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#1 Stormage09

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:00 PM

http://www.videogame...launch_day.html

Im really hoping for that to happen, it doesnt surprises me at all, i always get the games some days earlier every time i pre-ordered the game there, i remember having all the 3ds games 2-3 days before the offficial launch day, expecting to be the same with the wii u :P
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:13 PM

Great, I'm hoping the Wii U sells better in the UK than the 3DS is doing
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:14 PM

It sucks that GAME shut down business here in Australia. And here most people thought they were doing a good job...

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:18 PM

A moment we've been waiting for, we will see how things turn out very soon.

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:20 PM

Definitely another Wii in the making.

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:23 PM

Definitely another Wii in the making.


what happened with the wii? i didnt got it at launch back then
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:23 PM

Definitely another Wii in the making.

that can be a good thing or a bad thing...

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:39 PM

what happened with the wii? i didnt got it at launch back then


It was selling immensly fast, it was impossible to get one
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 01:42 PM

I think the Wii U could sell at least 1 million by the end of this of January.

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 02:07 PM

that can be a good thing or a bad thing...


The only thing that stopped the Wii from being a success was the limited ram (88MB) and extremely outdated GPU and CPU.

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 02:11 PM

Wait so the mail you guys in Europe the Console and Games? Yep, gonna sell out before launch then
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 02:13 PM

The only thing that stopped the Wii from being a success was the limited ram (88MB) and extremely outdated GPU and CPU.

but.... it was a success, even if it had old tech.

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 02:16 PM

Wow, this is great news. I think Nintendo really can deliver what they want to with this console.
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Posted 05 November 2012 - 05:31 PM

This is definatly going to be another Wii here in the UK lol, I remember trying to get one at first for my birthday and that was about 2 months after it's launch it was Impossible, I feel so sorry for people who didn't pre order, the original Wii's launch is what gave me insentive to pre order this time.

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 05:43 PM

It sucks that GAME shut down business here in Australia. And here most people thought they were doing a good job...


They did not just shut down, they were purchased by EB games.

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Posted 06 November 2012 - 10:16 AM

The only thing that stopped the Wii from being a success was the limited ram (88MB) and extremely outdated GPU and CPU.


I don't know if you're being a troll or actually being serious. The Wii has been a huge success world wide.

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Posted 06 November 2012 - 11:44 AM

I don't know if you're being a troll or actually being serious. The Wii has been a huge success world wide.


Sales wise, yes, the WII was successful. You look at the Wii's Library you see nothing but a bunch of shovelware titles, Nintendo titles, and no third party support. The Wii was a terrible system.

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Posted 06 November 2012 - 12:05 PM

Sales wise, yes, the WII was successful. You look at the Wii's Library you see nothing but a bunch of shovelware titles, Nintendo titles, and no third party support. The Wii was a terrible system.


I disagree. Yes there was a lot of shovelware especially from third parties but there was a decent number of quality titles both first party and third party. The Wii was far from being a terrible system. It was a huge success commercially and was pretty good regards software support. I have at least 25 games which are AAA quality if not close to it and there are probably quite a few I don't own as they are not to my taste. As far as first party games go Nintendo are far better then Microsoft and definitely give Sony a run for their money. At the end of the day the Wii was not designed for the hardcore gamer or the long time Nintendo fans but a new larger casual gamer market. Nintendo wasn't trying to compete with Sony and Microsoft but going after a different market and was a big success as a result of it.

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Posted 06 November 2012 - 12:40 PM

I disagree. Yes there was a lot of shovelware especially from third parties but there was a decent number of quality titles both first party and third party. The Wii was far from being a terrible system. It was a huge success commercially and was pretty good regards software support. I have at least 25 games which are AAA quality if not close to it and there are probably quite a few I don't own as they are not to my taste. As far as first party games go Nintendo are far better then Microsoft and definitely give Sony a run for their money. At the end of the day the Wii was not designed for the hardcore gamer or the long time Nintendo fans but a new larger casual gamer market. Nintendo wasn't trying to compete with Sony and Microsoft but going after a different market and was a big success as a result of it.


Thank you for explaining something in an intellectual way lol. I don't comment often because these threads get crazy and nonsensical from time to time. However, you managed to state your piece and do it with logical coherence. The Wii had to be made to disrupt the market. Why? Because of Nintendo's financial state at the time of its inception. If the big N decided to go the same route as PS360 back in 2006, they very well may have gone the way of the dodo. They were in no way in any position to make an HD system when their previous business model had failed so miserably. They had to regroup and figure out a way to expand the market while leveraging their established fanbase. I agree with you Gamejunkie, the Wii had tons of content. It was only through the working of the salacious biased gaming media that the Wi was branded with the silly title of 'casual.' I guarantee that if the PS360 had the same success as the Wii, this silly 'hardcore' 'casual' idiocy would not have purveyed so many media circuits. In any such case, it has unfortunately, but that by no means dismisses what the Wii did in terms of success and gaming. If any of you have the opportunity look at Reggie's lecture on disruptive marketing plans, it is brilliant.

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Posted 06 November 2012 - 01:23 PM

The wii was clearly a success for Nintendo but there is a strong case to be made that it wasn't good for third party publishers, many of which took a financial hit by developing for the wii. In the end it was the publishers that did produce shovelware that made a profit on wii by releasing basic and simplistic games with low development costs. It is Nintendo's attitude towards these developers that has caused a lot of damage due to high costs in releasing games on wii. For me the wii has the least must have titles of the current generation but of course it is severly hindered by its technology being from the generation before. I've been a nintendo fan since the nes and have owned all the nintendo home consoles and loved them; snes, N64 and Gamecube but the wii was the one I only got much later and even when I did found generally disappointing. I feel the wii u is a return to form for Nintendo despite likely being only marginally superior to current gen. Its a fantastic package. I would certainly go along with the view that wii was not a success from a gamer's perspective though and it's widely described as a dust gatherer.




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