| sabastian said: I agree 100% with your words. Here is one of my biggest grypes of gamers. - Some claim to be Hardcore gamers, some Casual gamers, some game on and off, but are gamers through and through. But yet when a new console launches, you hear the " I'm not going to pick it up until (Insert favorite game here) is released. That to me makes no sence. If gamers dont support the console at launch, do you think the casual gamers will ? NOPE. Gamers drive the video game industry, we have to be the ones to go out and support our artform. If we dont, then we are to blame if it die off. |
Who are u agreeing with? Lol
I agree that its kinda dumb to wait for one specific game but it makes perfect sense not to buy a console at launch if there arent any games that appeal to u regardless of who makes the console. I bought a 3DS in Oct 2011, it had just recently recieved an $80 price cut and I bought it with Zelda OoT 3D, a remake of one of my favorite games. Also Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 were both about a month away from releasing so it seemed like a good time to buy it. After that I bought a PS3 on black friday in 2012. It had an awesome deal for $199 it included a PS3 Super Slim with Uncharted 1&2, Infamous 1&2 and a month of PS+, I also bought God of War Sagas for $15 and Uncharted 3 for $15 so for $230 I got a console/bluray player and 10 games.
Looking at the line up for Wii U in the first 9 months, the only games that dont appear on either PS3 or 3DS are Nintendo Land (couldnt care less about this game), ZombiU(looks decent), Game & Wario (same as Nintendo Land), Lego City (looks decent), NSMBU (I like this series but just played the 3DS installment). So of the 5 exclusives on Wii U from Nov-July there were 2 I didnt want, 2 that I was slightly interested in and one that I was interested in. For me that certainly isnt enough to warrant a $300+ purchase.
From August onward they have slowly compiled a library that is looking more and more appealing. Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Wind Waker HD, and Mario 3D World are all games that I have high interest In and the console now comes bundled with a game I would like to own so now Wii U looks like a worthy purchase to me. I would buy one now if I werent so broke at the moment.
I still dont get why u think people should blindly buy a console just because there a fan of the company who makes it.
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