Y'all aren't sick of Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros, Pokemon yet? Nintendo will always sell to the faithful but how many of them are really out there outside of boards like this.
Analyst on Wii U: "Competitive position has deteriorated", "No Activision support".
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Y'all aren't sick of Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros, Pokemon yet? Nintendo will always sell to the faithful but how many of them are really out there outside of boards like this.
nsmb ds, nsmb wii, mario kart ds and mario kart wii didn't sell for a combined total of near 100 million because of nintendo fans. and that's just mario
Of the bolded, this so called 'casual crowd' buy the fuck outta them.
All of the games you mentioned are pretty unique in the industry. If Nintendo's primary franchises were an FPS and a vanilla JRPG, sure, I could understand getting tired of them, but there are very few 3D platformers, Zelda like adventure games or party fighters on the market. Nintendo usually change things up enough that the gameplay doesn't feel like a rehash. Compare Super Mario Galaxy to Sunshine.
I can understand being sick of the IP though.
abstract alien
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Wasn't the Gamecube highly profitable and successful for them, regardless of its missed potential?
Making money of your worst selling system ever, doesn't make it a successful product... Or so I keep hearing. Neither does making lots of money of your best selling system apparently.
Basically, they're doomed.
I'm more sick of the umpteen Call of Duty games we got this gen, and I don't even play Call of Duty
staticneuron
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Why?
The top 20 best selling wii games according to Wikipedia
It seems as if it would be a small concern if Ubi left the scene. But in all honesty, Nintendo is probably the only company that can still survive well with minimal third party support. As a matter of fact out of 60 titles that sold over a million on the list, there are only two from Activision. COD:world at war and guitar hero. So if that list is true it probably isn't a big deal for nintendo anyways.
Everything changes in whatever outlandish ways are necessary to corroborate the anti-Nintendo stories. GET A CLUE, GUY!
And we have about two more months of it before the shit really hits the fan at E3! Bears in boxes! Final specs! Launch titles! Can you feel the excitement?
They make a lot more money with their current model than they would selling $1 apps.
you should make a thread called:
Activision in 2011: "We'll support Nintnedo blah blah"
so then a mod will change this thread title to
Analyst in 2012: "Activision no long supports Nintendo."
and nothing will be accomplished.
CadetMahoney
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Rush2thestart
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What list are you talking about? If you're talking about the one that came from Nintendo Power, that was sales from just NA.
Pachter about the Wii HD
No, that would be an example of an analyst being wrong, unless you think Nintendo put out a Wii to play games in HD (and just for up-scaling, no real power increase) in 2009.
Not I.
So, okay.
I'm not saying that the Wii U is gonna be a surefire hit. I don't really know how it's gonna go. There are certainly things working against it. It could really go any way, if you ask me. It could be another Wii, it could be another Gamecube, or somewhere in between. I don't claim to know.
...But you'd think that after the Wii and DS, analysts might have learned that you can't write off Nintendo just because things seem to be against them at the moment. They always have something up their sleeves. They seem to have gotten pretty good at this whole video game business thing.
I'm not saying that the Wii U is gonna be a surefire hit. I don't really know how it's gonna go. There are certainly things working against it. It could really go any way, if you ask me. It could be another Wii, it could be another Gamecube, or somewhere in between. I don't claim to know.
...But you'd think that after the Wii and DS, analysts might have learned that you can't write off Nintendo just because things seem to be against them at the moment. They always have something up their sleeves. They seem to have gotten pretty good at this whole video game business thing.
crazy monkey
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the more I hear this kind of news more I get confident of buying wii u day one lol.
EatChildren
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Clearly none.
AdventureRacing
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This argument might hold some water if nintendo just kep releasing the same game over and over (hint they don't). It's also hilarious that you think that nintendo is just selling to the faithful when this gen their big IP's have went from selling sub 6-7 million last gen to selling 20-30 million this gen. If all those are nintendo faithful i don't think nintendo will be too worried.
DrForester
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Zoramon089
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Is this post supposed to be taken seriously in any way? Look at the sales charts. Wtf are you talking about? I guess the 20+ million people who bought Mario Kart DS and Wii consisted of only Nintendo fans on message boards, right?
OldJadedGamer
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I don't buy Activision games so this wouldn't affect me at all even if true.
FairXchange
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All this Wii U downplaying and gloom has me ready to buy one more than ever. I love seeing these speculators end up wrong.
Jive Turkey
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Now that's some icing.
SaintMadeOfPlaster
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Someone needs to make a catch all thread for anonymous statements from developers about the Wii U. These threads are starting to give me a headache.
With a install base as large as the DS and Wii has and that Mario is the one of the most recognizable characters in the world I'm not really sure that means that the Wii U will sell gangbusters. People will always buy an Mario varient 1st party title with their new systems. Mario is Nintendo. Those games will always do great numbers.
Pathetic Basement Virgin
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DrForester
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It's only the 2nd time I've used the movie for a .gif it seemed like a good quick followup to the original.
Yeah and this "analyst" didn't seem to care that Apple and the iTunes business model is not invulnerable to collapse. I agree that the problem with Wii U is that they may not reach the number of audience that Wii had, but putting games on iOS/Android is never the answer.
i kinda have a hard time believing activision would turn down an opportunity for revenue, but maybe they're super turned off by how it's not gonna be a superconsole like durango. maybe they're planning all next gen games to play on durango-like systems and the wii u doesn't fit in that plan. meanwhile, they don't have enough teams to make a wii u port, which would require learning and developing on the upad.
it's definitely possible.
it's definitely possible.
Freezie KO
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Activision put CoD on Wii. They'll put it on Wii U.
And Durango is the new XBox codename? I've been under a rock.
And Durango is the new XBox codename? I've been under a rock.
Not you, AniHawk.
i'm just saying, it's possible. the talk behind the scenes seems to be people are confused of the system because of the controller, and are not betting on it to do well.
if activision isn't into it, it might amplify those fears.
Alexios
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I don't think we're getting that, they're probably just going to show it off as what it can do and not discuss details outside confirming the basics. It can do HD and the like. We'll probably get specs when some techie gets a unit and opens it up.
Beerman462
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Nintendo is smart they don't want to compete with Sony and Microsoft for the bleeding edge trophy. They will sell the Wii U at a good price
Nintendo Faithful will buy it
Everyone else will buy it for their kids/grand kids
When they drop the price for the PS4/720 release everyone else will buy it.
Nintendo Faithful will buy it
Everyone else will buy it for their kids/grand kids
When they drop the price for the PS4/720 release everyone else will buy it.
Maybe. It's possible that Nintendo will drop just enough technical details that internet detectives can narrow down the possible configurations.
The unreleased device with unknown specs is a confirmed hardware turd and only a fanboy would disagree with this assessment!
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Wuts ur sors guy let us in on teh goodies plox, want to laf @ shitty nintoo.
>_>
More brilliant analysis. Tell us more.big_z said:
Hang on, just gonna rub one out in the next few minutes
Error Macro
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Did everyone forget other publishers ARE Nintendo's competitors?? Woooops, Iwata just slapped you in the face with a dead fish.. Nintendo doesn't NEED anyone, they could sell their own hardware, own games and stomp the competition. It's just nice when and if they ever do get some real 3rd party support. I'm not convinced anyone is really all that interested.. sure Wii was like the PS2 but most of it was garbage IMO of course..
Diddy Kong
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Activision not supporting Wii-U? Greatest console ever confirmed.
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