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fatslob-:O said:
drake4 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
fatslob-:O said:
drake4 said:
the thing about sales meaning quality is laughable. are you saying all the fad products are quality cause they sold great at some point, then later people realized, it and that product died.

There's just one thing wrong with your thought process. The WII was clearly not a fad otherwise it wouldn't live that long because the definition of a fad fits if a trend only lasts less than 3 years and the WII clearly lived in it's fourth year despite the fact that nintendo brought out nothing in worthwhile 2010.

Guess what about the WII U. Since PS360 gamers are likely the largest base going into next gen, they agree with me that the WII U is an awful console and we even have nintendo fans in this forum agreeing with me that the WII was BETTER than the WII U. Funnily enough, everyone that is calling the WII U a trash console just so happens to be the lowest selling one. 


Good lord in heaven. Here we go.

lol the wiiu is trash so is the N64, GC and sega genesis cause of poor sales am i doing it right, he just doesn't get it.

Guess what they all had in common ? /sarcasm

Their games were mostly irrelevant. A consoles quality is defined by it's relevant software otherwise it will NEVER lift off.

mario 64 and golden eye 007 are irrelevant, not to mention the first anlog controller ever, my god your out of you'r mind



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S.T.A.G.E. said:
fatslob-:O said:
drake4 said:
the thing about sales meaning quality is laughable. are you saying all the fad products are quality cause they sold great at some point, then later people realized, it and that product died.

There's just one thing wrong with your thought process. The WII was clearly not a fad otherwise it wouldn't live that long because the definition of a fad fits if a trend only lasts less than 3 years and the WII clearly lived in it's fourth year despite the fact that nintendo brought out nothing in worthwhile 2010.

Guess what about the WII U. Since PS360 gamers are likely the largest base going into next gen, they agree with me that the WII U is an awful console and we even have nintendo fans in this forum agreeing with me that the WII was BETTER than the WII U. Funnily enough, everyone that is calling the WII U a trash console just so happens to be the lowest selling one. 


You have a really hard accepting the reason why the Wii was so popular don't you? It doesn't matter what it meant to you personally. Objectively speaking how it affects the market and how the market responds after its existence is what tells the true story. The Wii U is not an aweful console either. It has no choice but the be the Nintendo console for the core consumer. This means Nintendo will have to work twice as hard to pump out quality games to save its marketshare.

@Bold Oh really ? If it wasn't a bad console then why is everyone from the PS360 camp calling it trash ? Why is the mass market deeming it as trash ? Then I rest my case once again. 

FYI the PS360 gamers are also full of casuals too if you hadn't noticed! 



fatslob-:O said:

Those so called "crappy" games are realized in high quality according to the masses so yes.  


Yes, because the masses are such good judges of quality. Just ask the Fast and the Furious movies. Or the Madea movies. Or the Twilight franchise. Or the Transformers films.



drake4 said:
fatslob-:O said:

Guess what they all had in common ? /sarcasm

Their games were mostly irrelevant. A consoles quality is defined by it's relevant software otherwise it will NEVER lift off.

mario 64 and golden eye 007 are irrelevant, not to mention the first anlog controller ever, my god your out of you'r mind

Apparently you have some reading troubles. I didn't say all of the games were irrelevant but rather MOST OF IT IS. BTW that controller sucked. 



hey you guys know what else sells, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and gangsta rap music all are quality products because they sale according to fatsob.



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drake4 said:
hey you guys know what else sells, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and gangsta rap music all are quality products because they sale according to fatsob.

If that's what the market wants then so be it.



fatslob-:O said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
fatslob-:O said:
drake4 said:
the thing about sales meaning quality is laughable. are you saying all the fad products are quality cause they sold great at some point, then later people realized, it and that product died.

There's just one thing wrong with your thought process. The WII was clearly not a fad otherwise it wouldn't live that long because the definition of a fad fits if a trend only lasts less than 3 years and the WII clearly lived in it's fourth year despite the fact that nintendo brought out nothing in worthwhile 2010.

Guess what about the WII U. Since PS360 gamers are likely the largest base going into next gen, they agree with me that the WII U is an awful console and we even have nintendo fans in this forum agreeing with me that the WII was BETTER than the WII U. Funnily enough, everyone that is calling the WII U a trash console just so happens to be the lowest selling one. 


You have a really hard accepting the reason why the Wii was so popular don't you? It doesn't matter what it meant to you personally. Objectively speaking how it affects the market and how the market responds after its existence is what tells the true story. The Wii U is not an aweful console either. It has no choice but the be the Nintendo console for the core consumer. This means Nintendo will have to work twice as hard to pump out quality games to save its marketshare.

@Bold Oh really ? If it wasn't a bad console then why is everyone from the PS360 camp calling it trash ? Why is the mass market deeming it as trash ? Then I rest my case once again. 

FYI the PS360 gamers are also full of casuals too if you hadn't noticed! 


The Mass market has shunned the Wii U because it isn't the Wii. It isn't dumbing down gaming so non-gamers can try to understand it. If Nintendo created a tablet that controlled TV games without controller buttons then it would've been more non-gamer friendly. You have to understand how wider markets respond to products. Non-gamers dont care to understand how to memorize thirteen buttons on a controller for specific uses. The original NES controller had two buttons that the casuals and core could agree they liked (at the time): A and B. Simple. The Wii relied upon waggle movement and very little button useage. It finally gave non-gamers a chance to game.

