Zenn3k said:
Big_Willie_Styles said:
Zenn3k said:
Honestly, I feel Nintendo should drop out of the console business and become a 3rd party dev.
Because that somehow makes sense seeing as they won the last generation. Nintendo is the biggest video game company in the world. Just doesn't make sense, bro.
How many WiiU's have they sold now? They are going back to the basement this generation, and they may never come back out of it.
They've sold as many Wii U's 7 months in as Microsoft sold 360s after the same time period. And that's without significant first party games. Once the likes of Mario, Pikmin and Donkey Kong start hitting, expect sales to swing upwards massively.
Devs are jumping ship from the WiiU as well, because nobody is buying the console. Hell, I haven't even turned on my Wii in over 5 years, it sits in a box, its not even plugged in anymore, many other gamers have a similar fate for their Wii.
And yet the Wii sold more software units (870 million) this gen than any other console, and had a game-to-console ration roughly equal to the 360. That suggests a
lot of people were more than happy enough to keep the Wii plugged in, and to keep buying games for it. The fact that over
103 different games cleared the 1 million+ mark on Wii kinda reinforces that.
They reclaimed the throne for awhile, but they are losing again, and badly. Plus I'd really like to play Zelda/Mario/Super Smash Bro on my PS4 this gen, instead of buying an entire new console for 4 games like I did with the Wii.
If ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas.
At this point, Sony is more likely to pull out of the hardware race than Nintendo, given their utterly woeful financials. Wishing for Nintendo exclusives to go multiplatform at this point in time is just ludicrous.