Nintendo sucks at marketing its older-teen blockbusters

[happydolphin]

pezus said:

Mr Khan said:

Nintendo generally doesn't play the hype game. They usually don't show games until they have a working engine, and keep airtight quiet about them until the press event preceding the game's release.

Their loss, I guess

Indeed OO

Jumpin said:

I'm a Nintendo fanatic, and even I will admit that Metroid Prime was highly overrated. The only thing it had going for it were graphics that looked nice at the time. The setting was empty even compared to previous 2D metroids, and the gameplay was both much slower and clunkier than its SNES predecessor. The gameplay of Prime is largely about running through caves at a slow pace, shooting at things and scanning other things.

Assassin's Creed 2 and on offer rich and highly interesting environments with very smooth gameplay. I really feel that other Nintendo fans are really missing out if they ignore this series. Hopefully the collection will come to Wii U. It was one of the series on PS3 that didn't disappoint, rather it was surprisingly excellent (made up for disappointments like Red Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 5, Final Fantasy 13, and Grand Theft Auto 4). No comment on Halo, on a Microsoft system and I refuse to buy their products.

I can largely agree with this post, but looking back, wasn't Halo: CE kind of slow as well? It was a different gen, and things were a little slower, yet even then halo still almost trippled the sales of Prime. Was Halo that much more vibrant with ennemies, that much more faster paced than Prime? I'm not so familiar with Halo, but as far as I can tell the movement of the character was pretty similar to Halo's. Scanning could slow things down in prime, but then again there wasn't as much dialogue, so it's a tradeoff.