This is absolutely the worst way to have your machines on launch day.
Have them line up one by one and give out bracelets.
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PS4 fastest-selling console in UK history, outsells Wii U LTD in UK [250K PS4 in 48h]
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This is absolutely the worst way to have your machines on launch day.
Have them line up one by one and give out bracelets.
Pretty much.
The Wii grabbed the casuals, but they've moved onto phones/tablets now, and they weren't coming back for some tablet controller. Especially with how much they screwed up on branding. No point trying to be smart with your name when it ends up just confusing everyone.
They'll survive, like they did with the Gamecube, just hopefully for them they do a better job next time.
It would be interesting if Nintendo started the next one out really early and then began putting their consoles out halfway through a generation, so as to not really compete with the other two at all. I wouldn't even feel shafted if the Wii U only had another year or two either as I'm pretty sure the library it will have by the end of next year is going to be better to me than the other two's will be by the end of their life. Would consumers lose too much trust in the company if they pulled that, though? I guess they'd really only be shafting the hardcore adopters who picked it up anyways, and those are the consumers most likely to continue supporting them no matter what anyways. I don't think it'll happen or that it's a good idea necessarily, but it would be an intriguing experiment anyways.
Aquamarine
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The biggest consequence of the Wii U's failure is the possibility of no more home consoles from Nintendo.
The biggest consequence of the Dreamcast's failure was Sega's near-bankruptcy.
naa.
happened 6 years ago in Berlin of the reopening of MediaMarkt, if i remember right.
If you're feeling sorry for me, I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but games ain't one.
I got Bayonetta on stack fa sho
Mario Kart gonna come out and yalls mouthsll close
Game critics say Us has no game is gettin old
Im a gamer stupid what type of facts is those
I got Bayonetta on stack fa sho
Mario Kart gonna come out and yalls mouthsll close
Game critics say Us has no game is gettin old
Im a gamer stupid what type of facts is those
Iacobellis
Junior Member
Holy fucking shit. No wonder it's been nearly a week with no concrete sales numbers outside of the UK.
I have no interest in the character, or the series aesthetics at all. You'd have to change a lot of stuff for me to have any interest. Not just remove Mario. The franchise has never personally appealed to me and I don't think it ever will. Knack is more interesting to me simply by default, which says more about how much I dislike Mario, as opposed to saying anything about Knack's quality.
I haven't played Knack, no idea whether I'd even like it, but I still want to try it. I'm completely indifferent towards 3D World, all the media I've seen has done absolutely nothing for me.
I think the complete opposite, I think one of the key reasons Wii U isnt selling is because of how short Wii's life was, they left it barren fior years while 360 and especially PS3 kept pushing new titles right up until the new generation.
People dont buy a console for one game, they might get pushed over the edge by one, but only if they believe there'll be plenty of other great stuff along the way.
I think PS4 is benefitting hugely from Sony's steadfast support of PS3
Iacobellis
Junior Member
HEHE!!!
As a hardware developer? Of course, since Miyamoto does not do that.
Yeah. I refuse to believe that gif Is for the PS4.
Red Blaster
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knack outselling mario is karma for miyamoto's wii music presentation at e3 2008
oconnomiyaki
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Third-party support on the Wii U was already spotty, but it's going to be non-existent when the two other consoles each outsell the Wii U's LTD by the end of the financial year.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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Amazing. I'm not sure if that one guy is supposed to be securing the Xbones but I love how he just seems to give up completely as the crowd passes by.
Yep, same here! My sister saw a WiiU commercial & thought the tablet was the WiiU & a accessory for the original Wii.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
I had to walk away from the computer. Just... no...
You know, I'll never get how so many people see this happening and with such a steadfast belief in it. Nintendo seems to want to move into the direction of no more specialty hardware that requires two different approaches for and not into a direction ends their tenure in the home console arena. At least, that's what I understood from Iwata's conference call where the "omg they might kill their home consoles/the hybrid is real/etc."
That's a good direction for them because it would pretty much decisively end their inability to be prolific in both of their hardware areas. Wii U's tepid performance probably means that the company is not going to be looking into continuing the "Wii" philosophy any further than this.
RamzaIsCool
The Amiga Brotherhood
I think they are all waiting on each other. I wonder who is gonna blink first.
There's no Xboxes there. They're shopped Samsung TVs.
UnObtainium17
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Jesus WiiU is straight up getting thugged by the competition. Its like it has reached the point of no return. I really hope ninty drops its price to 200$ here in the US to give it one last chance if there is still any left. Cant let it fie without trying to revive it.
RurouniZel
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Okay, thanks for the clarification. I don't see why Mario is such a hated character these days, but I don't want to be accusatory or judgmental either. Different strokes for different folks.
No, its supposedly older footage when that shopping centre opened its gates for the first time.
Infinite_Daremo
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Nah. Let's face it. The Wii sold what it did because it was a fad among the 'casuals'. The fad died, and they moved onto the next fad, smart phones. The branding/marketing of the Wii U was awful, meaning many of those 'casuals' never even understood what it was. Not to mention adding the tablet controller, they completely missed the point of why phones/tablets were popular, hint: they're portable and easy to pick up and play.
