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Bamco: Wii and DS market has "prolapsed"
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HAL_Laboratory
Member
Make better games, asshole!
DisenLedZep
Member
TunaLover said:
Oh no you didn't............ please no...
Damn those pirates (?)
Pureauthor
Member
Namco has always been making lousy business decisions for as far back as I can remember.
Speevy said:
Ubisoft best (the worst is laughable) for the Wii as a publisher
Red Steel 2
Shawn White Snowboarding road trip
Shawn White Snowboarding world tour
Rabbids Go Home
Rabbids whatever 1 - 2 - 3
PRince of Persia Forgotten Sands
Anno, the new world
Just Dance
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES : SMASH-UP
LES CHEVALIERS DE BAPHOMET : THE DIRECTOR'S CUT - WII
soon : SW SkateBoarding
perfectchaos007
Member
Typical response from a jealous 3rd party developer. They will do and say anything to try and sway people away from a Nintendo system because Nintendo makes such a high quality of games its hard for their own to compete with them. If third parties had their way, Microsoft and Sony would lead in market share. But instead of complaining, 3rd parties, how about making some non-shitty games? And don't complain about poor sales if you release 1 good game on the console. The reason why Nintendo's games sell so well is their track record of good games. Same with Square-Enix. Consistantly make good games, and don't ship the shitty ones and you'll see a rise in sales over time. Trust me, I'm a pretend forum expert.
Willy105 said:
DS and Wii hardware and software sales have gone down last year. It's less noticeable with the best selling titles on a platform, mos of which are made by Nintendo. The real problem is that third party games have been selling far less compared to previous years. Nintendo also blames R4 for a 50 per cent drop in hand-held software sales.
I agree with Bamco's view that there's so much shovelware being published for the Wii that it's actually discouraging potential buyers. There's always been shovelware on the most popular home consoles but the PS1/PS2 also had lots of quality "hardcore" games. Most of those kinds of games are now being published for the PS360. What aggravates the situation is that it's so easy for shovelware publishers to reuse all of their previous PS2 crap. The Wii is being inundated by shovelware. The general public doesn't keep up with game reviews have no other choice than to turn to known brands to weed out the good from the bad - and that usually means picking up a Nintendo game with well known characters or brands.
Jibber Hack
Member
OMG at the title.
Oh, silly me. FMA is an Enix property, not Bandai. Though, Namco-Bandai did make roughly half of the FMA titles (including the most recent one: a PSP game that released last month).InfiniteNine said:
Some company called 'Destineer' now apparently has the licence. I'm sad to say it, but they look even worse than Namco.
Now I'm even more depressed.
wazoo said:
NO WAY. Capcom or Marvelous/Xseed are.
Capcom
Monster Hunter Tri
Zack & Wiki
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Resident Evil games
Okami
Marvelous
Little King's Story
Muramasa
No More Heroes
Harvest Moon
Sky Crawlers
Fragile
On a side note, I am more interested in that Colossus Forsaken Kingdom game than Enslaved from Namco.
Night_Trekker
Member
I guess I'm part of the problem for not buying Klonoa, Fragile or Sky Crawlers yet.
BlazingDarkness
Member
:lolCombichristoffersen said:
I like you
Fourth Storm
Member
Night_Trekker said:
It's their fault for not making you want it more!
Hell, they don't even have the faith in their products to publish their own games - and Fragile and Sky Crawlers are two of their better efforts.
Yeah..they also published No More Heroes 2 in the US (and the first).wazoo said:
But even taking NMH2 out..
Red Steel 2, Rabbids Go Home, Prince of Persia and TMNT Smash Up are all sorts of awesome has been released in around a year period..and that's already 4 more/better games than what Namco has released on the Wii since launch (excluding Klonoa at least, Tales..was decent..sometimes)..
Night_Trekker
Member
r09 said:
There were also many more PS2 owners who could spot no-effort shovelware from a mile away.
Hey Namco. Maybe all those soccer moms and (formerly) lapsed gamers got wise to your (low quality) game. Ever consider that?
Fourth Storm said:
That's true. It's like they think "hardcore" games don't interest Wii owners, so they flood the market with shovelware. What happens when people don't want shovelware anymore? "It's the market's fault. Also Nintendo."
I don't see how people can bash Ubisoft's output on the Wii. Sure, they've released a lot of tripe, but they've released a lot of good-to-great games, too.
No More Heroes 1 and 2 come readily to mind. Red Steel 2 turned out pretty well, too. We have Ubisoft to thank for bringing us those games, so don't be hatin'.
No More Heroes 1 and 2 come readily to mind. Red Steel 2 turned out pretty well, too. We have Ubisoft to thank for bringing us those games, so don't be hatin'.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
This statement is from Olivier Comte, who is a part of Namco Bandai Europe. Specifically, he's the "Vice President, Head of Marketing, sales & Publishing at Namco Bandai Partners". Comte use to hold a similar position at Atari Europe back before Namco acquired it a year ago. He's the guy who has been making all the crazy Namco news for the last month such as: "wanting to make Namco one of the top 5 publishers", "Enslaved being the next Uncharted and Gran Turismo", "Ubisoft's DRM being a good strategy", "the industry must choose between E3 and Gamescom" and "3D will be the next revolution, more important than any motion controller".
Guys, I think we found ourselves a new crazy-ass gaming executive. :lol
Guys, I think we found ourselves a new crazy-ass gaming executive. :lol
Pureauthor
Member
grandjedi6 said:
Bless these crazies. Without them this forum would be far less entertaining.
m.i.s.
Banned
Just as a quick hypothetical -
Would the Wii market be in a better or worse position if, like GCN and N64 before it, Nintendo retained strict control and only allowed "good games" to be published for the machine? Perhaps only a quota of mainstream titles from EA, Activision, Capcom, Konami, Square Enix etc?
Would the Wii market be in a better or worse position if, like GCN and N64 before it, Nintendo retained strict control and only allowed "good games" to be published for the machine? Perhaps only a quota of mainstream titles from EA, Activision, Capcom, Konami, Square Enix etc?
frankie_baby
Member
M.I.S. said:
at least in europe they're not legally allowed to do that, they have to let pretty much any publisher that wants to release games and let them release any games they want to
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
M.I.S. said:
Restricting third party development like that would probably make the Wii like the GCN and the N64; fuck all support from third parties and Nintendo first-party games being the only things that would sell on the console. In other words, it would be much like what it already is.
Seriously though, I don't think restricting third party development like that would do much good for the Wii market.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
but i thought piracy was good for consoles???????????????????
shykyoichi
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From Wiki:viciouskillersquirrel said:
Segata Sanshiro
Member
I'll have you know SEGA is doing much better than Namco Bandai! You should be asking if any ex-Namco Bandai management are working at SEGA the next time SEGA screws up!Pachael said:
Cow Mengde
Banned
seady said:
Fixed.