Global SW/HW Up ! (17th March)

[VGKing]

UncleScrooge said:

Those Xbox 360 sales suggest releasing the NextBox late 2012 / early 2013 wouldn't be a bad idea at all. Sony should have another year before they need to replace the PS3. But that's just what most people expected.

3DS sales are pretty bad as well. The platform itself has great potential but it's still lacking a lot of blockbuster games. Whoever had the genius idea to sell a Nintendo handheld without releasing either 2D Mario, Brain Training or Pokemon over the course of a whole year while pushing the launch of some games back into late 2012 needs to be fired. Oh, wait, that would be Iwata! The holiday line-up was decent but Resident Evil and Kid Icarus aren't heavy hitters - they don't sell hardware no matter their quality to the core Nintendo fans. Japan's the only region with a great line-up right now and compared to the number of games being released sales are pretty mediocre over there, too.

Resident Evil isn't a heavy hitter? Are you kidding me?
It's one of the few 3rd party mega franchises in Japan besides Monter Hunter and Final Fantasy.