Same. As far as I can tell it's the lack of party chat and the frequent maintenance. But if I had to guess what it really was I'd say they judged it from its first few months where it didn't have many features and haven't updated their opinions as its improved.EHKOS said:
I agree. And the answer lies in finding new ways to incorporate that information and fix the current situation, not slide it all to a new screen and creating new problems. Can we do any of this audibly? LA Noire used "talk to your buddy for driving directions" to great effect without giving us GPS in the '50s. What info doesn't need to be shown at all? Shooters have all but ditched the health bar. Maybe some other info can go away, as well.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
... aaaaaaaaaand there goes your argument. A step forward? Understated and simple? They said they're going to move all of the HUD info to a separate screen. Now you have to manage TWO screens. Your head bounces back and forth. You could make an argument that maaaaaaybe this is a step sideways, but realistically, we've taken two steps forward, Nintendo is takin' two steps baaaack. We come togetherrrr, cuz ohhhh-poe-zits attract! And you know, it ain't fic- *ahem*
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The "fanboy defensive personal attack" comment was directed at you, using the same choice of words that you used.Sleekit said:
Nobody can say they speak for "gamers", you only speak for yourself, and the gaming world/market is a lot different than when the Dreamcast was on everybody's lips. I.e. People have grown up now.Sleekit said:
... Sony was the one that killed SEGA with the PS2. Had Sony never entered the Market (And if SEGA didn't botch up the Saturn so badly with terrible commercials and instantaneous release at the first E3), they would have basically continued their rivalry with Nintendo. When the Playstation 2 showed up though, SEGA systems just weren't selling, and they had to abandon the console market.Fumbles said:
Agreed. Chances are a hardcore gamer has most if not all of the available systems. I can forgive some that opt out of any 1 of the systems but you're going to have most of them. The only reason I don't own a 360 is the failure rate is too higher, and it just doesn't have enough exclusives outside of fps for me. I've only had 1 system die on me and that was a 32x after it took a fall off some boxes, a very small fall, like the system tipped and lightly touched the box next to it. The Genesis still worked.Elate said:
Yea "dominated this generation in terms of sales" in the casual market. So for each console sold, hardly ANY games (beyond Nintendo titles) were bought for it, and a large number of those "casual gamers" quickly lost interest.WaysideMaze said:
Actually many people who bought the wii bought it for their children. You know what children are really good at? Brand Identification. Sure you could say they'll move on because casuals or whatever bought it however it doesn't seem that way based on what I observe. I do some volunteer assistance at the elementary school across from my school and every boy and even a few girls in the third grade class alone are totally enamoured by the things. I see at least 8 DSs at recess and they are always talking about smash brothers or pokemon or sometimes even Zelda though I've noticed that's a little more popular with the girls than the boys.FantomOmega said:
The weirdest thing is that when those kids "grow up" (heck I already hear FAR to many kids on PSN) they will follow the mindset that they want a "grown up" system and not that "kiddy one" mom bought them and with all the marketing on TV where you see those flashy ads of some space marine blowing a alien's head off they'll be hyped to get their grubby mist on ithim over there said:
