If this is true, they must be moving Federation Force across and making it a launch title!
I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
same thing I felt the last time a console only lasted 4 years. pretty standard gen length relatively speaking.
The same way Xbox owners felt when they announced the 360. Or how I felt when they announced the DS after the advance.I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
Yep, 2DS likely proves your point.3DS price is also at least in part to do with the 3D screen tech etc. being a limiting factor in price drops
I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
Makes sense to me. 3DS is following a highly traditional lifespan, it missed a late 2010 launch and in 2016 will be nearly 6 years old. Sales have started to slow, it's already gotten an end of life update. It's ready, more than Wii U is and quite frankly the handheld business is more important.
Nintendo probably can't deal with the launch strain of 2 devices at the same time, nor would the market. Then need a gap but also to get the holiday season spot, back-to-back years makes the most sense.
I don't buy the hybrid idea because it increases cost, decrease device sales, decreases total userbase and decreases gameplay options. People like both, will buy both and sometimes you can do on one what you can't do on another. It's also counter to a lot of Nintendo-isms. I just don't see it happening.
I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
the same as original xbox owners, maybe?
It has tons of great games, Xeno X and Zelda are coming and I haven't even touched Bayonetta 1&2 yet. I'm pretty fine with this.
I cant really call that ton.
That's $100 less than the wiiU which I would say means it's not overpriced. At least not too overpriced for Nintendo.
What I mean is a ton of great games WERE released, and there are a few more coming.
Wii u is overpriced because of gamepad, backwards compatibility and old cpu.Nvidia doesn´t need console market so they would be overpriced compared to any other alternative(like amd).
Wii U definitely has great games worth owning, but its library is pretty damn sparse. Ignoring preferences for game x over game y, it probably has the smallest quantity of "good" games since the US-only Sega Saturn library.
Nvidia needs either mobile or consoles to stay relevant, PC is not where the modern action is. This is why they keeping making Tegra and Shield despite the fact nobody wants either. It's trying to build relevance in those areas. They are very desperate because those chips cost a lot to make.
Excitement?I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
Xbox 360 sure did poorly after its predecessor only lasted 4 years!I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
Except that, out of the 10 consoles and handhelds released in the past two generations, the OG Xbox is the only one that had a 4 year generation length.
EDIT: Forgot about Game boy Advance. So that makes 2 out of 11
I think Nvidia failing to deliver the last time Nintendo worked with them would be a bigger factor. Nvidia tends to play loose with facts and specifications and Nintendo does not. When Nintendo says we want X. You do not offer them X+1.
Nvidia lost the 3DS contract because they could not deliver what they promised and Nintendo instead of budging said Sayonara
Nintendo gens are usually around 5 years. I wasn't considering the other two console manufacturers because they are irrelevant to what Nintendo does. also using the past two generations and all the consoles would be misleading, the x360 and PS3 were not normal as far as gen length goes. I would never expect a Nintendo console to go for 8 years and definitely not the Wii U lol. I believe only the DS got close to that. like I said, a 4 year life cycle for the Wii U seems pretty standard to me considering the rest of Nintendo's consoles and the Wii U situation.
Well, going by Japan release dates (because the lag time between JP and NA releases decreased every generation conflating things):
NES - 7 years
SNES - just under 6 years
N64 - just under of 5 years
Gamecube - 5 years
Wii - 5 years
A July release would give the Wii U just over 3.5 years, which is pretty short even by Nintendo standards.
I mean Wii U will probably not reach 20 million shipments ltd by quite a margin. I don't see a new Nintendo handheld selling that well either, I think the market for dedicated handhelds will be really small by 2016, so I'm not sure if they'll even manage to ship 20 million ltd for their next handheld.
Well, going by Japan release dates (because the lag time between JP and NA releases decreased every generation conflating things):
NES - 7 years
SNES - just under 6 years
N64 - just under of 5 years
Gamecube - 5 years
Wii - 5 years
A July release would give the Wii U just over 3.5 years, which is pretty short even by Nintendo standards.
Have any of Nintendo's systems actually done 20M in their first year?
I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
I wonder what wiiu owners will feel when they find out their console only lasted 4 years.
They weren't that happy. However Xbox at least had a good generation. Wii U took a year to get going. There wasn't much on the system worth owning until the second half of 2013 (followed up by a strong 2014).
Eh I highly doubt they want to do another Wii u and release a console into a year after it's originally unveiled. One it's not easy to maintain interest for a whole year, and I imagine they'd also not want to squander marketing opportunity this time especially when their competitors have already shown releasing the same year as announcing it can be very successful.
Also do you really think they want to go another year of the 3DS and Wii U's sales? I highly doubt that. Successor mention would in itself hurt those platforms, they gain almost nothing by mentioning a successor a year in advance.
Launch in July? That worked out SO well for the Sega Saturn /s
3DS shipped 15 million in the first year and there was a massive cloud of pessimism hanging over it, and game makers in general were EXTREMELY leery of producing anything for it. Considering the 20 million figure is designed to be inventory that'll fill demand for Christmas and first two quarters of '17 potentially, and given that the success of the 3DS has shown people that the handheld is alive and kicking in this day and age, it's not far off, and could easily be adjusted to 15.
This is absolutely a 3DS sequel though, cannot be anything else.