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coldharshtruth on 14 June 2015
AEGRO said:
This E3 is going to be rough on Nintendo. For the fans, it will be like being on the mall without a cent on your pocket. Developers announcing new games left and right for Ps4, X1 and PC but not for the Wii U.

20 minutes into the Bethesda conference and Fallout 4, Dishonored 2 and Doom are already skipping the Wii U. This will happen in every press. So rough.

oh look, more flaming from you. know what will make most of the conferences except nintendo's digital event? fake trailers/promises and boring games.



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cheshirescat on 14 June 2015
coldharshtruth said:
AEGRO said:
This E3 is going to be rough on Nintendo. For the fans, it will be like being on the mall without a cent on your pocket. Developers announcing new games left and right for Ps4, X1 and PC but not for the Wii U.

20 minutes into the Bethesda conference and Fallout 4, Dishonored 2 and Doom are already skipping the Wii U. This will happen in every press. So rough.

oh look, more flaming from you. know what will make most of the conferences except nintendo's digital event? fake trailers/promises and boring games.


I don't think you know what flaming is, but then again you're just another alt that's going to be banned shortly so whatever.



coldharshtruth on 14 June 2015
S.T.A.G.E. said:
plaintruth said:

Because most third parties are unprofessional, either getting paid to skip nintendo platforms or skipping then out of stupidity.

Anyone saying that wii u can't handle the games or that they don't sell is just another stupid hater.

The wii u proved more than once how far from ps360 it is in specs capabilities, putting it in the same range as ps4/x1, but with less raw power.

The games sell, plenty of titles are getting 300-500k+ sales, and no amount of cherrypicking will change that. the big multiplatforms that idiots keep mentioning as having low sales(AC, COD, batman) were released when the installed base was like 3x smaller than it is now/will be in the next few months and those games STILL SOLD DECENTLY. 200-300k is surely enough to make a profit and with the bigger current installed base they would easily get 500k+.

1.300k -500k is not profitable for larger western games. Perhaps in the 90's not now. AAA games (most of the time) need over a million in sales.

2. If what you said was true about people hating on Nintendo, third party would not be cutting the chord on last gen consoles either. They've been telling people they needed specs higher than what Nintendo offered since 2011 (or possibly earlier).

3. The Wii U is not far from the 360 and PS3 in specs capabilities.

In reality its just Nintendo doing what they've always done which is not listening.

1. You heard it first here guys. s.t.a.g.e thinks ports need to sell 1 million to be profitable.

2. What does last gen have to do with the conversation? at least try to make a minimum of sense.

3. Yes it is. standard 720p 60fps + much better graphics than ps360 vs standard 540p 30fps on ps360.

In reality it's just Nintendo doing things right and competitors ilegally bribing 3rd parties to skip nintendo.

Zero alt obliterated -RavenXtra



AEGRO on 14 June 2015
coldharshtruth said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

1.300k -500k is not profitable for larger western games. Perhaps in the 90's not now. AAA games (most of the time) need over a million in sales.

2. If what you said was true about people hating on Nintendo, third party would not be cutting the chord on last gen consoles either. They've been telling people they needed specs higher than what Nintendo offered since 2011 (or possibly earlier).

3. The Wii U is not far from the 360 and PS3 in specs capabilities.

In reality its just Nintendo doing what they've always done which is not listening.

1. You heard it first here guys. s.t.a.g.e thinks ports need to sell 1 million to be profitable.

2. What does last gen have to do with the conversation? at least try to make a minimum of sense.

3. Yes it is. standard 720p 60fps + much better graphics than ps360 vs standard 540p 30fps on ps360.

In reality it's just Nintendo doing things right and competitors ilegally bribing 3rd parties to skip nintendo.

Wow, are you serious? LOL



Tachikoma on 14 June 2015
Aerys said:

Do you remember thé little kid at your school no one wanted to hang with because they thought hé was a weirdo and even thé girls were ashamed to talk to him ? Hé was playing Alone in a corner with his GameBoy and everyone was staying away from him, because hé was not enough cool

This little poor kid is Nintendo :'(

I remember a kid having a gameboy at school, everyone wanted to be his friend so they could play it too.



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Areym on 15 June 2015

Fairly weaker hardware and that blasted tablet are my guess.



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oniyide on 15 June 2015
DonFerrari said:
oniyide said:

that comparison makes no sense. Why not compare the last AC game to release on Wii U and PC at the same time? Black Flag flopped on Wii U so i dont know where you are getting AC has a fanbase on Wii U it doesnt. .26mil is abysmal for a main AC title, hell the Vita one did better and that was a side story. Black Flag did .58mil on PC and thats JUST the hard copies thats not counting digital which we already know most of the sales for PC games come from there. I think 75% so this game pass the mil mark on PC alone. So yes AC does better on PC which is why it gets support. Not to mention its a freaking PC which most devs (especially western ones) use to develop games before they even work on the console version anyway. 

Dont know what Watchdogs has to do with anything that game would have flopped regardless, i could give a list of games that were late ports that sold well on non Ninty systems but it would be ignored.


Nintendo gamers are smarter than ps/ms so they won't buy sw when the best version isn't on their system. Let the dumb sony and ms fans buy subpar ports.

of course!



cheshirescat on 15 June 2015
Tachikoma said:
Aerys said:

Do you remember thé little kid at your school no one wanted to hang with because they thought hé was a weirdo and even thé girls were ashamed to talk to him ? Hé was playing Alone in a corner with his GameBoy and everyone was staying away from him, because hé was not enough cool

This little poor kid is Nintendo :'(

I remember a kid having a gameboy at school, everyone wanted to be his friend so they could play it too.

That may be how it works in Japan, but in the West playing handhelds in public is punishable by permanent social ostracization.



oniyide on 15 June 2015

these Zero alts are killing me. I cant stop laughing



Tachikoma on 15 June 2015
cheshirescat said:

That may be how it works in Japan, but in the West playing handhelds in public is punishable by permanent social ostracization.

It's not really a regional thing, its just a "time passing" sort of thing, in the late 80s, early 90s anyone with a handheld console in school was a kid magnet, was the same in the US, UK and Japan, all of which i spent time in as a kid.