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Smart move by Nintendo?

Oh yea. Mario & Luigi Bros Time 198 88.79%
 
Nope. Prefer the old bundle 11 4.93%
 
Just not interested buddy 14 6.28%
 
Total:223
Soundwave on 25 October 2013
Dr.EisDrachenJaeger said:
In case you didnt know, the "old guard" as you so put it is gone from Nintendo. They all left, Hiroshi Yamauchi in fact was the only one left, and Iwata cleaned house Yamauchi style.


So again it really just goes to show you how limited your perception is.

You too Rol. They're preparing a serving of crow ala mode just for you


Most of Nintendo's board of directors are in their 60s, so that would be a no. 



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Soundwave on 25 October 2013
RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

Perhaps Nintendo just needs to ditch the "controller can sell a system!" concept ... the Wiimote was a miracle, the type of thing that happens maybe once every 20-30 years in this business. Another Wiimote (motion gaming) type break through probably isn't happening for a while. I guess there's Occulus Rift/VR but Sony is already incorporating that into the PS4 apparently. 

Of course they should ditch that concept. It never worked for them or anyone else in the past.

It can work, it's just not reliable. It requires a lot of things going right, which makes for a formula that can't be repeated. 



Soundwave on 25 October 2013
RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

It can work, it's just not reliable. It requires a lot of things going right, which makes for a formula that can't be repeated.

It never worked. Saying otherwise just demonstrates a clear lack of understanding, intentional or otherwise.


It obviously worked with the Wii (centering the console around a controller) and arguably the DS too (touchscreen as a differniator). 

I think Nintendo was kinda "trapped" into having to follow the similar formula again, no matter how much they could see the market was changing. 



Dr.EisDrachenJaeger on 25 October 2013
Soundwave said:
Dr.EisDrachenJaeger said:
In case you didnt know, the "old guard" as you so put it is gone from Nintendo. They all left, Hiroshi Yamauchi in fact was the only one left, and Iwata cleaned house Yamauchi style.


So again it really just goes to show you how limited your perception is.

You too Rol. They're preparing a serving of crow ala mode just for you


Most of Nintendo's board of directors are in their 60s, so that would be a no. 

New leadership is new leadership.

And the did bring down the age of all their board by approximately 8 years.



Zero999 on 25 October 2013
Arius Dion said:
Zero999 said:
Arius Dion said:
Zero999 said:

saying the gamepad is "eating up a large portion of the hardware budget" is plain wrong. it doesn't get simpler than that.

Sure, nobody wants to play the nintendo exclusives, that must be why so many of them sell millions or even 10M+.


You don't think the Gamepads existence inflated Wii U's price? Didn't Miyamoto state that had Sony created their own gamepad it would have increased the price by at least $100?

What Gamecube game sold 10m units?

yes, it inflated the retail price by a whooping $50, tops.

gamecube? I said nintendo games. in case you didn't notice, the wii had many multi million sellers, some of them crossing the 10M and 20M mark. being more recent than gamecube, wii software sales have more credibility to show consumer interest in nintendo games.


Oh ok now we're talking about the Wii? Ok; absolutely, Wii was a software beast and thus set records. The Wii was a return to form for Nintendo, and instead of continuing that path, what do they do? Wii U is no Wii. Can we atleast agree there? Wii U has more in common with Gamecube than it does with the phenom that was Wii. And if you look at the 20m sellers, they weren't Gamecube sequels were they?

 

mario kart, smash, mario galaxy... all above 10M.



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Arius Dion on 25 October 2013
Zero999 said:
Arius Dion said:
Zero999 said:
Arius Dion said:
Zero999 said:

saying the gamepad is "eating up a large portion of the hardware budget" is plain wrong. it doesn't get simpler than that.

Sure, nobody wants to play the nintendo exclusives, that must be why so many of them sell millions or even 10M+.


You don't think the Gamepads existence inflated Wii U's price? Didn't Miyamoto state that had Sony created their own gamepad it would have increased the price by at least $100?

What Gamecube game sold 10m units?

yes, it inflated the retail price by a whooping $50, tops.

gamecube? I said nintendo games. in case you didn't notice, the wii had many multi million sellers, some of them crossing the 10M and 20M mark. being more recent than gamecube, wii software sales have more credibility to show consumer interest in nintendo games.


Oh ok now we're talking about the Wii? Ok; absolutely, Wii was a software beast and thus set records. The Wii was a return to form for Nintendo, and instead of continuing that path, what do they do? Wii U is no Wii. Can we atleast agree there? Wii U has more in common with Gamecube than it does with the phenom that was Wii. And if you look at the 20m sellers, they weren't Gamecube sequels were they?

 

mario kart, smash, mario galaxy... all above 10M.

How many of those passed 20m? Oh Mario Kart? The game which began on the SNES? And met decline with DD? Try again.



Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:


If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.

DevilRising on 27 October 2013

Funny how people in here obsessed with turning this thread into another "Wii U/Gampad" argument, when the thread is about a new bundle that is bound to help sales. Silly people.