Nintendo has confirmed that the VB was never meant to replace the Game Boy because it wasn't portable.Freakworld said:
Nintendo should go back to using a standard controller for their next console...
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Aiko Heiwa said:
Strange because the name implies that, at least to me.
Same person developed both the GB and the VB, name legacy, you know.Freakworld said:
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Freakworld said:
Mr. Game and Boy
Aiko Heiwa said:
The Gamecube had only sold around 21 million copies within the 5 1/2 years before the Wii came out. While the Wii U is just a little over the 2 years it's been out, it has increased it's sales greatly within that time, and has really been picking up momentum. In just 1 year the Wii U had nearly doubled from 3.9 to 7.3 sales, and we still don't even know the exact sales over the holidays, except that the Wii U has currently sold more consoles than the PS4 in Japan. 7.3 (reported in September, so not even at the 2 year point of the system) is about a 1/3 of what the Gamecube sold overall.
If 2015 goes as they plan for it to go, we can continue to see the sales of the Wii U go up, with more and more people getting the system. It could potentially make some major profit for Nintendo and the Wii U, and assuming that they go about 5-6 years for the console (which we know it will be at least 4 since 2015 will be a big year just focused on the Wii U), we will get a lot of time to see a potential profit rise.
So yeah, I disagree with your statement that the Wii U is dead. I mean, it literally has gone from not really selling and being more of a cost than a profit to actually being a profit for Nintendo and now currently holding top spot for home consoles in Japan (I know that PS4 came out a year after Wii U).
Well that doesn't mean jack shit considering that home consoles are all but dead in Japan. Like woohoo, a home console is the top seller in a country where basically everyone is now on mobile or handhelds now.Wally said:
Shit 2014 was Japan's worst year for sales of home consoles and games for them in like 29 years or some shit.
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Aiko Heiwa said:
And you think that doesn't say much? Do you not think that the sales of the consoles is not directly affected by smartphone apps just like Japan has showed they have been? Since you compared it to the Dreamcast, which only sold 10 million before being discontinued, and calling this a failure, I don't see what it's excuse was. I mean, the Gamecube sold only about as much as the Dreamcast did in the same amount of time, and yet the Gamecube continued to thrive, and the Gamecube is not considered to be a failure or dead sales wise.
Just because a console is not selling as much as they were thinking doesn't mean that they are dead. Honestly with the Line-up Nintendo is giving, they are showing that they rather strive to make the best of this situation and try to look on the bright side and actually try to change things, which they slowly have been doing.
i don't know what world you live in but the gamecube was most certainly a failure and anyone that is not a blind nintendo fanboy can admit thatWally said:
was it profitable? most certainly yes.
did it have great games? yes.
but it was a failure saleswise.
Aiko Heiwa said:
I don't think we have the same definition of a failure.
I think a failure would be a console that was cancelled, or made no profits for the company.
You contradict yourself by saying it was a failure sales-wise when you also state that it was profitable. Was it as much as they were hoping? No. Could it have been better? Probably.
But it's not a failure, and I'm sorry that I apparently live in a different world from yours where not beating out the other "competition" is considered a failure.
It's difficult to tell if the Gamecube was actually profitable since Nintendo bundled it with the GBA in its financial reports, like how Sony bundle all its systems in the "Playstation family" to mask underwhelming Vita sales. It didn't hemmorage money like the original Xbox or the Ps3 did ,but that's not saying much. As a publicly-traded company, selling nearly less than half of your previous home system and falling in third place for the first time ever (in face of a newcomer essentially irrelevant in one major market, at that) is really not something you want to happen.
(I also remember reading an article published near the Wii launch where a Nintendo exec stated in no uncertain term they cannot sustain themselves with GC-level sales, but my google-fu is failling me.)
That being said Aiko, would you mind chillin' a bit? Not everybody is a NeoGaf NPD warrior, and you don't need to flip your shit over something so trivial.
(I also remember reading an article published near the Wii launch where a Nintendo exec stated in no uncertain term they cannot sustain themselves with GC-level sales, but my google-fu is failling me.)
That being said Aiko, would you mind chillin' a bit? Not everybody is a NeoGaf NPD warrior, and you don't need to flip your shit over something so trivial.
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Glowsquid said:
Then again, it was a combination of Nintendo's "kiddy" reputation (which is something I think will never go away tbh) and that the mini-discs didn't have as much memory as a DVD. Nintendo does need more 3rd-party support, which is essentially dead on the Wii U.