ViewtifulJC
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What about Final Fantasy XII Ver--
Uh I mean The Last Guar--
Yeah, you're probably right
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What about Final Fantasy XII Ver--
Uh I mean The Last Guar--
Yeah, you're probably right
ShockingAlberto
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Marvelous!
lordfroakie
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Anyone else?
Ha! Well, I hope it works out better this time. LKS and Demon Blade were great.
TheCongressman1
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Grrrr. *shakes fist*
Yeah, Jimmy is going to go nuts.
Maybe they'll demo Batman some more... : (
Seems to me Sakaguchi wants to make Wii U games, according to this interview :
http://www.gamezone.com/products/th...he-last-story-interview-with-takuya-matsumoto
http://www.gamezone.com/products/th...he-last-story-interview-with-takuya-matsumoto
Agent Unknown
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I'll still watch, I love Fallon and the Roots are awesome. Reggie, just play some NSMBU with Jimmy but don't talk about Nintendo Land, Wii Fit, ect. It's bad enough you guys probably put Spike and MTV2's ratings in the toilet for an hour straight, don't do the same to Mr Fallon.
Anybody remember the 'What's Obama really thinking?' skit a few years ago where he had this press photo of the President standing next to a Canadian politician repeatedly and obsessively talking about how much he loved Bubble Bobble and that he was going to declare "National Bubble Bobble Day" as soon as he got back to the White House? lol
Fourth Storm
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There are 4 more of those chips on the rear of the card. It's deceiving, I know.
My current theory is that GDDR5 is in use, but that it's been downclocked to 600 Mhz (which would explain the comments on it being slow). I used this site to calculate bandwidth using GDDR5's x16 clamshell mode and a 48-bit bus:
http://www.ehow.com/how_12193732_calculate-memory-bandwidth-gddr5-ram.html
If you do the numbers, you'll see it amounts to 57.6 GB/s, which coincidentally, is the exact specification of the RV770LE supposedly used in the early dev kits.
TheCongressman1
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I'd love a National bubble Bobble day.
Wii blew up in Japan, and it largely got ignored by 3rd parties.
Captain Smoker
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On the other side, Wii U has one year of advantage + hardware is better in comparison.
+ home portable (^^)
lordfroakie
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Yay! More RPG goodness
I really want to be optimistic, and I've made posts expressing my opinion that logically Wii U should receive solid Japanese support...but every word from third parties since E3 has been uniformly negative, so my expectations are pretty low at the moment.
TheCongressman1
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It was a pretty different situation: at the time Wii released, especially DS, but also PSP had established themselves as the main consoles, and this brought away a part of the support for Wii. Then, we have to count also that third parties last gen were heavily betting on PS3, so many big brands were in development for that platform, and the money spent was so much it was not possible to radically shift the platform. Then, in 2007, despite many good success stories from 3rd parties, we've seen PSP establishing itself much more. MH gave life to PSP, let's all remember this. And then, 2008 and 2009 saw great success stories on PS3, for "core" games.
This time, instead, not only Wii U is being released without brand new competition, but the successor of the platform which stole many of its possible support ( PSP) is doing terribad. So, it's possible for them to have a good support this time.
For some reason this made me think of how awesome Baten Kaitos would be if your card management system was on the 2nd screen.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
I haven't heard of 2Gb GDDR3 chips either. Perhaps you meant gDDR3?
Regardless, even if 2Gb GDDR3 chips existed, nintendo would have no incentives to go with EOL'd exotic memory chips.
This reminds me. Definitely need a new Soul Calibur game on the Wii U with Link as a guest character.
Considering how bad the last entry did, I fear we could not see a brand new Soul Calibur for some time.
Don't worry we'll get Soul Calibur Legends II
Nintendo needs to, like, give a clinic to Japanese publishers titled, "Managing your IP: How to preserve value in your properties"
Captain Smoker
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I look at this: While Take-Two will make sports and family titles for the Wii U, its bigger core franchises have been notably absent from the list of partners. And that seems unlikely to change anytime soon.
And I look at this:
Net-Income:
I don't understand western publishers, really. It's not like you need to downport GTA to the Wii.
Activision Blizzard ported COD to the Wii and all entries became million sellers. You get 30,000,000 $ - 40,000,000 $ additional revenue. And downports are harder than upports... or even 1:1 ports.
