March vidya salez figurez

[TripleA]

Yea, that seems like the way you would process people's posts.

No.

[Ichirou]

Triple A = NintendosBooger, right?

[The Fake Shemp]

Sadly, no.

[maxy]

Gamasutra

Nintendo's new upsized hanheld, the DSi XL, had a "solid" sales debut in the U.S. in March, according to a post-NPD report from Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter.

The handheld didn't arrive Stateside until March 28, but still managed to sell 141,000 units, Pachter said. The entire DS line, which now includes the DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL, sold 700,800 units total during the month, NPD reported Thursday evening. The portable retails for $189.99 in the U.S.

PSP is finished,game over,stick a fork into it.

[etiolate]

boy this thread went to shit as expected


anyway while we're on the subject red steel 2 sold 50k, proving that wii owners were never interested in good motion controls in the first place, just waving their arms to watch things happen in wii music and just dance

I am not sure that they aren't interested, but its a perception battle.

The GC had the purple lunchbox battle, while Wii's battle is the traditional console game looking awkward on a sales rack next to a bunch of  Wii Sports knockoffs. There is a collective assurance in buying the crap some people buy on Wii because it fits in with the general aesthetics of the Wii catalog. The same way a Banjo Kazooie looks out of place and thus gets passed over on a 360 sales rack. None of the three consoles have the correct proportions in variety where every type of game has sales potential instead of looking like the odd game out.

Point: Even if there is interest in the mind of the customer, the fact that Red Steel 2 looks like it doesn't belong with the rest of the catalog makes the purchaser more wary. Only way to counter that is to increase the amount of games that would fit alongside a traditional action game, but there is a period of sales risk you have to overcome until proportions even out. Microsoft faces the same thing in trying to capture the japanese RPG crowd. They have shelled out 'da moneyhats' to try to get over that "ugly duckling" perception on the sales rack. You can't simply just have a game of type X, you have to make it seem like game X belongs on the shelf.

[TripleA]

Methodis, Mynameismud, Nintendosbooger, etc etc.

I'm everyone.

[Ichirou]

Everybody that sucks.  Noticed a trend?

[Phoenix Dark]

Red Steel sold because it was a launch title confirmed. Glad we can put a fork in that N-spin

I haven't read much of the GAF thread but I'd imagine it's full of laments about Ubisoft's poor marketing causing the game to fail on such a fail proof console for third parties

[Don Flamenco]

I think people were going to buy it, but the announcement of the Conduit 2 rocked the hardcore wii scene so hard, that everyone just forgot about Red Steel 2.

[WrikaWrek]

Wii launches in Toys Are Us, its audience turns Mario Kart, Wii Fit, and Just Dance into the biggest hits of the generation.



Why anybody, ANYBODY, would have any trouble figuring out what kind of audience the Wii has....is hilarious. Wii is irrelevant for my gaming interests.

[Third]

Wii launches in Toys Are Us, its audience turns Mario Kart, Wii Fit, and Just Dance into the biggest hits of the generation.



Why anybody, ANYBODY, would have any trouble figuring out what kind of audience the Wii has....is hilarious. Wii is irrelevant for my gaming interests.

Pretty much.

The only people who think otherwise are ntards.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Wii lost the RE4/Red Steel demographic when Nintendo decided to put more priority into titles like Wii Fit and thought Animal Crossing was good enough for the hardcore audience.

Not that Nintendo really needs them but Nintards still believe the 1,000,000 or so who got RE4 is still around, waiting for the right game, which will most definitely be The Conduit 2.

[TripleA]

:derpEverybody that sucks.  Noticed a trend?

Definitely man.

[Beezy]

Wii launches in Toys Are Us, its audience turns Mario Kart, Wii Fit, and Just Dance into the biggest hits of the generation.



Why anybody, ANYBODY, would have any trouble figuring out what kind of audience the Wii has....is hilarious. Wii is irrelevant for my gaming interests.

Pretty much.

The only people who think otherwise are ntards.

No, they're wiitards. There's a difference.

[etiolate]

Wii lost the RE4/Red Steel demographic when Nintendo decided to put more priority into titles like Wii Fit and thought Animal Crossing was good enough for the hardcore audience.