Anyone who says the Wii U sucks is speaking subjectively and their opinion is neither right or wrong but just what it is... an opinion.. That has no bearing on the reality of the situation. Before the Wii Nintendo could not satisfy the broader core gaming demand for third party games which is where Sony and Microsoft has both excelled since inception compared to Nintendo in their respective timelines. Half of your marketshare or more comes from consumers who follow a specific third party. I am drawn to the Wii U because it is made for gamers who happen to like Nintendo products. The tablet on the Wii U is secondary to the actual controller itself. If the tablet was primary the casuals would've come in droves. Nintendo marketed the product the wrong way but they couldn't stand seeing Microsoft and Sony make profit off the the third party games in the current gen while they only majorly profited off of a couple third party games and the rest of their first party. They wanted to make a console that could satisfy casuals and the core. Problem is the more sophisticated you make a controller the less it attracts a non-gaming audience. They don't like to spend the time to figure things out. 

I had an experience like this with a non-gamer who watched myself and I play UFC at a party. He was amazed by how we used complex moves and understood things without looking down at the controller. We asked him if he wanted to play but the fact that the UFC games from THQ utilized all of the buttons on the 360 controller he became overwhelmed and opted not to play the game. When we brought out the Wii, he played Wii Sports with us and had fun. Thats the whole purpose of the Wii...to bring gaming back to the minimal basics so everyone can enjoy it.



fatslob-:O said:
drake4 said:
hey you guys know what else sells, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and gangsta rap music all are quality products because they sale according to fatsob.

If that's what the market wants then so be it.


The market doesn't want quality, they want shiny things and flash. That's why they flock to One Direction, Miley Cirus and Avatar. Videogames have not gone full retard down this path yet, but they are trending down that same abyss; eagerly lead by the GFLOP fanatics of the world.



MDMAlliance said:

I obviously realize that we have different opinions.

This is not a matter of opinion.  You are simply making an incorrect statement.

You have yet to prove that it is an incorrect statement. How does one simply prove that a statement is incorrect if the other side shows no evidence ? 

MDMAlliance said:

Just because I don't like justin biebers music doesn't give me the right to claim it as trash because the market is in clear disagreement of my opinion.

That is totally of a subjective nature.  That has no bearing on the topic at hand.

Oh but it absolutely does otherwise i wouldn't go around trying to make my point clear.

MDMAlliance said:

Sales do define quality otherwise many products wouldn't face rejection in comparison competing products.

Wrong.  What you said makes no sense.  If sales define quality, then only top tier items should ever exist, and it would make zero sense to make any product of lower quality.  When it comes to entertainment, that line becomes subjective.

I'm not saying top tier items should only exist. You clearly made a strawman right there. 

MDMAlliance said:

Just because many people like shakespeare does not mean that I am willing to agree but that also doesn't give me the right to detrack it's quality because it's what the market likes. The one who's stubborn here is you and everyone else in this forum who are full of hardcore gamers that don't get the perspective of the masses.

No, I am very flexible with my viewpoint.  If you were actually simply stating your opinion, that would be one thing.  In this case, you're simply incorrect.

Again you have yet to show that I'm incorrect without showing evidence on your part. My opinion is irrelevant to the subject at what i'm trying to prove. If you were truly flexible then you wouldn't have simply thrown away this possibility without giving it some thought. 

MDMAlliance said:

Just how important do you think big budget marketing is for a game ? Minecraft got through to the market without spending a shit ton of money to get a large following. If anything this shows that you have a lack of understanding how quality is defined. 

Makes no sense to say I don't understand how quality is defined.  A game's quality is half subjective, half objective.  The half objective part is in the build of the game itself.  Games that have many glitches and runs poorly is a game of objectively lower quality.  However, one's enjoyment of said game is where the subjective part comes into play.  Sales depicts NONE of this.  A game's quality vs its sales has very little correlation.  Millions of people play games that have objectively low quality build.  Games with hundreds of glitches, exploits, etc.  If a game isn't marketed, its chances of higher sales go down.  A "bad" game, according to the masses, can get lots of sales if it is marketed well enough.

A game's quality doesn't HAVE to be subjective. If we were to use market response, then it can be objective. Your dead wrong about being the games bulid being the objective part otherwise Bethesda games wouldn't be doing well with both the critic AND the market. How about MANY peoples enjoyment with the game ? That part is obviously NOT subjective because their enjoyment WOULD lead to BUYING the game. 

In total it is YOU who has failed to defined quality therefore my definition still stands because you used worthless arguments to fuel your stance. 

You clearly shown that you don't understand that marketing isn't the key to making a game sell. 

MDMAlliance said:

The same thing could be thrown right back at you. Are all two ply toilet papers better than single ply ? Clearly not because some single ply toilet paper will match the performance at a cheaper price. 

No, the same thing cannot be thrown at me.  I never implied all two-ply toilet paper are better than single ply.  Unlike you, I know what I'm talking about.  I said that if single ply toilet paper sells more than any single two-ply toilet paper brand, it doesn't mean that all single ply toilet paper is higher quality than all two-ply toilet paper.  That is what your argument is like.  

Then what you just pointed out was an irrelevant example that had nothing to do with my point.



impertinence said:
fatslob-:O said:
drake4 said:
hey you guys know what else sells, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and gangsta rap music all are quality products because they sale according to fatsob.

If that's what the market wants then so be it.


The market doesn't want quality, they want shiny things and flash. That's why they flock to One Direction, Miley Cirus and Avatar. Videogames have not gone full retard down this path yet, but they are trending down that same abyss; eagerly lead by the GFLOP fanatics of the world.

Then you clearly are not in position to judge their taste since your the minority.