padib said:
lol at all this, seriously. Forza and Gears are boo and Halo, though good, is 1st party. In that case let's compare 1st party to 1st party, and I think Metroid Prime 3 is an excellent competitor for Halo. It failed due to a weak serious gamer fan base on Wii, which the new strategy should come to address, and could be tailored to that audience a little better I'll admit, again something the new strategy should come to address, at the very least with time. I won't comment much on the PS-exclusives cause I don't want to get my head eaten off by PS fans. The only one I'm a fan of is Uncharted, and I was curious of Last Guardian as well, as I liked Ico and found Shadow of the Colossus (though boring) at least grandiose and the boss battles surreal and complex/intricate . |
Well we can but we already know what sales a Nintendo console will have if it only has core Nintendo titles (somewhere around 22 to 34 mil maybe a little higher to account for population growth)
I don't think a single player FPS compares to Halo at all in anyones mind except maybe yours. Nintendo just doesn't care about online to make it a competitor and this attitude is part of the reason why I don't see them as able to compete in that software arena. Nintendo has nothing on Xbox Live and that profitable ecosystem M$ built since day one is a large part of the reason why those online shooters do so well on the Xbox. M$ has claimed America and I don't see Nintendo able to take that back with their mindset about making online games. Especially not with a console that's more expensive, that's only marginally more powerful and probably not as well an implemented online system.
Third Party support is much more interesting to discuss as it's why Nintendo is trying this strategy in the first place and banking on finally get the big boys on their side Because they want sales like this:
Gears 1: 5.94 mil
RDR: 4.24 mil
CoD 4:MW: 8.48 mil
AC:B: 3.61 mil
Total: 22.27 mil
MGS4: 5.22 mil
CoD 4:MW: 5.65 mil
AC:B: 3.32 mil
RDR: 4.24 mil
Total: 18.43 mil
Not 3rd party sales like this:
Monster Hunter Tri: 1.86 mil
Tatsunoko versus Capcom: 0.54 mil
Mad World : 0.63 mil
Conduit: 0.54 mil (I added the sales of the sequel to be kind)
Castlevania Judgement: 0.10 mil
Red Steel: 1.20 mil(1.63 mil if you add the sequel)
Last Story: 0.17 mil
Xenoblade: 0.16 mil
Total: 5.63 mil (including RS2 and C2)
I chose the lowest selling CoD, AC, put in RDR instead of GTA. You can lol all you want to at that. This comes from a person who would prefer TvC over all those PS360 games I listed(But i prefer MvC3 to TvC). I didn't exagerrate anything. Nintendo obviously think it's important or they wouldn't be doing what they are. I just see it as too little too late. The reason I mentioned GT, Forza, Halo, and KZ is becuase these are more the types of games I see customers of the above 3rd party titles are more likely to check out than SSB, LoZ:TP, MP3. There is a synergy there.
