For four Christmases in a row, the Nintendo Wii was the must-have, can't-find holiday gift.
Parents camped out in front of toy stores and electronics shops, while retailers packaged the Wii with multiple games to maximize revenue from desperate buyers.
Not anymore.
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars debuted in 2011, and later updated for modern consoles. However, it's the PlayStation 3 edition that stands out.
Joy Ride Turbo launched 10 years ago today. The first title was Xbox Kinect exclusive, yet this sequel failed to support the device at all.
Cultured Vultures: "Sadly, not all hardware is created equal, and no matter how much developers might try, some gaming hardware just fails to hit the mark. We’ve compiled a list of 10 gaming hardware fails, and boy did some fail hard."
I would label the Power Glove, Kinect, and that Tony Hawk skateboard more as hardware addons hardware failure would be like the Virtual Boy and one day Stadia.
The picture should be the 360 RROD. When I think of gaming hardware failures that's what springs to mind. Kinect and it's bundled price tag definitely hobbled the already underpowered Xbox One though for sure so I would give it a close second place.
Lol I had the Atari Jaguar, surprised its "competition" the 3DO isn't on the list too, both as "popular" as each other.
Stadia is a weird one. It hasn’t sold at all well but in terms of how it works it’s still miles ahead of Xcloud in terms of stability and performance. Xcloud is still a way behind and that needs sorting but it will be in time. Stadia for me is one of those things that will go down as a what could have been moments. With better marketing it could have been a roaring success. I still play it and it remains the best place in my opinion to play CyberPunk 2077. Only platform I have played it on without having any issues at all. The tech is great. The concept is fine. Marketing terrible. Shame really.
The Xbox One was Microsoft’s Nintendo Wii U. Undercooked, undersold and just an unholy mess. The thing is with any of these failures is to learn from them and thankfully both Nintendo and Xbox did just that to the benefit of gamers everywhere.
When you are hungry, you need to eat.
Common sense!
just like the article.
we knew this already
I don't think Nintendo would mind with all the profit the Wii generated. They might already be making a successor without telling us. Anyway it's still great to see all consoles doing well for a long time. This is actually the most successful console generation as far as I can remember seeing the longevity of these products.
WTF? The Wii has already lost ages ago. It just recently started getting some sweet hardcore games, but in the end it pretty much is 2 gamecubes duct tapped together with motion controls. They wont beable to get away with that again. Im not buying any more Wii games cause I wanna wait and experience them emulated in HD and 3-D the way Nintendo had previously envisioned. Now is the time for Nintendo to come out strong or not at all.
Go to stores or check online. Nintendo has been hustling. Console is below $200 and it comes with games.Sales were around 400,000 last month alone.
They need a new console badly. Well, actually, we need a new Nintendo console badly (Nintendo still raking in cash, even with declining sales).
480p doesn't cut it anymore, especially on my 47" HDTV. Even over the air TV broadcast are better (in USA anyway).
Before someone cries "graphics aren't everything", go back and watch a VHS tape of a good movie, don't you think the movie would be more enjoyable on bluray?
Still a good movie, but visuals do add to the experience.