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Rogerioandrade on 18 November 2013

Not just that. As the hype fades, they both will have anemic sales next year. This trend has been common since their predecessors, was with 3DS, Vita and WiiU and will continue to be like that.

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Ninjahound101 on 19 November 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
He's ignoring an army of third party titles. InFamous is coming out in March alongside Titanfall. This guy is having some of the good stuff. Nintendo has to rely on exclusives so their droughts will last a very, very long time.


I mntioned 3rd parties



bet with ash3336 he wins if Super Mario 3D World sells less than Mario Sunshine during the first three years, I win if 3D World outsells Sunshine's first 3 years. Loser get sig controlled for 3 months (punishment might change)

Do you doubt the WiiU? Do you believe that it won't match the GC?

Then come and accept this bet

Nintendo eShop USA sales ranking 2/12/2013 : http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=173615

ps4tw on 19 November 2013
Rogerioandrade said:

Not just that. As the hype fades, they both will have anemic sales next year. This trend has been common since their predecessors, was with 3DS, Vita and WiiU and will continue to be like that.


The PS4 and XB1 do not have the same problems that all those three things have. The 3DS has the entire mobile marketspace to battle with, the Vita has Nintendo's (shrinking) dominance in the handhelds market to fight with, and the WiiU has no 3rd party support and so far looks like its just another 7th gen console. With a strange pad. 



MTZehvor on 19 November 2013

I seem to recall MH3U and Lego City Undercover increasing Wii U sales in their respective launch weeks by a factor of three and two, respectively. That said, Wii U sales were pretty dismal at that point (hanging around the 20,000 units per week mark), so it's not exactly something to go nuts about.

The problem with third party multiplats for the Wii U is that the majority of the people who are interested in said third party titles have already long since bought a console to play them on. Since the Wii did a major number of Nintendo's reputation with fans as far as third party titles go, most people who routinely buy those games have a 360, PS3, or PC to do so. Nobody's going to buy a Wii U just to play Injustice on when they already have a console that will play the game fine.

It also hasn't helped that the Wii U versions of multiplat games have been getting gimped pretty badly compared to other consoles.



justinian on 19 November 2013

Edit: Sorry, posted in wrong thread.



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Nintentacle on 20 November 2013
ps4tw said:
Mr Khan said:
ps4tw said:
Mr Khan said:
 

I meant games developed for Wii U originally.

If thats how your going play it then how do you figure the gen of a multiplat like black ops as the PS3, xbox and wii u got the same thing? What gen something is is totally to do with the tech. Anything else is just guess work. Im happy to say that so far there hasnt been a single 8th gen game on the wii u, but thatll change when they bring out mario karts. Mario 3d just looks like a standard run around platformer from this gen.

So 8th gen is a standard arbitrarily determined by you. Good to know.

Tech is quantifiable, whereas yours ain't and is just guess work by you to big up old tech. There was an epic thread on eurogamer where it was clearly spelt out what a next gen console is - a game console that can play next gen games. 

If you just say "its the next one so its next gen" then why isn't my microwave a next gen console? Your argument cant hold up to even the most basic scrutiny. 

Because your Microwave isn't a game console.



Nintentacle on 20 November 2013
ps4tw said:
Mr Khan said:
ps4tw said:
Mr Khan said:
 

I meant games developed for Wii U originally.

If thats how your going play it then how do you figure the gen of a multiplat like black ops as the PS3, xbox and wii u got the same thing? What gen something is is totally to do with the tech. Anything else is just guess work. Im happy to say that so far there hasnt been a single 8th gen game on the wii u, but thatll change when they bring out mario karts. Mario 3d just looks like a standard run around platformer from this gen.

So 8th gen is a standard arbitrarily determined by you. Good to know.

Tech is quantifiable, whereas yours ain't and is just guess work by you to big up old tech. There was an epic thread on eurogamer where it was clearly spelt out what a next gen console is - a game console that can play next gen games. 

If you just say "its the next one so its next gen" then why isn't my microwave a next gen console? Your argument cant hold up to even the most basic scrutiny. 

Because your Microwave isn't a game console.



JoeTheBro on 20 November 2013

Since this was bumped, tada drought over:

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/11/18/amazon-italy-lists-tomb-raider-definitive-edition-for-ps4-provides-date-and-details/

January 24



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9087 on 20 November 2013

DriveClub
InFamous: Second Son
The Witness
Destiny

all coming soon on PS4.



ps4tw on 20 November 2013
Nintentacle said:
ps4tw said:
Mr Khan said:
ps4tw said:
Mr Khan said:
 

I meant games developed for Wii U originally.

If thats how your going play it then how do you figure the gen of a multiplat like black ops as the PS3, xbox and wii u got the same thing? What gen something is is totally to do with the tech. Anything else is just guess work. Im happy to say that so far there hasnt been a single 8th gen game on the wii u, but thatll change when they bring out mario karts. Mario 3d just looks like a standard run around platformer from this gen.

So 8th gen is a standard arbitrarily determined by you. Good to know.

Tech is quantifiable, whereas yours ain't and is just guess work by you to big up old tech. There was an epic thread on eurogamer where it was clearly spelt out what a next gen console is - a game console that can play next gen games. 

If you just say "its the next one so its next gen" then why isn't my microwave a next gen console? Your argument cant hold up to even the most basic scrutiny. 

Because your Microwave isn't a game console.

Noooo waaayy, really?

Why isn't it? Thats what im saying, how you say it isnt a console will show you that theres more to a console than "it was released as the next one".