The E3 2011 thread

[Malacite]

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It's possible that I'm wrong and people won't care, but I'd point out that something is making Wii hardware sales drop off a cliff face lately,

The fact that everyone and their cousin already has one?


Also: Inb4 PS4/new xbox offer fully immersive VR gameplay with life-like graphics for $1000 XD

[Yellow Mage]

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By the way, I found this to be a humorous summary of Nintendo's current position.

[Raydeus]

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Wait...

Why does this thread suddenly remind me of the Religion thread? o_O;

[Yellow Mage]

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You're right. That was a horribly flawed analogy.

Could you please point out exactly how the analogy is flawed, so that I may fix it?

Microsoft is managing to maintain a fanbase, while still keeping a visage of catering more "mature" material (read: shooters out the butt). This I made analog to the Boondocks, since it's a successful western cartoon, with a strong fanbase, that is nevertheless not quite for everybody.

Sony, to be honest, I just looked up crappy anime from Adult Swim to describe them, without being so obviously unfair as to use something like Blue Gender. Shin-Chan seemed like a good fit, particularly with its overused low comedy.

Nintendo, however, nevertheless will always look like something that is meant only for kids by its detractors who would never give it a chance. Rather than try to fight against it and become the same as everybody else, however, they went in a direction nobody even thought to go, and the aforementioned detractors thought they would be a waste of time to even go in that direction. Inevitably, however, they emerge with an enormous fanbase that everybody else tends to think is crazy (and with a new trail blazed for others to stumble with, to boot). In other words, they're deceptively awesome. How is that not like MLP:FiM, particularly for you, a clear fan of the show?

[cidbahamut]

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It's possible that I'm wrong and people won't care, but I'd point out that something is making Wii hardware sales drop off a cliff face lately, and my read of the situation is that the "fad" part of the Wii has died, and it just doesn't have the substance to produce significant sales in any other way.

While I'd love to blindly agree with this wholesale, I can't help but wonder if maybe they've simply hit market saturation.

[DakAttack]

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We'll see how lucky they were when they pull the inevitable repeat performance.

They wont, guaranteed. They're competing with every indie game app available on Apple and Android markets for the attention span of casuals.

[Raydeus]

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Looking forward to seeing the Wii U Lulz in 5 years from now.

[Icemage]

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(P.S.: Your bias glows with the intensity of a thousand suns. If console maintenance isn't as much of an issue for you, then why does the possibility of some idiot proving that the device isn't "foolproof" act as a negative selling point for you? Let Nintendo themselves worry about that, which I'm sure they have.)

It's not a negative selling point "for me". The Wii U has other properties that I don't particularly care for, but the fragility "for me" isn't a problem. That said, fragile + expensive is a bad combination in the electronics market, and that's what I'm pointing out.

It's possible that I'm wrong and people won't care, but I'd point out that something is making Wii hardware sales drop off a cliff face lately, and my read of the situation is that the "fad" part of the Wii has died, and it just doesn't have the substance to produce significant sales in any other way.

Hence me belaboring the point about the Wii U; Nintendo's trying to recapture lightning in a bottle, but unless they pull off something of a miracle, they're going to need more than what this device offers to rope people in for another generation.

You'll also note that I'm not particularly enthusiastic about the other pressers; if anything, I think Microsoft did the best job at E3 this year. That's saying a lot, considering they're the only ones without new hardware to show.


Icemage

[cidbahamut]

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You're right. That was a horribly flawed analogy.

[Absentia]

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Maybe I'm the only one, but when they were about to announce the name of Wii-U, they put an emphasis on saying "absolutely" in their statement, so I thought it would be called the Nintendo Absolute. >_> I mean, I guess it made sense considering they want this to reach 'absolutely' everyone. XD

[Yellow Mage]

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They got lucky. Who knew people who don't play video games would fall in love with such a gimmicky console? Not Nintendo. They got lucky.

We'll see how lucky they were when they pull the inevitable repeat performance.

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This is bound to be a horribly flawed analogy, but as far as I see it's going something like this:

Microsoft is pushing The Boondocks.
Sony is pushing Shin-Chan.
Nintendo is pushing My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

[Raydeus]

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Used to.

But if thinking they still do makes you feel better then more power to you.

[DakAttack]

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FTFY. Similar to Kinect and Move, Sony and Microsoft will once again be trying to play catch-up to cash in on Nintendo's success. Except, seeing as they weren't the ones that planned for it in the first place (and indeed, gambled on it failing), it will once again be their versions that are the real gimmicks.

Do we still not see eye-to-crazy-eye?

They got lucky. Who knew people who don't play video games would fall in love with such a gimmicky console? Not Nintendo. They got lucky.

[cidbahamut]

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FTFY

The fuck you did.

[Yellow Mage]

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They represent the industry standard. You know that, right?

FTFY. Similar to Kinect and Move, Sony and Microsoft will once again be trying to play catch-up to cash in on Nintendo's success. Except, seeing as they weren't the ones that planned for it in the first place (and indeed, gambled on it failing), it will once again be their versions that are the real gimmicks.

Do we still not see eye-to-crazy-eye?