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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 08 June 2014
megaman79 said:

The Wii U was saved by the dishonesty and shady business practices of 3rd Parties and Microsoft.

 

Yes, Iwata was right. One game can turn things around. But in terms of the entire 8th Gen Home Console Market, Microsofts failure to capitalize on their 7th Gen success is almost as large a tectonic shift as the Wii was last gen.

Only failure awaits when expectations are pushed out of the bounds of possibility. A single game cannot solve the issues that have made the Wii U what it is and what it will be.



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Gnac on 08 June 2014
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
DolPhanTendo said:
I think it is funny how nervous PS homers are getting. I mean Nintendo keeps coming up with fresh ideas and all Sony does is throw millions of dollars into T.V. advertising for 3rd party games. Nintendo has a great 3 days and people just can't let us enjoy it.

Nobody is nervous, the PS3 had a bad generation and the PS4 was predicted to fail horribly by a lot of so called Nintendo Fans. So I don't think its a suprise to say that some are still salty about that.

Just because this is the first time a system seller has actually been "succesful" on the Wii U, doesn't mean that all of a sudden thing are going to change.

Do not bully the Xbox fans (all three of them).



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ICStats on 08 June 2014
DolPhanTendo said:
I think it is funny how nervous PS homers are getting. I mean Nintendo keeps coming up with fresh ideas and all Sony does is throw millions of dollars into T.V. advertising for 3rd party games. Nintendo has a great 3 days and people just can't let us enjoy it.

The bolded part is OK, the other is just unnecessary if you want anyone to take you seriously.



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DevilRising on 08 June 2014

It was a great week for Wii U, and people pretending otherwise are just trolling. The question of course remains how the sales will level out going forward. But, for one thing, Wii Sports Club is seeing a retail release pretty much worldwide in July, so that's one "big"-ish release. I also have a hard time imagining that there won't be at least ONE other significant Nintendo published released this summer, if not more. Bayonetta, "X" and Yarn Yoshi have ALL, in some fashion or another, been in development for 2+ years. They've all had plenty of time in the oven, so to speak, and I would be genuinely shocked if we didn't see at least one of them drop this summer.

Nintendo knows it need to do everything it can to capitalize off of MK8's success, and they also realize that their release schedule got pushed back far more than they obviously anticipated. They know Wii U needs as many games they can get out on it. So Smash Bros. HAS to be a 2014 title, and I would say that all those other games, except for SMT x FE, pretty much are a lock for 2014 releases as well, along with Hyrule Warriors, Sonic Boom, and whatever else Nintendo is going to reveal up it's sleeve come Tuesday.



Dr.Henry_Killinger on 08 June 2014
DevilRising said:
It was a great week for Wii U, and people pretending otherwise are just trolling. The question of course remains how the sales will level out going forward. But, for one thing, Wii Sports Club is seeing a retail release pretty much worldwide in July, so that's one "big"-ish release. I also have a hard time imagining that there won't be at least ONE other significant Nintendo published released this summer, if not more. Bayonetta, "X" and Yarn Yoshi have ALL, in some fashion or another, been in development for 2+ years. They've all had plenty of time in the oven, so to speak, and I would be genuinely shocked if we didn't see at least one of them drop this summer.

Nintendo knows it need to do everything it can to capitalize off of MK8's success, and they also realize that their release schedule got pushed back far more than they obviously anticipated. They know Wii U needs as many games they can get out on it. So Smash Bros. HAS to be a 2014 title, and I would say that all those other games, except for SMT x FE, pretty much are a lock for 2014 releases as well, along with Hyrule Warriors, Sonic Boom, and whatever else Nintendo is going to reveal up it's sleeve come Tuesday.

Wii Sports Club?

Yoshi's Yarn?

Sonic Boom?

I wouldn't get your hopes up tbh. Seems to good to be true... Because it is.



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Fusioncode on 08 June 2014
DolPhanTendo said:
I think it is funny how nervous PS homers are getting. I mean Nintendo keeps coming up with fresh ideas and all Sony does is throw millions of dollars into T.V. advertising for 3rd party games. Nintendo has a great 3 days and people just can't let us enjoy it.

The eighth installment in the Mario Kart franchise sure is a fresh idea. 



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Experimental42 on 08 June 2014
Fusioncode said:
DolPhanTendo said:
I think it is funny how nervous PS homers are getting. I mean Nintendo keeps coming up with fresh ideas and all Sony does is throw millions of dollars into T.V. advertising for 3rd party games. Nintendo has a great 3 days and people just can't let us enjoy it.

The eighth installment in the Mario Kart franchise sure is a fresh idea. 


I get sick of arguments like this.

You can add new tricks to an old game you know?

 

And yeah people need to get off Nintendo's nuts about creativity. We get it, they try to add stuff that differentiates them. That's great. Awesome. Shut up about it already, the smug radiating from posts about it makes me expect that you're going to start snorting your own farts.



Richard_Feynman on 08 June 2014
Experimental42 said:

The Wii U was written off as a flop and essentially dead since November of last year,


Straw-man argument. Nothing sensible can follow from this.



Fusioncode on 08 June 2014
Experimental42 said:
Fusioncode said:
DolPhanTendo said:
I think it is funny how nervous PS homers are getting. I mean Nintendo keeps coming up with fresh ideas and all Sony does is throw millions of dollars into T.V. advertising for 3rd party games. Nintendo has a great 3 days and people just can't let us enjoy it.

The eighth installment in the Mario Kart franchise sure is a fresh idea. 

You can add new tricks to an old game you know?

 

Yes I know. Now what does any of that have to do with my post?



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

megaman79 on 08 June 2014
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
megaman79 said:

The Wii U was saved by the dishonesty and shady business practices of 3rd Parties and Microsoft.

 

Yes, Iwata was right. One game can turn things around. But in terms of the entire 8th Gen Home Console Market, Microsofts failure to capitalize on their 7th Gen success is almost as large a tectonic shift as the Wii was last gen.

Only failure awaits when expectations are pushed out of the bounds of possibility. A single game cannot solve the issues that have made the Wii U what it is and what it will be.

Wii Sports, Angry Birds, Temple Run, Halo, come on......



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.