I've been gaming for 30 years and that is the reason I got a Wii. Going by what you said no longer makes motion a gimmick it was never one to begin with. Motion controls were a gimmick when the controllers were faulty and never worked as promised. Motion controllers go all the way back to the beginning of gaming, but it wasnt til this gen that they became reliable enough for home use.
So far I havent seen much to be excited about that I havent seen on Wii already.SOme tech demos yes...
Sony makes the PS3. They have no reason not to produce as many as they can. They have always sold their consoles at a loss. They make most of their money on software sales and they need as many PS3s out there as possible to get the better software sales.
Wow is actually around 14 million last time they said anything and no LOTR is not the next biggest MMO. Star trek online most likely is with its 1 million but Ragnarok and some others may also have more than 600k.
Most experienced MMO players don't just jump in on day one anyway unless they really like they game a lot. They almost always have issues that it is best to wait for them to get fixed first. Two million seems like a lot for such a game. I think the launch numbers will b...
He was talking about Wiiware but Ginder is not a Wiiware game. It will be a full retail release. He thought the xbox version looked like a Live game and not a retail game, so he assumed the Wii game was Wiiware version.
@Soad, Considering the much higher development costs for HD consoles they most likely would not have finished the game at all. You seem to be assuming equal costs between 360 and Wii and we already know that is not the case at all.
The real issue is they spent so much money making the game they no longer had the proper funds to advertise the game in any meaningful way. Hell I bet you most people that know about the game didnt even know it was out yet. I know I didnt.
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Sorry but I think you are missing something very big. The DS. That is where you will find a lot of RPGs this gen. Xbox has 37, PS3 has 24, Wii has 25, and the DS has around 160 of them. That's almost double the combined totals for all 3 current consoles.
I mean if you are big on Jrpgs there isnt a better unit to have atm.
@fishyFingers, Only if every console or a good portion of them are online, however that is not the case with any current gen console.
I think he is saying was as a system seller for FF because it is also on 360 this time. That or that past version have always been system sellers. Though 7,8 and 11 were on the PC so they cant really be according to his own definition of "system seller".
It really doesnt work that way either.
DS 125 million
Gameboy and gameboy Color 118 million
Gameboy Advance 81 million
Wii 65 million
Nes 61 million
Snes 50 million
N64 32 million
GC 25million
Nintendo has 559 units sold and Sony has Sony has 327. I mean going by your logic Sony never was king because they never outsold Nintendos combined units
Very few people actually having gaming rigs. If you want to see what happens when an MMO caters to just those players look at EQ2. Really you might think it needs an update but I am fine with the art style they chose.I can see every inch of WSG and if they updated the graphics a lot, I wouldnt be able to do that. Just because there are top of the line PCs out there doesnt mean 14 million people own them.
Yes EQ did an update. EQ also catered to only top 10% of players in their expan...
Great post Mahr and one I am sure that will not sink in. NMH most likely cost a third of what it cost to make Demon Souls. Yet 600k means success and 500k means failure.
I noticed a few others posting sales numbers for some games on PS3 and it really amazes me that those games are not being talked about at all when they cost a lot more to produce and sell about the same as Wii bombs.
Also I would like to point out a few things LKS and Z&W both have art styles that sug...
"confirmed"? No. Speculated on like anyone else who can look at sales and knows Activision? Yes
I still buy certain ones at retail. usually MMo's or sometimes the GOTY editions with all the expansions if its on sale for 20.00 or something like that.
If nobody cared about those games they would not have sold at all.
Please show me these highly rated M games that Nintendo should be helping with. All I see are mediocre games get the sales they deserve.
If Nintendo is smart and they obviously are, they will help on AAA games that deserve the sales like they are with Monster Hunter, and letting the companies that are using their worst teams to make Wii games deal with their own problems because its their fault.
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There are always excuses kid. Niche games do not sell big numbers on PS3 but they should sell billions on Wii? That just sounds like a fanboy statement.
You have excuses for every PS3 game that bombs but you do not and will not accept any reason for why the 10th on rail shooter for Wii bombs?
Lair was hyped big as a PS3 game, its failure is no excuse. Especially if you are trying to claim that Madworld, Conduit, RE on rails are any where close to the same budget and ...
He said on one platform and you give combined sales as proof he is wrong? MW1 may be at 12 million on 2 or more platforms but NSM DS is at 16 million on 1 platform?
Chances are he is right but it isnt going to happen over night or even when he said January, but it will most likely happen.
You are Link. That is why he doesnt have a voice. Also having played most Zelda games, they are doing exactly what you ask for with every game while keeping the basic concept the same. We always get new enemies and new gadgets to use with each game.
IMO I see no reason to fix what isnt broken.
Instances are dungeons where you can complete some quests for those dungeons. However the main point in those dungeons is loot.
In an MMO you have thousands of people on the same server all playing the game and leveling up. You can quests to gain levels and cash and in most you can also do trade skills(weapon crafting/armor crafting, etc). IN WoW you can go from 1-80 solo, but if you want to best gear and the fastest XP that usually involves instancing. Instances are self contai...
If it reminds you of Goldeneye you have some serious issues and really should just go back to gaming on a 2600. You wont even notice the difference. You do know you pretty much insulted yourself just to troll?
This has nothing to do with the "best console". That it subjective. It's about sales. As many have already pointed out it's the sales that determine the market leader. The market leader is the one winning. If it's not broke don't fix it.