They were stupid to create a console with a tablet controller. That alone probably jacked the price up a good $50-100. I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars for a last gen system by a company that can't seem to get their shit together. I love Nintendo games, but until they get a normal and non shitty console, they won't be getting my business. Give the Wii U a Dualshock 4 and drop the price a bit, and maybe there will be a market there.
@GreatMasterJim I think you are mistaking lack of innovation with integrity. Sony and MS may be bickering children, but Nintendo is the teenager that thinks they can not get out of bed until 2PM and still succeed in life.
It's true, Nintendo is completely irrelevant in terms of hardware. If they didn't have almost exclusively 1st party games unique to their hardware, nobody would buy that shit. They day Nintendo allows their 1st party games to go to other systems is the day they stop being able to sell hardware. Nobody prefers a wiimote or tablet controller and if given the option, everyone would rather play on a Dualshock 4 or Xbone controller. Hell, even Kinect. Nintendo isn't stupid though and knows that in order to keep its head above water, they will have to give the Zelda Machine and Pokemon Machine so many exclusives people are forced to buy them practically.
While gaming companies paying for reviews is complete crap (I'm pretty sure that's illegal anyway), various retail and advertising companies DO in fact sell their souls to other companies and strongly rep products simply because they are being paid to. Case in point, I walked into a Gamestop yesterday and 3 out of the 4 walls included large advertisements and setups for the Xbox One, while the PS4 section was little more than a quarter of the wall on the back which it shared with PS3 titles, Xbox 360 titles, and Wii U stuff. The same day I went to Target, Walmart, and Best Buy and saw pretty much the same thing. I have actually only seen one store with a PS4 set up (Gamestop), whereas every single store I've been in is guaranteed to have 1-3 Xbox One's set up. While I personally do not feel that this kind of soul selling is appropriate, it IS good business for both companies and is how the free market works. Microsoft is simply willing to pay billions of dollars to ensure that major retailers rep their product more than Sony is. I see it more as a move of desperation to claim the North American sales in the console war than anything since Microsoft basically put all of their eggs in one basket. It could also be that Microsoft simply has more money to invest in NA advertising than Sony since Sony has to market to many, many more countries. Either way though, I am not pleased with these major retailers for essentially accepting bribes (as legal and as good business it may be).
@dipdish I played Left 4 Dead and I was bored after an hour. There's been like 10 major zombie game franchises that are all like identical. The zombie genre in general is extremely overused and quite frankly a bit of a cop out because it means the developers don't need to spend a lot of time on animation since zombies just awkwardly shuffle.
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