KillzoneMake the same games over and over and over again. Wait, they're already doing that. I'm fresh out of answers.
Forza
Dead rising
Cod
Battlefield
Assassins creed
If only Nintendo could be as fresh as the rest of the industry.
KillzoneMake the same games over and over and over again. Wait, they're already doing that. I'm fresh out of answers.
Killzone
Forza
Dead rising
Cod
Battlefield
Assassins creed
If only Nintendo could be as fresh as the rest of the industry.
If this was the same Nintendo that build hardware competitive with the other consoles of its generation, and retained a stable of first or second-party western studios that had free reign to develop mature games, then they'd probably be in much better shape.
Nintendo consoles have never sold well over here (Wii exception). Nintendo handhelds sale relatively way, that's about it.
There was a thread around May I think that said the UK Wii U sales were less than the Gamecube at the same point in its lifespan. It even had less games available for the platform.
There never has been a market for Nintendo games in the UK. Our history was not with the NES and SNES like in North America, it was with the Master System and MegaDrive. There is generally very little nostalgia for Nintendo console games (exception being Goldeneye).
Also Nintendo first party titles don't ever seem to ever drop in price like all our other games. Makes owning Nintendo consoles expensive.
Nintendo consoles have never sold well over here (Wii exception). Nintendo handhelds sale relatively way, that's about it.
There was a thread around May I think that said the UK Wii U sales were less than the Gamecube at the same point in its lifespan. It even had less games available for the platform.
There never has been a market for Nintendo games in the UK. Our history was not with the NES and SNES like in North America, it was with the Master System and MegaDrive. There is generally very little nostalgia for Nintendo console games (exception being Goldeneye).
Also Nintendo first party titles don't ever seem to ever drop in price like all our other games. Makes owning Nintendo consoles expensive.
There never has been a market for Nintendo games in the UK. Our history was not with the NES and SNES like in North America, it was with the Master System and MegaDrive. There is generally very little nostalgia for Nintendo console games (exception being Goldeneye.
Most of my friends had an 8-bit computer in the 80s, and then either an Amiga or a SNES, but then upgraded to a Playstation, then on to a PS2. But yeah, Sega stuff was generally more popular and Sony was super popular in the mid-90s, it was the natural upgrade for both the Nintendo and Sega kids. It felt to me like the Sega/Nintendo split was about 60/40, but then Sony just annihilated them both.It always seemed that way, everyone I knew had a Megadrive, then a Playstation then a PS2.
Among IP's new to the 7th gen that were critically acclaimed and considered GOTY nominee quality from at least a decent number of outlets:
Now, for the Wii:
Wii Sports (2006) -- I'm pretty sure only the NY Times gave it GOTY, but in retrospect it was the most important release of the year, by far.
The UK videogame ecosystem is very much driven by supermarkets these days, and all of them have extremely little to no visibility of Wii U whatsoever.
Nintendo has done nothing to try to turn this around.
Killzone
Forza
Dead rising
Cod
Battlefield
Assassins creed
If only Nintendo could be as fresh as the rest of the industry.
My local tesco has dropped 3DS too, just selling ps3 and 360 games for now.
I personally feel one of the big problems with Nintendo, both 3DS and Wii U, in the UK specifically is the price of games. They call us rip-off Britain for a very good reason, and I think game prices in general are hurting sales here, but Nintendo takes it to a whole new extreme compared to Microsoft and Sony.
Of course the Wii U has its own problems beyond this that are killing it, but as you stated in the OP, Nintendo in the UK is comparatively worse off than other territories. I don't want to get into a qualityrice discussion between systems, but in the end when people see 3DS games for £39.99, Wii U games for £49.99, and then Vita games for £29.99-£34.99 and PS3/360 games for £39.99, the Nintendo games are going to look grossly overpriced.
Anecdotally, my uncle buys most of his children's games from GAME stores, where there are rarely any good discounts. I went out shopping with him last Saturday to give him buying advice on new consoles and such. He was looking to get my three cousins (ages 5, 8 and 13) a Wii U as their main Christmas present this year, until he saw the price tag on SM3DW. He compared it to the price of the new games for PS3 and 360, which were roughly £10 cheaper, and the game went back on the shelf and Nintendo lost a console sale. And it wasn't specifically the price of that one game that put him off, but all the other £50 games he'd be buying as gifts over the years that put him off.
I can't say for sure this is something that's happening all over the place, but games in the UK were expensive enough already, and Nintendo chose to hike all the prices by £10 on last gen.