igorgetmeabrain wrote:Who said that they do? The Wii managed to be astonishingly successful without ever appealing to the so-called 'hardcore'. In fact, the secret of its success was its appeal to a market which was anything but.Choke wrote:It seriously needs the next installments of GTA, COD, Bioshock and Tomb Raider if Nintendo seriously expect to market it as a console for the hardcore.
Blue Swirl wrote:Hell, I'd be happy with F-Zero X given the 3DS treatment, at least as an interim.
Liveinadive wrote:The presentation of the Gamecube version was excellent but it was just a bit too hard and no easier mode. Wasn't it Sega or Namco that did it?
You must have missed all the $$$ they made from Wii Fit, wasn't that selling more than 360 and PS3 combined over a sustained period? Also Mario Kart sold a huge number of units, along with NSMB. The main reason for Nintendo losing serious money in the past year is selling at loss the 3DS.Mod74 wrote:The Wii has failed quite fucking hard in the last couple of years because lots of people bought them to play Wii Sports and didn't bother with anything else.
The N64 version is definitely the favourite for me. Perfectly executed. Over months I completed every cup with every driver on the hardest setting. On the other hand, the GC version was too much for me to cope with visually and I gave up pretty quickly.RedDave2 wrote:I think the arcade version is a joint nintendo/sega/ namco release. One of my favorite n64 memories is my eyes bleeding (well, you know what I mean) towards the end of a massive late night session on F-zero.
igorgetmeabrain wrote:I'm not sure how there's a perception that the Wii has failed, especially as total worldwide sales of the console are still about 45% (or 30m) greater than its nearest current rival (360).Â
With you on thatBlue Swirl wrote:
Unless it comes out with an epic new F-Zero game.
EvilRedEye wrote:The problem with the Wii was that take-up of HD turned out to be fairly rapid in the end. The tech ended up out of date years before its successor was due and with 'core' games from third parties not selling very well and then not being made, it ended up losing mindshare. In that respect the Wii U shouldn't fare as badly - it might have less power than the other two next-gen home consoles but it won't be a whole television standard behind. It's unclear whether the other two next-gen consoles will be relatively modest upgrades or as major as they can make them given the current economic climate - it'll be interesting to see whether it'll be possible to port multi-format titles to all three.
Blue Swirl wrote:I was under the impression that HD TVs still made up less than half the number of TVs currently in use in the UK? Might have that wrong, though. I'm pretty sure the number of people using their PS3/Xbox 360 with an SD TV in the US is quite high, too; it came up on a recent episode of 'Weekend Confirmed'.
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