oniyide said:
GhaudePhaede010 said:
Too many opinions there and not enough facts. We have no idea why they ported it to consoles. Maybe it made sense from a few different prespectives. One being, it was a console game on a hand held. I mean, there are lots of games that do not sell well on hand helds that do not get console versions. I am not saying you are incorrect; rather, we both could be correct. There is too much specualtion there for my likes.
Your second opinion is moot as it seems all gaming (console and hand held) is on the decline. Which would lead to a discussion about if the general audience gives much of a damn about anything gaming related right now. As long as there is a healthy market (and I think 60 million gamers is a healthy market), those kinds of specualtion lead us nowhere, quickly.
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so you say the game was so good it was ported to other consoles? where are your facts. Im basing my opinion on what these companies have done in the past. Hell maybe it was the plan all along.
Fair enough. but if you think 60 mil is healthy then the Wii U is pratically cancer ridden and having to combine your handheld and home console to get to 60 mil is...kinda sad IMHO
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1) No, I did not say that. If you read my post again, you will see I was proposing that there may have been MANY factors that led to the game being ported. One being that it was, in the way of its design, a console game. I did not mean that it was so good that it was ported; rather, that the content was rich enough to make a home console title out of it. Of course, I was not implying there was only one reason. I was implying that your reason, plus my reason, plus other business reasons that we may be unaware of, may have all played a factor in the decision. Many games fail on 3DS, but a failed 3DS game would not normally make a successful console title. There is a reason Residen Evil: Revelations was able to enjoy success on home consoles. If one wanted to play semantics, they could say the sales on Playstation prove it was good enough for a home console port. But that is opinion...
2) Obviously, they do not have to combine their markets to get to 60 million. The 3DS is already there. And to me yes, sixty million is a healthy market (for one console... not the whole market... which would mean I was not counting any Vita sales and that would be a large mistake) and that number will rise over the next year or so.
3) I would agree with you if I thought this was anything other than a hand held. I do not think Nintendo is going to retire from the dedicated home console market right now. I believe they will make at least one more home console and make a decision based on the success or failure of that console.