I have to agree with Mr Metts. I too have taken issue with the 3DS touch screen. I'm glad to hear that the Wii U screen is somewhat better, but also a little dissappointed that it still has some responsiveness issues. A capacitive screen would have been really cool.

Heads up: If you got an episode that was sub-2 hours from iTunes, it's the wrong one. Delete it and do a hard pull from the feed (Shift+click) to get the one that's 2:21:52

That worked Shaymin, though it also brought back every RFN I have listed to and deleted (going back to episode 140) and for every other podcast I have.

the best version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 should be the WiiU version!?!? c'mon all of you know, the game will be developed for the 360 and then ported over to Ps3, WiiU and even Wii

ps. this comment system sucks but your podcast ROCKS!!!!

I deleted the one episode from iTunes, and then went to the iTunes store looked it up and re downloaded the single episode. i.e. the button marked "FREE".


Quirky.

@abe Theoretically the Wii version of BO2 should be the best as it's on the newest hardware of the three consoles. I agree though, it will most certainly be developed with 360 in mind and everything else second.

James is batman.

The only way any Call of Duty game becomes "the best" on WiiU is if it scores first dibs on DLC like Xbox has right now.

Which Nintendo won't do because they've already announced they "won't get in a bidding war" with other companies over 3rd party exclusivity.  So yeah, Microsoft probably has Call of Duty sewn up in perpetuity, at least until Activision inevitably kills it with all these annual releases.

Ah yes, I forgot about the DLC exclusivity.  Yeah, Xbox pretty much owns Call of Duty nowadays.  Typically CoD games sell about 8.5 million on Xbox vs. 5.5 million on PS3, so the inertia with that series is definitely on 360.  Wii U isn't going to affect that in the slightest.  You might see more Wii U owners buying into the series than in previous generations, though.

CODBLOPS2 = yawn. ;)


On a different subject, did anybody here listen to the Hip Tanaka Discover Music Project podcast with TYP?
It was the first time that I've crossed over to that show and I really recommend it, the last 2 songs alone make it worth a listen.


I was playing a frantic game of Mario Tennis Open whilst listening to the Silver Surfer NES music (not Tanaka before anybody says - just  listen to the show) and it was a perfect fit.


Just one complaint, my favourite piece of video game music was missed out: The Gameboy Tetris high score entry theme. Along with Mario Land I sincerely believe these are the best two rewards I've ever had for finishing a game/playing well.


What about you?

yeah it was a really good ep. I would love an NWR spin off of DMP focusing on videogame music like on that episode, but i doubt it would be feasable considering TYP already hosts radio trivia and seems busy enough that they get released intermittently.

Everyone's concerned that there's an overload of Mario and they're not pushing Metroid/Zelda as part of the "big 3". Except for Nintendo, the big 3 isn't Mario/Zelda/Metroid anymore - it's Mario/Pokemon/casual, based on recent sales numbers.

And since Nintendo lost money last year, they're banking on 2 of each (Wii FitU, Nintendoland, Black 2/White 2, and the two New Super Mario games) to provide a good sales boost this year and a consistent 40-50k/month for the next couple of years. Remember last July's NPDs, when NSMB DS randomly showed up in the top 10?

Also, if there's another New Super Mario Brothers for either WiiU or 3DS, and it's not radically different than the ones coming out this year, I'll eat my hat and send the picture to Guillaume for chapter art.

I never considered Metroid to be part of the Nintendo "Big Three".  It has always been the redheaded stepchild of their big franchises; they've never really known what to do with it, or how to market it.

I'd argue that they knew what to do with it, and how to market it when it came to the Metroid Prime games, and I believe Zero Mission as well on the GBA.  Prime 1 was an extremely successful game, especially considering it was on the GameCube.  I believe Primes 2 and 3 sold fairly well as well.  Unfortunately, Nintendo doesn't know how to market that franchise to the Japanese, resulting in Metroid Other M being developed to match their cultural sensibilities (and not selling to expectations just about anywhere in the world).

True, but even with Metroid Prime 2 they started to have an identity crisis by adding in the ho-hum multiplayer (because it wasn't good enough for it be simply a first-person adventure game).  I don't recall Metroid Prime 3 being marketed particularly well, either.

I have no idea how anyone could be at all impressed by New Super Mario Bros. U. I had more fun with literally every other game in Nintendo's booth. It brought nothing new to the table other than the tablet stuff, which sucked in comparison to the same style of implementation in Rayman Legends. The Coin Rush stuff in NSMB2 at least has the potential to be interesting; I saw no such glimmer of hope in the Wii U game.

I have to agree with Lindy on the subject of Metroid's advertsing, particularly with Metroid Prime 3. 


As I recall, one of the complaints that I kept hearing was that Nintendo was barely making any mention of Metroid at all in their announcements or advertisements in the months leading up to Corruption's release.  It was almost as if they were relying on Metroid's existing fanbase to buy the game, but they never really expected it do very well.  Corruption appears to have performed a little better than Echoes, but I think that the original Prime sold almost twice as many games as Echoes and Prime put together.  The biggest decline in sales appears to have been in the NA market.

Unfortunately, when Nintendo did decide to Market Metroid Prime Corruption, it was during the the era of the "Wii would like to play" guys,  where it was readily apparent that  NOA's marketing department was collectively taking heavy doses of hallucinogenic drugs.  That weird airport commercial displayed some aspects of the game, but mainly focused on what you could do with the Wiimote.  There was no context to explain what Metroid was or why it should have been interesting.

http://youtu.be/6kdAaGczvws


Contrast that with the Metroid Prime 1 commerical, which at least did a fairly excellent job of telling you what you were getting into:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewcljvJQAQA


I won't bother embedding the Metroid Prime Echoes commercial, but it was worse than Corruption's, since it barely showed the game at all.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O7fsmPGmVM

For a more egregious example of the same sin, you should check out the Canadian commercial:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVCuUkf-SO0

man i loved the original metroid prime commercial even though generally speaking nintendo has no clue what its doing in terms of marketing. The early wii era was a weird exception to that though despite that they infamously botched the metroid prime 3 commercial but the casual gamers were never going to buy that game anyways.