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famousringo on 18 June 2010

I haven't checked out that blog in a while. It's pretty good.

And it's totally Roling this thread.



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Slimebeast on 18 June 2010

I think the guy who writes that blog is a VGC member. He's just trolling you for the lulz.



amp316 on 18 June 2010

A ViewtifulMind is my favorite blog.

This guy is much more interesting than Malstrom.



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dahuman on 18 June 2010
Fumanchu said:
O-D-C said:

was this writer even at E3? Nintendo had swagger, the lines for Zelda and 3DS were hours long, Kirby had a 40 minute wait too. I kinda felt bad for Sony who was right beside the Nintendo booth and had to ask random people to come play Move game and they were look nah Im going to go see this (Nintendo). Nintendo won E3 hands on, other companies were asking me what i thought of Zelda or the 3DS , Nintendo's got its swagger back and won E3 and if anyone tells u otherwise their wrong.

Do you not see that the people impressed with Nintendo are the video game journalists and those that frequent video game forums i.e. the minority? Will the Wii appear on Good Morning America as a result of their conference?

No, it will be all about the 3DS, while MS and SONY are busy trying to recreate their image with what they currently have, Nintendo is already at the next step, While MS and SONY are a few step ahead in hardware power on their consoles, they are both a few step behind with what Nintendo is doing atm.



Shanobi on 18 June 2010

I like the argument that the people at the e3 are just fans and journalists, so let's not base anything on the buzz they have.

And what have we here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37T4goLj-4w

 

Ah yes, another year from recent history when people ignored Sony and Microsoft. People dismissed this buzz, too.

Good luck with the fantasy that suddenly the Wii is over, and that Zelda is somehow the last hurrah. Hilarious! Bravo! I want your meds.



 

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alfredofroylan on 18 June 2010

So after wasted my time with this article all I have to say is:

Actually people should read the rest of this blog is priceless.

 



Alby_da_Wolf on 18 June 2010

While Nintendo's E3 was awesome for portables, but less for home consoles, Wii will remain 1st, although Move could make PS3 gain some share and Kinect could heavily hit Balance Board, if properly used.

But an interim HD version wouldn't do Wii any good, the key for Ninty, for momentum keeping's sake, is just to launch Zii when Wii is still first, but there's no immediate need to do it, and rushing Zii wouldn't be good at all. ~40-45% for Wii and ~25-35% for XB360 and PS3 is the best Sony and MS can hope for when all the current gen consoles will have stopped selling.



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pariz on 18 June 2010
Fumanchu said:
exukvera said:

Actually Sony and Microsoft should lower their heads to Nintendo and thank for their mercy.

The only thing that prevented the Wii from reigning supreme atop the seventh generation instead of just grabbing half of the pie like it did resides in the single fact that the Wii is not HD.

How would the PS3/360 fare against a Wii hosting titles like GTA IV, Bioshock, FF XIII, Fallout 3, Oblivion, etc with similar graphics and the Wii remote to boot?

The HD duo have some damn good exclusives, but could do little to prevent the Wii from reaching a supremacy similar to the PS1/PS2 times or even bigger.

Fortunately for them The big N won't come with a Wii sucessor until having a well established 3DS and it shouldn´t happen untill the end of 2011 at least, giving some time for the PS Move and Kinect to shine, but it won't be long before the Eighth Generation begins and the Arms Race start all over again.

What if scenario's are always a selective perspective - likewise you could say Nintendo is thanking Sony and MS for not releasing motion controls at the start of the generation.


Man, they didn't have the BALLS to do it. They do it now that they know there is a huge market out there.

And don't come to me with the argument "Nintendo didn't have the balls to go HD". They were the only ones who didn't do it when "the market was pushing in another direction". Once again, they had the BALLS to take a huge risk and chose to be on the fence with a technology that was about to become obsolete, patiently waiting for the momentum.



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TX109 on 18 June 2010
RolStoppable said:
ph4nt said:

Did he really say that the reason Nintendo is "rushing" out the 3DS is ecause of competition from PSP?

Has he even been looking at the software sales? or hardware sales?

It's hard to argue with what he said. It's true that Nintendo lost a lot of market share in the handheld market during the DS era. They've gone down from almost 100 % with the GBA to just about 70 %, that's a loss of approximately 30 %.

That's the biggest decrease in market share Nintendo has ever seen generation over generation for any of their systems. Not even the Nintendo 64 or Gamecube lost so much market share to their competition within a single generation. The DS certainly is one of Nintendo's biggest failures, so it's no surprise that they are rushing a successor out of the doors in order to set things right again.

don't forget the $381 million nintendo has lost on the DS alone!



                                                                                                  
Fumanchu on 18 June 2010
Shanobi said:

I like the argument that the people at the e3 are just fans and journalists, so let's not base anything on the buzz they have.

And what have we here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37T4goLj-4w

 

Ah yes, another year from recent history when people ignored Sony and Microsoft. People dismissed this buzz, too.

Good luck with the fantasy that suddenly the Wii is over, and that Zelda is somehow the last hurrah. Hilarious! Bravo! I want your meds.

Sure that's a video of the launch year for the Wii/PS3 - when the critics were all universally singing its' praises.  I don't believe that the critics and fans in subsequent years '07-'09 deemed the Wii to 'win' any of those conferences, but we all know that the Wii won the mass market in those years as the sales show. 

Point being there's never been a correlation between 'winning' E3 and getting majority of sales. Obviously there's a bigger presence not being reflected upon by those in attendance and those that decide these outcomes.