So sad for Nintendo. Increases chance for massive price drop so I'm not too sad.
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So sad for Nintendo. Increases chance for massive price drop so I'm not too sad.
pieatorium
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The WiiU number is the big talking point but honestly everything not 360/PS3 didn't sell well and once you get passed PC retail and the Wii (which 99% of it's sales would be Just Dance) everything is absolutely dreadful.
reptilescorpio
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So pretty much just the handhelds and Nintendo products are doing dreadful?
Also I'm pretty damn happy seeing PC as 3rd place. That Blizzard and Total War sales carrying it.
pieatorium
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Yeah I know, I was the first to make that point in the PAL thread when this info was originally posted (70% of the total market shrinkage was by the Wii and DS)
Doesn't change the fact that the Vita is also not performing anywhere near what would be considered well and that there are three Nintendo platforms in the section I called dreadful.
pieatorium
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Yeah handhelds are doing it rough WiiU is doing it rougher and I would assume Football Manager to be the major piece of software in that PC number.
reptilescorpio
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Yarp, FM is huge over there. [insert MS Office joke here]
Crikey. That's not good.
codswallop
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It seemed to at first, especially when compared to the GameCube. There was tons of shovelware coming out of the woodwork.
pieatorium
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It's actually hard to do direct comparisons to launches, WiiU is one of the only ones to launch almost simultaneously worldwide with no shortages. A comparison I have made a couple of times recently is to the PS3's launch, which was considered pretty bad at the time.
If the WiiU hits it's new 4 million shipped by march target it will be 0.4 million ahead of the PS3 at the same time, but that would include 4 months of WiiU sales for Europe vs only a week for PS3.
As far as developer support if it wasn't for the Wii doing so well I don't think it would have even gotten stuff like Dead Space Extraction or CoD WaW
Weekend deal at GMG means Bioshock Infinite prepurchase is 50 bucks.
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/shooter/bioshock-infinite-anz/
I'm really close to pulling the trigger... anyone getting it cheaper?
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/shooter/bioshock-infinite-anz/
I'm really close to pulling the trigger... anyone getting it cheaper?
Wii sales didn't translate into anything more than token support in the form of test games. There were a bare minimum of actual good games from developers like Suda51, Vanillaware, WayForward, Rising Star/Marvellous and about one or two games from Capcom and Konami.
Western support was pathetic from EA, Take 2. Activision and Ubisoft made one or two attempts. If I look through my collection of about 80 games for the system, a good 60 of them are first party. That's not because I didn't buy third party games - it's because I bought good games for it and so few of them are from anyone not Nintendo.
Western support was pathetic from EA, Take 2. Activision and Ubisoft made one or two attempts. If I look through my collection of about 80 games for the system, a good 60 of them are first party. That's not because I didn't buy third party games - it's because I bought good games for it and so few of them are from anyone not Nintendo.
pieatorium
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I don't disagree, I think most of the Japanese support would have come regardless of it's overall performance as well (most of those same companies are also supporting Vita).
bodyboarder
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Thanks again to all of ausgaf who offered to help me with dota last night. Much appreciated.
shanshan310
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Especially since it seems like the bus driver was trying to help. They really should do more though when they can see rowdy passengers or people being harassed. Radio for police or just kick them off. Not doing anything just enforces it as status quo.
Haha, don't take fable. Take things you can't replace! Maybe start packing a little pack just in case though. I hope it doesn't come to that, stay safe!
I think I'd just grab my bear, my laptop and my dog.
ClivePwned
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shanshan310
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Oh really? In the article I read it didn't really go into detail, but it did have a quote from the guy saying retrospectively he was probably just trying to help. Should have kicked the woman off though.
reptilescorpio
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$999. They deserved to bomb at launch.
The article I read by the abc journalist said the bus driver told him he should have moved. And that it was his fault for not moving.
reptilescorpio
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Yeah the bus driver was more worried about getting attacked too. Especially since he has to drive that damn bus again.
Planet_JASE
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shanshan310
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well yeah, if I'm stuck in a fire I gonna want a friggen bear.
Maybe he was just trying to defuse the situation.
shanshan310
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Oh I see. Yeah that's not cool at all.
codswallop
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Yeah I did, the food here is nice, but a bit pricey.
No chance for Coldstream as its past yarra glen in sorta the wrong direction for the wedding location. I did check though! Maybe another weekend.
Some things have a value higher than most
The fire's still chilling the other side of the mountain. Doesn't look to be controlled yet but even with the strong winds at the moment it doesn't seem to be progressing much.
That's a triple dip recession for you
G'damn Hobart is smokey. On Davey street so to the smoke is blowing straight on us.
Everyone is still smoking darts.
Yeah, my asthma is going a bit crazy. Here in New Town it's the same, just a bit closer. Gonna head over to the eastern shore for a bit to get over the smoke.
Yeah, he could just be the type of person that tries to avoid confrontation. Clearly he preferred trying to deal with the reasonable person instead of the crazy woman. His thought process might be that if he ordered her to get off or something then she'd probably just end up arguing, causing the bus to be delayed and then there'd be a bus full of angry passengers. Maybe he has had experiences like this before and didn't want to go through it again. Not sure if they get training for this kind of thing. No one wants to deal with this kind of shit and I'm sure he just wanted to get on with his job. Putting the blame on the victim is probably a way to misdirect his own inadequacies.
Ha my parents live in New Town, lived there most of my life. Underrated area, especially since Kmart chop chip biscuits have been on tap 24/7
Have you seen the pirate ship out on the river? Shit looks awesome with all the smoke around it.
Edit - by pirate ship I mean 'big ass wooden ship'.
And, yeah, new town is great. It's quiet, but close to Hobart for food and activities.
reptilescorpio
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Man I should buy a house next to a river. So damn relaxing to just stare at.
Mongrels.
That's good, 'cause you won't have any money left for anything else, unless you are out whoop whoop.
reptilescorpio
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Well the place I'm at is basically bumfuck Nowhere despite being only a minute from Warrnambool, which itself would be considered whoop whoppy.
Also rivers are hard to fence for kids :/
Yeah, that could be a problem. Still, nice to visit.
Just in the paper. Don't think the wind is doing any favours. My girlfried's mum wa like "look at the Viking boat!" Says that it's Portuguese.
When climate change kicks in Hobart is going to be the hottest property on earth. Not to be morbid but I'm an only child.
Horrible people. At least half of that fake Churchill quote is true.
The head of the Utas chapter always asks for drugs when he's out. Can't imagine the hipocracy.
I can. It's to be expected by now, surely?
A Hippocracy would be awesome though. Anyone who has an idea for a law is to present it to a hippo for approval. If you dont get attacked it is passed.
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