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[VGA-Games]

Nintendo proves that this Statement is complete Bullshit.

 

[RoadHazard]

What the fuck is "Circana"?

 

[yogaflame]

This is just a trap by MS Xbox and PCMR for Nintendo to make this same mistake. Sadly dumb Sony is slowly falling to that multiplatform trap by Xbox and PCMR. Allot of fans and also potential Ps5 buyers are starting to be turnoff from Sony consoles.

 

[PeteBull]

What the fuck is "Circana"?

Circana is to NPD what russian FSB is to former soviet russia KGB, aka same thing just with different name xD

 

[demigod]

So wrong, keep the shilling up mat. Folks that were in the xbox ecosystem has/will jumpship, timdog says hi. Only shills like colt and Doncabesa havent.

Notice he doesn't even bother to mention that it tanks xboxes hardware sales, which 3rd party sales account for the majority of their revenue. Nor does he mention that the software sales has tremendously widened between xbox and playstation since the 8th generation.

 

[Barakov]

Saw the name Matt Piscatella and knew this was Microsoft FUD.

 

[ProtoByte]

Saw the name Matt Piscatella and knew this was Microsoft FUD.

It's legitimately enraging how much shit the analyst/pundit class has spewed in favour of Microsoft. You have to imagine there's some "back channel discussions" between them. Everything they pretend to know/project just happens to fall in line with MS strategy, and every time it's wrong. These fuckers get paid 6-7 figures and have access to all the data, and got utterly bitched by randoms on forums about every aspect of this crap MS has done, chiefly Gamepass.

They keep managing to gaslight the industry into more and more bad behavior. How can you say this with a straight face barely a month after the ongoing disaster and successive round of layoffs at Xbox? The multiplatformist strategy is ALREADY NOT WORKING.

 

[tr1p1ex]

While this is true, overall as an influential game and a cultural phenomenon, its mostly stuff of legends. Kids talk about it, but actually play Roblox, Minecraft etc on their ipads.

say what?

Topic seemed more about console games and whether they should be exclusive or not.

MK might be not as big as Minecraft or the Roblox platform in some ways with some audiences but it's still big. They made a Mario movie that did pretty well after all. Maybe better than the Minecraft movie.

btw, culturally Candy Crush might be bigger than them all lol. MIght be a different audience tho.

 

[Xbox 360 slim]

While I agree with this from Sony's perspective, as they need a reason for people to join their ecosystem, exclusives are bad for gamers. If Sony went fully multiplatform, it would instantly be beneficial to their studios. Sales revenue would be substantially more, which would allow for bigger budgets and potentially more innovation. But Sony and Nintendo need to sell their consoles or they are screwed. They depend on their stores to generate the vast majority of their revenue

They don't want more games, they're fans of a logo and brand more than games.

 

[yogaflame]

This none gamers so called MBA ceo's are killing both MS and Sony.

 

[Fake]

I shouldn't be surprised that Minecraft sold that much but holy shit.

And you still shouldn't. Minecraft its a damn cheap game, and almost every smartphone/tablet/computer/console on the planet can run this piece of shit.

 

[Heart_Attack]

Circana is shit and has zero credibility.

 

[demigod]

The Sony fanboy paradox. "Consoles and PC's are different markets" "playstation is the best, PC is too hard I want plug and play" "dont port the games to PC, it'll make Playstation devalued and dead". Lol

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

How are exclusives bad for gamers? Exclusives have typically made full use of the hardware they are being developed on and fully showcase the hardware.

Look at Horizon Forbidden West or Ratchet and Clank Ridt Apart both originally designed for Playstation yet work perfectly on PC even low end PCs. The age of "this is only possible on console x" is long over. Back in the early 80s what you could do on NES/Famicom could only be done on NES/Famicom, you couldn't port it to PC and get good results, those days are long gone a game like Zelda botw 3 on switch 2 will run much better on modern PC handhelds and PS6 handheld. Any PS5 exclusive will run fine on a Series X and run best on PC.

 

[bigdad2007]

Nintendo won the console war. Literally the only self publishing company that is still able to sell its console purely on the games it makes.

It's laughable to say they are not "winning".

 

[Crayon]

'Nintendo is different for reasons.' So sick of that. This guy is such a hack.

 

[drganon]

They don't want more games, they're fans of a logo and brand more than games.

Says the guy literally named xbox.

 

[Hypereides]

It's legitimately enraging how much shit the analyst/pundit class has spewed in favour of Microsoft. You have to imagine there's some "back channel discussions" between them. Everything they pretend to know/project just happens to fall in line with MS strategy, and every time it's wrong. These fuckers get paid 6-7 figures and have access to all the data, and got utterly bitched by randoms on forums about every aspect of this crap MS has done, chiefly Gamepass.

They keep managing to gaslight the industry into more and more bad behavior. How can you say this with a straight face barely a month after the ongoing disaster and successive round of layoffs at Xbox? The multiplatformist strategy is ALREADY NOT WORKING.

Honestly, a plethora of industry SMEs in this biz baffle me. Namely, people like Piscatella and Dring. I'm even more perplexed by what Circana, and Piscatella by assocation, is saying here. Tf is he doing.

Nintendo seems to be only ones whose can see through this.