darkSpyro

I was just wondering will you guys and gals think about getting the Wii U or the upcoming Vita if there is an exclusive Skylanders game or figures???
Personally I probably would. haha Would be great to have more content. I do love my Xbox tho and my 3Ds but Skylanders rules!!!
Vicarious Visions has 3 projects in the works ... one for Wii U so maybe one is already Skylanders???



Picture is fake just having some fun.

THAT LOOKS AWESOME. too bad its fake

JAP, why are you posting fake stuff?

I will be forced into getting a Wii U due to my son's need to play games at all hours of the day. With the ability to play games on the controler without interfering with the TV, its a no brainer for this household.

Nintendo recently announced that they'll be doing a Wii U controller technology that will be similar to Skylanders.

http://gamerant.com/wii-u-controller-nfc-riley-127673/

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JAP, why are you posting fake stuff?

Who cares? So long as the fakes are high quality like that let the man give us wonderful dreams.

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JAP, why are you posting fake stuff?

Oh is the wrong of me??? Sorry was just adding a visual to my topic.
Having some fun with Photoshop.

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Nintendo recently announced that they'll be doing a Wii U controller technology that will be similar to Skylanders.

http://gamerant.com/wii-u-controller-nfc-riley-127673/

"monkey see, monkey do."

For all the pokemon fans, it wont be long until you can go bat nutz with pokeballs and whatnot.

Nintendo stealing ideas lol

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JAP, why are you posting fake stuff?

Who cares? So long as the fakes are high quality like that let the man give us wonderful dreams.

I thought he was posting a fake topic lol My bad.

^All good thought maybe I was breaking rules or something.
Would be nice to know one of the three projects in the works on the Wii U???
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09...-including-one/

These thing will probably all be cross platform anyways!

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^All good thought maybe I was breaking rules or something.
Would be nice to know one of the three projects in the works on the Wii U???
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09...-including-one/

These thing will probably all be cross platform anyways!

If you go to the nintendo channel and search for Wii U videos, you should be able to watch the video from VV about what they are developing for the Wii U. I remember watching it around E3 last year.

^ cool thanks....will check it out!

JAP! You got me excited.... I thought it was real before I read it! Haha.... that's pretty cool thought, and I would definatley get it!

I can't see a company putting effort in a spin-off or sequel for a single platform.

Given that the Wii U will play standard Wii games but upscale the image, I think the powers to be will consider this to be good enough. Then again, there will also be a market for Wii U specific games (a la Lego City Stories).

I foresee that the inevitable sequel will be for Wii U, though.

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I foresee that the inevitable sequel will be for Wii U, though.

Considering that the Wii U will have NFC built in and it should be released in time for christmas this year, I agree completely.

I don't know if Toys for Activision will use the Wii U tech, though? I think they would want to stick to something generic and possible for all consoles rather than proprietary...

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I don't know if Toys for Activision will use the Wii U tech, though? I think they would want to stick to something generic and possible for all consoles rather than proprietary...

Umm......the current skylanders use NFC now. I just read quite a few articles on this.

Oh, I have not read any of the tech specs but my understanding was that SL used a simple variant of RFID and not the later spec NFC standard?

Nintendo being Nintendo, I can foresee that they will do a proprietary version and try to license connectivity to it (a la XBox's variant of wireless comms to controllers).

No no no...

The Skylanders figures actually use the RFID tech, each figure has a chip in - which is why the portal can read them even if their a bit off the base. NFC has a smaller range and therefore less easy to be intercepted and replicated

NFC has a 7 to 8 inch range. And I apologize, it is RFID. I read too many articles and must have glossed over the word "like" as in ,"Skylanders uses NFC like communication in the game with their portal and figures."

Honestly, I don't see a Pokemon themed one working well, unless they have a low price for the figures.

Right now, the Jakks Pacific figures that they make are crappy quality plastic and retail for about the same price that the Skylanders are at now. I've seriously wanted to get figs of Tepig and Zekrom for my collection, but I can't justify spending that on some dinky figure that I KNOW I can get something better with the same amount of cash.

And then those inevitably get moved to the reduced price aisle. And although something like this has happened before, the prices were just too high for the TFG figures. (Even though they were beautiful looking)

Skylanders hit it good in the $7.99-$9.99 range. It's just enough to not set people over the edge with "It's HOW MUCH?!" and not so cheap that they'd loose money on it. If they do have a sequel, they'd have to keep them in the same price range or lose people over the prices.