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wfz on 14 March 2009
trestres said:
Hmm, is last push the incorrect term then? I'm meaning, the last big announcement Nintendo will make in regards to HW concerning the DS, looks like Ive missused the term last push then.

 

I'll bet many people interpreted that as you meaning this is the DS's last big hurrah before it dies. That's what I thought you meant.



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trestres on 14 March 2009

Damn my English then :(



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thekitchensink on 14 March 2009
wfz said:
trestres said:
Hmm, is last push the incorrect term then? I'm meaning, the last big announcement Nintendo will make in regards to HW concerning the DS, looks like Ive missused the term last push then.

 

I'll bet many people interpreted that as you meaning this is the DS's last big hurrah before it dies. That's what I thought you meant.

Yeah, that's what I took it to mean.

 



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sc94597 on 14 March 2009
theprof00 said:
sc94597 said:
theprof00 said:
i think they are holding back games because why should they spend money developing games when they could completely stop making new games for the rest of the generation and just release wiiware games and still keep up the same kind of sales.

That is obviously not true. Look at the effects of them not releasing too many new games has on the Wii sales in Japan. Also like everybody has said for ages. Nintendo is a software company that makes hardware to fit their software, not the other way around. Yes Nintendo could think they could make alot of money off of hardware, but they were and always will be a software company, and that means they will be making future releases. Also you must be in major denial if you think they will only release wiiware games the rest of it's life.

 

I don't believe a word of it. Nintendo is the only area where sales are dropping, which I should mention are about half the sales of the US, everywhere else it has grown despite what you call not releasing too many new games.

Sales have increased by a lot.

I'm not in denial, I'm saying they wouldn't have to release anything this year except wii ware games, and sales would still grow. Just look at this past year.

Also, I have a theory about the Japan drop, it's simply because everyone already has one :P

 

I somewhat agree with you then. I think Nintendo knows that they don't have to rush making their games, because the console will sell well regardless(in a certain time period), but they still have to release games or the console will become undesirable to alot of the Wii's demographics. Nintendo is the only company that seems to get it right with all demographics, while the others only target the supposedly 'hardcore' or the 'casual', and most likely not even suceed with making a good game for their targeted audience. So yes they could go a while without releasing too many games compared to Microsoft or Sony, but they still need to make games so they could keep the momentum going. They just have more options than the other two companies. As for everybody in Japan having a Wii, I doubt that. The wii didn't even sell a third of the DS' sales, and the DS still sells higher weekly. They both target similar audiences, and the only major difference is one is a handheld while the other is a console(which WILL acount for a huge difference , but not one this big). Also notice how the sales go down exactly when their is a dry period of mainstream games. Some look at it and say first party, but in reality it's mainstream. Nintendo is pretty much the only company that has released main stream games for the Japanese audience on the Wii and that is why people get confused. The other regions don't have this problem because they have mainstream releases from Nintendo and a few from Third Parties, and if Nintendo is lacking third parties pick up.



trestres on 14 March 2009

Sorry, English not being my first language caused this confusion, crap-.



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darthdevidem01 on 14 March 2009
trestres said:
Hmm, is last push the incorrect term then? I'm meaning, the last big announcement Nintendo will make in regards to HW concerning the DS, looks like Ive missused the term last push then.

oh you have.....you REALLY REALLY have lol {don't worry bout it though}

but if thats what you meant you may be right!

 



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11ht11 on 14 March 2009

no Nintendo is just being lazy



SnesTea on 14 March 2009
jim1029 said:
Millennium said:
A little under a year ago, Nintendo began implementing a new policy with announcements: you don't announce anything until it's essentially ready to release. The reason for this was simple: eliminate complaints about delays by making sure no one sees any delays ever again. By the time the announcement comes, the delays are already finished.

But anyway, if you want to know why there haven't been as many Wii announcements by Nintendo, this is why. Anytime a company does this, there will necessarily be a gap in time where they have a bunch of games deep in development but not ready as per the new policy, but they've already released (or very nearly released) all of the games they announced under the old. Given that Nintendo seems to spent 2-3 years on an average game, it should come as no surprise that we're still in this gap when it hasn't even been one year yet. The number of games in development is probably about the same as it was before.

Just curious, but do you have a link for the first part?

 

 

I agree. But I do remember reading that somewhere.



O-D-C on 14 March 2009

Nintendo only announces games a few weeks before release.

So if for example Zelda is ready for launch in June, it will be announced in May.



Alterego-X on 14 March 2009

It's about the Motion+
They delayed every game that they planned to release since later last year, to implement M+ features. It is basically the re-release of the Wii, just like the DSL and the DSi to the DS.