Metallicube said:
chapset said:
Metallicube said:
chapset said:
nope, they are not betting on the casual who are long gone (probably dead) or on some sort of gimmick as their main selling point and the pre-orders are at record high plus they have plenty of games for the first year |
Nintendo is betting on the hardcore this gen.. which is precisely why they are failing. Which is also part of the reason the Xbone and PS4 will fail, or at least sell far less than their predecessors.
I contend that Xbone will perform similarly, if not even worse than the Wii U. Think twice the price of Wii U, in a shitty economy, with absolutely zero support from Japan and little from Europe, and there ya go..
PS4 will perhaps "win" by default if you really call it winning, but they will sell far less than even the PS3. In the end, I think Sony will sell the most hardware, with Wii U taking a close second, and the Xbone being left in the dust.
People are REALLY going to be in for a rude awakening when they see the sales of the next consoles from Sony and MS. Yes, Nintendo screwed a lot of things up, but a major part of the reason they are failing is because of the economy, and Sony and MS are about to feel the effects of that as well.
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The industry is growing not shrinking were do you think those sales are going? To the Ouya? you really expect a 400$ PS4 to sell less than the 600$ PS3 did, I mean come on. The industry is making more and more money yet because the wii U failed so many people hope the same thing will happen with the two others, not gonna happen guys, at least one of them will be a huge success if not both.
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The industry is abolutely NOT growing, quite the opposite.. It's in a major decline and hemoraging money. There are company merges, buyouts, and bankrupcies all the time. Not sure where on earth you get that information that the industry is doing well.. Probably from the industry itself. The only thing that is growing is costs, which are skyrocketting to an unsuttainable pace. Nintendo was very aware of this, and they created the cheaper Wii essentially to prepare for and perhaps slow this massive decline, but alas, the industry foolishly shunned and ignored it, and now is headed back to its rapid decline once again.
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| Year |
Video game industry revenue |
Source(s) |
Inflation (2012)
[43]
|
| 2011 |
$65 billion |
Reuters |
$66.2 billion |
| 2010 |
$62.7 billion |
Reuters |
$65.88 billion |
| 2009 |
$60.4 billion |
[14] [15] |
$64.5 billion |
| 2008 |
$54 billion |
[16] |
$57.46 billion |
| 2007 |
$41.7 billion |
[17] |
$46.08 billion |
come on man, stop making things up
''A series of new reports from DFC Intelligence forecasts that the global market for video games is expected to grow from $67 billion in 2012 to $82 billion in 2017. This forecast includes revenue from dedicated console hardware and software (both physical and online), dedicated portable hardware and software, PC games and games for mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, music players and other devices that can play games as a secondary feature.''
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/07/18/new-reports-forecasts-global-video-game-industry-will-reach-82-billion-by-2017/
