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Norwegian Cruise Line And Nintendo Expand Partnership To Bring Wii U Fun To Ships

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Norwegian Cruise Line and Nintendo of America announced today that they are expanding their partnership to offer Wii U video game systems and Wii U games fleetwide. As part of the partnership expansion, the line will feature Nintendo’s newest video game console in all ships’ atriums and youth and teen centers. In addition, the new HD Wii U systems will be featured at various competitions and events on board each ship.

Norwegian first partnered with Nintendo in March 2007, when Wii systems were introduced fleetwide. Now, with the introduction of Wii U, the successor to Wii, the gaming experience is being elevated to new levels. The interactive Wii U gaming system complements Norwegian’s Freestyle Cruising by offering gaming opportunities to guests of all ages. The new consoles give guests the chance to experience a variety of new action, adventure, party, racing, strategy, puzzle and sports games. Upcoming game rollouts will include The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, a high-definition re-release of one of the greatest Nintendo games of all time; Super Mario 3D World, the first multiplayer 3D Mario game for Wii U; New Super Luigi U, starring Mario’s green-clad brother; Pikmin 3, which asks players to command an army of colorful creatures; and The Wonderful 101, which puts players in control of a band of superheroes fighting off an alien invasion.

Wii U delivers great video game experiences with exclusive Nintendo characters in HD. Wii U also features the GamePad controller, which removes the traditional barriers between players, their favorite games and the television by giving one player a second touch screen, while other players use traditional controllers. That lets different players experience the same game in different ways. It’s perfect for the kinds of multiplayer game-playing parties found on board cruise ships.

“The Wii consoles have always been extremely popular among our guests,” said Richard Ambrose, Norwegian Cruise Line’s vice president of entertainment. “The new Wii U systems are guaranteed to take gaming on board to the next level, and will surely be a hit.”

“Wii U provides one of the most social video game experiences you can have, whether you’re playing with family members or friends,” said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “The ships in Norwegian Cruise Line’s fleet give people a great opportunity to experience Wii U for themselves, have fun playing Nintendo games and make some new friends.”

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40 thoughts on “Norwegian Cruise Line And Nintendo Expand Partnership To Bring Wii U Fun To Ships”

      1. TheParrot
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        I’m not Norvegian and here, any cruises, even the smallest ones cost an arm and a limb. Like 150$. So, I assume this was the case here; you know big boats and luxury stuff. I thought that was it.

        1. Nintendo is my Blood
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          Agreed, the only people that can freely speak ill of a country are people native to that land, only they have right to judge

                    1. Nintendo is my Blood

                      I agree with you that most of humanity is corrupted but do not give up complete hope, or perhaps we all admit defeat to early

                      2. Sakuraimoar

                        Which reminds me… need to get a leader who isn’t a deranged fanboy with sociopathic and nihilistic tendencies.

            1. Sakuraimoar
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              So basically, the only thing people know about our country is that we produce obtuse, cookie-cutter metal music that only outsiders like?

              1. skyground95
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                Pretty much. And that we used to be vikings long ago.
                Sweden’s known for more I think, like Minecraft, Spotify, Ikea…

        1. Peanut Butter Kit Kat
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          That video is stupid, it’s just an hour of Nintendo bashing, men in their 30s moaning that Nintendo is “colourful” for them. Plus if you look at all of Rich’s videos, all he does is upload footage of generic FPS games..

          The other guy claims to know people in the industry that said that the Wii U is “dead hardware” but can’t explain why that is, which is odd as there’s people like Shin’en and others that say that the Wii U is actually very good hardware and then go on to explain why that is.

          The bit where they say that Nintendo should get RARE back together, “just like the old days”.. even with RARE the N64 sold 32M units compared to the Playstation’s 100M.

          Also about the Wii, they fail to mention that seven Nintendo games sold over 20 million each. Bash the Wii all you like, yes 3rd parties couldn’t or didn’t want to make money on the Wii but it was very profitable for Nintendo.

          1. Lucario69
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            Yeah I noticed they were bashing a lot. I didn’t like what they said about metroid and wind waker saying that their art style was too colorful, and targeted the children. The only things I would like Nintendo to do is bring metroid, a true 3rd person mario, kirby, mario party, star fox, and maybe a kid icarus to the wii u. Also, if namco could create another pacman platformer like pacman world 2, that would be awesome.

          2. skyground95
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            They aren’t exactly spot on with Nintendo’s situation. It seems like they’re basing their assumptions only on the big negative articles about Nintendo, while letting smaller and more positive ones slip through their fingers.

            Besides, the statement about Rare coming back to Nintendo is incredibly uninformed and little thought through. ALL the old employees at Rare left a long time ago, almost all the value the company used to have is all but gone. The only thing left is their IPs, which could only come to good use if EAD, Retro or any other talented studio got their hands on them.

            And yeah, the Wii was one of Nintendo’s most successful consoles ever, either you like it or not.

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