at Monolith Soft that worked on Xenoblade for Wii are working on a new game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on the Way:<\/strong> Iwata shared a new trailer for The Wonderful 101. That game and GAME &amp; WARIO are scheduled to launch in the first half of 2013. Iwata also showed a new video for Bayonetta 2. That game and the new Super Smash Bros. installment are still on the way, but will need more development time before details can be revealed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6GxUMMGyZcM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Virtual Console<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Virtual Console* for Wii U:<\/strong> A spring system update will add Virtual Console software to Nintendo eShop** on Wii U. The service will launch right after the spring update and will include a selection of NES and Super NES games, with Game Boy Advance games to be added in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The prices for NES and Super NES Virtual Console games for Wii U will be the same as they were for the Virtual Console on Wii. People who have already purchased the Wii version of a certain NES or Super NES Virtual Console game and transferred it to their Wii U console can buy the enhanced Wii U version of the same game for the reduced price of \u20ac0.99\u00a0 \/ \u00a30.99 for NES games and \u20ac1.49 \/ \u00a31.49 for Super NES games.<\/p>\n<p>*Virtual Console is linked to eShop which, in South Africa, only supports free downloadable content<br \/>\n** Nintendo eShop in South Africa only supports free downloadable content<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pUbgRxf3fLg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Social and System Enhancements<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Miiverse Expands to Smartphones:<\/strong> Starting this spring, people will be able to browse Miiverse from their smartphones. Initially the experience will be browser-based, but Nintendo plans to create a dedicated Miiverse app in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>System Updates:<\/strong> Two major updates are on the way, one in the spring and one in the summer (SA autumn and winter). The updates will introduce a wide range of functionality, such as Virtual Console capabilities and shortening the time it takes users to launch software or return to the menu screen.<\/p>\n<p>You catch catch the full Nintendo Direct presetation here: <a title=\"Wii U Direct - YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4MzG6lDA1A0\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U Direct &#8211; Nintendo Games 1.23.2013 &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Nintendo news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49191-top-selling-wii-u-games-in-sa.html\">Top selling Wii U games in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48987-wii-u-not-topping-wii-sales-says-nintendo.html\">Wii U not topping Wii sales says Nintendo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wii\/48845-nintendo-tvii-tops-button-riddled-remotes.html\">Nintendo TVii tops button-riddled remotes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48757-video-game-industry-stalwarts-make-their-2013-predictions.html\">Video game industry stalwarts make their 2013 predictions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo outlines its vision for Wii U, including launching Virtual Console, second-screen gaming features, and new games line-up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":48989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[1907,21,73,8537,1399],"class_list":["post-49705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nintendo","tag-core-group","tag-headline","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-direct","tag-wii-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49713,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49705\/revisions\/49713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}