Unless you are Nintendo. Mofos dropped their expectations from 9 million to 2.3 million. What games do they think will sell 9 million systems in a few months?
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Unless you are Nintendo. Mofos dropped their expectations from 9 million to 2.3 million. What games do they think will sell 9 million systems in a few months?
Nintendo needs to drop that price point.. Their core audience isn't about to drop $300 on a Wii-U when they're still content with playing the Wii, and don't see the difference between the two outside of that big, stupid controller...
I actually like the gamepad but it isn't being used to it's full potential. They need to drop the price again and include the 360 controller they have with to not scare people with it not having a traditional controller. These assholes were so confident in it selling that you don't even get a Wii controller with it. I guess they assumed everyone still has theirs. And don't get me started know recently a developer saying that No one there has used Xbox live or psn to even being able to copy them.
They mortgaged their future on that gimmick ass controller, all the while Sony and M$ came through with SmartGlass and RemotePlay and crushed the buildings..
If Nintendo doesn't drop some crazy IP in the next 2 years, they'll be solely a third party developer in the next 5.
Smash Bros & Mario Kart will sell systems. But It just might be too late for Nintendo. They should just focus on bring out another console in 2016.
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see what happens when you rush things,EA/DICE..?
Iwata should be fired already.
The Wii U is a symptom of a larger disease: Nintendo isn't dying, but it needs to adapt
You're going to be reading many articles about what Nintendo needs to do about the Wii U. This is one of them.
The most important thing that the company needs to realize is that it needs to do something. The strategy thus far has been to continue a bland marketing campaign, rely on the standard Nintendo franchises to drive player interest, and just kind of hope that things pick up.
It's not working.
Nintendo didn't release December sales numbers for the Wii U, but the company is expected to post its third annual loss, due to a number of factors including a price drop on the Wii U and soft hardware sales across the board.
The company is struggling to reach players in the U.S. for well-documented reasons. The Wii U name itself is confusing to players who already own, or owned, a Wii. The console is significantly underpowered compared to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, both of which are selling in large numbers.
The list goes on. Nintendo's online strategy is weak to the point of non-existence in a world where big name, online games such as Titanfall and Destiny are blurring the boundaries of single- and multiplayer. The user interface of the Wii U is a mess, as it's both hard to understand and lethargic. The fact that software is locked to each machine and not to a single log-in across the Wii U and 3DS line of products looks downright quaint in a time when Sony and Microsoft make it simple to take your games and account to other connected systems.
All of these problems are fixable, and none of them will sink the company. Nintendo has amassed a giant war chest, around $14 billion in liquid currency, and that allows the company to think about everything in the long term. But these issues taken together paint a picture of a company that's falling behind what players expect from modern games and modern hardware.
It's not just an issue of graphics anymore; players shouldn't have to worry about losing all their games if their current system dies. Nintendo is falling behind when it comes to managing games and their customer's digital life. The company's focus on traditional gaming and social interaction has always been attractive, but sending your Wii U back to the factory because you bricked the hardware during a firmware update without a way to get your digital purchases back without going through Nintendo's RMA has lost its charm.
So what needs to happen?
The short answer: Anything. Michael Pachter, analyst for Wedbush Securities, hit it on the head this morning on Twitter. "The first step to recovery is to acknowledge the problem," he wrote. "I have not seen anything from [Nintendo president Satoru Iwata] that acknowledges that there is a problem."
The Wii U is a great piece of hardware that can provide multiple strengths the other consoles can't match. The ability to play a game on the GamePad while your family watches, or even plays, something else on the television is amazing if you have children. That's only the beginning.
I've often brought the Wii U into the bedroom and kept it plugged next to the bed, without even bothering to attach it to a television. I've whiled away more than a few evenings in Call of Duty with headphones while my wife reads next to me. Nintendo Land was filled with interesting multiplayer concepts that only worked because the player with the GamePad had information no one else could see.
You never hear about these things from Nintendo.
