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dharh on 12 March 2015
RubberWhistleHistle said:
dharh said:


Completely subjective opinion and as far as that goes, even if a majority of gamers thought that, it's not enough.  For me, NIntendo only has 1 game so far that I would even consider buying and it is not at all a must buy let alone I think a top ten condender for 8th gen.


well its the only console that doesnt try to sell you interactive movies and pass them off for games. their games tend to be a lot deeper than that, which is why i had that opinion lol. its cool if you dont agree, its just obvious that theyre the only ones that bother to make actual video games, therefore they by far have the best games out of all the systems out.


You should have said Nintendo makes the best games, though again subjective, that would have been at least 'more true' than Wii U has the best games. Frankly gen 8 is in such flux I don't even think there has been more than a handful of gen 8 games released so far and I would even go so far as to have considerable doubt that Wii U games be classifiable as gen 8 games since I think since gen 8 started there have been plenty of gen 7 games that outclass anything Wii U has released.



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RubberWhistleHistle on 12 March 2015
dharh said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:


well its the only console that doesnt try to sell you interactive movies and pass them off for games. their games tend to be a lot deeper than that, which is why i had that opinion lol. its cool if you dont agree, its just obvious that theyre the only ones that bother to make actual video games, therefore they by far have the best games out of all the systems out.


You should have said Nintendo makes the best games, though again subjective, that would have been at least 'more true' than Wii U has the best games. Frankly gen 8 is in such flux I don't even think there has been more than a handful of gen 8 games released so far and I would even go so far as to have considerable doubt that Wii U games be classifiable as gen 8 games since I think since gen 8 started there have been plenty of gen 7 games that outclass anything Wii U has released.

my god, even if you believe that nonsense that doesnt change which generation the wii u is a part of. get real.



Barkley on 12 March 2015
RubberWhistleHistle said:
even if the wii u sold way less than everyone though, it still doesnt change the fact that it has by far the best games out of all the 8th gen consoles. lol


Best exclusives, unfortunately there isn't enough of them and it has zero third party support.

WiiU is a must-have console imo, but clearly the vast majority of people don't agree.



GTAexpert on 12 March 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:
even if the wii u sold way less than everyone though, it still doesnt change the fact that it has by far the best games out of all the 8th gen consoles. lol

Might want to look that word up in a dictionary

Nah, he uses Nintendo's Dictionary for Wii U owners



Kerotan on 12 March 2015
Ryng_Tolu said:
Worst scenario:
2015: 3,000,000 (12,000,000)
2016: 2,000,000 (14,000,000)
2017: 1,000,000 (15,000,000) new N Console released
other 500,000/600,000
LT: 15,500,000

Best scenario:
2015: 4,000,000 (13,000,000)
2016: 3,500,000 (16,500,000)
2017: 2,500,000 (19,000,000)
2018: 1,200,000 (20,200,000) New N console released
other 700,000/800,000
LT: 21,000,000


I think that sums it up.  Personally Id say it's something on between.  



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Kerotan on 12 March 2015
GTAexpert said:
Ka-pi96 said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:
even if the wii u sold way less than everyone though, it still doesnt change the fact that it has by far the best games out of all the 8th gen consoles. lol

Might want to look that word up in a dictionary

Nah, he uses Nintendo's Dictionary for Wii U owners


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Landguy on 12 March 2015

Don't remember if I commented in this thread originally, but it is interesting to go back just 2-3 years and see that we are off base in almost all of our predictions. The more interesting thing to see is that because there are so many predictions, we always have a few people relatively close to what actually happens. I would sum it up to a statistical reality of the happening.

I always thought the the original Wii was a fad. Doesn't mean it didn't have good games. Just that it was a fad. I also always thought that based on the Wii name being brought to the WiiU, that it would hurt it's sales. The problem with fads are that people go from loving/wanting it during its peak to hating it shortly there after. Usually takes many years before people appreciate it again and it gets thought of fondly.

Regardless, I am more than surprised that the WiiU won't sell closer to 30+ million to 40 million. Nintendo really screwed up on the WiiU...



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DonFerrari on 12 March 2015
BenVTrigger said:
Unfortuantly for those of you disagreeing with me I have a rediculous accuracy when it comes to these things mostly to do with the fact that I see real numbers every day and dont carry any personal feeling into numbers.

And anyone saying 40 million or less are very wrong. Casuals are the ones doing much of the current pre-orders


Seem like you aren't that accurate :)



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RubberWhistleHistle on 12 March 2015
GTAexpert said:
Ka-pi96 said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:
even if the wii u sold way less than everyone though, it still doesnt change the fact that it has by far the best games out of all the 8th gen consoles. lol

Might want to look that word up in a dictionary

Nah, he uses Nintendo's Dictionary for Wii U owners


its damn near a fact. i guess what it comes down to is what do you even consider to be a game? do i consider half baked interactive movies games? no, i dont, therefore the wii u has the best games by default :p



b00moscone on 12 March 2015

Looking at all of the first posts is so painful :'(



 

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