Friday, September 2, 2016

Skyward Sword on the Wii U eShop

This has been released yesterday after the Nintendo Direct. Nothing special, but it should confirm that we're not seeing Skyward Sword HD any time soon. Not that anyone would expect this right now. I wonder, how this game will get ported to future systems, but maybe the rumored attachable controller parts of the NX also support motion controls. We'll see. A Skyward Sword HD will be easy to make concerning the graphics, you just have to scale them up and it will look great, but the controls might be a real obstacle.

Earlier I speculated about a potential Skyward Sword Month, where we get both the game on eShop and a Skyward Sword Picross at the same time, but that's probably off the table as well. If we're really getting a Skyward Sword Picross (or another Zelda Picross in general), the it probably will happen after the Twilight Princess Picross goes away on October 1st.

The latest Nintendo Direct was rather disappointing overall, by the way. And I'm not only talking about the "30th Anniversary" of The Legend of Zelda, but Nintendo's current direction in general. I've already talked about this problem, but Nintendo is only furthering it.

Just because the Wii U wasn't successful, Nintendo is porting nearly every game to the Nintendo 3DS with its bigger install base. Yoshi's Woolly World 3DS? Super Mario Maker 3DS? They are killing all the exclusive Wii U titles and in the end, everybody with a Nintendo 3DS could have skipped the Wii U. I was even expecting Splatoon 3DS at some point in the Direct, but they are probably saving the port for NX...

This is what happens if you ever invest in a Nintendo system that's not performing well. It makes you feel like you shouldn't have. But that only makes things worse in the end....

"Wii U? What's that?"

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