^^

And those people might still own a Wii, but aren't really up to date on what is coming out on Wii. They just see the sales rack full of Price is Right and Imagine Horsiez. Plus, Nintendo never really made that bridging game they needed between the two demos. Maybe Mario Galaxy, but it has't lead there in terms of transition. So, maybe they even are still around, but they aren't paying attention or care enough for it to matter.

The polarizing of the industry is killing a possible revival. I am neither in want of Just Dance or in want of Just Cause.

Like I said before, not one of the current consoles has near the balanced variety of the PS2 or any previous generational leader. Hell, they don't even have the variety that my Gamecube had. The market is split in half at its extremes.

[cool breeze]

Most people I know who played video games regularly on the PS2/Gamecube bought a Wii at launch and traded it off for a PS3 or 360 around two years ago.  I say PS2/Gamecube because the people who had an Xbox last gen got the 360 within a year for Halo or whatever.

I don't really mind what is happening to the Wii.  Thinking back, I bought it to play Nintendo games.  I still want to check out Red Steel 2, Fragile and a few other third party games but mostly I'm content with it being my Nintendo game box.  Mario Galaxy 2, Sin and Punishment 2 and Metroid Other M all within the next four months.  That's pretty great.

Things like Wii Fit, Just Dance, w/e aren't for me.  They're cheap games for people who bought the Wii as a novelty and they're happy with it.  The Wii is the Telemundo of video games and who am I to say that audience shouldn't enjoy 12 Corazones? 

[Stoney Mason]

All Nintendo has done is take their rightful and natural position as the Disney of video games. I mean in a corporate sense. It's funny to see a certain type of gamer go through agony because the "hardcore" isn't their first concern anymore. This was always their destiny. 

[The Sceneman]

^ pretty much, but did you ever envisage their first party output to be this dire?

[Beezy]

The polarizing of the industry is killing a possible revival. I am neither in want of Just Dance or in want of Just Cause.

Why do you hate fun?

[EmCeeGrammar]

^ pretty much, but did you ever envisage their first party output to be this dire?

They're a relatively small company who don't like to stick with franchises with mediocre returns.  People who ask for starfox/fzero/etc need to go back and look at their piss poor sales.  At the very least, they publish some good stuff.  Punch out and EO2 and Excitebots were all awesome.  NSMBwii was divine.  This year has been really slow though.

[maxy]

Bah,Nintendo sux.
We shall see if too much $$$ has impaired their collective brains,like it did to Sony this gen.



Like i said,stick a fork into PSP


 

[EmCeeGrammar]

Getting all the people who bought the wii to move onto the next successor is going to be the true test of skill.  Wii proved the general public doesn't give a damn about gains on graphics, so its going to have to differentiate itself further.

[chronovore]

All Nintendo has done is take their rightful and natural position as the Disney of video games. I mean in a corporate sense. It's funny to see a certain type of gamer go through agony because the "hardcore" isn't their first concern anymore. This was always their destiny. 

Very well said.

Whatever hardcore audience is still "true" to Nintendo, they're the same as Disney fans, and cared for about as much as well. Disney does not make movies and TV shows for those fans; why bother? They'll eat up whatever is churned out. Disney is rightfully concerned with making goods which appeal to the mainstream. Nintendo has managed that neatly.

[Yeti]

Actually, since Disney owns things like ESPN, Marvel, Touchstone, ABC, etc, I would say that they put Nintendo to shame in catering to the hardcore as well as casuals.



I would like to add an addendum: I feel like a more apt analogy would be that owning a Wii is like owning a dvd player that only plays Disney animated movies with an occasional Jerry Bruckheimer dvd here and there.

[EmCeeGrammar]

Hardcore and Casual is one of the most annoying distinctions I've come across in my life. 

[magus]

i hate both gears of duty: modern call of war and wii waggle equaly

[EmCeeGrammar]

You're one of the biggest posers ever dude.

[chronovore]

Hardcore and Casual is one of the most annoying distinctions I've come across in my life. 

I try to treat the distinction casually.

[EmCeeGrammar]

Hardcore and Casual is one of the most annoying distinctions I've come across in my life. 

I try to treat the distinction casually.

I ... think I see what you did there?

[chronovore]

Hardcore and Casual is one of the most annoying distinctions I've come across in my life. 

I try to treat the distinction casually.

I ... think I see what you did there?

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I'm not even sure what I did there. 

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