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TalkBack / Re: Wii U Sells 400,000 Last Week, Total Hardware 1.2 Million

« on: November 29, 2012, 12:04:43 AM »

MS is selling the 360 for $250, with a one year Xbox live membership. This seems good & all, until you realize that, there is minimal cost per user for Xbox live, & that if they do release the 720 in the end of 2013, your paying $250 for a system that will be outdated & quickly unsupported, when you could have waited 13-14 months & applied that $250 to a system that will probably cost double that, but will have the new Xbox titles & probably better graphics, & Microsoft's rip off of the Nintendo Pad controller. As the release of the 720 gets even closer & MS drops the price another $50 to get those last few holdouts, those who buy the 360 any time in 2013 will shoot themselves in the foot. If its true MS plans not to make the 720 backwards compatible, then buying a 360 at the cheaper prices makes some sort of since, but having to buy a soon to be out dated system simply to have access to the 360 game library is sure taking advantage of your customers. Of course, if MS fallows through with their plans to not allow users to play used games without first paying a use fee, or maybe not allowing used games at all, they may find sales of their 720 are much weaker than they expect.

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TalkBack / Re: Wii U USB Storage Detailed

« on: November 28, 2012, 11:44:59 PM »

I should also mention that, I have been around since the Atari 2600 & Colecovision, & have seen game system companies come & go. I know through experiance that Nintendo is know for quality, they have made a few minor mistakes like choosing to stick with cartridges, when the industry migrated to cheaper & high capacity CD  technology, & the unpopular Virtual Boy, but their ability to make games that create a unique gaming experience, & or games that simply have great game play has never been in doubt. If the Wii U at only 50% more powerful than current systems without an internal drive or support for DVD/Blue Ray disks costs $300-$350 depending on which version you choose, I think we can expect the PS4 & 720 to be at least a few hundred dollars more. Unless those systems are significantly more powerful than the Wii U, to the point companies won't want to (or be able to) port games over to the Wii U, I think many users will have to way their choices vary carefully. With at least a year to possibly 2 year lead on MS & Sony, Nintendo will have time to build a decent library, not to mention the 1200+ Wii games the Wii U will also have access to, along with downloadable games including GameCube games, & possibly titles that can be used on the 3DS & the Wii U. Nintendo has already showed they intend to make mini games, like Chess, Checkers, Go, Etc, for use on the Pad controller, such games could easily work on a 3DS as well, so we may see many older Nintendo titles get reintroduced via the What I think is called the U market as well as titles from long gone systems, like the Sega Genesis, Dreamcast, Atari 2600, Atari Jaguar, Neo Geo, etc. Nintendo has already released some information about the multimedia features that will be available in December via an update, & if they enable users to access their media files via the SDHC card, I fail to see why the Wii U won't be as popular as the Wii was/is, and as popular as current systems & future systems from MS & Sony. Its only been 2 weeks since the Wii came out, lets not right it off so quickly. The only think that kept me going with the 360 was/is I built a decent game library before my 3rd system died & my warranty ran out, & the fact my 4th system was $100 used & a newer model without the RRD. We will know within the next few months how well Nintendo will be progressing. Over 400,000 systems sold in the US thus far, & it isn't even the height of the Christmas buying season, so I think they are doing pretty good, IMHO.

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TalkBack / Re: Wii U USB Storage Detailed

« on: November 28, 2012, 11:19:37 PM »

I fail to see why so many people are dogging Nintendo, the Basic Xbox 360 had no hard drive, so you were forced to by a USB memory stick from Microsoft, in order to save game info. The Elite 360 only had a 20GB hard drive, when it first came out, & all these years later the largest internal hard drive is 200GB. An external hard drive for the 360 is limited to 2 TB, & I do not know if it supports hot swappable use of drives, & or multiple drives at a time. Let us also not forget how Microsoft rushed their system to market & had failure rates as high as 50% or more. Thankfully, I purchased an extended warranty, as I went through 3 systems before it expired. Thankfully after the 3rd system failed, I was able to get a newer redesigned Gears of War custom 360 that doesn't have the same issues with over heating & the processor cumming up off the motherboard. The fact I can use the Pad controller of the Wii U to add interactive features to TV viewing, as a portable web browser even in the next room, & to play games while someone else watches the TV are simply icing on the cake. The fact some games will allow you to have one user on the TV vs one user on the pad for either co-op or vs combat, without splitting the image on the TV is a useful idea, but the way the Pad is used interactively in games was the selling point for me. I know from Nintendo's history that, thay already are the best at creating unique game environments, now add the interactivity of the Pad controller on top of the ability to use Wii controllers & X-box/Playstation type controllers, I know they will create even more unique gaming environments. Thus far, Microsoft has only mentioned using a Pad controller rip off to check game inventory, game settings, etc, but as of yet no use as a 5th game controller & or as a true wireless controlls game controller the way the Pad in the Wii U does. Lets face it, Nintendo has 1200 plus games that all use wireless controllers, MS & Sony only have about 100-150 games apiece, & they both ripped off their wireless controllers idea from Nintendo, just as they are both going to ripe off the Pad controller Idea. Even though the 720 is supposed to come out in 2014, their pad controller won't be released till 2015, giving Nintendo even more time to build a catalog of Wii U games that utilize wireless controllers, not to mention the huge library of Wii games. Time will tell if Sony has learned from their mistakes with the PS3, or Microsoft with those they made with the 360. I for one won't buy a 720 until 6 months or the 2nd generation comes out, due to being burned by the Red Ring of Death on the 360. As for the Wii U, glad I got on the waiting list as, there were no Wii Us of either version at my local WalMart, & they only had 2 black Wii s. I only see good things in Nintendo's future.