Nintendo's screwed.

[TWRoO]

happydolphin said:

TWRoO said:

OK, well that's a reasonable assumption, but it's a positive assumption, and the box and whisker plot thing is meant to have the extreme circumstances at either end.... in other words if this "inspired by handhelds" thing doesn't actually work. After all the PSP and Vita have at least shown that treting handhelds as consoles doesn't go down that well, why would it work the other way around?

You're right, it is a positive prediction. But the 50mil was based off the failure of the strategy, i.e. the strat would do 50mil if it failed :)

@bold. It's been proven to work on the Wii, so that's something we already know. Remember how trauma center was a DS game before coming out on the Wii? Metroid Prime Hunters -> Corruption, Brain Age. The Wii basically was like a DS with one screen less. Now with the WiiU the match is even closer, and the strategy even stronger (NSMBU at launch).

I'm optimistic about the worst case scenario. hehe

Trauma Center i'll give you, though it was more of a "new ways to play" thing than taking a traditionally handheld style game over to console.

Metroid you have the wrong way around... Hunters is a handheld adaption of a console like game.

Brain age, while fun, is at it's core a quiz game... and there have been many before on other portable devices as well as through TVs (quiz DVDs for example). The genius of Brain Age was to make it into a cross between a game and a self help tool (encouraging people trying to get a lower brain age score) with is not a trait specific to either hardware type.