Myvideogamenews write " I have noticed a trend on numerous websites stating that the Wii U is in need of saving and that Nintendo needs to act fast. Over and over again, I have read countless articles stating that Nintendo is pretty much dead in the water and that they need to react soon. Well my friends, I am here to say; stop The “Doom and Gloom” Wii U articles and watch 2013 unfold before we all jump to conclusions".
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Lately they are just getting stupid.
Sorry but what is good for the goose...
But notice which console's always spared from dealing with them? The 360.
...makes you wonder who's writing the articles, don't it?
as thorstein said: it is getting stupid now.
Welcome to the top.
Curious as to why I'm not? I had a PS2 and a Gamecube and only played the gamecube a couple of times where as the PS2 got all of the attention. Not even a lot of Wii owners are flocking to the WiiU so that scares me. Have fun with it though whoever bought one. As long as YOU get your moneys worth. I'm just gonna go with PS4 and maybe the next xbox.
The Wiiu is selling very well for the time its been out and as the article said has out sold what the 360 and ps3 sold in the Same time frame. I've said since the start the Wiiu will not sell out like the Wiiu as it is the 1st out of the blocks of the next gen consoles and the ps3 and 360 are still getting some big name games like cod halo ect and alto of people have one or the other so will get the game on this console rather than buying a new console for a game that is on there owned console,
Once Sony and Microsoft release there new consoles them people will start to jumps to the next gen consoles and we will see the Wiiu sell even better.
Agree,
Vita is good Kit and given Sony's general long range schemes-
The Vita has years Vita only gaming ahead of it and of PS4 compatibility.
But yeah, the Vita will do better given some time to expand the library. If the Vita can succeed (which I think it will) so can the Wii U. So the stupid doom articles need to stop. this cynical crystal ball BS is stupid, and it's annoying given how it's cluttering up the articles on this site.
Right on Pops! I think the Vita will pick up steam this year which will be awesome. I think the Wii U will pick up steam but it will be hard for it to shine out given all of the news we have gotten about the 720 and PS4 in the past couple of months
much respect :)
If the Wii U was doing as badly as the Vita is in a year's time, I'd call it a flop too.
and a gateway to fanboy fights...
Therefore yes, it is doom and gloom for the Wii U.
10 reasons why ____ is doomed
Why the ____ is going to fail
or The ____ crashed and burned shame on ____
But that is like 50% of all articles.
All that being said...maybe 1 in a 1000 is actually like that, and most people just devolve themselves to fanboy tropes, so nothing beneficial comes out of it when they do appear.
Good way to avoid this should any person decide to write one of these...avoid the word "Doom", or any of it's synonyms.
I fully expect doom articles for the PS4 and Xbox 720, the fact is that the economy isn't great, there are still tons of huge AAA titles coming to current hardware, and there are other ways to game, especially if you aren't a serious gamer.
An industry crash is like a forest fire, it seems destructive, but it is better for the future of the forest, and promotes new growth. It destroys all that is wrong in the forest, and paves the way for new, healthier plantlife.
If Activision and other "business gaming" corporations either die or pull out of gaming, their negative effects will be largely negated in the future as they fade away and are forgotten.
I know gaming is a business, but it is also an art form. And the business shouldn't be ashamed of profiting off the art. But the art should always come first. Activision has forgotten that, and need to be purged by fire.
I love a lot of Activision, EA, Ubisoft and Microsoft made games. You are basically saying Sony is all you need, I think 76+ million 360 owners might disagree, and probably 100+ million Wii owners as well.
Gaming isn't perfect, but you cant hope to see failure on such a level, at least I hope nobody is that ignorant.
What would happen in your scenario is those big publishers would end up pretty much controlling the market, and as such quality may go down, and anti-consumer practices would increase. All the things they do now aren't really leading to a crash, it's just annoying, and they will adapt and evolve to make sure they can continue to maximize revenue and giving us just enough to keep us buying games. The consumers are empowering them, and until that changes, they will continue to be "cancers".
Video gaming, as you say, would not just disappear, and it didn't in the crash 25 years ago. It's evolution was because of the changes brought about by Nintendo who set their sites on making sure it didn't happen again, by avoiding all the things that led to it...namely crappy software with no quality control, an overabundance of competition among a limited market(at the time), and easily copied hardware and software which led to lost sales due to piracy and copyright theft. Many of the fixes that Nintendo brought about with the NES are still in use today I might add, but some have evolved to match current market and development needs because of competition.
Some people go berserk at the slightest hint of criticism and start calling people fanboys and haters, instead of just reading articles.
These so-called "doom" articles do have a valid argument every now and again, but the titles are just worded wrong.
This article only talks about the Wii U, which is only starting to get the same heat the 3DS / Vita have / are getting and is NOWHERE near as bad as PS3 / Xbox doom articles or even Dead Space 3 / Ninja Gaiden 3 / the game I love is a new genre so it will fail articles.
A LOT of the doom and gloom for the Wii U is justified. Nintendo alienated 3rd party developers on the Wii, which resulted in a lack of quality 3rd party content. This isn't an opinion (perhaps what is and isn't quality is...) since virtually everyone agrees with this fact. (didn't Nintendo even acknowledge this?) Even ignoring things like the still poor online, many people are worried that the Wii U will be the quite under powered when compared to future consoles (one of which might be revealed in a few days), so it's hard to say if there is a future. Heck there is a distinct lack of titles (even for a new console) coming out and hard to say if things will be ANY different than the WIi. In a lot of ways the Wii U "doom and gloom" articles are far more logical, since they're going off history.
Regardless of this, thats just how things go... I don't mind the more logical ones, but the sales ones need to stop. There are plenty of reasons to explain the lack of sales, so address them and not the answer of the equation.
Remember all the Doom and gloom articles about the PS3 And 3DS?
Journalism is dead and the readers here would rather just read the title and be mis-informed anyway.
This Nintendo enthusiast and his partner are very anti industry intelligent too, check him out.
Nintendo: For 1st party games
XBX/PS/PC/ETC for everything else.
Company becomes king.
Company becomes peasant.
Media writes the company is doomed.
As a PS3 owner I completely sympathize with all gamers now. Experience has shown me that this cycle of console bashing is never ending and fueled by the media. Every company gets their licks at some point. If we just focus on the games these consoles produce we'd see that none of them are doomed from being played by gamers. The original Xbox had great games. The PS3 has great games...and so will the Wii U.
Fact.
Does anything in my original comment seem plausible? Absolutely not. That is the entire joke.