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MTZehvor said:
ps4tw said:
MTZehvor said:
Pemalite said:

And sorry MTZehvor for hijacking your debate. :P

You need not apologize to me. I'm personally amazed you got him to admit that he was wrong about anything, ever.


Permalite had an argument that was addressing what I said. Your argument was just crazy blabbering and nothing technical. See, when you actually know what your talking about, it helps in a debate. #craziness

...did you really just use a hashtag in a debate?

...seriously?

Well, that's it. I'm out. I'd continue, but it's readily apparent that convincing someone who can't even define a single generation with his contradictory graphical standards is a task that would take decisive evidence or a miracle from Jesus. And in the realms of a definition debate, neither of those seems likely.

Boohoo youve seen how your argument is wrong and now your running away. Me and Permalite are working on a definition for an 8th gen engine and its coming along quite nicely so hah, your point sucks and you cant big up to that fact. 



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Ljink96 said:
Guys, do you realize Wii U just won this year just because of this? The thing is cheap, has 2 major games out already "WW HD" and the critically acclaimed "Super Mario 3D World". And Mario Kart& Smash Bros are expected for 2014. You have to have games to sell a console and game take time. PS4 and Xbone will take off, just not this year. I find it kinda funny though that Xbone and PS4 are at the exact same(according to vgchartz) sales and PS4 has only been sold in the US while Xbone has been sold in US+Europe... strange.


Hahahaha. The ps4 and xb1 have already sold about 25% of what the wiiu has in under a month. The wiiu may have won the worst console sales of the decade award and thats about it. 



Zod95 said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
this is indeed going to happen, launch demand won't continue for long, Ps4 and XboxONE are also very expensive

hard-core gamers buy the consoles at launch, like they buy hard-core games, I predict Ps3/Xbox360 style of sales trend for Ps4 and XboxONE over the coming years

If that's so, why has the PS3 sold so little in 2006 and presented an ever growing yearly sales during 4 consecutive years? And something similar happened with X360, which had its sales peak in the 5th year. I think it's the opposite: hardcore consoles sell well during the entire generation while casual / alternative consoles like Wii may have a boost in the first 2 or 3 years but then begin to decay.

Growing yearly sales were because of the decreasing price along with more games

I agree that hardcore consoles sell well during the entire generation, that's why, even with a successful launch, there will be a steep decrease after the holidays (like core games sales have a steep decrease after launch), and a slow increase in the coming years, that's why i said Ps3/Xbox360 trend over the coming years

people declare Ps4/XboxONE god consoles and doom the WiiU, but is not the case

Ps4/XboxONE probably won't sell well after holidays and 2014 (very high price, only a few games)

WiiU is pretty hard to predict, could even take off once the price gets lower and more Nintendo games come out, largely depends on families really, they may miss the Wii fun they had and want to buy the new stuff when it gets cheaper?

a reason Wii had huge sales the first 2 years is the low price, so it is important, similar case for 3DS

so, doom and praise threads are pretty much pointless at this time



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

ps4tw said:
Ljink96 said:
Guys, do you realize Wii U just won this year just because of this? The thing is cheap, has 2 major games out already "WW HD" and the critically acclaimed "Super Mario 3D World". And Mario Kart& Smash Bros are expected for 2014. You have to have games to sell a console and game take time. PS4 and Xbone will take off, just not this year. I find it kinda funny though that Xbone and PS4 are at the exact same(according to vgchartz) sales and PS4 has only been sold in the US while Xbone has been sold in US+Europe... strange.


Hahahaha. The ps4 and xb1 have already sold about 25% of what the wiiu has in under a month. The wiiu may have won the worst console sales of the decade award and thats about it. 


Why do you just have to direct this to a Wii U failure post? I said what has only been true. I don't go buying consoles if the games suck butt on it just because. I'll get a PS4 when the RPGs come out. The Wii U might not be as powerful but it has a creative edge that no other company can match and you can see that with titles like SM3DW. I don't care who wins this gen as long as I get good clean games.



