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Lords of Shadows was okay at best my problems were how boring the IGAvanias got after a few of the GBA titles. I hear so many great things about Harmony of Dissonance. My hated Castlevania is mostly a spinoff anyway (Judgement)
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The NX needs to release holiday of next year so that it can have 2-3 years before the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 gets to launch their successor. Nintendo more than ever are stuck in a precarious situation where one mistake could make the NX their last home console. I seriously hope know what they're doing because Miyamoto's statement is not making me feel assured they'll be able to get good western third-party support on board ever again (which is becoming more of a necessity with the decline of the Japanese game industry).This is all very interesting piece of information here especially being a gay man myself. In other words, kind of how I feel around my father's side of the family, except that they would probably kick me out or discriminate against me if they ever found out I was gay.
That's pretty neat. Too bad I'm on the latest firmware version though. I would like to try out some Smash 4 modding myself if/once we get to that point since I kinda missed out on Brawl's.....
The NX will launch holiday 2017 at the earliest too.
That's way too late for Nintendo. They're already mostly done with the Wii U judging from how sparse the library is from here on out. The only major announcements I can see coming at this point are maybe Mother 3 localization and maybe Retro's next game if they haven't moved to the Wii U. If Nintendo can't make holiday, 2016, I forsee the NX being Nintendo's Dreamcast.
DO NOT FORGET FRANCIS!!!
Nintendo can **** money for the next 40 years and still say afloat. Enough for them to take a 20 billion Yen loss (£163/$257 million) every year until 2052. And as of now, they're posting profits.
Hey, back off, those shoes are mine.
Thanks for volunteering. You heard it here first, folks. If the NX doesn't launch at or before holiday 2017 than SlickWylde will eat a shoe!
If anything, the NX coming as early as holiday 2016 is going to make the Wii U Nintendo's Sega Saturn, meaning they'll have dropped support of it and given up too early and screwed over customers as a result. Which isn't going to make the NX their Dreamcast in the sense of putting them out of business, but it will do that in the sense that customers are going to be pissed and not anxious to get an NX.
I disagree. Holiday 2017 makes the most sense, as it would give the Wii U a typical 5 year life span and would fall in line with Nintendo's pattern of announcing a console on the first year, showing it off at E3 in the second, and releasing it in the third.
Nintendo has an unusually large war chest, that is true, but they also have to answer to their share holders. The current Wii U software landscape looks grim, and Nintendo can not count on their hand held to bail them out at the moment. Last I checked, the 3DS forecast is 7.6 million units this year. That's not a very high number. Nintendo really can't afford to have multiple years with a combined hardware total of less than 10 million, and that is very likely what will happen if the NX is pushed back until 2017.
When I said Dreamcast, I never said that Nintendo was going out of business if the NX failed, I meant in the context that they will likely exit the market of making home consoles like Sega did and go third-party and/or mobile. Remember that Nintendo is entering the mobile market and if they play their card right, mobile gaming will be a low-risk, high-reward scenario for them as development costs will be a lot less than on consoles. They could eventually be pushed to drop support for consoles and pursue a primarily mobile gaming route (or go third-party if that doesn't work) if the NX does not do well.
With the Sega Saturn, Magic Knight Rayearth was the last game released in North America on November 30th, 1998 and the Dreamcast launch on September 9th, 1999; making it a nine and a half month span between the last Saturn game in North America and when Sega launch the Dreamcast here. Europe was even worse; Deep Fear was the last game released there on June 30th, 1998 and it took over a year for the Dreamcast to come over there on October 14th, 1999. Sega's big mistake was abruptly dropping support for the Saturn and going for a long period without any games outside Japan. What Nintendo is doing is phasing out the Wii U in time for the NX to come in. There will still be games coming out for the Wii U but they will mostly be smaller titles from Nintendo, indie third-parties, and maybe a few big titles we don't know about, but we've already seen the bulk of the Wii U's support. The Wii U at the very least has a year left from support by Nintendo and indie third-parties but once the NX comes out, it will be time for Nintendo to pull the plug. The fact is that Nintendo has to ensure that the NX is a success so while the Wii U isn't dead yet, expect their primary home console focus to be on their next console. And beside, for a console that has done so poorly, a four year lifespan for the Wii U is not bad.
Yeah but here's the thing people keep telling you that would do damage to the customers image is that releasing it next year would do more harm than help because of Wii U owners.
The Wii U hasn't even sold 10 million units. If we look at the Gamecube as a decent base for Nintendo fans than we know that another 10 million or so fans skipped out on the system. Plenty of people are already waiting for a new Nintendo system.
Here's the differenceThe Wii U hasn't even sold 10 million units. If we look at the Gamecube as a decent base for Nintendo fans than weknow that another 10 million or so fans skipped out on the system. Plenty of people are already waiting for a new Nintendo system.
2016 would be 4 years, not 3.
Also, let's not pretend that Nintendo has not pulled a similar stunt in the past. Forget the Dreamcast, and remember this:
Launched in 2001
Launched in 2004.
Three years difference between those systems, and Nintendo used the same "third pillar" rhetoric then, too.
That didn't seem to effect consumer trust in the Nintendo brand much, did it?
Lol they are not going 3rd Party or mobile exclusive. They're posting profits, and they've got a ****tonne of money in the bank. They're a business, doing what they're doing is working, and they're taking steps to improve. The NX can fail, the NX2 can fail, the NX3 can fail (and on and on), and they'll still be completely safe, and they'll still be exclusive.
Shareholders are happy as long as profits are being posted, and are expected to continue being posted. Which they are.
Heck, this is often still referred to as the leaks group. We are who we are, I guess.
I added a console example as well. Xbox - Xbox 360. 4 years.
You forgot, the generation the Xbox was in.
Gens don't matter when Nintendo is plaything the "not competing directly card."
The Saturn outside Japan was more like this:
Yup, this is the new Leaks group place.
My Notifications said this post quoted me, yet I can't see what exactly it is you quoted from me.
The Wii U is stacked with quality games.
Eight years? The DS came out on November 21th, 2004 (North America) and the 3DS came out on February 26th, 2011. That's six and 1/4th of a year there.
Finally, you're here!
Uhh, yeah, whatever. 8, 1/4. 6 years, it was just 2 numbers ahead.
How many big guns does Nintendo have left, though?
I still consider a Paper Mario to be likely, it would have been in dev for 2 years this September at the very least.
