Soundwave said:
gmcmen said:
Soundwave said:
gmcmen said:
Soundwave said:
To be honest I think the Japanese market is in so much trouble that Nintendo + Sony would have to team up in some way to rescue it. It's really bad right now. |
even though i would love this to happen, its pretty obvious to me nintendo franshises are no longer system sellers they once were and there traditional consoles have been in decline, nintendo has always made great games, but there console market has been in decline, since the super nes days, the wiiu us the exception they came up with controls that every but wanted to try, but it was really just a fad that's over now, and nintendo goes back to norm ,
NES 69 million
SNES 49.10 million
N64 32.93 million
GC 21.74 million
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Nintendo's the only Japanese publisher that really has any true might left though.
Sorry but Square-Enix and Capcom are shell's of what they used to be, and hearing Square-Enix's president talk so much about going more and more mobile makes me think their Japanese side is basically going to be mobile centric aside from a small number of console games.
Konami is basically the Metal Gear company, and I think they are due for some franchise fatigue there. Sega/Namco-Bandai/Level 5 .... ugh.
It's not looking pretty right now.
Nintendo still makes strong games, they just are hamstrung by stupid hardware decisions they made with the Wii U. Sony makes good hardware but doesn't have the effort/ability to make the types of Japanese games that Nintendo does.
Nintendo's the only Japanese studio left pumping out games that are equal or better quality-wise than the best Western games (see: Mario 3D World's metacritic and Zelda: ALBW's also). Everyone else in Japan is just sucking gas.
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Nintendno makes amazing games, but GTA, BF4 and CODghosts have all out sold mario 3d first week, there franchises are just not big system sellers anymore.
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No one wants the Wii U. No one likes the concept. That's the problem. COD doesn't sell on the Wii U either, does that mean it's not a powerful franchise? Of course not, it just means its hard to sell software on the Wii U because its a platform without an audience.
Mario 3D Land is tracking to sell 10 million on the 3DS, which is just fine. People just don't want to spend $300 on Wii U.
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and it doesn't have an audience cause all the core gamers have left the wii and moved to 360/ps3, every big third party game has established a home base on the xbox/playstaion brand, they basically missed out on an entire 7th gen of third party games and online gaming. and the console market biggest franshises and best sellers are third party games and online games.
