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CrazyGamer2017 said:
zorg1000 said:
Everything you said is wrong

N64, GC & Wii are all known for having droughts.

10 years ago PS3/360 were doing just ok while Wii was doing great then a few years later PS3/360 started to pick up the pace while Wii began to decline.

Just ok? The PS3 sold over 80 million units, same with the Xbox 360 and the Wii did 100 million units. If that does not show that 3 home systems can be successful together then nothing will.

As for the drought I already answered that in my previous post.

Did you read what i wrote?

10 years ago (2007) PS3 & 360 were doing ok while Wii was doing great.

A few years later (2010/11) PS3/360 had begun to pick up the pace while Wii started declining.

There was only maybe 1-2 years where all 3 were doing really good at the same time.



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Amazing numbers for Switch, congrats to Nintendo! Sadly for me, this doesn't bode well the 3DS in the immediate future, oh well, I'll have to make do with the games that are going to be localized next year and will be sure to join the Switch ranks once Advance Wars Switch hits the shelves.



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Peh said:
Just a little more and the Wii U is more than forgotten.

The Wii U was forgotten since 2013 



Really glad to see the Switch is doing very well. It really is a cool system and it has had one of the best opening years since... not sure really, so definitely a job well done to Nintendo. Here's hoping for another great year along with more great games.



 

              

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CrazyGamer2017 said:
zorg1000 said:
Everything you said is wrong

N64, GC & Wii are all known for having droughts.

10 years ago PS3/360 were doing just ok while Wii was doing great then a few years later PS3/360 started to pick up the pace while Wii began to decline.

Just ok? The PS3 sold over 80 million units, same with the Xbox 360 and the Wii did 100 million units. If that does not show that 3 home systems can be successful together then nothing will.

As for the drought I already answered that in my previous post.

GC had a near two year drought before Wii arrived in the last year alone only two games arrived RE4 in March and TP when Wii launched and N64 had similar droughts to what Wii U had.

PS3, 360 and Wii was an anomaly look at every other gen to get the picture of how things really are the is no space for 3 dedicated consoles its has always been a market leader and two competitors fighting for scraps that fall off the table, the exception is not the rule.



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CrazyGamer2017 said:
curl-6 said:

N64, GC, and Wii all had droughts. And games were less complex and took less time and resources to make back on those systems.

Wii/PS3/360 could only all do well cos Wii was nothing like the others, they filled different niches.

Doesn't matter how big the market gets, there's never room in one niche for three consoles.

I don't remember scarcity in those days, but then again I played less games back then so you could be right.

And I guess games indeed took less time and were less complex to make.

As for the Wii being nothing like the others okay, so that goes well with my point which is to hope for Nintendo to make a dedicated home system, just do one that is "different" and not the same as the others if being too similar could jeopardize its success

Outside of RE4 GCN has a massive drought in 2005.  One of the wors Wii droughts was in 2008 esp early on. After Mario Kart, Smash and Okami the first 4 months it became slim pickens rest of the year.



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tbone51 said:
JSG87 said:
Quite happy with this news and it almost around where I expected it to be. That means 2.4 million sold from October 1St to December (whatever date they counted until). I did read it was up to the 10th December somewhere though. Add 3 million for December, possibly 4 million and then they've only got 2.6 million to hit their targets for the year.

7.63mil is shipped

10mil is sold through

 

So it probably as of dec 10th has already 12mil shipped. Probably an extra 2-3mil (for 14mil-15mil) in the last 3 weeks to go

I literally just realised that. They probably sold a full 3 million between October and Novwmber. Apparently this only includes to the end of November too so I was wrong about the timeliness haha.



CrazyGamer2017 said:
curl-6 said:

On the other hand, if Nintendo had made a dedicated console and a dedicated handheld, there would be far fewer games for the former as Nintendo's development teams would be split between the two instead of focused on one device, and since there isn't (and never has been) room on the market for three similar systems to flourish, the console would be pretty much a guaranteed flop and as such would suffer from the same miserable software droughts as Wii U. 

I don't remember a drought back when the Wii or the Game cube or better yet the Nintendo 64 was on the market and Nintendo had handhelds back then too with their teams split up between both systems.

And 10 years ago 3 home systems were flourishing together, the Wii the PS3 and the Xbox360.

And to completely murder this last argument, just a friendly murder of course The market is now even bigger than it was 10 years ago so whatever the figures of that past gen, the figures can potentially be even bigger now that the video games industry has grown further in size.

Isn't the handheld market on decline? Look what happened to PSP - Vita / DS - 3DS



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