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Conegamer on 29 August 2013
Kresnik said:

Vita lower this week than Dragon's Crown week in NA. Yeah...

Call it blind optimism, but I'm gonna wait for NPD like usual.  I'm expecting terrible, but at least believable terrible (i.e. more than a week where a niche game from a niche genre by a niche developer boosted hardware.  It's probably the DC week which is wrong, though).

I'm also going to wait for NPD before saying anything. Though, I have a feeling the overtracked-ness from Dragon's Crown week may wipe out the under-trackedness from this week, maybe.



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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Blood_Tears on 29 August 2013

Not too bad for Vita, the price cut was active the next day after the Sony press confernce at gamescom. So that's 4 days of new price cut with no advertising to boot. It will get better come the holidays. Meanwhile, great showing this week for PS3, close to the top spot on the list and god knows how many weeks in a row this makes for PS3 at number one home console.



JWeinCom on 29 August 2013
Kresnik said:
JWeinCom said:

Do you have a link to that?  Not doubting you, just would like to read it.


Uff.  I did a whole post explaining it a very long time ago.  I'll do the tl;dr version here:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-07-23-ubisoft-says-wii-u-ports-costing-under-USD1-3-million

$1.3 million Wii-U ports for Ubisoft.

Anatomy of videogame costs - $27 to publisher.

Assuming all copies are sold for $60 (I think they will be, since it'll be the publisher selling them to the retailer) then it would be 48,148 copies if the numbers worked out exactly.  I just rounded this up to ~ 50k to make it easier to read.

The flaw to this is that Ubisoft carpet bombed that $1.3 million figure for all their launch title ports.  Those games ranged from Just Dance to Assassin's Creed.  I'm sure, as you can imagine, Assassin's Creed would probably cost significantly more to port than Just Dance.  I'd imagine Splinter Cell is much closer to AC level than JD; but as $1.3m is the only number we have to work with, that's what I use.



Cool thanks.



chapset on 29 August 2013

Being the superior version with no delay didn't help splinter cell much, what's the excuse now



Bet reminder: I bet with Tboned51 that Splatoon won't reach the 1 million shipped mark by the end of 2015. I win if he loses and I lose if I lost.

Lusche on 29 August 2013
chapset said:
Being the superior version with no delay didn't help splinter cell much, what's the excuse now


the game is bad and cant match the quality other nintendo 1st parties can offer

/sarcasm

edit:
as a wii(u) ps360 pc owner i still wouldn't get that game for the wiiu.
i would instead pick the pc version ...



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leo-j on 29 August 2013

great news, the vita continues to grow the gap between itself and the Wii u



 

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AlphaCielago on 29 August 2013

So can we say again that Vita has no gamez?
Or should we reserve that for next week, when we have a clearer view?



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Lusche on 29 August 2013
AlphaCielago said:
So can we say again that Vita has no gamez?
Or should we reserve that for next week, when we have a clearer view?


Even if the vita would sell 2million next month doesn't change the fact that it still has no games ...
Unless they release 50 new games with it next month.

Well but to be fair, i can't count my 'must have vita games' with one hand anymore :p



iamdeath on 29 August 2013
Lusche said:
AlphaCielago said:
So can we say again that Vita has no gamez?
Or should we reserve that for next week, when we have a clearer view?


Even if the vita would sell 2million next month doesn't change the fact that it still has no games ...
Unless they release 50 new games with it next month.

Well but to be fair, i can't count my 'must have vita' games with one hand anymore :p

Sigh, it has games, thats a bs argument.  Teh issue is peopela re simply not aware of them and not aware of the price cut.



AlphaCielago on 29 August 2013
iamdeath said:
Lusche said:
AlphaCielago said:
So can we say again that Vita has no gamez?
Or should we reserve that for next week, when we have a clearer view?


Even if the vita would sell 2million next month doesn't change the fact that it still has no games ...
Unless they release 50 new games with it next month.

Well but to be fair, i can't count my 'must have vita' games with one hand anymore :p

Sigh, it has games, thats a bs argument.  Teh issue is peopela re simply not aware of them and not aware of the price cut.

People are not aware of them because they are indie, go figure. 



Check out my Upcoming Wii U Games 2014 Thread

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