Some ideas? Get aggressive about releasing Nintendo's back catalog of NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Nintendo 64 games, and make sure each purchase works across all your devices. If you buy Mario 64 to play on your Wii U, you should be able to also play on your 3DS. Nintendo's collection of amazing games from the past is one of its biggest strengths, and it's rarely leveraged in a serious way.
Even better? Offer classic games in higher resolution. Emulators and hacked-together programs have allowed players to enjoy Nintendo classics with updated graphics, maybe it's time to start offering this option in a way that allows players to support the company directly. The downside is that this approach would limit the ability to make a big deal out of games like The Wind Waker HD, but these releases don't happen with any regularity.
How much would you pay for a high-resolution version of Mario Galaxy? The Wii is now a crater at retail, but the game library could still be valuable in many ways, especially if there was a turnkey solution for graphical improvement.
Here's a crazy idea: Offer a subscription that gives players access to everything on the virtual console, and have it work on every Nintendo device. Become a Netflix-like service for your own back catalog. Players who may not be willing to pay $5 for one game may be willing to pay $15 a month for every game.
Combine that with an increased rate of release for classic games, as well as possible graphical updates done in software, and you could find yourself with some motivated players.
How about finding games that use the GamePad in interesting ways? SpyParty creator Chris Hecker has long hinted about bringing the asymmetrical multiplayer game to the Wii U, and giving the television to the spy and the GamePad to the sniper would create a sort of LAN party in a box.
I played a good amount of Zombies mode in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 with one player using the GamePad and the other using the television and a standard controller, and it's a way to play co-op that's more intimate than playing online, and it only requires one system and one copy of the game.
The lack of new games that take advantage of this capability is frustrating; the Wii U offers a number of gameplay and multiplayer innovations that even first-party software rarely taps into. ZombiU offered a number of interesting twists to the zombie / permadeath formula, but of course it died due to poor sales as the system struggled to find an audience.
The fact that no one else emulated any of the ideas found in the first batch of games is distressing, and it relegates the Wii U to simply being a weak current-gen system. The Wii U has the possibility to become one of the best systems for local multiplayer games since the Nintendo 64, and it would be interesting if Nintendo decided to move in that direction.
It's not this easy
Each of the ideas above are much harder than they sound on paper, for any number of reasons, and articles like this are often rife with sober advice about how a company can turn its fortunes around. Nintendo is likely stuck with the Wii U for at least a few more years and, while it's doubtful the system will ever turn into a major source of revenue, there is still time to make moves to try to reclaim momentum.
Possible solutions are many, and none are easy, but the company has to do something. Price cuts will only do so much, as the expected new games in familiar franchises won't do much to entice players who don't already have the system. Ignoring the system's strengths while relying on consumer hostile account systems across the company's hardware will only make this situation worse.
Nintendo has never been afraid to try new things, but it's rare that the new things have failed to this degree. The company has time to stop and think due to its impressive cash reserves, but that's not a viable long term strategy. Nintendo's next move is an open question, but what's not in debate is that Nintendo needs to move.
so i guess Nintendo will be a no-show(once again) at E3 2014..
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Game still looks wacky tho. Could be a lot of fun though.
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I don't see this game as competition for Call of Duty at all.. This is more of an attack on Halo.. The nigga like myself, who likes to run around with an AK, is Not putting call of duty to rest to climb in a bot & run sideways on walls.. I'll play it, sure, but this ain't gon be cAll of duty's comp IMO..
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Battlefield really should of killed Call of Duty but EA forced Dice to turn into a Call Of Duty clone albeit, on a much larger scale.
I got in that Titanfall beta and let me tell you... that game is the SHIT.
I was in my titan and came up on another titan with 2 regular soldiers with him from the other team. I ejected from my Titian, put him on patrol mode (he was still shooting at the other teams titan). I put the cloak on my guy and took out those 2 soldiers and then hopped on the other titan and took him out. Jumped back in mine and rolled out lol.
I'll be holding off on a PS4 until H Hour comes out
I was in my titan and came up on another titan with 2 regular soldiers with him from the other team. I ejected from my Titian, put him on patrol mode (he was still shooting at the other teams titan). I put the cloak on my guy and took out those 2 soldiers and then hopped on the other titan and took him out. Jumped back in mine and rolled out lol.
