| snowdog said: G911turbo has got the exact points I was trying to bring across to you all, glad my efforts weren't completely wasted. Some of you seem to have this bizarre opinion that the Wii U is going to continue to sell the way it is currently and that both the PS4 and 720 are not only going to do gangbusters at launch but will continue to do gangbusters during the launch window and beyond. Even in the biggest Sony or Microsoft fanboy's Dreamworld these sort of sales are going to be impossible. Nintendo could have made some very intelligent decisions regarding their choice of hardware and architecture, we simply don't know enough about the GPU especially to be able to make any sort of judgement on how things are going to turn out. As for defending the console like it's my sister, I don't have any kind of alliegance to any of the three platform holders. I just think that people need to be corrected when they make daft statements such as third parties won't support X console or X engine won't run on Y console. It's nonsense, particularly when a console hasn't even been on the market for 6 months. Like I've said, the proof is going to be in the pudding and we'll see part of what the Wii U is capable of at E3 when we see the likes of 3D Mario, Mario Kart 8 and Retro's new game. |
Some of you seem to have this bizarre opinion that the Wii U is going to continue to sell the way it is currently
Of course it will have boosts when more Nintendo games come along but you keep ignoring the competition, PS360 also has exclusives and pricecuts of their own, PS4 and Nextbox will be marketed as next gen systems this holyday with launch titles already looking better than anything shown on the U so far. I just don't see the U selling better than the competition based just on Mario games, Gamecube and N64 had Mario games.
Even in the biggest Sony or Microsoft fanboy's Dreamworld these sort of sales are going to be impossible.
What makes you think PS4 and Nextbox won't sell at launch? and don't say reccession since is early adopters we are talking about even the PS3 with no games sold decently at 600$ at launch and even now 7 years later is selling well at 250$. Competition? MS and Sony will market them as next gen consoles with huge multimedia capabilities and that will be enough against the outdated PS3 and Xbox, the U is stuck with the perception that is "not next gen"
"they make daft statements such as third parties won't support X console or X engine won't run on Y console. It's nonsense, particularly when a console hasn't even been on the market for 6 months."
Is just looking at trends, Nintendo hasn't had big third party titles since the SNES days. N64, Gamecube and Wii got snubbed, you can say it was because the media cartdridge/disc were small or that the Wii was underpowered but the point is that for 3 generations those games were not on nintendo consoles and the perception of the public has changed, you buy a Nintendo console to play Nintendo games.
