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boypita on 17 January 2016

I love this kind of posts >:D



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DonFerrari on 17 January 2016
Volterra_90 said:
DonFerrari said:

Well, Zamieh seems to think there will be a big tide change.

To each his own, I guess xDDD. I'm willing to bet that this year would only prove PS4 destroying the rest of them. That's almost a given. Nintendo is finishing the WiiU cycle, XBox doesn't quite find its place, and there are no game-changing on course to prove this wrong. 

Well yes... I see no chance of PS4 slowing or WiiU speeding up, but I would like WiiU improving it's sale and NX having a good launch.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

PerturbedKitty on 17 January 2016
POE said:
Megaoverlord12 said:
I saw a crap load of requests for it last year, is anybody planning on doing similar threads for XB1, PS4, 3DS, and/or Vita? If not, I could do them.

 


I won't do them, thats for sure.

you tell 'em!





travis on 17 January 2016

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Volterra_90 on 17 January 2016
DonFerrari said:

Well yes... I see no chance of PS4 slowing or WiiU speeding up, but I would like WiiU improving it's sale and NX having a good launch.

Yeah, I hope so too. I'm having lots of fun with my WiiU and it just saddens me its state. I hope Nintendo has learnt about its mistakes and NX has a good launch. 





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DonFerrari on 17 January 2016
Volterra_90 said:
DonFerrari said:

Well yes... I see no chance of PS4 slowing or WiiU speeding up, but I would like WiiU improving it's sale and NX having a good launch.

Yeah, I hope so too. I'm having lots of fun with my WiiU and it just saddens me its state. I hope Nintendo has learnt about its mistakes and NX has a good launch. 

Well, me too. Although their consoles after SNES have been showing they are resistent to learn what work and what don't when launching consoles.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Soundwave on 17 January 2016
teigaga said:
PerturbedKitty said:
Soundwave said:

This is kind of like saying an morbidly obese man is doing ok because he managed to match the 3 sit ups he did last year. 

The Wii U is doing ok relative to the Wii U ... but lets not get it twisted, the "Wii U average" is crap, it far and away the worst selling Nintendo home console ever and selling 3 million-ish a year is not enough to sustain an HD ecosystem in the modern business sense. Shit, I don't think that would be viable even in the SNES days. 

The Wii u average is crap, but they are still profiting off of it.  When you actually go ahead and spend the research and development that necessitates making a console, you want to make as much back from that as you possibly can. Replacing it now would be stupid. 


Its all dependant on opportunity cost though

If sacrificing the Wii U's longevity meant providing their next console with higher potential to profit, compete and be a much bigger success, then its worth cutting of its life early. The GBA was cut off early by the DS, but it was certainly worth it. The Xbox OG by the 360, but  again it was worth it. Had Microsoft waited another year, they may have faired far worse.

None of us are sure of what Nintendo's plans are with the next system and that'll obviously affect when best to launch. 

The funny thing is of the four historical big hardware makers in the post-Atari era, Nintendo, Sega, and Microsoft (3 out of 4, with Sony being the other) have all had their most successful game platforms "cut off" their previous systems prematurely. 

The XBox 360 (2005) cut off the XBox (2001) early. This is the best selling MS system.

The DS (2004) cut off the Game Boy Advance (2001) early. DS is the best selling Nintendo system.

The Genesis (1989) cut off the Sega Master System (1986) early. Genesis is Sega's best selling system. 

The "ohmygod! you can't not support a system for 5 years! Consumers will punish you!" is really honestly one of those old wives tales that doesn't actually hold up to real scrutiny. 



Bofferbrauer on 23 January 2016

Wow, how could I miss this thread??? Tagging in for sure!

Should be way up until Splatoon/MK8 release in the previous years. After that point, we have no infos so all bets are off what follows then.



POE on 23 January 2016
Bofferbrauer said:
Wow, how could I miss this thread??? Tagging in for sure!

Should be way up until Splatoon/MK8 release in the previous years. After that point, we have no infos so all bets are off what follows then.

 

Paper Mario (if true) looks more like an October game, so no idea what could launch in May.



Tachikoma on 23 January 2016

Who knew having games would sell more consoles? It's a fucking miracle.