Tynan Muddle at Aussie-Gamer.com writes: "While it would make a sensational tabloid story, the next generation consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are unlikely to sell better than Nintendo’s Wii U console.
Since the day Nintendo announced a release date for the Wii U, the American media has done its part to stir the pot by declaring the console “dead in the water”. The justification here is usually chalked up to “poor sales” and a “lack of games”.
It’s surprising, then, that the other new consoles aren’t being treated with the same level of intense scrutiny (Xbox One DRM issues aside). In fact, media are already declaring the PlayStation 4 as the winner of all things.
The reality is far less entertaining: neither of the consoles from Sony or Microsoft will do any better than Wii U. And here’s why."
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
Between the PS3, 360, and Wii, over 250 million consoles have sold. Taking into account RRoD and people who own multiple consoles, it would be safe to say there were at least 200 million console owners last gen.
And now they're just going to...vanish? I don't think so. The Wii-U is selling poorly for a number of reasons. Some of those reasons are economic. Other reasons are because of the Wii-U's design.
I own a Wii U. Im using it now to type this comment. It is the best cosole I have ever owned (I have a PS3 and 360). I still play games on all these consoles. Do I think the Wii U will sell more than Xbox1 or PS4? In my opinion no. But I dont really care. I just like video games.
The Xbox one and ps4 will out sell what the Wii u sells in the end just in pre orders
Only because of supply is true. Demand for the other two destroys what Wii U had. Nintendo marketshare and mindshare was being taken long before new cosnoles from all three companies. 3rd party developer support is radically different on the Home Theater gaming PC's vs Wii U
I'm Sorry but XB1 has the games and mass appeal hardware that is more advanced than the xbox hardware responsible for the Wii's decline(project Natal).
XB1 software and hardware will be the new Wii craz, making Project Natal theft of Wii appeal look like warm-ups. MSFT will release a payment plan for $300.
Micheal Pachter made this same prediction at E3 when he predicted MSFT would reverse DRM as I have predicted the payment plan for months(over a year) for the new Xbox One(360 payment plan testing the water for Xbox 720)
Nintendo was forced to come out with the Wii U tablet to combat Kinect 1.0 but Kinect 2.0 will destroy what ever is left of Nintendo. They should have done like Sony and copied Kinect. Even Sony knows the waggle stick was a bad idea to copy after Kinect, although the touch pad on dualshock is a half A55 attempt of the tablet as is PSeye4 is to Kinect(basically, simply look like you can offer what the other guys have)