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Ssenkahdavic on 21 May 2010

Good ol' Summer time.



 

  

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Notorius.A.i.G on 21 May 2010
Seece said:
If you think this week is bad, hold on to your seatbelts! 360 is gonna go sub 60ks, PS3 sub 100k, Wii sub 140k pretty soon.


So true.



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Toddifer on 25 May 2010

I thought Q1 was slowest time for console sales...?



Bah!

TheSource on 25 May 2010

Everything will be up soon enough with Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Nothing is really that slow though, Wii dropped below 200,000 quite a bit in 2007 and 2009, and PS3 / X360 have been as low as 50,000 and 65,000 per week in prior weeks.

 



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Xoj on 25 May 2010
curl-6 said:

Every Nintendo console has suffered from a relatively poor relationship with third parties. They just don't like having to compete with Nintendo's 1st party mega-blockbusters.

Also, before everyone jumps on the ol' "Wii is domed" bandwagon, note that:
(A) It's still outselling its rivals despite a lack of big hardware pushers recently.
(B) People were saying the same thing about it last year, yet it had the biggest Xmas season in history.
(C) Upcoming titles like Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid Other M, Wii Relax/Party, and Zelda Wii should restore and maintain some momentum.

(D) It's summer. Things are always slow.

nintendo was a beatch on snes era, continue on n64 era.

 

third party managed to break records on the the playstation.

 

nintendo on japan it's living on new mario bros wii it main pillar MG2 drops up, it also a slow time of the year



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Toddifer on 25 May 2010

I am curious to see if Wii gets a bump with SMG2. I know a lot of people don't think it'll be a 'system-seller', but with the acclaim that's pouring in, and how it's even better than the almost universally acclaimed original, it makes me wonder if it might convince some fence-sitters to get off the fence...



Bah!

curl-6 on 25 May 2010
Xoj said:
curl-6 said:

Every Nintendo console has suffered from a relatively poor relationship with third parties. They just don't like having to compete with Nintendo's 1st party mega-blockbusters.

Also, before everyone jumps on the ol' "Wii is domed" bandwagon, note that:
(A) It's still outselling its rivals despite a lack of big hardware pushers recently.
(B) People were saying the same thing about it last year, yet it had the biggest Xmas season in history.
(C) Upcoming titles like Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid Other M, Wii Relax/Party, and Zelda Wii should restore and maintain some momentum.

(D) It's summer. Things are always slow.

nintendo was a beatch on snes era, continue on n64 era.

 

third party managed to break records on the the playstation.

 

nintendo on japan it's living on new mario bros wii it main pillar MG2 drops up, it also a slow time of the year

Nintendo's 3rd party support during the SNES era was largely the legacy of them bullying 3rd parties into supporting them back in the NES era where their market share was so overwhelming they could afford to be bullies.

The N64 lost 3rd party support due to the expenses of cartidge production as opposed to CDs.

Last gen, 3rd parties figured they could afford to short-change the Gamecube due to its low install base, despite Nintendo going out of their way to appeal to 3rd parties and earn back their support. (e.g. letting third parties handle some of their franchises, like F-Zero GX)

Now that Nintendo have the market share with the Wii, 3rd parties earned a bad rep in the eyes of Wii owners by providing weak support when they assumed the system would crash and burn, then justified their poor performance by falling back on the old cliche of "only Nintendo games sell on Nintendo systems." While it's true that having to compete against the likes of Mario for gamer's dollars is harder than competing with Sony and Microsoft's smaller 1st party offerings, but companies like Capcom and Treyarch have shown that it IS possible for hardcore 3rd party content to perform well on Wii.

It's the Nintendo curse; you get top-notch 1st party games, but 3rd party support is never as strong as it could be.



Toddifer on 26 May 2010

Well said.



Bah!