Kid Icarus: Uprising Development Landed on Wii, Briefly

Them telling us they were developing it on the Wii in no way means the controls were Wii Remote and Nunchuk... they were simply using its hardware to gauge the 3DS's power. It's not like they were using mouse + WASD when working with PC's...

I'd love to see a game in the vein of Uprising with Remote and Nunchuk controls. To sidefly with a slight flick of the Nunuck would take away my only real issue with its controls.

I bet this would have been real nice on the Wii. Great game for the 3DS too!! I just think the Wii, may have made it a little better...the big screen alone is an improvement, and I'd rather move the Wii remote then use the touch screen.

This would be awesome on the Wii

I believe the ability to customize the controls saved this game though I can't deny that using the wii remote and nunchuck attachment would have been far better. I've mannaged to find a control scheme that works for me where I use my right thumb to aim my reticle and the R trigger to fire.

Makes sense. I've always said that this game would have benefitted greatly from an analogue stick/IR pointer control scheme ala Sin & Punishment 2.

What doesn't make sense is why this game was shifted over to the 3DS. You know, besides the fact that Nintendo needed to have some games for the new hardware they were planning to release. No thought seems to have been given to whether or not this type of game made sense for the platform.

Other than the addition of 3D, I can honestly say that there's not one substantive thing that Uprising gains by being on the 3DS, and in fact I would go so far as to say that the game is hampered by being on the platform. They made a friggin' plastic stand so people could play what is supposed to be a portable system for crying out loud. This fact alone demonstrates that there is a fundamental mismatch between the game and the platform.

Rant over.

I would really love to have the game on the Wii. It would solve all the control issues with the current 3DS version.Missed opportunity there, Ninty.

Yeah, I've known about this for awhile now. I find it most disappointing that KI:U wasn't also developed for the Wii.

It was probably in the best interest of the 3DS for this game to be on here and not the Wii. After all, the Wii U is just around the corner to take over the it's predecessors' throne. And besides, I'd rather wait for (hopefully) a squeal on the Wii U. Imagine how a game like that would look in HD!

I read this when the Iwata asks came out, (Awhile ago) and I think they meant Nintendo told them about the 3DS and were using different machines to try to make a working 3DS title, without using a 3DS developer kit.

had kid icarus: uprising been released on the wii, it would've been one of the greatest wii games. i agree with the sin and punishment comparison- the game was reminiscent to K.I: uprising in many respects.

let's hope a new kid icarus game comes out on the wii U. i could definitely see the controller being utilised to its fullest, but also add a custom control scheme as well, so players can alter the controls to suit their playing needs.

Plzzzzz Nintendo make this game on WII

The game would've been a lot better on the Wii, the land sections would've controlled a lot better and the extra power would've enabled them to get it running at a constant 60 fps rather than the shaky 30 of the 3DS version.

Dang, and it seemed like like people were about to shut up about the controls.

To bad it didn't end up on the Wii. I would have actually got it then.

@Mardt KIU wasn't "shifted over to the 3DS." This game was made from the ground up for 3DS at the request of Iwata. If you read the entire interview, they talk about the origin of the development of the game. Iwata wanted Sakurai to create a non-Smash Bros. game for 3DS and this is what he came up with.

Might it have been better on Wii, perhaps, but they never intended it to be on that system. I love it on 3DS and once I got used to the controls it plays quite well for me. I say it's one of th best on the system so far.

Well, this is old news.

I can't believe these comments. Do you seriously think this game would have worked at all on the land sections with pointer controls? Let's think about this for a second; you've got dozens of enemies, all requiring expert precision, and you want motion controls?

Every time I've played an FPS with motion controls, I've felt like something was off. Like I'm doing something wrong. They're a definite improvement over dual-analog (where the controls are a mess), but compared to PC it's clunky. Kid Icarus Uprising is the first game where I've felt like the controls work (never owned MPH). I wish Nintendo would show off how the game would play on the Wii just to prove how much crappier the controls get. And dual-analog, just to shut all the "CPP"-whiners up.

@Mardt To add to what Duney said, I haven't touched the stand since I got it. I've already finished half the levels on 9.0 and I can't imagine how the controls could be any better. I played Sin and Punishment, and it plays exactly like this (air sections). That's the only place Wii controls would make sense, and frankly, there's no difference between the two in term of how good the controls are. Heck, Nintendo would be smart to release a cross-platform Sin and Punishment game; launch title, anyone?

Touch screen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pointer controls.

End of story

Oh, and btw, I never use the stand

I'ld like to think this holds out hope for a WiiU sequel but they were just using the Wii hardware to make it, they never intended for it to be on that system. Though I hope the WiiU has at least something that looks this nice and plays with this much action, there's only so much 2D - 2 Kirbys, Mario, and Donkey Kong - I can take. My 52" tv needs some fast and furious HD Nintendo love.

