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poklane on 11 April 2014

Lack of 3rd party and 'hardcore' 1st party. And with hardcore, I mean games like Halo, Gears of War, Uncharted, inFAMOUS etc.



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fps_d0minat0r on 11 April 2014

Technically it is but its doing so poorly in the 'war' that it feels like it isnt even there and therefore no-one bothers taking it seriously because including it in a console war debate is only gonna go one way.



shogunknight on 11 April 2014
vivster said:
Because even Nintendo thinks they don't belong into a gen. They do their own stuff, making games just for their system and their fans. If Nintendo doesn't care to appeal to everyone why should everyone care about them. They are their own gen now.


This. Nintendo have isolated themselves into their own gaming bubble, they dont want to put themselves in the same league as PC, PS4 and X1



Zero999 on 11 April 2014

because sony and ms paid for advertising in those shows, duh.



NintendoPie on 11 April 2014

"Free advertising"?... "Free advertising"??

Anyhow, what does it matter what The Big Bang Theory shows/says? They also made Bernadette still like the Wii. Who likes the Wii anymore? In fact, who's liked the Wii ever?

Edit: This post moderated by Starcraft



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Welfare on 11 April 2014
fleischr said:
OttoniBastos said:
It's simple:

The console war have 3 parts:

- The Specs battle - Where people compare the console's hardware and Software performance;
- The Sales battle - Where people compare the hardware and software sales;
- The Library Battle - Where people compare the number of third party,second party and,specially,first party games or exclusive content for each console.


WiiU is way weaker than Xone/PS4 so Specs battle is pointless;

WiiU is selling sub-40k/week right now and the only software that sells well on that machine is the nintendo one, so Sales battle is pointless too;

WiiU lacks of third party support and the second/first party support is lower than it should right now.So unless nintendo announce a lot o things at E3 for hollyday 2014/early 2015,Library battles are pointless too².

You're talking about where Wii U has been -- not where it can go. 2 and 3 could turnaround through Mario Kart 8 alone. If Fire TV takes off, that could make your first point irrelevant. It's arguably already irrelevant given how popular tablet and mobile gaming is. Specs matter to only a small number of buyers. Developers will put games on any platform that it can sell well on.


Where the Wii U can go is nowhere good. After MK8 week, sales might average out to 50-60k a week, but that's it till SSB and the holidays, then it will stabalize to 40-50k a week after that. Mario Kart will not help 3rd parties come back.

Specs DO matter. Why do you think most games on the Wii U are closer to 7th gen then 8th gen? Why do you think most 8th gen games are not on the Wii U? It can't handle it because of it's specs. Sure, there is the small user base, but it's curently 2nd in sales. It's ahead of the One, yet that is getting the same games the PS4 gets, albeit lower quality, but still the same games. Why is that? Because of the specs.

The Wii U's future won't change, and it will never get rid of the stigma it has collected from the hardcore and mainstream markets.



Won bet with t3mporary_126 - I correctly predicted that the Wii U's LTD at the end of 2014 would be closer to 9 million than 10 million. http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6673287

Fusioncode on 11 April 2014
Zero999 said:

because sony and ms paid for advertising in those shows, duh.

And you know this how?



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

jonathanalis on 11 April 2014

cos TBBT writers dont know nothing about gaming.
they follow the great mass, not the core gamers.



S.T.A.G.E. on 11 April 2014

I guess you've ignored the statements by EA and other people. Not only is Wii U not up to snuff in power, the fanbase is weak for third party. Makes no sense to support the Wii U for them.



Fusioncode on 11 April 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:
I guess you've ignored the statements by EA and other people. Not only is Wii U not up to snuff in power, the fanbase is weak for third party. Makes no sense to support the Wii U for them.

I'm not talking about 3rd parties. I'm talking about public perception. 



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!