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dark_gh0st_b0y on 10 February 2012
sethnintendo said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
poor Wii is unprotected, my best console of all time!!

Yea, I stopped protecting mine too.  Those Wii condoms just got in the way too much of all the fun.

haha  : P

should have said unsupported



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megaman79 on 10 February 2012

Nintendo has billions of dollars. MS and Sony don't.

end of discussion



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Carl on 10 February 2012
megaman79 said:
Nintendo has billions of dollars. MS don't.


You're a funny guy.



                            

Acevil on 10 February 2012
Carl2291 said:
megaman79 said:
Nintendo has billions of dollars. MS don't.


You're a funny guy.


I think he means in terms of what they made this generation in regards to gaming division (Profit, not Revenue), poorly worded and really not relevant. 



 

Carl on 10 February 2012
Acevil said:

I think he means in terms of what they made this generation in regards to gaming division (Profit, not Revenue), poorly worded and really not relevant. 

Either way, it's still quite funny to read.



                            

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Mr Khan on 10 February 2012

The goal-post moving continues late in the game, i see



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Salnax on 10 February 2012
Mr Khan said:
The goal-post moving continues late in the game, i see


Remember back when the Wii would struggle to reach a 20 million units sold? Good times...



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dark_gh0st_b0y on 10 February 2012

i think the title itself is wrong, why see the million sellers and not overall software sales!?

although million is an important margin, it does not quaranty quality

Wii games are underappreciated, Xenoblade is not a million seller, Little King's Story is AAA and is not million seller, RedSteel 2 and Zack and Wiki are great too, but Carnival Games counts for christ's sake!?

the leader of the gen is combing overall hardware and software, where the Wii leads both, now if Nintendo abandoned the Wii the last year to focus on the future is unrelated, Wii has been the leader since the beginning



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oniyide on 10 February 2012
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
i think the title itself is wrong, why see the million sellers and not overall software sales!?

although million is an important margin, it does not quaranty quality

Wii games are underappreciated, Xenoblade is not a million seller, Little King's Story is AAA and is not million seller, RedSteel 2 and Zack and Wiki are great too, but Carnival Games counts for christ's sake!?

the leader of the gen is combing overall hardware and software, where the Wii leads both, now if Nintendo abandoned the Wii the last year to focus on the future is unrelated, Wii has been the leader since the beginning

Who fault is this?? Really, its the WIi owners that are buying the Carnival games in droves and not buying the Red Steels, Xenoblades, whatever game you think is "great" and should have sold more. That just shows what most Wii owners actually care about



Ail on 10 February 2012
ClaudeLv250 said:
Ail said:
ClaudeLv250 said:
Ail said:


1) I don't get why so many of you are expecting the situation to be any better with the WiiU.

2) The WiiU is expected to release with specs equivallent or slightly better than the current HD consoles.

3) Then 1 or 2 years after the WiiU, new HD consoles will release with specs 5 to 6 times better than the current HD consoles.

4) With that in mind do you expect third parties to be able to port titles for all 3 platforms , 2-3 years from now ?

1) It's a new console in a new generation.

2) Only fanboys expect this. Anyone knows that a console built with 2009 or later technology is going to handily whip 2004/5 tech. It's not even possible for 360 and PS3 to be in Wii U's league.

3) That's exactly what the Sony crowd said about the 360, and how the PS3 coming a year later would make it a million times more powerful than the "Xbox 1.5!" That didn't happen then and it's not going to happen now.

4) Of course, if they're smart. All this talk about scalable engines doesn't make sense if they're not, you know, scalable.

Then maybe Nintendo shoudn't show PS3/Xbox360 gameplay to demo it... Doesn't infuse a lot of faith...

We're moving toward a more digital era where digital releases are going to become more and more prominent and right now the only storage the WiiU is providing is internal flash memory...

Lets face it, EA or Activision rather you buy their games online  on XboxLive or on the PSN than at Wallmart, their share of the profit is bigger. Nintendo is going to have to provide similar channels and that will require internal storage better than what is scheduled in the WiiU...( i guess they could always do what Microsoft did with the Arcade and have a WiU model with a HDD..)

They didn't show PS360 gameplay to demo the console. They showed it to announce upcoming games. They used original tech demos on the show floor to demo the console. I seriously doubt 2, 3 years from now when we're in the next gen, people are really going to care that Darksiders II footage wasn't running from a Wii U upon announcement.

No, the Wii U doesn't only provide internal flash memory (the amount of which no one is even sure of), it has USB storage as well. I have a 200GB portable HD, I'm sure it's not going to be that hard for anyone filling up the internal space to get a portable HD too.

And no, EA and Activision absolutely do not want to phase out their relationships with retailers considering the vast majority of their sales are there. Digital distrubtion of retail games is no where near a maturity and dominance to even offset the millions of sales Activision gets from CoD.


They won't stop selling at retailers but they clearly rather sell digital copies. You can read the writing on the wall when in every quarterly report the focus is on digital sales and how much they have grown compared to previous years. Go check the latest EA and Activision press releases...( and every new retailer program to cash on used game sales is only speeding up that process).

Music has gone digital, books are going digital, games are doing the same. Yet all those medium still have physical copies too but you can see the impact on physical retailers when only 10% of sales move from physical to digital...( been to your local Borders lately or checked the PC shelf at your local Best Buy ?).

 

As for your CoD example, it's not really convincing me. CoD is one game where Activision clearly has the edge over retailers because retailers can not afford not to have those games on sales.  No matter what CoD fans will get their copies( there's a reason it's was the most preordered game this gen). If retailers can put some pressure, it's on the small publishers, not on companies like EA or Activision...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !