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Revolution "complete failure" if we fail to outsell Gamecube
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dhendren13
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Iwata is his own worst enemy... don't say the word 'failure' and your next product in the same sentence... someone from marketing needs to knock him upside the head..
â Narayan
Member
:'(bdoughty said:
Stay strong, Nintendo.
krypt0nian
Banned
Post bookmarked for the year 2001.......<swirly lights>
radioheadrule83
Banned
jedimike said:
Didn't Microsoft have similarly lavish aims?
SolidSnakex
Member
radioheadrule83 said:
I think they were expecting even more than that.
Spazbiohaz
Member
Wait, Wait...Does this meen S P O N G was right. Hell has frozen over.
radioheadrule83 said:
After MS had some early moderate success, J. Allard claimed that selling 3 million consoles was easy (due to the hardcore gamers buying launch consoles) and that selling the next 100 million would be much more difficult. (He didn't allude to just Xbox, more of an implication that MS was in the business for the long run and would have an Xbox 2, 3, 4, etc.)
genjiZERO said:
Well I think so. GC's line-up was far too predictable, I'd like to see Nintendo experiment more and be more creative. Some great stuff came out of Sega's internal teams with the Dreamcast, and that was a result of a drive to make the Dreamcast stand-out from the competition and the arcade-heavy Saturn.
Such a move would be less risky for Nintendo as well, as they always have guaranteed multi-million sellers like Smash Bros. to fall back on which Sega never had. And the Revolution's controller means people will be more open to new ideas/franchises I would think.
gamergirly
Member
vitaflo said:
How exactly do you compare 22 million to 1,000 million? :lol
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
It's a way of him saying he's disatisfied with the sales of Gamecube. Right now, just because Nintendo is making money with the GC people think Nintendo doesn't mind going for a bigger audience and is satisfied with its own niche audience for Revolution. I think he is trying to address that misconception.
KingJ2002
Member
I would be surprised if they didnt outpreform the gamecube. Problem with the gamecube is that it wasnt unique.
Nintendo consoles always brought a different gameplay experience through the hardware compared to the competition.
the gamecube didnt do that... expect for a different button layout and lack of extra shoulder button / digital click buttons it wasnt much different from the competition.
well... that's my opinion
anywho... i think because of nintendo's design... it will catch on and people will pick one up regardless if they had a 360 or PS3.
and if people start playing the revolution more than their other systems... nintendo succeeds.
Nintendo consoles always brought a different gameplay experience through the hardware compared to the competition.
the gamecube didnt do that... expect for a different button layout and lack of extra shoulder button / digital click buttons it wasnt much different from the competition.
well... that's my opinion
anywho... i think because of nintendo's design... it will catch on and people will pick one up regardless if they had a 360 or PS3.
and if people start playing the revolution more than their other systems... nintendo succeeds.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
I love it when important people are straight and honest.
Destroys that evil corportation image.
Man, Iwata is really down to earth in the way he speaks sometimes, and he certainly speaks A LOT for a corp head, no? Who else does that much press/interviews themselves?
What a swell guy.
Destroys that evil corportation image.
Man, Iwata is really down to earth in the way he speaks sometimes, and he certainly speaks A LOT for a corp head, no? Who else does that much press/interviews themselves?
What a swell guy.
Leatherface
Member
foxhunt99 said:
you fail @ posting.
Operations
Member
How exactly is Iwata's statement ludicrous? And how is it comparable to Microsoft's long-term industry objectives?vitaflo said:
foxhunt99 said:
Which game makes you lose respect for the person that tells you s/he liked it?
foxhunt99 said:
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foxhunt99 said:
Wow, you sure have the "unsubstantiated one-line troll" thing down. Care to expand on your post?
PhoenixDark
Banned
foxhunt99 said:
Drinky Jr.? :lol