| bdbdbd said: It has the best exclusives. If they're not that good, the competition naturally has it worse. Who cares about reviews anyways these days, outside of PR. Sony did not manage to sell PS3 for 599. The situation for PS3 was pretty much the same Wii U is facing at the moment: the games started coming years after the release, although PS3 had lots of 3rd party games, while Wii U isn't.
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I don't think that's the case. I was under the impression that the ps3 struggled until the slim model but then read that it did well from the getgo, outselling xb360 consistently every year until Kinect took off. Sony has such a strong brand in home consoles, it can convince the consumers to buy its consoles even at a high price and with limited first party games. Ninty cannot. Hence the wii being the only exception since the n64 says. But sure. Let's wait until the next ninty console is released and see how it does.
As for Ninty ips being stale, I agree with you (been playing pokemon Y the last couple of weeks) and it's stale as hell. Same music, same story (oooh, it's time fire causing trouble), many same moves, yet the games still sell amazingly well and move hardware.
If you (as in anyone) spend most of your time on Ninty forums or around Ninty fans expressing their excitement over Zelda, you get the impression that the wrold can't wait for the new Zelda game. The reality may be a bit different, i.e. the hardcore fans being very local and the masses being indifferent to the game.
