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Scent wrote:
http://aussie-gamer.com/article/nintendo-article/nintendo-wont-forced-discontinue-wii-u-next-year/
To summarize the article: it pinpoints as to what Nintendo will suffer from Sony and Microsoft and should do before they fall.
Thoughts?
Before I get to the emboldened text... was there really any risk of this? Nintendo has been doing quite well for itself, and has been selling many units. The WiiU seriously needs to hurry up its great game production.
I assume this (the emboldened text) is meant jovially, because I don't see any of these guys going down anytime soon: they're doing fairly well. I always wonder why the console war ends in the death of an entire company. Like it's not enough to simply not produce consoles anymore (like Sega and Atari), the company must cease and desist all games while handing over all subsidiaries and franchises in shame. I'll give you that the PS4 is basically the PS3 with more social features, and that the Xbox One is a huge example of what not to do in an ad campaign (and certain design features), and that both have some wildly negative company policies (looking at the "lending, selling, etc." games things, you guys... Sony even moreso for reneging on their promise to the consumer). However, Sony still has strong franchises that stick to it (or at least wait to port the titles to other systems). Xbox One might not have many great titles anticipated for anytime soon beyond a Killer Instinct sequel, but... that's the exact thing we Nintendo fans say to defend the WiiU: the really great games just aren't out yet/are coming out slowly. In fact, we said the same thing about the 3DS, and we were right.
Scent wrote:
dullahan1 wrote:
I'm pretty much seeing this as a similar thing to the 3DS. I believe sales will go up once more hit franchises come out.
See: Super Smash Bros. 4 Wii U and Mario Kart 8
Not to mention Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem. That should be quite the underrated crossover smackdown. Y'know, it hit me... holy crap, we're getting a lot of crossovers lately. I mean, we've always had the "Capcom v. anyone that will give us the rights to their characters, seriously, we'll take anything" line of games and Battletoads/Double Dragon, but there really haven't been that many crossovers in gaming until recently. Or maybe I've just been blind to it.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze looks interesting, though... I miss K. Rool. A lot. These Wallace & Grommit villains don't really stack-up to the we-just-took-something-on-our-files-and-enlarged-it-and-maybe-added-a-face bosses of yore. Granted, they weren't creative, but K. Rool's bossfight almost always was.
Shadow of the Eternals, the Eternal Darkness sequel is gonna be AMAZING, even if it's only a spiritual sequel. Though my heart breaks that there's yet another psychopathic lesbian antagonist. =/ Seriously, gaming and anime, it's not funny anymore. It's tired, and it's annoying. It's almost as annoying as the whole "if there's a bisexual in a game, they're almost always into kink and casual sex" stereotype. ualdsughlauh
Scent wrote:
dullahan1 wrote:
I had actually considered purchasing one of the new consoles, but I actually went for a Wii U this past week. It had a good bundle deal, it was affordable, and it came with games I was interested in.
Their bundle deals are AWESOME! I bought my Nintendo Wii U from the The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker HD bundle, which includes a downloadable version of the game and the Hyrule Historia which, if you buy all three things separately, will very much cost you over $400. For my Wii U, I have the Wonderful 101 (awesome game), Wind Waker HD (another cult classic remastered) and Super Mario 3D World (one of the best Mario games they've developed).
I bought mine at or around launch- I can't remember which. I originally got ZombiU close after, but I sold it a short while afterwords. Not a bad game, but I just couldn't beat it. It was interesting- it was like Metroid had a baby with Resident Evil and roguelikes. Currently, Pikmin 3 is my only game for it, but that should change someday.
Scent wrote:
dullahan1 wrote:
One thing I think that people keep on forgetting about Nintendo is that they develop tons of first party games as opposed to other companies.
See: Mario, Link, Metroid, Starfox, Kirby, Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Kid Icarus, Pokemon, Pikmin, Golden Sun, and the subsequent spinoffs of each main franchise.
Not to mention franchises that frequently appear on Nintendo exclusively: Ace Attorney, Professor Layton, Brain Age, Clayfighter (though discontinued), Bubsy (discontinued), what used to be Rare franchises until they were bought by Microsoft, the SMT mother franchise, The Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor franchise, etc.
Scent wrote:
dullahan1 wrote:
IMost of the money the other companies will be getting directly is from their sales on systems whereas Nintendo not only gets its profits from the systems, but the games it sells as well. They don't have to share their earnings with a lot of other companies most of the time because they're the ones who made the game.
And like the article states: since it's a public company, it also has other source of assets.
Just like Sony and Microsoft. The fact htat Sony and Microsoft didn't start as gaming companies means they've already successfully diversified into other venues. It'd sorta be weird (though nice) to see Nintendo-brand gaming laptops, televisions (or at least screens that are attached to the consoles), etc. It's why none of the companies will be bowing out of the console wars anytime soon, unless Xbone has any more major issues and scandals (seriously, Microsoft, the patent for an always-on camera that views into our rooms? Creepy even if you never follow through with it.), or decides to further dilute gaming consoles (Look! the PS5 can use... the internet. Because no one has computers!).
Scent wrote:
dullahan1 wrote:
I do see a bad side to this because Nintendo really doesn't handle 3rd parties that much, but then again, people who are wanting Nintendo are looking for Mario, Zelda, etc. They aren't looking for 3rd party games like Call of Duty.
Nintendo has pretty much tried to broaden its relationship with third parties a lot nowadays.
They've already done so- and continue to do so- quite successfully. If we're not counting licensed titles (except Strong Bad's Cool Games For Attractive Peoples- we'll count that), Nintendo does plenty of work already with Capcom, Level 5, Ubisoft, and even a little with Bioware and EA (despite EA game-blocking us from their non-sports titles).