bowserthedog said:
Well.. I think by all accounts the 3ds is a major success. Due to smartphones there is no longer a casual market for dedicated hanhelds but the system effectively survived when the Vita fell off. And the 3ds is actually growing year over year in america this year largely due to the enhanced 3d and the New 3ds. The dedicated hanheld market is basically returning to what is used to be before the ds expanded the market beyond core gamers. That expanded market is now gone. Well the thing about the wii was that it didn't get too many ports of 3rd party games. You really needed to create a game from the ground up to do well on the system. It would have been a lot of work to port down some of those fighting games to it and due to the fact that core gamers who owned a wii also owned one or both (in my base both) of the other systems there would be no incentive to buy those games on wii due to the lack of online features and poor graphics. But there were some gems in the fighting genre which were exclusive to the system and it was essential to gamers who wanted to play the best 3 or 4 fighting games available. Two of which were exclusive to wii. It would be foolhearty right now to base a whole system around VR. But eventually I think we will want the best of the best dev's making their best work for it. It has a chance to be something pretty big. And i don't think you can criticize Nintendo's decisions on the wii as being foolhearty. They made more profit in their peak year on Wii than sony and microsoft made off the entire generation combined. (yeah i know that's hard to back up but it's likely true) |
by Ninty's own accounts you would be wrong. You just dont cut the price of a system you just launched beause its a success, hard to spin that one. Dont know why the Vita was brought in, as the situation would ahve been largely the same anyway. America is not the world, im judging by sales as a WHOLE, and as a whole it has gone down. 3ds is actually on track to sell less than GBA and it will be on the market longer. SO its not even returning to its former glory.
I know all that, and that was due to it being essentially an overclocked GC, thats what is was. That one is on Ninty and it doesnt help that there standard controller would be a no no for those types of games. So your Capcoms and Namcos wouldnt even try and i cant blame them. Tvs.C was ported from arcade as the board they used for that game is the same in Wii so realy easy port(to bad servers are down) none of those games were essential. Smash for Wii wasnt even played competitvely, not like Melee or even the new one is. Tvs.C you're giving that game too much credit, its not like it sold gangbusters, and you cant even play online, damn near all the fighting games on last gen systems are still being played.
Ok and, what now? they are getting beat left right and center. I get it, they tried something and it worked. if im being honest i dont care how much they made, cause at the end of the day its not like the money translated into better games, the system kept getting shovelware, the motion controller tech kept sucking and when they did actually did improve it they barely supported it. Now we have Wii U...(which i actually like)
