05-18-2013, 01:07 PM
They are probably are a fair few altered stages as some of them might be just minor enough to get away with it. Mario could go through the new stages but there are probably limits preventing him from doing so like a platform being higher than he could jump.
Besides games from Nintendo (along with EA FIFA and Activision's Call of Duty, both £45) are the most expensive retail games you can get in England. I mean £50 for a Wii U game, that's $75.85 in American money retail price. You could at the very most find the game £10 cheaper (I was very lucky to get NSMBU from Morrisons at £35 when it came out) but when compared to 360 and PS3 games, it seems like daylight robbery by comparison where £30 seems to be the maximum and some often get even less. Well £40 on some bigger titles [the ones that were very hyped up like Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite or like GT6 and GTA 5 will be] and even then they get reduced in a couple of weeks. If we are talking about DLC, fair enough but it really depends on the publisher.
I'll predict about £30 for Super Luigi Bros. U in the UK and that's if you can find it in the first place. After all you are dealing with a country with the No 1. selling game on the Wii U is less than a 1000 units and some games you are lucky to even see. As an example, I heard some games (Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Amazing Spiderman, 007 Legends) only had around 12 copies in total or something sillily low like that. Also Scribblenauts Unlimited was recalled so that probably will end up being a collectors item.
Also Nintendo publishing the next 3 Sonic games seems to be an end of an era for Sega who published (and developed) the blue hedgehog from the beginning with only Infogrames and THQ filling in on the Nintendo platforms in the early 2000s for distribution purposes. Yes, I know Nintendo published the Mario & Sonic series in Japan and Sega published a Pokemon game on the Pico but it seems so wrong. Probably Sega will hopefully having more digital Sonic games on other platforms [wouldn't be surprised if there are more Sonic 4 like games or Taxman ports happen] and probably just means that they are exclusives like Sonic Colours was due to how they worded it otherwise if somehow Sonic does become an Nintendo exclusive series then the Sega I knew has gone and Castle of Illusion will be their last proper platforming game that is published and developed by them [ironically Castle of Illusion came before Sonic 1]. Well technically Sega went when the Dreamcast went but Sega now mainly does strategy games on Steam/phones and vocaloid stuff. It's not to say it is a bad thing since they are popular and good [miles better than most of 2004-2008 Sega in terms of output] but the soul has gone. The arcade soul that made them famous gone, the ambition on rising the bar gone. Still if the games end up good, it doesn't matter.
As well as Yakuza 1&2 HD going to the Wii U would also annoy Sony as well since they invested in that series and Bayonetta going there too must mean something, possible that Sega could end up being a second party to Nintendo while still owned by Sega Sammy if these Sonic games sell really well. After all Platinum Games have also gone to Nintendo. Then again Sega could have just gone to the Wii U due to the extra cost of making games on the PS4/next Xbox and wanted a cheaper option, the more logical option.
Besides games from Nintendo (along with EA FIFA and Activision's Call of Duty, both £45) are the most expensive retail games you can get in England. I mean £50 for a Wii U game, that's $75.85 in American money retail price. You could at the very most find the game £10 cheaper (I was very lucky to get NSMBU from Morrisons at £35 when it came out) but when compared to 360 and PS3 games, it seems like daylight robbery by comparison where £30 seems to be the maximum and some often get even less. Well £40 on some bigger titles [the ones that were very hyped up like Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite or like GT6 and GTA 5 will be] and even then they get reduced in a couple of weeks. If we are talking about DLC, fair enough but it really depends on the publisher.
I'll predict about £30 for Super Luigi Bros. U in the UK and that's if you can find it in the first place. After all you are dealing with a country with the No 1. selling game on the Wii U is less than a 1000 units and some games you are lucky to even see. As an example, I heard some games (Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Amazing Spiderman, 007 Legends) only had around 12 copies in total or something sillily low like that. Also Scribblenauts Unlimited was recalled so that probably will end up being a collectors item.
Also Nintendo publishing the next 3 Sonic games seems to be an end of an era for Sega who published (and developed) the blue hedgehog from the beginning with only Infogrames and THQ filling in on the Nintendo platforms in the early 2000s for distribution purposes. Yes, I know Nintendo published the Mario & Sonic series in Japan and Sega published a Pokemon game on the Pico but it seems so wrong. Probably Sega will hopefully having more digital Sonic games on other platforms [wouldn't be surprised if there are more Sonic 4 like games or Taxman ports happen] and probably just means that they are exclusives like Sonic Colours was due to how they worded it otherwise if somehow Sonic does become an Nintendo exclusive series then the Sega I knew has gone and Castle of Illusion will be their last proper platforming game that is published and developed by them [ironically Castle of Illusion came before Sonic 1]. Well technically Sega went when the Dreamcast went but Sega now mainly does strategy games on Steam/phones and vocaloid stuff. It's not to say it is a bad thing since they are popular and good [miles better than most of 2004-2008 Sega in terms of output] but the soul has gone. The arcade soul that made them famous gone, the ambition on rising the bar gone. Still if the games end up good, it doesn't matter.
As well as Yakuza 1&2 HD going to the Wii U would also annoy Sony as well since they invested in that series and Bayonetta going there too must mean something, possible that Sega could end up being a second party to Nintendo while still owned by Sega Sammy if these Sonic games sell really well. After all Platinum Games have also gone to Nintendo. Then again Sega could have just gone to the Wii U due to the extra cost of making games on the PS4/next Xbox and wanted a cheaper option, the more logical option.