Nintendo Admits Decline in Demand for Wii and DS
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...Yeah, they are the pinnacle of dumbness. At the time, No-one in the LRR crew had a PS3. Two were store display cases, and one was borrowed from the neighbourhood.Stabby Joe said:
Calumon: Sometimes, silly people just are way too silly for their own good.
Ahhh Nintendo.
They have a very well documented history of being the "firsts" to try things, so I wont go into Nin's excellent, groundbreaking innovations. (Neither will you.
)
But I will say this.
At this point in Nintendo's history/evolution, it WOULD be considered "new" and "interesting" for Nintendo to release a top of the line, high powered system.
Put a different way, it would be innovative, for Nintendo, to release a graphical powerhouse.
And so, that is what I would like to see. Nintendo, your gimmicks and new ideas have been pretty kick ass so far. Would it hurt your sales/company to release the "Ultra Nintendo" and make eyeballs bleed with pure, relentless, Super-Saiyan level capabilities, instead of... say... some watered down graphics engine with a new tongue activated controller?
On second thought, scratch the first idead, proceed with the second one. And make me a Metroid game, stat!!!
Whiskey Echo!
Mythgraven
They have a very well documented history of being the "firsts" to try things, so I wont go into Nin's excellent, groundbreaking innovations. (Neither will you.
)But I will say this.
At this point in Nintendo's history/evolution, it WOULD be considered "new" and "interesting" for Nintendo to release a top of the line, high powered system.
Put a different way, it would be innovative, for Nintendo, to release a graphical powerhouse.
And so, that is what I would like to see. Nintendo, your gimmicks and new ideas have been pretty kick ass so far. Would it hurt your sales/company to release the "Ultra Nintendo" and make eyeballs bleed with pure, relentless, Super-Saiyan level capabilities, instead of... say... some watered down graphics engine with a new tongue activated controller?
On second thought, scratch the first idead, proceed with the second one. And make me a Metroid game, stat!!!
Whiskey Echo!
Mythgraven
Though I'm sure that if Nintendo were to release a wii 2 fairly soon, the demand for that would once again be great. Also I think that the 3DS will sell well, or at least better than the DSi.
There's still a ton of good games coming out for the Wii-Metroid: Other M, GoldenEye, Epic Mickey, Conduit 2, Kirby: Epic Yarn, Donkey Kong Country Returns etc. I think the DS will definitely go down in sales and stay down with the upcoming 3DS, but the Wii may still have good sales-Nintendo's E3 games could convinve a lot of gamers to pick up a Wii.
MrNickster said:
MrNickster, your optimisim is inspiring, however, from this corner of the webz:
Other M is being looked forward to, not on the virtues of the Wii's success, persay, as much as the franchise's success. Other M could be a retro SNES cartridge, and people would still look forward to it.
Goldeneye: See above.
Epic Mickey, from what I understand, just got a large sum of his epicness kicked out of his classic two-button pants. No dark Mickey? No quasi- American McGee take on the character? No risk on the part of the studio? Meh. Pass.
Conduit 2: Lets be honest for a moment. Pretend Im Malcolm McDowell, with a warm, friendly voice everyone likes. Conduit was ok... it was a good game, and none of that nonsense about how it was good "in spite" of the technological shortcomings of its platform.
But was it -really- that good? Id say not, good neighbor. Id submit to you that while Conduit was good enough to follow up with a sequel... Halo 2, this is not. Metroid Prime 2... this is not. A decent sequel to a decent game. Hell... even Mortal Kombat 2, back in its hey-day, was more popular than Conduit 2 is likely to be.
As for the 3DS... I admit. The shiny golden hook of OoT, FF6, and other such wickedly badass titles in a portable setting is hard to resist... but I also have to say that frankly, I dont -like- the control scheme that the recent portable Zelda titles have taken. It may be awesome, and easy for some, but Id say touch/motion screen controls would need to get a hell of alot more precise in order for me to enjoy a game where the primary combat consists of directed sword swings. And I bite my lip in apprehension of smearing my fond memories of OoT with having to curse when a manuever that could be pulled off gracefully with an N64 controller now amounts to a frantic scrabbling at a screen.
Whiskey Echo!!
Mythgraven
Metroid: Other M and GoldenEye-Does it matter? It's a title that alot of gamers without Wii's could buy one for. It might be for the game and the series rather then the system, but at the end of the day, that translates to sales of the system.mythgraven said:
Epic Mickey: You play as Mickey trapped in a wasteland full of forgotten and unloved Disney characters, with the ability to create and destroy by way of paint and thinner. I'd say that's a fair bit darker than what Mickey is used to.
Conduit 2: I found the first Conduit to be a good game-an 8/10. It had tight controls, decent AI, very good online (for Wii standards) and some really good weapons. It had problems with art direction and lack of enemy variation, but it was still a good game. Conduit 2 is out to solve those problems. How can you write off a game as not going to sell and won't be good when there has been exactly one interview?
The 3DS has a thumbstick. I think they'll use that over the touchscreen.
A thumbstick you say?
/stroke goatee
And you misunderstood. I wasnt "writing off" C2, persay, as I was stating that it was not a major blip on the radars of the gaming world. I have every expectation that it will be a good game.
OnTopic: I actually saw someone buy Conduit on Thursday, at a GameStop. Viva la capitolism!
Whiskey Echo!!
Mythgraven
/stroke goatee
And you misunderstood. I wasnt "writing off" C2, persay, as I was stating that it was not a major blip on the radars of the gaming world. I have every expectation that it will be a good game.
OnTopic: I actually saw someone buy Conduit on Thursday, at a GameStop. Viva la capitolism!
Whiskey Echo!!
Mythgraven
This makes sense. The market isn't infinite. At some point everyone who wants one is going to have one. I don't think they are at that point yet, but they have probably hit the point where people who could easily afford them have picked them up.
