| thekitchensink said: You're right. Nintendo's new system is tanking horribly. It's only somewhat more powerful than Sony's previous-generation effort, has almost no good games and a 'gimmick' that supposedly adds nothing to gameplay, and is going to be demolished by an upcoming competitor with a stronger lineup that is orders of magnitude more powerful than it. This new system also has the benefit of maintaining the online accounts people have become so attached to. Yes, the 3DS is so screwed when the Vita comes out. |
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,
As for the OP,
40 is actually pretty good.
Name one gen that Nintendo had "good" 3rd party support, that had at least 1 other decent competitor, AND they sold more than 60 million units? Can't think of any? That's right, CUS THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED AND HAS NEVER STOPPED NINTENDO. Nintendo thrives off of their first party support, the casual gamer bougth the wii for wii sports, wii fit, mario kart and NSUMBW. When they launch wii fit, wii sports, mario kart and have a decent price drop in a year or 2, I bet you anything that the casual audience will buy a lot of wiiU's.
You are trying to argue that the ps4 and 720 will take away Nintendo's loyal fanbase, keep in mind a couple things, how many sony fans abandoned Sony from last gen to current gen? That's right, HALF OF THE SONY FANBASE LEFT SONY FOR MICROSOFT. Why did they do this? Because Sony abandoned all of their platform and rpg games for shooters. Ok, that may not be true, in actuallity, because the xbox 360 was getting better 3rd party support, and because it's cheaper, and because games were ported from the 360 to the ps3 so the ps3 was getting bad ports, the fanbase left. Will they come back? Maybe, too early to tell, so far we have yet another shooter....a couple new IP's that don't seem to be attracting a lot of attention, and an eye that spies on you.
Name one gen where the most powerful console won the console wars? Can't think of any? THATS BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED!!!! maybe if you go back to the pre Nintendo era, but whatever, the point is that the weakest console typically wins.
The cost of gaming has gone up a lot, and even if Nintendo doesn't get a lot of AAA games, they will still get a lot of games from indie developers(which they currently are getting). Only time will tell whether or not they get AAA games, but keep in mind that the power difference of the wiiU-ps4 is much smaller than the wii-ps3, which is definitely a plus, and because of the high development costs, it would definitely be wise for companies to port their games on every platform to maximize their profits.
Anyways i'm going off here, but I'm interested in a debate, not some flame war, sorry for my caps in certain places. And for the record my point isn't that Nintendo will get 90+ million units, or that it will win next gen, even though I made some points that it might>.> my point is that, compared to the ps4 and 720 it will do well, so if the other two consoles sell 40-60 million units in their life time, I would suspect the wiiU will sell at least 30-50 million units.
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