Ljink96 said:
ps4tw said:
Ljink96 said:
Guys, do you realize Wii U just won this year just because of this? The thing is cheap, has 2 major games out already "WW HD" and the critically acclaimed "Super Mario 3D World". And Mario Kart& Smash Bros are expected for 2014. You have to have games to sell a console and game take time. PS4 and Xbone will take off, just not this year. I find it kinda funny though that Xbone and PS4 are at the exact same(according to vgchartz) sales and PS4 has only been sold in the US while Xbone has been sold in US+Europe... strange.


Hahahaha. The ps4 and xb1 have already sold about 25% of what the wiiu has in under a month. The wiiu may have won the worst console sales of the decade award and thats about it. 


Why do you just have to direct this to a Wii U failure post? I said what has only been true. I don't go buying consoles if the games suck butt on it just because. I'll get a PS4 when the RPGs come out. The Wii U might not be as powerful but it has a creative edge that no other company can match and you can see that with titles like SM3DW. I don't care who wins this gen as long as I get good clean games.

What creative edge lol sony have snapped up all the good indie developers. SM3DW ooo another 3d mario just what ive been wanting, no wait that was done on the n64. 

If you want more of the same, stick with nintendo, if you want a htpc, go for the xb1, if you want an 8th gen games console, go for the ps4.



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ps4tw said:
MTZehvor said:
ps4tw said:
MTZehvor said:
Pemalite said:

And sorry MTZehvor for hijacking your debate. :P

You need not apologize to me. I'm personally amazed you got him to admit that he was wrong about anything, ever.


Permalite had an argument that was addressing what I said. Your argument was just crazy blabbering and nothing technical. See, when you actually know what your talking about, it helps in a debate. #craziness

...did you really just use a hashtag in a debate?

...seriously?

Well, that's it. I'm out. I'd continue, but it's readily apparent that convincing someone who can't even define a single generation with his contradictory graphical standards is a task that would take decisive evidence or a miracle from Jesus. And in the realms of a definition debate, neither of those seems likely.

Boohoo youve seen how your argument is wrong and now your running away. Me and Permalite are working on a definition for an 8th gen engine and its coming along quite nicely so hah, your point sucks and you cant big up to that fact. 

Oh? You've admitted your definition was wrong?

Glad to see you came around to this side of things in the end.



ps4tw said:
Ljink96 said:
ps4tw said:
Ljink96 said:
Guys, do you realize Wii U just won this year just because of this? The thing is cheap, has 2 major games out already "WW HD" and the critically acclaimed "Super Mario 3D World". And Mario Kart& Smash Bros are expected for 2014. You have to have games to sell a console and game take time. PS4 and Xbone will take off, just not this year. I find it kinda funny though that Xbone and PS4 are at the exact same(according to vgchartz) sales and PS4 has only been sold in the US while Xbone has been sold in US+Europe... strange.


Hahahaha. The ps4 and xb1 have already sold about 25% of what the wiiu has in under a month. The wiiu may have won the worst console sales of the decade award and thats about it. 


Why do you just have to direct this to a Wii U failure post? I said what has only been true. I don't go buying consoles if the games suck butt on it just because. I'll get a PS4 when the RPGs come out. The Wii U might not be as powerful but it has a creative edge that no other company can match and you can see that with titles like SM3DW. I don't care who wins this gen as long as I get good clean games.

What creative edge lol sony have snapped up all the good indie developers. SM3DW ooo another 3d mario just what ive been wanting, no wait that was done on the n64. 

If you want more of the same, stick with nintendo, if you want a htpc, go for the xb1, if you want an 8th gen games console, go for the ps4.


And Call of Duty isn't more of the same? And even so, who gives a crap. If you have a working formula, why change it? Give me an example of a game that doesn't use a concept from Nintendo and I'll kill myself. Everything was done on the NES, now everything is just a descendant of that.



Not really. The Wii U drought was big not because of its general lack of games, but lack of notable and highly anticipated titles. Between the holiday launch "window" and the release of Pikmin 3 and The Wonderful 101 (a span of nearly 9 months), the Wii U had hardly any notable releases except for Lego City Undercover and a port of MH3.

