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Wii U Games 2015
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TheMoon
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Especially considering how radically different they are.
openrob
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Essentially Nintendo said that adding in a Hard Drive would mean forcing everyone to buy that size hard drive (not everyone needs one/people need different sizes), whilst making them pay the added price at the point of production (the price of external HD's go down every year).
So you can buy an external hard drive of your choosing at your own price point. Just plug in through USB and it will format it to use for your games.
I'm not sure if the target audiences are really that different tbh. Splatoon's is obviously bigger but a lot of the Wii U base that'd pick up DT would probably pick up Splatoon too. They're really the same sort of game even if the art's different.
LiveFromKyoto
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LOL, why do they do stuff like that? For the life of me I will never understand them releasing Wonderful 101 at the same time as GTA V. There's some bizarre notion that they have to compete at retail with other games.
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
This makes me annoyed at how ugly the VC game icons are. I wish they were cropped/square versions of box art or something instead of title screens, which just look so bland most of the time.my collection so far bring on the stellar 2015 lineup!
also got sonic lost world and nintendo land physical copies
completly impossible due to one simple reason.
september is 3 weeks vacation for me so xenoblade has to launch at tthe end of august or beginning of september
I think XBX will be August. They need to give it some breathing room from Zelda and the game should definitely be ready by then.
September will probably be Yoshi. Maybe the first Star Fox episode too or something. I have no idea for Devil's Third, October? With Fatal Frame hopefully?
Do you guys remember Monochroma? They had a Kickstarter some time back. As it turns out, the game might not come to Wii U anymore. It's already on Steam so I asked the developer about the Wii U version. The answer:
Great.
Great.
Nintendo at the investor meeting in October 2015: Yoshi's Woolly World will be released 1st half 2015 for NoE
NoA, December 12: Yoshi's Woolly World will be released early 2015.
Noa press release, January 14: "Nintendo is looking to ride the wave of momentum into 2015, with the launches of Splatoon, Yoshi’s Woolly World, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and Mario Party 10."
sörine:
NoA, December 12: Yoshi's Woolly World will be released early 2015.
Noa press release, January 14: "Nintendo is looking to ride the wave of momentum into 2015, with the launches of Splatoon, Yoshi’s Woolly World, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and Mario Party 10."
sörine:
sörine;148905122 said:
Looks like they were originally going to release it on Wii U first, followed by Xbox One, which we know they wouldn't have been able to anyway due to Microsoft's policy.
And it was totally mia in the last Direct. Unless it's a June surprise it's been pushed back.Nintendo at the investor meeting in October 2015: Yoshi's Woolly World will be released 1st half 2015 for NoE
NoA, December 12: Yoshi's Woolly World will be released early 2015.
Noa press release, January 14: "Nintendo is looking to ride the wave of momentum into 2015, with the launches of Splatoon, Yoshis Woolly World, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and Mario Party 10."
sörine:
Gaiaknight
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sörine;148938011 said:
doeasnt mean anything nintendo has done that with previous directs and the games show up in the next direct still on schedule.
TheMoon
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Yes. There's never not one. Q&A is the next day.
Not only that, but isn't January time for the yearly briefing as well?
higgsboson1997
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I think it's going to have its own direct simply because the game is M rated, and they probably don't want to show it in the usual directs with E rated content, simply because they will not be able to show a lot of important aspects of it.
IamSuperman
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Mario Party 10 needs online or just no buy
Benzychenz
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I want my very own Yarn Yoshi.
ZSaberLink
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Don't tell me you got that #s from chartz or something (just checked, you did)..... FYI, chartz is rarely ever correct unless they copy the #s from GAF or press releases. They basically make estimates like Michael Pachter does, but aren't clear they're just estimates. They "correct" their #s when they find they're really off, and in some cases, I guess they don't find out the real #s. Bayo 2 sold 135K in the US thus far, and ~51K in Japan last we saw. Barring some amazing sales outside of those two territories, there's no way it's at 600K. chartz is making crap up as usual. There's a reason it's a banned site on neogaf (notice how the name will get censored if you use the whole name).
I've said it before. But a smart company like Nintendo would leverage its niche game investments sensibly.
Devils Third will prime the Wii U for Splatoon.
A small increase in market base will occur from Itagaki fans, those fans will be playing a third person shooter/ hack em up with social multiplayer on Wii U. Places like neogaf start talking etc.
8 weeks later Splatoon. Bigger market available and a big push for Splatoon. 8 weeks later...these people grab Devils Third.
Thats how I'd do it. Anyways.
Devils Third better be at standard.
Devils Third will prime the Wii U for Splatoon.
A small increase in market base will occur from Itagaki fans, those fans will be playing a third person shooter/ hack em up with social multiplayer on Wii U. Places like neogaf start talking etc.
8 weeks later Splatoon. Bigger market available and a big push for Splatoon. 8 weeks later...these people grab Devils Third.
Thats how I'd do it. Anyways.
Devils Third better be at standard.
