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flagstaad said:
SubiyaCryolite said:
Out of curiosity. Which large 3rd party publisher is still supporting the Wii U?

Ubisoft, Warner and Activision.


Cool, lets see if they stick around in 2015



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

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I stopped supporting EA on all my systems. PS3, Wii U, and Steam.  They manage their business very unprofessionally and makes me not want to support a company like that.  They dont have to like or support Nintendo, but dont tick off potential customers. That just shows how weak their managment team is. 



Samus Aran said:


Battlefield series
Burnout series
Command & Conquer series
Crysis series
Dead Space series
Dragon Age series
FIFA series
Fight Night series
Harry Potter series
Madden NFL series
Mass Effect series
Medal of Honor series
NBA Live series
NCAA Football series
Need for Speed series
NHL series
Rock Band series
SimCity series
The Simpsons series
The Sims series
Skate series
SSX series
Star Wars series

According to wiki those are their game franchises. Why on earth would I want to play any of those games? Most of them are just generic games that get yearly rehashes. Or even worse, licensed games.

I'm not a kid anymore, so I don't play FPS games. Because that's what kids like to do, pretend that they're soldiers. I never understood why people think those games are adult.

I'm pretty sure kids like to play FIFA as much as adults. Kids also like Star Wars games and Harry Potter(which is by the way definitely aimed at kids).

Ok, SSX 3 was a great game, I'll give them that. And I did enjoy the Sims when I was a kid. Haven't played one in ages though, so I don't know how the franchise is doing right now, quality wise that is. 

How on earth you can become the third biggest game company with shovelware like that is beyond me. I guess they're just riding on the sucess of big sports like football. And the popularity that FPS sadly still seem to have with the mainstream crowd. 

Ahh, a fanbase turning into elitist hipsters, a prime example of a company becoming irrelevant in the industry...

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SubiyaCryolite said:
Samus Aran said:


Battlefield series
Burnout series
Command & Conquer series
Crysis series
Dead Space series
Dragon Age series
FIFA series

Fight Night series
Harry Potter series
Madden NFL series
Mass Effect series
Medal of Honor series
NBA Live series
NCAA Football series
Need for Speed series
NHL series
Rock Band series
SimCity series
The Simpsons series
The Sims series
Skate series
SSX series
Star Wars series


According to wiki those are their game franchises. Why on earth would I want to play any of those games? Most of them are just generic games that get yearly rehashes. Or even worse, licensed games.

I'm not a kid anymore, so I don't play FPS games. Because that's what kids like to do, pretend that they're soldiers. I never understood why people think those games are adult.

I'm pretty sure kids like to play FIFA as much as adults. Kids also like Star Wars games and Harry Potter(which is by the way definitely aimed at kids).

Ok, SSX 3 was a great game, I'll give them that. And I did enjoy the Sims when I was a kid. Haven't played one in ages though, so I don't know how the franchise is doing right now, quality wise that is. 

How on earth you can become the third biggest game company with shovelware like that is beyond me. I guess they're just riding on the sucess of big sports like football. And the popularity that FPS sadly still seem to have with the mainstream crowd. 


This is one of the saddest posts Ive ever seen in my ENTIRE life. No amount of loyalty warrants this, and you call yourself a gamer? Id rather go back to my PC elitist crowd than be grouped with you guys.

I've bought Harry Potter games and one Need for Speed game. They were very boring. But then again. I've never read any Harry Potter books and I haven't watched every movie yet(I think I watched four of them or something). 

I bought two games in the SSX series: SSX 3(great game) and SSX on Tour(horribly boring game with Mario shoehorned in). 

I hate football, basketball, baseballl, rugby, etc, so why would I buy games for sports I don't like in the first place? It has nothing to do with being loyal to Nintendo. The only sport I ever enjoyed watching is cycling and I'll be damned if I buy shovelware like Procycling Manager. 



LemonSlice said:
Xen said:
LemonSlice said:
Xen said:
Battlefield is a thousand times more a kid game than SMB3DW or Wind Waker are, try again EA.


Hmmmm... okay, I see some reasoning in that... NOT. Or is "kid" the new "gay" or something?

Pretending to be a soldier is the old and current "kid".

Enjoying the two other games I mentioned belongs in any age group.


So it's a kids game because a lot of kids play it sorta like they're playing grown-up? I feel EA are not assholes because they called Nintendo games kids games, but because they made it sound like there's something wrong with that. The Wii was a success because it was family friendly, the WiiU actually scared off a lot of that userbase in Nintendo's fruitless attemps of trying to attract "core gamers".

Nintendo games are made with kids and families in mind. If you never had a childhood, or don't have feelings of nostalgia and wanting to feel young again, you wouldn't play them. There's something very positive about having an inner child and if you were forced into maturity early in life, you'd be a much poorer man for it, probably cynical, angry and paranoid. At the very least just boring and dull.

