Wii Party U

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Wii Party U
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Developer(s) NDcube
Nintendo SPD
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Director(s) Shuichiro Nishiya
Producer(s) Hiroshi Sato
Atsushi Ikeda
Programmer(s) Masayuki Shinohara
Yuhei Tsukami
Akira Matsumoto
Kenji Oohira
Haruhiko Tanuma
Artist(s) Norio Asakura
Kunihiro Hasuoka
Ryo Koizumi
Series Wii
Platform(s) Wii U
Release
Genre(s) Party
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Wii Party U [a] is a 2013 party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. It was announced in a January 2013 Nintendo Direct, and later detailed at E3 2013 and the October 2013 Nintendo Direct. [4] It is the sequel to the 2010 Wii game Wii Party .

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Gameplay

Wii Party U is a multiplayer video game consisting of a standard board game with mini-games, similar to Mario Party . Over 80 different new mini-games are available. [5] Multiple people can play mini-games using the Wii U GamePad. Wii Party U also includes a new accessory, a stand for the Wii U GamePad to allow support for the tabletop games. [6] "House Party" games also return from Wii Party, and focus on various implementations of the Wii U GamePad and Wii Remotes amongst a group of people. [7]

There are four different types of party modes. [7] The first is the TV Party, which can include up to 4 players that use the Wii Remotes and the Wii U GamePad on the television. This mode is a boardgame with each tile having some effect upon the players. The host of the game's name is Party Phil and he controls and announces what happens in the game.

The TV Party mode can be played with one to four players in various modes.

The House Party mode requires both the Wii U GamePad and Wii Remotes. The modes are:

The GamePad Party mode has up to two players competing or cooperating in various modes.

There is also a minigame mode.

Reception

Wii Party U received mixed reviews from critics, with an average Metacritic score of 65/100. According to Edge, "Wii Party U has no rhythm, and you won’t realise just how crucial that is to a party game until it’s gone." [11] Edge also states that one of Wii Party U's problems is its "multitude of games," while spending "at least as much time explaining itself as it does letting you have fun." Unlike Edge, Nintendo World Report praises the game stating that it is "a fine crowd-pleasing party game," featuring "more than the 2010 Wii game did." [18]

Sales

In Japan, the game was very well received, selling around than 70,000 physical copies on its first week, boosting Wii U sales system to 38,000 units sold. During the holiday season, the sales of the game were considerably higher, generally occupying the top of the Japanese charts. As of December 31, 2013, more than 518,000 units had been sold only in Japan, [20] entering the year-end Japanese chart at number 10.

As of September 30, 2015, it has worldwide sales of 1.58 million. [21]

Notes

  1. Wiiパーティ U (Wī Pāti Yū) in Japanese

References

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