And the outlined release schedules (for officially known games) are always listed at the end of the "Supplementary Information about Earnings Release" with the financial reports from the investor meetings. IIRC, a common problem is that this info take a few days to get translated to English. The translations are listed here:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/index.html
The schedule for the investor relation-related things is here:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/schedule/index.html
NamikazeBurst
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I don't recall a time where Nintendo announced a delay in one of those lists. Like, there have been games on the list for a specific release period, and not too long after they get delayed. Nintendo knows if they are going to delay a game, but they obviously don't want to reveal it to investors right before a meeting.
Do you have any specific examples? I looked at all the whole history for the NoE schedules back to the launch of the Wii U and I could only find 2 delays compared to the schedules (Wii Party U and Wii Fit U).
Mostly, those lists are usually pretty vague anyhow (lots of TBDs), but the October 30 2014 list was surprisingly specific for the NoE region.
TheMoon
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No, that's the same thing.
Forgive my confusion. I thought all quarterly briefings come with an investor meeting and QA, and that in January we also get some kind of yearly briefing. Is that not the case?
TheMoon
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No. You're confusing this with the corporate management policy briefing which is the same as the regular investor meeting except they talk about future plans more deeply. That's usually what the January meeting is, though they just turned the last one in October into one of those so we have no idea right now if they're gonna do that again. The Nintendo fiscal year ends in March (fiscal years in general tend to go from April 1-March 31) so that's when you get their year-end results (at the April investor meeting, they're always a month after the fiscal quarter ends). And in July you have the annual shareholders meeting which replaces the normal investor meeting. I believe this is the event where you get these hilarious shareholders who ask about the bus route and presents during the Q&A
.No. You're confusing this with the corporate management policy briefing which is the same as the regular investor meeting except they talk about future plans more deeply. That's usually what the January meeting is, though they just turned the last one in October into one of those so we have no idea right now if they're gonna do that again. The Nintendo fiscal year ends in March (fiscal years in general tend to go from April 1-March 31) so that's when you get their year-end results (at the April investor meeting, they're always a month after the fiscal quarter ends). And in July you have the annual shareholders meeting which replaces the normal investor meeting. I believe this is the event where you get these hilarious shareholders who ask about the bus route and presents during the Q&A
Ah *ha*. Thanks, amiibro. That clears it up quite nicely. I'll be glad for any tidbits of info we can get, as always.
There's no current marketing material that says when Yoshi's coming though. We pretty much know Nintendo's Wii U and 3DS lineups through May for the most part, through March dated.
sörine;149158427 said:
1.5 month ago:
http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=42356
"More great games are coming for Nintendo systems in the first part of 2015, including Splatoon, Yoshi’s Woolly World and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse for Wii U, and Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. for Nintendo 3DS."
September is not first part of 2015.
A blurb on a single press release? I think it's not unreasonable to assume something changed. January-March are out for sure at least.
I guess April-June could be considered the first part of 2015? I mean after all this is the same Nintendo who suggested Wii U launch window stretched 4.5 months.
And France (Nintendo's biggest country in Europe) estimated 60k by the end of 2014. Maybe we can assume about 60k for the rest of Europe, so Bayo 2's total retail sales are roughly 300k worldwide. That's for physical sales, though. I remember a couple pieces of anecdotal evidence suggesting that digital sales typically account for 10 percent to 20 percent more than the physical sales for Nintendo games, so total Bayonetta 2 sales is probably about 345k.
Meesh
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Would be pretty happy for Platinum if this happened, almost seems too good to be true
Bring on Bayo 3.KratosEnergyDrink
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Devil's Third and Bayonetta 2 are very different games who targets other demographics.
Besides Bayonetta 1 got only very little support from XBox/PS3 owners too, despite its critical acclaim. Bayo2 sales seems acceptable anyway.
TheMoon
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If France makes up 60k for Bayo2 then the rest of Europe (Germany, their other biggest market over here should also be somewhere in that realm) would not just be 60k. That's crazy talk. If you want a safe estimate, go with 100k. Remember how many countries there are. There's Russia, too. And AU/NZ and South Africa. Those fall under the PAL region, too.
With all due respect, I don't see it that way. While the games are different genres, the demographics for both these games are the same, and I do feel that both have niche appeal. Bayonetta 2's sales are weak despite the good marketing effort. Nintendo pretty much did all it could with Bayonetta 2 in terms of promoting it. Devil's Third is screwed because Japanese gamers don't generally like shooters, much of Europe still isn't interested in Wii U (UK in particular) and western consumers vastly prefer western-developed games, most of which are bigger budget titles, not to mention the fact that Wii U and Nintendo home consoles in general, are not well associated with shooter titles. As Bayonetta 2 proved, the quality of the game wasn't enough to drive its sales far, and I imagine Devil's Third will have an even harder time as a mid-quality title with likely less marketing effort.
ZSaberLink
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Btw if I remember correctly Nintendo of France actually fell short of their Wii U expectations for 2014, so I kind of expect that the same happened for Bayo 2 since they didn't mention anything.
Also I think the Wii U is actually doing fairly terribly in Germany too. Looking at how Mario Kart 8 didn't seem to break 100K as of last November there (when they gave the award for Tomodachi Life being one of the best selling games), whereas it sold 276K in France (maybe w/ bundles?).
TheMoon
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The number for Bayo2 wasn't "expected by year end," that was the number the NintendoFR exec gave at the time of the interview in December. The year end expectations only referred to amiibo sales and Wii U HW sales.
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