Not this crap again. We never saw top teams develop for the Wii. When we did have a quality title it would either be niche or get shit marketing.Stephen Colbert said:If that was the case, then the good games that did come out for the Wii would have sold much better.
Yet outside of franchises that have been around for decades and have always sold in the millions, even the good games on the Wii didn't sell very well.
LovingSteam said:You couldn't be anymore wrong. Your GAMER friends care about HD. The Wii wasn't geared towards your GAMER friends. The Wii was for the blue ocean population. The population that coukdn't tell HD from SD. The 3rd parties crapped on the Wii so these people didn't buy software besides the dance and party games. Pachter isn't right.
The new console being released isn't about HD, its about getting the hardcore back which has nothing to do with HD. It has to do with 3rd party support and non waggle controls. For someone who writes such long posts you sure get so much wrong so consistently.
There has to be a CPU on the controller. If it's powerful enough to decode a video stream, it will be powerful enough at least for some DS level programs.Jaruru said:same thought here. but some articles said there won't be CPU on controller, so it can't be played alone (without the CAFE itself)... hmmmm
Glass Joe said:The real downside to their strategy is the lack of 3rd parties getting on board & being successful. Tons of Wii's in homes and no one will make a quality game for it. Who knew?
JordanLMiller said:I predict this stream will reveal absolutely nothing.
Stephen Colbert said:Lots of quality games on the Wii barely sold at all. How do you explain the atrocious sales of a game like Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The issue was that people weren't buying the good games on the Wii (outside of a few decade old franchies), even steller ones like DKCR flopped sales wise.
I think that's pretty much completely made up. Nintendo wants court whoever will buy their shit.Pyrokai said:Honestly, we have no idea if Nintendo has any interest in getting the "hardcore" back and we probably won't even have an idea until E3. They might be very happy with where they're at. The "courting the hardcore" back to them is nothing more than a rumor from a source or two.
Stephen Colbert said:Lots of quality games on the Wii barely sold at all. How do you explain the atrocious sales of a game like Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The issue was that people weren't buying the good games on the Wii (outside of a few decade old franchies), even steller ones like DKCR flopped sales wise.
Ether_Snake said:There is no "hardcore" market for Nintendo to win back.
OK, the Colbert icon was a hint but now I know you're trolling.Stephen Colbert said:Lots of quality games on the Wii barely sold at all. How do you explain the atrocious sales of a game like Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The issue was that people weren't buying the good games on the Wii (outside of a few decade old franchies), even steller ones like DKCR flopped sales wise.
Stephen Colbert said:Lots of quality games on the Wii barely sold at all. How do you explain the atrocious sales of a game like Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The issue was that people weren't buying the good games on the Wii (outside of a few decade old franchies), even steller ones like DKCR flopped sales wise.
SlipperySlope said:Their goal is to take over the 360 and PS3's market share. We'll see how successful they are.
yeah extremely well.Pyrokai said:I thought DKCR sold very well.....??
It's nice to make things up.Stephen Colbert said:Lots of quality games on the Wii barely sold at all. How do you explain the atrocious sales of a game like Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The issue was that people weren't buying the good games on the Wii (outside of a few decade old franchies), even steller ones like DKCR flopped sales wise.
It definitely seems that way.ShockingAlberto said:I think Stephen Colbert is a joke character.
I am just not sure he knows it yet.
LovingSteam said:You couldn't be anymore wrong. Your GAMER friends care about HD. The Wii wasn't geared towards your GAMER friends. The Wii was for the blue ocean population. The population that coukdn't tell HD from SD. The 3rd parties crapped on the Wii so these people didn't buy software besides the dance and party games. Pachter isn't right.
Four million copies is a flop now?Stephen Colbert said:Lots of quality games on the Wii barely sold at all. How do you explain the atrocious sales of a game like Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The issue was that people weren't buying the good games on the Wii (outside of a few decade old franchies), even steller ones like DKCR flopped sales wise.
We currently have two conflicting sets of rumors regarding the graphics (IGN and Kotaku vs. GameInformer and 01net) and one promising set of rumors regarding online (1up). We'll see.Pyrokai said:And to do this, I truly believe graphics will be the only thing people look at as well as online infrastructure. So....yeah.....I'm going to be a negative nancy and say it ain't gonna happen.
Stephen Colbert said:If someone can't tell SD from HD, they wouldn't bother to buy a HDTV in the first place. And yet, by mid 2009, over 50% of households owned HDTVs, by mid 2010, over 65% of households owned HDTVs, and now one would extrapolate that around 75% of households own HDTVs.
And the remaining households that dont' yet own them, probably for the most part don't have them because they can't afford them.
It's not just my gamer friends that care about HD. Almost everyone seems to.
You don't fork down $1000 to upgrade to a new tv if you didn't care.
You're giving people entirely too much credit. Most people's TV purchasing decisions are based on screen size and the TV's appearance. Its not like people have had many choices in SDTV purchases the last 5 years.Stephen Colbert said:If someone can't tell SD from HD, they wouldn't bother to buy a HDTV in the first place. And yet, by mid 2009, over 50% of households owned HDTVs, by mid 2010, over 65% of households owned HDTVs, and now one would extrapolate that around 75% of households own HDTVs.
2009: http://www.dealerscope.com/article/...v-has-exceeded-50-percent-first-time-410960/1
2010: http://www.tvpredictions.com/cea050710.htm
And the remaining households that dont' yet own them, probably for the most part don't have them because they can't afford them.