Perhaps correct with Mario, but not necessarily with Metroid Prime or Zelda (at least the Zeldas I played). The world in the latter two is in big part ambience, I feel. Both kids and adults can get into the universes presented in both, if by imagination, or by getting integrated into the games' atmosphere - the backstories, environment, and music, all work toward that purpose. I feel that that is quite universal and quite a bit more mature than some jokes that people present as "mature" games.

I could make a side point as to how most war games are just plain immature, but that would really drag on and detract from the above.



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Kane1389 said:
Samus Aran said:


Battlefield series
Burnout series
Command & Conquer series
Crysis series
Dead Space series
Dragon Age series
FIFA series
Fight Night series
Harry Potter series
Madden NFL series
Mass Effect series
Medal of Honor series
NBA Live series
NCAA Football series
Need for Speed series
NHL series
Rock Band series
SimCity series
The Simpsons series
The Sims series
Skate series
SSX series
Star Wars series

According to wiki those are their game franchises. Why on earth would I want to play any of those games? Most of them are just generic games that get yearly rehashes. Or even worse, licensed games.

I'm not a kid anymore, so I don't play FPS games. Because that's what kids like to do, pretend that they're soldiers. I never understood why people think those games are adult.

I'm pretty sure kids like to play FIFA as much as adults. Kids also like Star Wars games and Harry Potter(which is by the way definitely aimed at kids).

Ok, SSX 3 was a great game, I'll give them that. And I did enjoy the Sims when I was a kid. Haven't played one in ages though, so I don't know how the franchise is doing right now, quality wise that is. 

How on earth you can become the third biggest game company with shovelware like that is beyond me. I guess they're just riding on the sucess of big sports like football. And the popularity that FPS sadly still seem to have with the mainstream crowd. 

Ahh, a fanbase turning into elitist hipsters, a prime example of a company becoming irrelevant in the industry...


I'm not an elite hipster. Me being a Nintendo fan has nothing to do with me disliking EA games(except SSX 3, the only game I like from them, spent many hours playing it). 

Which company is irrelevant in the industry? Nintendo? They're by far the biggest game company in the industry. 

Most of the games I own have selled many millions, so I fail to see how you could call me an elitist lol. I'm pretty mainstream with the exception of Metroid. 



Wow... if games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age are shovelware...



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PenguinZ said:

Wow... if games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age are shovelware...

I said most of the games they produced, not all of the games.

Cheers

Ps: if EA would have ported Mass Effect 1&2 to the Wii U I would've probably bought all 3 of them. 



Samus Aran said:
Kane1389 said:
Samus Aran said:


Battlefield series
Burnout series
Command & Conquer series
Crysis series
Dead Space series
Dragon Age series
FIFA series
Fight Night series
Harry Potter series
Madden NFL series
Mass Effect series
Medal of Honor series
NBA Live series
NCAA Football series
Need for Speed series
NHL series
Rock Band series
SimCity series
The Simpsons series
The Sims series
Skate series
SSX series
Star Wars series

According to wiki those are their game franchises. Why on earth would I want to play any of those games? Most of them are just generic games that get yearly rehashes. Or even worse, licensed games.

I'm not a kid anymore, so I don't play FPS games. Because that's what kids like to do, pretend that they're soldiers. I never understood why people think those games are adult.

I'm pretty sure kids like to play FIFA as much as adults. Kids also like Star Wars games and Harry Potter(which is by the way definitely aimed at kids).

Ok, SSX 3 was a great game, I'll give them that. And I did enjoy the Sims when I was a kid. Haven't played one in ages though, so I don't know how the franchise is doing right now, quality wise that is. 

How on earth you can become the third biggest game company with shovelware like that is beyond me. I guess they're just riding on the sucess of big sports like football. And the popularity that FPS sadly still seem to have with the mainstream crowd. 

Ahh, a fanbase turning into elitist hipsters, a prime example of a company becoming irrelevant in the industry...


I'm not an elite hipster. Me being a Nintendo fan has nothing to do with me disliking EA games(except SSX 3, the only game I like from them, spent many hours playing it). 

Which company is irrelevant in the industry? Nintendo. They're by far the biggest game company in the industry. 

'''m not a kid anymore, so I don't play FPS games. Because that's what kids like to do, pretend that they're soldiers. I never understood why people think those games are adult. ''

''And the popularity that FPS sadly still seem to have with the mainstream crowd. ''

''How on earth you can become the third biggest game company with shovelware like that is beyond me.''

Yup, no hipster tendencies and elitism there.

Also, Nintendo is living of former glory, nostalgia and their Wii/DS profits. They are becoming increasingly irrelevant today



Wow. They're using Mass Effect 3 as an example of a solid product? The game released at full price just days before a cheaper Trilogy Collection on other platforms that included DLC. Then they followed that up by announcing that it wouldn't get any of the other DLC on other platforms. Yup, solid product there.