Zuhyc said:
jarrod said:
kopstudent89 said:
leo-j said:
kopstudent89 said:
Metallicube said:
I'm still shocked that PS3 beats the Wii in Japan, considering Wii seems to have a lot more types of games that appeal to the Japanese crowd these days. I guess it's just reached its saturation point.
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What? the PS3 has had a much more steady lineup than the Wii. If anything im surprised the wii still levels off at 20k.
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Wii is cheaper this year than last year though
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So is the PS3 :P but the PS3 is having a bit of a Euphoria of software these past 8 months... however it looks like it will stop right around the holidays
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I think PS3 in 2011 looks solid-ish, at least for tentpole games (Ninokuni, FFvsXIII, FFXIV, MVC3, SFxT/TxSF, MGS Rising, TLG, etc). Comparably Wii really only has 3 standouts (Zelda SS, Mario Sports and DQX) though they're all arguably bigger than most/all of PS3's games. 360 meanwhile gets the multiplats, the niche shmup/galgames and The Idom@ster 2.
What's looking really barren in 2011 though is DS/PSP. DS has literally nothing and PSP has just Agito, and that's nearly vaporware at this point. 3DS is really sucking all the oxygen out of the room, I think it's going to kill JP development entirely on DS/PSP/Wii within it's first year. The HD twins will get by with engine recycled sequels somewhat, but expect a lot of original games that would've normally gone to them head to 3DS instead too.
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I think the first few months will be decisive for the 3DS. If it starts well devs will massively jump on it. Combine it with no competition from Sony/MS, and we might be getting an awesome line-up of games. Hopefully, Nintendo won't become arrogant again and doesn't ask too much royalties.
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I'd say 3rd parties are already jumping on board 3DS wholesale. I haven't seen this much unanimous support prelaunch since PS2.
I'd also say the memory of N64 has driven about all Nintendo's recent decisions. Iwata's Nintendo seems a whole lot friendlier to 3rd parties than any iteration of the company before imo... I mean really, I'd say we've seen more Nintendo collaborations with 3rd parties this gen than in their entire previous history, and also more than we've seen out of Sony/MS comparably.
PS3 and 360 seem pretty safe for the time being though imo, what 3DS is really going to impact upfront is DS/PSP/Wii, and I'd argue it already has...
