Just like PS3 and Xbox... why people are still surprised by this? Of course it's more expensive to build and hardware than make a game, so the more games you sell, the more successful is your console. Selling a ton of consoles means nothing if you got a low game bought/console ratio... I think Nintendo just want to be on the news I guess.
So let me see if I read it right: Nintendo's replenishing stock faster, but it still sold less than the Wii 6 years ago? Isn't something amiss there? Plus, 3DS's was pretty cheap on Black Friday too (of course, not as low as the DS, but 150 bucks for a 3DS and Mario Land is pretty neat deal), so either are people buying more Vita (50 bucks higher, but still a great deal) than 3DS, or Nintendo burning stock of the original DS... but then again, it'll release another Wii model... Nintendo is so confusing to me...
And since when, in the last 20 years, Atari has made a decent console? Not even their games are worth much anyways. I'm thinking Atari just employ troll people to their HQs...
So... same tactic as Microsoft and Sony? Why Nintendo doesn't include some nunchucks on the Wii U bundles instead? Either they're not confident with their new console, or it's downright low plans to milk more money with the Wii (instead of making Zelda and SSB for the Wii U)
I see someone clearly haven't liked the Wii U, but well, wasn't everyone expecting that? I mean, Nintendo invested so much to empathize "The first Nintendo console in HD", innovative controller and social game focus (these latter two also the spotlights of the Wii in 2005's E3) that it forgot everything else... and really, spending 350 bucks on the deluxe version (with Nintendo Land, that indeed looks beautiful, but will get boring in a week unless if you have a little brother) just to play Nintendo's exclusives and be able to download some full games, while, say, Xbox360 and PS3 are at 250 bucks with tons of games with tons of full servers each to play online, and not even mentioning Orbis (PS4) and Next Xbox are little more than a year away from us (if not even less)? I'd rather buy a 3DS instead, at least the games are cheaper and it has some Mario and Zelda titles too.
Now if just the VIta was 50 bucks cheaper and includes a *decent* memory stick (or release an adapter or sorts, which I think is veeery unlikely) with the pack, I'd turn myself into a Sonyst 8D... and if Microsoft is smart enough, they better make a service like that in the future (or, at the very least, free online gaming) or else they won't hold well in the next years with just Kinect and Skyrim exclusives.
Cool...so you've got a BMW, and then got busted... so you basically stolen the car...? LOLRegarding the game, I wasn't expecting much of this game anyway. Even though Hot Pursuit 2010 was a pretty nice reboot, NFS lost its soul forever since NFS Pro Street (for me it lost on Carbon.. buy hey, I guessed it was just a slip that time... how wrong I was...)... and it isn't Criterion or FrostBite 2 that will reclaim it. To me, NFS is getting more and more multiplayer-focused game than simply a fun game, which is sad as it's falling in the BF/CoD/RE formula (and I don't even need to mention it's degrading game quality even when sales are high). What fans really want is a REAL, CLASSIC, UNDERGROUND-STYLE NFS, not some reboot with police and multiplayer.Again, no customization, no vinyls, no single~player significant story, and multiplayer looks broken and people will stop playing it after a week at max... a failure, to say the least.
I guess that's obvious. If you check the Wii U's officially announced price in Japan, you'll see it's more expensive than what's been announced in North America (almost US$50 higher). Same goes for PSVita and 3DS, and pretty much all their games.But even if Nintendo is losing money per console sold, he compensates it with software and digital sales. Take it as a gamble, like Xbox 360 was at its launch. The catch is: how many will buy the console. If sales go below expected during the first semester after the console's launch, then it'll be dead before you can say "Virtual Boy".
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