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You're crazy if you think the PS4 surpasses the Wii, and downright insane if you think it gets anywhere even close to the DS. There's definitely a market for consoles, but mobile has eaten into the demographics that got Wii and DS where they were.
For all we know a lot of casual gamers did "graduate"... and then bought a PS4 instead of a Wii U.
Maybe, inasmuch as they were kids with a Wii in the house (or had a DS), got interested in videogames, wanted mainstreamy/"core" stuff, picked up PS4s when they had the chance as adults. But the DS sold 150 Million units, the Wii 100 million. There's no way in hell anything now, even PS4 and WiiU and Vita and XBone combined, will touch that kind of penetration. The PS4 is selling well, but even Sony is confused about why it's succeeding as much as it is. I think it's because there's a pretty rigid audience of 20-40 year olds (majority male) who grew up with video game consoles, playing console-type games, and now have disposable income to drop on new systems and a weirdly ingrained cultural identification with this specific formulation of the medium (more so than there were at the outset of the PS360 gen).
Anyway, my point is I think the console space is set to become a large but calcified niche, which will attract less and less business enthusiasm given corporate growth priorities. Kids growing up now on tablets and phones aren't going to care about the console space in the same way. If anything Nintendo did great work in easing the "casual" audience into motion-controlled interactive media with the DS and Wii, only for them to inevitably turn to smart phones. I guess in summary I suspect the long-term history of video games is going to look at consoles and what we think of as "real" games as interesting dodos, unequipped to survive contact with invaders from the blue ocean.
That's not what's going to happen though. Nintendo will make their next piece of hardware with Nintendo in mind and every element of their business (with the exception of QoL, maybe) will interact with each other. If 3rd parties aren't going to work on Nintendo games because Japanese devs are switching to mobile and Western devs are apathetic then they're leveraging mobile and QoL to help offset the loss of profits from 3rd parties.
If you want to paint a doomsday scenario around this then you can say Nintendo is bracing for a sea change in core game development in a different way than Sony or Microsoft. Those 2 want to be the all everything in your living room because their video game division can't be just 100% about games either.
The health of Nintendo's core game business is better served by establishing a healthy, profitable mobile and QoL division rather than by moneyhatting third party software support (and by that I mean catering much of their hardware development to third parties that already have trouble developing for 2 consoles, much less 3).
The Terminator goes Commando and kills a Predator while undercover as a Kindergarten teaching Cop.
That's not even mentioning him being 1 half of a set of Twins, which gives me a Total Recall to the True Lies of him being The Last Action Hero that likes to drink T 2.
What is the rat a reference to?
I still don't know anything about this show. Last time I watched it trash cans were killing people.
I use gimmick in the sense that the controller is the selling feature, like with the Wii. With the Wii and Wii U it's a trade-off. You the consumer miss out on any of the benefits the competition's superior hardware provides but instead get the benefits of unique controller features. Controller vs. specs.
I don't want that. The videogame market during the Wii U's lifetime has not wanted that. If the NX is the same thing it will fail. Nintendo makes the best first party games of anyone. The only real difference between Sony and MS is their first party exclusives. Ironically that's a scenario where Nintendo would do really well with and yet for some idiotic reason they completely avoid that. Nope, it's Nintendo's goofy controller and their first party games vs. Sony and Microsoft's first party games and 99% of all other console videogames being made. It's always Nintendo vs. everyone else and no company does well in that comparison. The whole strategy is stupid and really arrogant. Make something normal, try to get the third parties back, and then it's Mario and Zelda vs. Uncharted and Halo. That's a way more favourable comparison.
Empire Strikes Back - Lando fucks the **** out of Leia
So, I'm just going to keep posting and spit balling here. And why not? As Doctor Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, I am the star of the show. Everyone roleplay as fictional TV Doctors! Dr. Frasier Crane, Dr. Nick Riviera, George Clooney's character on ER. It will be great!
The Imperial Mafia didn't make a hit last night. This is especially surprising since there is the whole "Silenced" godfather clause in place. That means 3 things. 1. The mafia purposely chose not to make a hit (which I always think is a bad move.) 2. The godfather was away and the other mafia members didn't realize they could send in a hit. 3. All three mafia members were absent. Interestingly, there were 3 people absent from Day 1 and the time that roles have gone out.
Nuclearspeed
Ceric
Lolmonade
I would suggest that whoever is the detective may want to take a couple cracks at investigating that crew of people.
As for me, I'm not a Renegade mafia man as I wouldn't sacrifice another member to save myself. I'm not an Imperial Mafia man either though I wish I had more definitive proof in that regard except for the fact that there would have been a hit for sure if I was part of that group. I'm not the vigilante. I am just a humble townie. Honestly, I think the mafias need to worry about other players who actually have roles than humble me who is just trying to make my own deductions.
If anyone needs me, I'll be getting a martini in the Swamp.
An hour of baseless speculation about a news topic we barely understand at this moment? Count meinmeh.
I see plenty of kids on Miiverse, so the notion that "kids don't play Nintendo games" is false. Also, a majority of people playing video games are teenagers and adults, and they're the main demographic of PlayStation, Xbox and Steam. Nintendo needs to reach out to everyone, not just kids OR adults.
Yeah, my daughter's 9 and her platform of choice is her 3DS. She has her own Iphone, she has her own Ipad, but her top choice tends to be the 3DS. Granted, she's my daughter, and when she walks into my office and sees my shelves and shelves of Nintendo games and systems, and when she sees my copy of Nintendo Force arrive in the mail every month, there's bound to be some artificial bias there.
But man, I checked her activity log the other day, and she's put 140 hours into Animal Crossing, 30 hours into Tomodachi Life, 10 hours into Disney's Magical World (not as big a hit), and 50 hours into Style Saavy. It's almost embarassing for me, because I originally bought Animal Crossing for myself, I'm the mayor of our freakin town, but she schools me on that game constantly. I've never even been to the island!
I still don't understand why everyone wants Nintendo to have just ONE console, instead of one portable and one home.
I mean, sure, it would mean we're spending less money, because we're just buying 1 Nintendo device, as opposed to 2.
And it would SEEM like we're getting more games for said unified console, because all of Ninendo's development resources would be focused on one platform instead of being divided between supporting two.
But wouldn't that just be the same status quo as now? Sure, the Wii U doesn't have a lot of games this year. Neither does 3DS. But with a unified console, we'd still just have the same amount of games. Hell, maybe even less. Some years we get 2 Zelda games in 1 year (Wind Waker HD and Link Between Worlds, for example). That would NEVER happen on a unified console.