I'll be holding off on a PS4 until H Hour comes out
I personally don't think you can be a competition for the Call of Duty franchise when COD is the Blueprint used to make Titanfall..
The Titans is the same concept as getting Juggernaut Armor in Call of Duty anybody else noticed that?
Ya'll know nothing about gaming do you? You just gotta find a reason to rage about something. Microsoft and Sony getting along and now it looks stupid to be an X fag or a PS fag, so what's the next illogical thing to do? Start doing the same shit with Nintendo. Nintendo has had an iron grip on gaming for the last 30 years. Try again..
Yo.. Refrain from addressing me, faggot..
Dude, please its Sunday. The last thing we need is you getting Rick started on this Xbox, ps4 bullshit. Let it rest. Were talking about Titanfall right now. What's you're view on the game so far?
Iron Grip? So the Gamecube didn't happen? And while the N64 was a great multiplayer system, the decision to not use discs cost them quite a few franchises. The Wii was an experiment that sold Well with casual gamers. And they backed it up with a slightly better system, terrible marketing and No third party support. Discussing business about these companies isn't allowed now? I'm trying to figure out Where the argument is. Reality finally caught up to them. I love Nintendo more than anyone here but it's time to adapt or die.
Titanfall is hurting a lot of feelings on the other gaming forums.
Why would people be hurt over titanfall?
Fanboys are hurt, because Titanfall is a Microsoft exclusive game. Every site that ive been on today has a group of fanboys in their trying to trash a game that they haven't played yet. If this game was a multi platform game it would not be getting so much hate, this shit is sad.
The game is getting positive feed back from the people that have played the game, yet for some reason the people that haven't played it are saying it's trash. I wonder why?
The game is getting positive feed back from the people that have played the game, yet for some reason the people that haven't played it are saying it's trash. I wonder why?
Fanboys are hurt, because Titanfall is a Microsoft exclusive game. Every site that ive been on today has a group of fanboys in their trying to trash a game that they haven't played yet. If this game was a multi platform game it would not be getting so much hate, this shit is sad.
The game is getting positive feed back from the people that have played the game, yet for some reason the people that haven't played it are saying it's trash. I wonder why?
That may be true but I should point out the people who've played it feel like their special and elite because they were lucky enough to get in the closed beta. You know how that goes.
If any of these so called fanboys are saying that the game seems like COD with Juggernaut Armor killstreak, how far from the truth would you say that is?
Most of the gaming sites have played it, and they have been saying the same things that the alpha players are saying now. So i guess they feel like their special and elite too. The game has been playable for month's now.
Respawn the creators of COD made Titanfall. So no one should be shocked that the game plays like COD. And the last time i checked you can't put your juggernaut suit on autopilot. You can't compare a juggernaut kill streak to this.
This game will be a major hit. Ninja's can play it on the PC if they don't want to play it on the Xbox. Ninja's are hating because this game is not on Sony's system.
Respawn the creators of COD made Titanfall. So no one should be shocked that the game plays like COD. And the last time i checked you can't put your juggernaut suit on autopilot.
You can't compare a juggernaut kill streak to this. This game will be a major hit. Ninja's can play it on the PC if they don't want to play it on the Xbox. Ninja's are hating because this game is not on Sony's system.
Most of the gaming sites have played it, and they have been saying the same things that the alpha players are saying now. So i guess they feel like their special and elite too. The game has been playable for month's now.
Respawn the creators of COD made Titanfall. So no one should be shocked that the game plays like COD. And the last time i checked you can't put your juggernaut suit on autopilot.
These game will be a major hit. Ninja's can play it on the PC if they don't want to play it on the Xbox.
Oh I never said I wouldn't be getting it on XB1. Gaming sites always get it right? NO.
My thing is this NEXT GEN should mean NEXT GEN in every since of the word. We spending money on these consoles and games I want Next Gen experiences not something familiar with a twist. I'm holding game devs accountable too. Fuck that.
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