@Mardt

Easy. It won't get pirated nearly as much as it would as a Wii title and it gives gamers more of a reason to purchase a 3DS. I know of four people in my circle of friends who download their games illegaly for their Wii console. I realize that piracy on the 3DS is a issue as well but it appears that it isn't as common and widespread as piracy on the Wii (mostly because it hasn't been cracked nearly as much.) The controls are a small sacrifice for players in order for Nintendo to make a well deserved profit on a fantastic game. Wise decision Nintendo. Cheers.

Honestly, I got more of a cramp in my hand from playing Mario Kart 7 from drifting and clentching my 3DS tightly during the extremely close races. I've never once had any discomfort from playing Kid Icarus other than my feet falling asleep when I prop them up on my coffee table and that has nothing to do with the plastic standee that came with it.

@Duney - Fair enough, it wasn't 'shifted' over from Wii. If anything, however, the fact that this game was designed from the ground up for 3DS makes their control scheme transgressions all the more unbelievable.

I should say that I also really enjoyed the game, and it is one of the best on the 3DS. However, that does not excuse the fact that (in my opinion, and that's all it is) the game itself is ill-suited to the platform. Having Uprising be released as a 3DS game was certainly beneficial for the system, as it's yet another good game for the growing catalogue, but I don't think it was beneficial for the game.

@AbuJaffer - "Let's think about this for a second; you've got dozens of enemies, all requiring expert precision, and you want motion controls?".

Well, to be fair most people seem to be suggesting that IR pointer controls might be the best control scheme. I don't think anyone would argue that Uprising would be a better game had accelerometers and waggle been the primary control input.

I agree that using the stylus, in theory, is just as intuitive as using the IR pointer in Sin & Punishment 2. That's only in theory though. In reality, bearing the full weight of the 3DS with the left hand, while using the left index finger to compess the trigger is incredibly uncomfortable. You can of course work around this by contorting your hands in to various poses, propping the right side of the system up with a knee, using the plastic stand etc. but surely the fact that people are having to do these sorts of gymnastics just to play a game is proof that there are serious problems with the controls.

As I see it, Nintendo could have resolved this problem in one of two ways (both of which I'm sure would have been time consuming and expensive). A) they could have switched the game's development over to the Wii when they realised that the 3DS in it's current form would be unable to provide a comfortable experience for users. B) they could have pulled the whole thing apart and designed a game around controls which the system was capable of supporting. In the end Nintendo opted to do neither of these things, and even when a potential solution presented itself in the form of the Circle Pad Pro they ignored it. From the outside looking in, I have to say, it just looks like arrogance.

PC?!Seriously?! Nintendo and Windows?Next thing you know they'll make a game on Xbox 360.

@Tomatoboxer
Never.
It would have worked better on Wii I guess.

just bought it today, can't wait to play it, guy at ebgames seemed excited over this game lol

N3DS, Wii..don't matter, would have bought it no matter what

I wish it had ended up on Wii so I could play it. My copy sits in its case gathering dust due to the fact that my hands simply don't work the way the developers want them to.

I do think Uprising would've played a little better as a Wii title than a 3DS one (what with the often long, portable un-friendly single-player levels and not having the camera & aiming frankensteined to the same place and all) but it's still a fine game nonetheless.

I thought it was rather obvious that it was first developed for Wii..
When it was first revealed at E3 it said it for the Wii
Rail-shooter, pointer controls..

you know how there is the udraw tablet? if you use that and a nunchuk, it will be like a 3DS but with out the 3D. Only if they can change the stuff in the U-Draw tablet...

@gyyrro Wrong. It was never developed for Wii. Never, never, never intended for Wii. Read the Iwata Asks in the link or at least the comments.

@grumblebuzzz Some of you guys need to clean better. I don't let my stuff get dusty whether I play it often or not.

I read about this quite a while ago, but yeah it would explain all those old IGN-fueled rumours of a Kid Icarus revival for Wii.

Maybe they'll do a Sony and eventually port it to Wii, like how Sony ported some PSP games to PS2, such as WipEout.

I wouldn't mind a Wii U Kid Icarus game, but it couldn't be a port.

I had wanted to see a Kid Icarus game on the Wii but frankly the game turned out fine on the 3DS. The controls took a little getting used to but they're not that bad and I really don't think the remote and nunchuk would've been much better but we'll never know. In the end I'm just happy the series is back and hope they continue with it whether it be on the 3DS or Wii U.

I do get cramps when trying to play the game unsupported, but the plastic stand works magnificently, and it's usually not very hard to find a flat surface on which to place it.

I would love to see 3DS titles ported to the Wii

@Duney At E3 it said under what system it was on "Wii"
That was what I was refering to.
Saying developed was my mistake.