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Deyon said:
NintendoPie said:
riderz13371 said:
Just like online gaming wasn't the future right? Just the man for the job!

That's right! He's the man who propelled Nintendo to the top sales-wise last gen!

Wasn't he the president since the GameCube days?

He took over a sinking ship. Before you can get that ship afloat again, you need to fix the reason to why it is sinking. That takes time.



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KHlover said:

In times of the Wii I would have agreed 100% with you, but the 3rd party aspect seems to improve. At least the smaller e-shop developers seem to be satisfied with Nintendo's support.

3rd party publishers supported the GameCube the first years but they quickly abandoned it. So, it's too early to judge the Wii U.



Deyon said:
KHlover said:

In times of the Wii I would have agreed 100% with you, but the 3rd party aspect seems to improve. At least the smaller e-shop developers seem to be satisfied with Nintendo's support.

3rd party publishers supported the GameCube the first years but they quickly abandoned it. So, it's too early to judge the Wii U.

My post was more about how satisfied those devs were with Nintendo's support, not how much support the WiiU actually gets. But yeah, it's too early to judge the WiiU. Those small signs are encouraging, though.



Deyon said:
NintendoPie said:
riderz13371 said:
Just like online gaming wasn't the future right? Just the man for the job!

That's right! He's the man who propelled Nintendo to the top sales-wise last gen!

Wasn't he the president since the GameCube days?

He was appointed president around the time GameCube released. GameCube wasn't his doing.

EDIT: Ninja'd anyway .



S.Peelman said:
riderz13371 said:
KHlover said:
riderz13371 said:
NintendoPie said:
riderz13371 said:
Just like online gaming wasn't the future right? Just the man for the job!

That's right! He's the man who propelled Nintendo to the top sales-wise last gen!

I'm sorry I totally forgot that you got a small percentage of every sale they made. None of that matters to me.

The sales certainly do for the compamy :D

It's not just about hardware. Nintendo didn't do so well in the Software department other than the usual games that they release like Mario and Zelda. They need to be more developer friendly so people will start to make third party games on their consoles, something that the Wii U is lacking at the moment.

I suggest you take a look at the top 20 best selling games of all time, you'll find a disproportionate amount of Wii games in there.

Then I suggest you read what I wrote again, because you might have skimmed through it.



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Deyon said:
KHlover said:

In times of the Wii I would have agreed 100% with you, but the 3rd party aspect seems to improve. At least the smaller e-shop developers seem to be satisfied with Nintendo's support.

3rd party publishers supported the GameCube the first years but they quickly abandoned it. So, it's too early to judge the Wii U.

He might be speaking of the 3ds e-shop. That one is getting quite good support. The wii u one is dry at the moment, but so was the 3ds the first half year. Anyways, I do not buy nintendo systems for 3rd party games, but I buy the games if they come to them. I think this is a large problem for nintendo, because I'm not the only one thinking this. They need to get a couple of good hardcore first partys so that the so called "hardcore" will travel over and start playing cod on the wii u.



newwil7l said:
Iwata is running the company into the ground. He needs a replacement immediately.

Why do you think that? Cloud gaming doesn't make any sense at the moment. Last time I check in order to have a great gaming experience you'll need at least 4-5 MBps of internet connection. The U.S barely reach that mark with an average of 6.7 MBps, with the global being 2.6 MBps. A LOT of people can't play using cloud gaming. In a some years maybe, but right now it doesn't make sense.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/9/3230626/akamai-global-internet-speed



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Online gaming is a fad.



riderz13371 said:
S.Peelman said:
riderz13371 said:
KHlover said:
riderz13371 said:
NintendoPie said:
riderz13371 said:
Just like online gaming wasn't the future right? Just the man for the job!

That's right! He's the man who propelled Nintendo to the top sales-wise last gen!

I'm sorry I totally forgot that you got a small percentage of every sale they made. None of that matters to me.

The sales certainly do for the compamy :D

It's not just about hardware. Nintendo didn't do so well in the Software department other than the usual games that they release like Mario and Zelda. They need to be more developer friendly so people will start to make third party games on their consoles, something that the Wii U is lacking at the moment.

I suggest you take a look at the top 20 best selling games of all time, you'll find a disproportionate amount of Wii games in there.

Then I suggest you read what I wrote again, because you might have skimmed through it.

As far as I know the usual mario and zelda does not include wii sports, wii fit and all those other software wii stuff there is, and those stand pretty respectably in those sales lists.



IsawYoshi said:

As far as I know the usual mario and zelda does not include wii sports, wii fit and all those other software wii stuff there is, and those stand pretty respectably in those sales lists.

Wii sports games don't count, they are bundled 100% all the time. And maybe Wii Fit too.