The other issue is, the Wii didn't cater to the majority of hardcore gamers with the exception of nintendo fans, so they'd already lost those before the Wii U came out.
Which leads onto why the Wii U is selling so little. The only market they've got supporting them is Nintendo fans really. Them and us crazy people who buy every console regardless(I just can't help it).
They need to rethink their strategy in the home console market. The quicker they do that, the better.
You should be embarassed.
BlackBuzzard
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Im just gonna walk away slowly from my PC.
Okay, thanks for the clarification. I don't see why Mario is such a hated character these days, but I don't want to be accusatory or judgmental either. Different strokes for different folks.
That's pretty much all it is. I'd never say Mario games are shit, they just don't appeal to me.
fabricated backlash
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Not just that, but Sony basically rewrote their fortune after a terrible start, (that incidentally they also brought upon themselves by their own hubris).
But unlike Sony with PS3, Nintendo can't play the long run with the WiiU. The WiiU hasn't gotten the tech to make it relevant even beyond 2014, it doesn't have the 3rd party support to make it relevant after 2012.
Unlike the PS3, the WiiU won't be able to be a late bloomer because it lacks everything needed for that to happen. At best Nintendo regroups and takes this brutal beating as a lesson for future products. Try to get a year or two more out of the WiiU, to at least appease the few Nintendo fans that are left, and then launch a system that is actually relevant both in terms of tech, features, and vision.
Iwata said that Nintendo needs to do it's own thing and see if the market accepts it... well it's pretty clear that the market has spoken. The WiiU is not wanted, it's a dud and should be killed off sooner rather than later.
The worst case scenario now would be for Nintendo to simply trying to stay on course, doing nothing but making up lame excuses, ignoring consumer trends and expectations.
Hey isn't that the Alexa Shopping Center in Berlin ? Was that for the PS4 launch?
Ah ok. It opened at 0:00. They had some insane deals there so people went totally nuts. I was there on the same day but in the evening. It looked like a battlefield.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rp1I6_R93o
thewhitehawk
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I don't know what's going on other people's heads when they're making arguments or comparisons between Knack and Super Mario, but I guess what's funny about it was that Knack was largely considered by the industry a rather average title, even though it was developed by someone who is immensely popular within the gaming community right now, and Mario World received a lot of praise from most outlets and great scores, but even so, the "inferior" title beat it.
In the case of Lego Marvel Super Heroes and Mario, it's not as interesting of a comparison because for one it is multi-platform, while Knack and Mario are platform exclusives, and secondly, it is also a combination of two well-established franchises: Lego games and Marvel Heroes, which happen to be very popular at this time, whereas Knack was not well-known to most of its target audience until this point.
So there you go, my best assumption of why people compare the two games.
This has to be in the same league as that youtube rap someone did over California Love about how the mods were bad here... :lol :lol :lol
simplythebest
Banned
Good lord.
One could easily do the same for PS4 using Ice-T's OG version.
It doesn't even have to be that early. If the PS4/Xbone only last 6 years, Nintendo can squeeze another three years out of the Wii U before releasing another system. A four year cycle isn't that bad.
Increasing the Wii's life cycle wouldn't have changed how barren the software landscape was for the Wii, the problem is Nintendo can only make so much software on their own and there was little reason for third parties to support the Wii outside of games like Just Dance.
Nintendo just needs to stagger releases better and handle supporting multiple platforms. And I'm not suggesting completely switching to a 4-5 year console life cycle, but to do that just with the Wii U so they can find a way to refresh in the middle of their competitions life cycles. If Nintendo release a system in three years that is more comparable to the PS4, they will have less competition because there won't be any competitive hardware releases in the near future and won't be as looked down for being the weaker console.
Imagine if the Wii U didn't have a tablet controller, but instead released 4 years into the 360 and PS3 cycle. Suddenly the system is a lot more attractive to people directly comparing hardware numbers. Obviously this isn't the only answer for solving Nintendo's problems, but I think it could help.
Hazelhurst
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Yeah, I'm having more fun with Knack than Mario 3D World currently.
That's all expected. The WiiU's marketing is near non-existent in the UK.
Knack selling more than 3D World probably has something to do with it being a bundled game and 3D World having little to no marketing here much like the WiiU. Though, I wouldn't rule out beating it as a standalone. This country has terrible taste in video games. Going into game stores to check prices, looking at weekly rankings, it's all extremely depressing.
Knack selling more than 3D World probably has something to do with it being a bundled game and 3D World having little to no marketing here much like the WiiU. Though, I wouldn't rule out beating it as a standalone. This country has terrible taste in video games. Going into game stores to check prices, looking at weekly rankings, it's all extremely depressing.
Comparing incomparable games. For some reason Knack has been reviewed as a platformer when it's not.
I actually think 3D World is better but that video seems to gloss over the challenge and variety of enemies and traps in Knack.
velvet_nitemare
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everyday math
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Look at the date and title for the video. It's not for the PS4.
Khalifa Jayy
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Mama said Knack you out!
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