In the first 3-4 months of '14, XB1 and PS4 will be getting games like Thief, Watchdogs, Titanfall, Elder Scrolls Online, Infamous Second son, etc., and within the first half of the year will be getting even more highly anticipated games like Destiny and potentially Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes if it doesn't get delayed.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

dark_gh0st_b0y said:
Zod95 said:
dark_gh0st_b0y said:
this is indeed going to happen, launch demand won't continue for long, Ps4 and XboxONE are also very expensive

hard-core gamers buy the consoles at launch, like they buy hard-core games, I predict Ps3/Xbox360 style of sales trend for Ps4 and XboxONE over the coming years

If that's so, why has the PS3 sold so little in 2006 and presented an ever growing yearly sales during 4 consecutive years? And something similar happened with X360, which had its sales peak in the 5th year. I think it's the opposite: hardcore consoles sell well during the entire generation while casual / alternative consoles like Wii may have a boost in the first 2 or 3 years but then begin to decay.

Growing yearly sales were because of the decreasing price along with more games

I agree that hardcore consoles sell well during the entire generation, that's why, even with a successful launch, there will be a steep decrease after the holidays (like core games sales have a steep decrease after launch), and a slow increase in the coming years, that's why i said Ps3/Xbox360 trend over the coming years

people declare Ps4/XboxONE god consoles and doom the WiiU, but is not the case

Ps4/XboxONE probably won't sell well after holidays and 2014 (very high price, only a few games)

WiiU is pretty hard to predict, could even take off once the price gets lower and more Nintendo games come out, largely depends on families really, they may miss the Wii fun they had and want to buy the new stuff when it gets cheaper?

a reason Wii had huge sales the first 2 years is the low price, so it is important, similar case for 3DS

so, doom and praise threads are pretty much pointless at this time

More games I think every console has along the time As for the price cuts, I don't believe so. The Wii had great sales without any price cut (2006-2008) and decreasing sales when it became cheaper and heavily bundled with games and accessories (2009-2013).

I doubt there will be a steep decrease (greater than the usual) after the holidays. In what basis do you claim that? Very high price can't be a factor simply because neither XOne nor PS4 have such prices. Remember X360 came at 400 euros (by now that would be around 500 euros) and PS3 came at 600 euros (by now that would be more than 700 euros). Now you have XOne for the same 500 euros (but Kinect is included) and PS4 for almost a half of PS3's launch price. Those are very high prices?! The "few games" thing will hardly be a factor too. It's true that PS4 and XOne came earlier than expected but the devs have rapidly shifted their resources to both consoles and none of them will be hard to work with (like the PS3 was) so I don't expect big delays in the games to come.

As for the god consoles vs the doomed Wii U, I understand who has that view. Wii U is likely to be like Wii in terms of life-cycle weekly market share: greater at the beginning, smaller at the middle of the generation and eventually an early death. So if the console is already low at the beginning, what can we expect about it's future? Miserable sales in the next 2 years? Residual sales after 3 or 4 years?



Prediction made in 14/01/2014 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 70M      WiiU: 25M

Prediction made in 01/04/2016 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 100M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 18M

Prediction made in 15/04/2017 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 90M      XOne: 40M      WiiU: 15M      Switch: 20M

Prediction made in 24/03/2018 for 31/12/2020:      PS4: 110M      XOne: 50M      WiiU: 14M      Switch: 65M

MTZehvor said:
ps4tw said:
MTZehvor said:
ps4tw said:
MTZehvor said:
Pemalite said:

And sorry MTZehvor for hijacking your debate. :P

You need not apologize to me. I'm personally amazed you got him to admit that he was wrong about anything, ever.


Permalite had an argument that was addressing what I said. Your argument was just crazy blabbering and nothing technical. See, when you actually know what your talking about, it helps in a debate. #craziness

...did you really just use a hashtag in a debate?

...seriously?

Well, that's it. I'm out. I'd continue, but it's readily apparent that convincing someone who can't even define a single generation with his contradictory graphical standards is a task that would take decisive evidence or a miracle from Jesus. And in the realms of a definition debate, neither of those seems likely.

Boohoo youve seen how your argument is wrong and now your running away. Me and Permalite are working on a definition for an 8th gen engine and its coming along quite nicely so hah, your point sucks and you cant big up to that fact. 

Oh? You've admitted your definition was wrong?

Glad to see you came around to this side of things in the end.


Wrong as in needed refinining not wrong as in it cant be done so soon your argument will be shit outta luck.