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Animehermit
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Would sell a lot of WiiU's in Japan, wouldn't do much here. |
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Megiddo
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Persona doesn't appear to be all that big of a franchise sales wise in comparison to some other potential giants. For instance, a Monster Hunter or Dragon Quest Wii U exclusive could push 10x the sales of the Wii U in Japan than a Persona Wii U exclusive.
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configspace
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I don't think the Persona exclusive would be enough to make up for the amount of money Nintendo would have to throw at Atlus.
For all we know, it could be that Nintendo will end with a net loss for their exclusive deal with Platinum Games for Bayonetta 2. |
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Rahxephon91
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I'm pretty sure it's a low investment on their end with Bayo 2. It was supposedly already well into development before Sega canceled it.
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Gon*Gon
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huh...a video game related war in ANN? Interesting.
Anyways, for kids out there who clearly weren't around in any of the previous console generations. It's Nintendo. They'll be fine and the WiiU will come out profitable as you'd expect Nintendo consoles to be. Hell, you only JUST witnessed a very similar situation happen with the 3DS. History predictably repeats itself. No one gives a rats behind that a company that shells out mediocre tripe like EA stops supporting Nintendo just because they can't get Origin into the Wiiu. As long as companies that make real games are making games for the WiiU, then N's fine. In case you're forgetting, Nintendo still has Monster Hunter all for themselves. The sole console to ever break the pattern was Wii and it's crazy success at launch. But literally every other consoles for the past few generations have been predictable as ever. |
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Rahxephon91
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And millions of people do care. Battlefield is a huge success, people love Criterion's Need For Speed games, and Fifa and Madden are some of the most popular mainstream games out there. Not having those two games is a big cripple to your console in pretty much most of the western world. Anyone who keeps saying this dosen't matter, dosen't know what they are talking about and is speaking only through their bias.
Maybe you're right, history repaets itself. So will we see history repeat itself, just on a quicker pace this time? Will we see most third party developers/Publishers leave the Wii U just like they did the Wii. Throwing spin-offs and what not on the system and concentrating on the actual more powerful systems they invested in? probably, the difference being the Wii U dosen't have that motion gimmick that got the Wii everywhere. Last edited by Rahxephon91 on Sun Aug 04, 2013 3:48 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Mr Adventure
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And if Sega is in a bid to buy Atlus (which is the current rumor floating around)... |
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Animehermit
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The biggest difference is that they don't have the release sales numbers they did with the Wii. They coasted off those numbers this entire generation, which is why they were able to keep up after releasing nothing but garbage for years. They don't have the sales numbers to coast this time, so releasing nothing but garbage is going to hurt them and badly. |
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Mr Adventure
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Please name 1 'garbage' first Party Nintendo title on the Wii or Wii U. Please. |
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Animehermit
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I should have been more clear, I wasn't talking about first party Nintendo titles (though there are a few I would happily throw under the bus) But the overabundance of shovelware on the Wii. |
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Mr Adventure
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Every mega successful console has its shovelware. I bet the PS2 could give the Wii a serious run for its money in the Shovelware department. |
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Animehermit
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The PS2 also had a lot of amazing 3rd and 1st party titles. Pretty much the only games worth buying for the wii were the first party ones. |
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Galap
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Meh every console wars has its winners and losers, and the losers can recover. Hell, all the first xbox had was halo and the 360 did very well the next gen.
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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This is false. The losers *may* recover, but eventually they can reach a point of no return. I don't know how many more chances Nintendo is gonna get, but if they keep this up, they're going to go down eventually. |
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Shadowrun20XX
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Wii U has more negatives than positives atm. Tiny third party support. Single player system. Small battery life. Lack of must haves. Simply waited to long to join HD generation. Got too greedy with the always fickle casual market, that has tendency to follow fads, and was left behind. Nintendo ignoring their built up fanbase from the past will have to do something drastic to get us back. Im about to get the Xbox one, PS4 and a new Desktop. Lego city undercover isnt worth investing 400 into.
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