Hero of Legend
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Stormbringer said:
Wow, that's sad.
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Famitsu Info 18 Mar 2009
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Wow, that's sad.
Eteric Rice
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EDarkness said:
That would imply that all consoles are dead, since the Wii is the home console market leader.
AranhaHunter
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Eteric Rice said:
You could probably make a convincing argument that that's true in Japan.
BishopLamont
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That's really stretching it.EDarkness said:
Eteric Rice said:
Market leader or no, a few months ago seemed like a lot of excitement surrounding the Wii. These days no one talks about it. I never really see people browsing the aisles. The local game shop I go to just moved the Wii section to the back of the store and the PS3 and PSP sections to the front. The DS section still has it's own space. Even the 360 section is close to the door.
Not many announcements for the system, lots of PS3 stuff, though. I think the third parties have thrown in their lot and it doesn't really include the Wii. Maybe that's temporary, but right now it's pretty glum. People I know joke about it a lot more than they used to, also. It's pretty sad. Something huge needs to happen and soon. Shame that it started off so strong, but this is really a low point for the system and it doesn't look to get any better anytime soon. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Monster Hunter crashes and burns also.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see it happen, but just going by the mood around here, unless Nintendo does something, it's only gonna get worse.
GoldandBlue
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Dang. I'm still waiting for some Crystal Bearer news.Stormbringer said:
Thought the trailer coming out meant we were gonna be getting more updates soon but guess not.Cosmonaut X
Member
Defuser said:
How the fuck did you manage a DP an hour apart? :lol
Mockingbird
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Father_Brain said:
Probably will use it to lure more people to buy PSZ. The game dropped to $30 here in Japan already. The Raven creature is new though. So this might be something like a whole new level with new enemies and bosses. If I can use my PSZ character here, it'd be awesome.
Tailzo said:
I hope so. I hate watching systems go down that path. It was sad with the PS3 had such horrible mindshare here. It's much better these days. The past few big named games are really helping in that department. I'm sure Nintendo is seeing this, and I hope they have a plan. When Sega killed the Dreamcast, I was bitter for a long time. I wonder if Wii owners in Japan are feeling that way now...?
Eteric Rice
Member
EDarkness said:
We'll see at E3/GDC I suppose.
Either way, there isn't much left to come for the PS3 or 360 in the future (aside from western games I guess). Hopefully the Wii can pick up a bit then. Nintendo really needs to secure some exclusives, because it's obvious Japanese developers need more convincing.
Dead Prince
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but you get a free blu-ray movie with it!Link1110 said:
Warren Ellis
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Mirimar said:
wait, co-op ? sigh.. why this isn't on psn..
Link
The Autumn Wind
You're putting a lot of faith in a sequel to a spin-off that sold less than 200k to begin with, especially with the downward slide the Wii's been on. I think a new Gundam game can easily sell more than that.schuelma said:
I'm also not only referring to this week. The past several weeks have seen lots of announcements for the PS3/360, with pretty much nothing for the Wii. That's in pretty stark contrast to what you and others kept claiming would happen this year.
People just have to accept that companies don't want to make Wii games. Quite frankly, it turns out they don't have to. Eventually, consumers will take the hint, as we can see in Japan.
Father_Brain
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schuelma said:
It's not just "big announcements," though - that Atelier PS3 game, for instance, is the sort of niche project that much of Media-Create-GAF would have expected to see on Wii, at least 12-18 months ago.
Link
The Autumn Wind
First, as Father_Brain said, I never said big announcements, though it's not like Wii has seen any of those, either. Just in the last few weeks, since I couldn't be bothered to keep going back further:schuelma said:
For HD:
Kidou Senki Gundam Senki
Ninja Gaiden Σ2
Atelier Rorona
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Lost Planet 2
For Wii:
Biohazard: Dark Side Chronicles
I won't even bother listing all the PSP games announced lately, because then it would just get embarrassing. Bottom line is, if publishers don't want to invest in an HD game, they'd rather go to the PSP than the Wii.
jeremy1456
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Link said:
On the topic of PSP games the announcements all seem geared toward games with low international appeal that will probably never leave Japan.
PSP software is doing really well there though, and it's good to see developers responding to it.
Link said:
Ok..3 of those games were announced this week. Another is an arcade port that was never going to be able to come to Wii anyways, and the other is Lost Planet 2, which isn't being made for any Japanese audience I'm aware of. You can't just cherry pick one week of magazine news and make a blanket statement that 3rd parties have abandoned the Wii.
Link
The Autumn Wind
Two were announced this week, and I fail to see how it matters when zero were announced for the Wii. As was said, if you're looking for strictly "Japanese" games, those aren't on the Wii either.
If you want to keep on believing that Japanese publishers are going to focus on the Wii rather than the HD consoles, go right ahead and keep making rules and restrictions about what "counts." In the meantime, absolutely nothing is being announced for the Wii.
If you want to keep on believing that Japanese publishers are going to focus on the Wii rather than the HD consoles, go right ahead and keep making rules and restrictions about what "counts." In the meantime, absolutely nothing is being announced for the Wii.
Link said:
I'll refer back to my original post..how can you possibly ignore RE: DC? That was announced last week and is a sequel to a game that did over 250K. Whether you're excited about the game or not, you're completely ignoring a relatively big announcement which was a mere week ago.
jeremy1456
Junior Member
schuelma said:
:lol
I was with you at first Link, but now you're just grasping at straws.
Hero of Legend
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The Game Index of this week's issue is out.
No new Wii games again.
I managed to make out the Wii games in this order:
Muramasa
Power Pro NEXT
Haruhi
007 Quantum of Solace
Major Minor's Majestic March
Muramasa and MMM are in the pages past 200, so they may be getting reviewed, not to mention they come out in about a week or two.
No new Wii games again.
I managed to make out the Wii games in this order:
Muramasa
Power Pro NEXT
Haruhi
007 Quantum of Solace
Major Minor's Majestic March
Muramasa and MMM are in the pages past 200, so they may be getting reviewed, not to mention they come out in about a week or two.
Hero of Legend
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Tenbatsu said:Where is the new Wii game announcements?
Fixed. :'(