And I look at this:
Net-Income:
Code:
[B]Fiscal Year Take-Two[/B]
FY10 1993
FY10 1994
FY10 1995 - $603,000
FY10 1996 $1,682,000
FY10 1997 - $2,768,000
FY10 1998 $7,181,000
FY10 1999 $15,871,000
FY10 2000 $4,555,000
FY10 2001 - $6,918,000
FY10 2002 $59,667,000
FY10 2003 $88,672,000
FY10 2004 $62,119,000
FY10 2005 $35,314,000
FY10 2006 - $184,889,000
FY10 2007 - $138,406,000
FY10 2008 $97,097,000
FY10 2009 - $140,454,000
FY3 2010 - $28,802,000
FY3 2011 $48,458,000
FY3 2012 - $108,816,000
[B] - $191.040.000[/B]I don't understand western publishers, really. It's not like you need to downport GTA to the Wii.
Activision Blizzard ported COD to the Wii and all entries became million sellers. You get 30,000,000 $ - 40,000,000 $ additional revenue. And downports are harder than upports... or even 1:1 ports.
Makes little sense to me, but what do I know.
I always thought Take-Two was a much more financially stable company...
Hmm
Also kind of curious but how many of their positive years correlate with a new GTA release?
I'm interested to see how well NSMB U works out for them. I think they're burning through some of their stored brand equity, but it may be a productive trade-off all the same.
Yeah I suspect it wasn't originally planned for launch but the 3DS launch made em go fuck it we need a sure thing.
Captain Smoker
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1997 - Grand Theft Auto
1999 - Grand Theft Auto II
2001 - Grand Theft Auto III
2002 - Vice City
2004 - San Andreas
2008 - Grand Theft Auto IV
*only major releases
Basically, PS1/PS2 - age was "golden", HD-age.. you see.
And would FY 2009 be helped by the release of Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and the Damned?
They probably have a good working relationship with Nintendo right now. That coupled with Nintendo's likely dominance in Japan makes them an obvious target for future games.
I think with last gen, almost all developers in Japan were betting big on the PS3 because of the success of the previous 2 consoles. It's not particularly easy to change course once you have sunk so much money into HD development.
Captain Smoker
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Well, FY 2009 was the second worst, I don't think so. ^^
EA's breakdown looks exactly the same (with bigger numbers / loss), THQ also.
I didn't compile Activiosn Blizzards numbers yet, but I think they did decent with Guitar Hero and COD.
(and they managed to support the Wii)Need to look up some other western companies.
Capcom did decent this generation, thanks to Monster Hunter.
But some other japanese companies tanked too.
I'm thinking the same. If there's one game that can sell consoles it's a 2D Mario. I will be shocked if the Wii U does not sell like hotcakes.
It's because Soul Calibur 2 is still the best one. I didn't like 4 so I skipped 5.
Not that I've seen or heard.
Spieler Eins
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Many Rockstar ports came to the Wii, so I thought it was a no brainer that they'd do WiiU ports at least until PS420.
Can't believe Nintendo couldn't convince more publishers to do ,simple' ports in a whole year...
Can't believe Nintendo couldn't convince more publishers to do ,simple' ports in a whole year...
bgassassin
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Captain Smoker
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bgassassin
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Welcome back. People have been trickling back in.
Spieler Eins
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Anything that was easily possible. So I'm surprised they are refusing ports now. Reggie acts like this E3 was their biggest success, which is his job, but I hope behind that facade they realise that they fucked up and act accordingly asap.
This is probably my main reason for hope as far as Japanese support is concerned, although that isn't saying much. The Wii was coming off of the GameCube and the PS3 coming off of the PS2.. but this time perhaps developers over there might me more inclined to maybe split their bets a bit more evenly between the two consoles?
I'd like to believe it's gonna happen, but after seeing year after year of the third-party platform pattern, it's hard to shake my underlying pessimism.
Fourth Storm
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How did those end up selling? Don't forget, despite the hardware deficiencies, Wii had a shit-ton of hype rolling out of E3 2006 and many hardcore players were on board w/ Twilight Princess, Galaxy, Excite and more whetting our palates. Sadly, this is not the case for Wii U atm, though I still believe. :\
Edit: Not to mention the motion controls adding to the brutality of those two games. haha
Jaded Alyx
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Veeeeeery late to this, but...why? Are people going to be flinging it around like a Wiimote? Why then, didn't Nintendo include wrist straps with the DS/3DS?
There is a wrist strap with the Circle Pad Pro.
Jaded Alyx
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Didn't Bully SE sell around 400k on Wii? I own a copy and I kinda enjoyed the game a lot with the Wiimote/nunchuck. Punching jocks and greasers with that controller combo felt good man. I hope they'll think about a successor to Bully. Best Rockstar game with Vice City and Red Dead Redemption.
And man, I still can't believe they actually made a Soul Calibur action game instead of a fighter.
And man, I still can't believe they actually made a Soul Calibur action game instead of a fighter.
tkscz
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We already got an answer. Yes, yes they are.
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