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MDMAlliance on 09 December 2012
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mrstickball said:
MDMAlliance said:
mrstickball said:
WiiU will be headed for disappointment come Jan/Feb. Mark my words.

WiiU, 3DS and Vita are going to be the big losers of this generation.


I can't really say anything about what will be the future of the Wii U, but my god you must be retarded if you think the 3DS is going to be a "big loser of this generation."  

The 3DS selling 500k in one week is never bad.  It only did "poorly" because last year it sold much more at the same time.  

But I think you weren't paying attention when it's been announced that Fire Emblem, Animal Crossing, and Luigi's Mansion are coming to North America next year.  All of these games have good potential at selling the system.  

Not only that, but we have Monster Hunter 4 for Japan and global Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for Wii U and 3DS.  There's Dragon Quest VII for Japan.  There are two more Zelda games that will be coming to the 3DS as well.  A remake and an original.  Super Smash Brothers too.  ALL of these things I listed will boost the sales of the 3DS, and the 3DS' sales are ALREADY quite high, being a third of the sales of the PS3 or 360's and being out for a fifth of the time.  Seriously?


I'm retarded? Thanks for the comment.

Its going to be a big loser compared to the DS. By the end of the generation, mobiles will have taken away what market share Nintendo (still) has, leaving very little for them to pick over.

The 3DS selling 500k in one week isn't bad if you don't bother looking at comparative DS sales during the same point in its lifespan. The DS sold 850,000 units in 2006, and 1.3m in 2007. Do you believe that the titles you listed are going to give the 3DS a 150% increase in unit sales for Holiday 2013? If not, its going to fall further and further behind.

And to me, that is going to be a big dissapointment to Nintendo. Both Sony and Nintendo are going to lose a lot of market share, because their devices are not very different from their last generation offerings, whereas mobiles are really disrupting the market and economics for both systems.

#1: The total sales of the 3DS have been outpacing the DS when it was at this point in its life.  #2:  You called these systems losers of this generation, that means it is completely irrelevant to bring up the DS since it is considered to be part of a different generation.  #3:  I never said they'll give the 3DS a 150% increase in unit sales for Holiday 2013, but does it matter if the overall yearly sales end up being higher?  I also never even TRIED to argue for the 3DS selling higher than the DS, if it did, the 3DS would be the best selling console system in videogaming history.  I have no idea why it has to accomplish that in order to be considered anything other than a loser.  

Losing and gaining parts of the market share is normal, and it's constantly changing.  This makes the actual number of sales relative, and your statement makes little sense.  Also what do you even mean by "not very different?"  The Gameboy sold, and the Gameboy Advanced sold regardless of not being very different.  How different do you consider the DS?  Two screens, one being a touch screen?  It seems like your standard of "different" is the weird one here.  I also think that the PS Vita is considerably different to the PSP.  They added a touch screen, a reartouch, two analogs, and added several things among its software.  

I also called you a retard in the "if" situation because it appropriately insults the notion of anyone thinking such a ridiculous thing is actually true.  I can ONLY see the 3DS being a "loser" in respect to not being able to hold something up to expectations, but that would also mean that ANY system that doesn't sell as much, if not more, than its predecessor is a loser.  This makes the PS3 a loser.