It's not just my gamer friends that care about HD. Almost everyone seems to.
You don't fork down $1000 to upgrade to a new tv if you didn't care.
Pie Lord said:Four million copies is a flop now?
Stephen Colbert said:Lots of quality games on the Wii barely sold at all. How do you explain the atrocious sales of a game like Donkey Kong Country Returns.
The issue was that people weren't buying the good games on the Wii (outside of a few decade old franchies), even steller ones like DKCR flopped sales wise.
It shipped 4.98 million units.Stephen Colbert said:Last I heard, it barely cracked 400k in sales and didn't make the NPD list.
Maybe DKCR is a poor example. It's a major franchise that's been around for almost three decades, so I would expect it to sell well even just for nostalgia alone, just like Mario games.
But many quality wii titles failed to sell well. And many third party devs made quality games for the Wii that didn't sell to expectations, causing them to pull out.
Stephen Colbert said:And many third party devs made quality games for the Wii that didn't sell to expectations, causing them to pull out.
Stephen Colbert said:If someone can't tell SD from HD, they wouldn't bother to buy a HDTV in the first place. And yet, by mid 2009, over 50% of households owned HDTVs, by mid 2010, over 65% of households owned HDTVs, and now one would extrapolate that around 75% of households own HDTVs.
2009: http://www.dealerscope.com/article/...v-has-exceeded-50-percent-first-time-410960/1
2010: http://www.tvpredictions.com/cea050710.htm
And the remaining households that dont' yet own them, probably for the most part don't have them because they can't afford them.
It's not just my gamer friends that care about HD. Almost everyone seems to.
You don't fork down $1000 to upgrade to a new tv if you didn't care.
Wow, there is already a Million Seller on the 3DS, though my gut says that it really is just a ton of unsold copies on store shelfs. My idea of who would buy the 3DS at launch is not the same crowd who would get Nintendogs.Nirolak said:
ShockingAlberto said:I remember when my parents spent $1200 on a new HDTV and then hooked it up to the cable box with composite.
They didn't even get HD programming until I arranged it for them.
My mom couldn't tell the difference for months and kept watching the SD channels.
Or it could be that SD TVs are getting phased out and fast. JUST MAYBE.Stephen Colbert said:If someone can't tell SD from HD, they wouldn't bother to buy a HDTV in the first place. And yet, by mid 2009, over 50% of households owned HDTVs, by mid 2010, over 65% of households owned HDTVs, and now one would extrapolate that around 75% of households own HDTVs.
2009: http://www.dealerscope.com/article/...v-has-exceeded-50-percent-first-time-410960/1
2010: http://www.tvpredictions.com/cea050710.htm
And the remaining households that dont' yet own them, probably for the most part don't have them because they can't afford them.
It's not just my gamer friends that care about HD. Almost everyone seems to.
You don't fork down $1000 to upgrade to a new tv if you didn't care.
Stephen Colbert said:Last I heard, it barely cracked 400k in sales and didn't make the NPD list.
Maybe DKCR is a poor example. It's a major franchise that's been around for almost three decades, so I would expect it to sell well even just for nostalgia alone, just like Mario games.
But many quality wii titles failed to sell well. And many third party devs made quality games for the Wii that didn't sell to expectations, causing them to pull out.
Stephen Colbert said:Lots of quality games on the Wii barely sold at all. How do you explain the atrocious sales of a game like Donkey Kong Country Returns.
Hmm.Stephen Colbert said:Last I heard, it barely cracked 400k in sales and didn't make the NPD list.
Nirolak said:
ShockingAlberto said:I remember when my parents spent $1200 on a new HDTV and then hooked it up to the cable box with composite.
They didn't even get HD programming until I arranged it for them.
My mom couldn't tell the difference for months and kept watching the SD channels.
JaseC said:You don't understand, the US is the only country that exists on the planet.
Edit: ^ Haha.
Stephen Colbert said:Last I heard, it barely cracked 400k in sales and didn't make the NPD list.
Duderz said:If Nintendo is serious about "reclaiming the hardcore market" (which makes me roll my eyes to begin with), they can start by announcing Xenoblade and The Last Story for the US. This is the first Nintendo console that I'm sort of apathetic about, the reason being that Nintendo has been full on autopilot for a long time and ignoring games that the "hardcore" are asking for.
An hour and 25 minutes.wonderfuldays said:It starts in 25 minutes amiright?
Whoa.Stephen Colbert said:And I doubt that your mom is that type of person that would buy a videogame beyond Wii Fit.
That's the flaw if target people that don't care about visuals at all, those are the types of people that might buy a Wii for Wii Sports or Wii Fit, but will never bother to buy a game again.
The types of people that would buy console games semi regularly are the same people who care about things like graphics and visuals.
Balb said:Even if it was, DKCR sold very well, and charted at 5 or 6 in the December NPD, which is huge.
Stephen Colbert said:The types of people that would buy console games semi regularly are the same people who care about things like graphics and visuals.
I didn't think you'd start talking shit about his mom. That's pretty low.Stephen Colbert said:And I doubt that your mom is that type of person that would buy a videogame beyond Wii Fit.
Joke poster confirmed.Stephen Colbert said:And I doubt that your mom is that type of person that would buy a videogame beyond Wii Fit.
That's the flaw if target people that don't care about visuals at all, those are the types of people that might buy a Wii for Wii Sports or Wii Fit, but will never bother to buy a game again.
The types of people that would buy console games semi regularly are the same people who care about things like graphics and visuals.
