TheFlyingGerbil
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If they continue to sell at a slow rate would that mean they would never really reduce production costs without a redesign? Do Nintendo even do redesigns on home consoles? Apart from the Wii redesign where they took out the GC backwards compatability and that weird black and red thing they released last year I can only think of them making different colours for their other consoles, though I suppose they could improve the internals without advertising it as a new version of the console. Do you think they're more likely to make a redesign if they sell well or poorly?
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in other words, I was right
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maybe if they weren't making a loss on the hardware it wouldn't be so bad but with a low install base and not many compelling games I can't see how they'll be making their money back, at least in the shortish term
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I was reading a Christmas gifts for anglophiles article and two of the items were mince pies and christmas crackers. Are these not that popular in America? After Christmas roast dinner I would say mince pies would arguably be the food British people most associate with Christmas and I can't imagine there is a dining table in the land come Christmas Day that isn't set with crackers.
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if they stop making hardware and go software only, which is what I said was being posited by many investors/people who act like they're investors, then where are all these big new games going if not mobile phones? Would they just stop making new games and only sell their legacy games? cos that would be dumb as fuck
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not really - if you have a smart phone already and want to play the new mario game most people would be happy to pay for the game on the phone and a slightly less optimal experience rather than for the game and the console to get a slightly better experience. Doesn't mean the game isn't any good. There's also the problem that people will buy the game for £30 on the handheld, but would be really unlikely to pay that on a phone.
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I'm not saying investors aren't right to want money (obviously that is why they invested...) What I'm saying is that because investors want to maximise profit (and often in the short term at the expense of long term growth) at all costs we often don't get what may be the best decision for consumers in the short term or for anyone in the long run. E.g. people wanting Nintendo to put their IP on mobile may rake in a bit of short term cash and big moves like that often appeal to investors but in the long term it means people have no reason to buy Nintendo's portable hardware and if people don't have their Nintendo hardware and their precious few Nintendo games to play on it would the games even seem that special to them after the novelty of playing them on a phone wore off? Without investors to satisfy Nintendo could have it's core business strategy as building a console that they only plan to sell 10 million of to the Nintendo fans that will always buy Nintendo hardware to play Nintendo games. That is a perfectly valid long term business plan if you don't have investors clamouring for more.
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There should always be enough Nintendo fans to buy a Nintendo console and Nintendo games even if other consumers and publishers ignore it so the Wii U can survive if Nintendo can push the costs down to make a profit on the hardware. They could carry on like this for generations if it weren't for investors wanting more. I think it could do semi OK (or maybe it's successor) if they push the price low enough that it is an easy choice for a second console, and would only need a couple of games you're interested in to justify the low price of entry. It would obviously have the NIntendo first party games. With middle tier games getting increasingly difficult to sustain on the high end consoles (they seem to be polarising toward mega budget and indie games) if Nintendo could try and push to get the second tier games (like Bayonetta) and have the console seen as a testing ground for new ideas that can't afford to be tested on the other two people who are keen gamers could see it as a viable choice. The problem with that is that Nintendo doesn't seem to have good enough relationships with the publishers to pull it off so I guess we're stuck with the first of my two scenarios.
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cutest attack in history what on earth...
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the real shock there was the previous sales record was for the PSP. Blimey, I'd never have guessed that one.
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hmmm, it was all a bit disturbing the way everyone was perving over him when he was rather young, Pretty much everyone thought he was flaming though. Must be hard to come out as bisexual as there always seems to be a contingent of people who will refuse to believe you.
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Thanks for the answer, Pojodin - I didn't read the bits in spoilers, but rest rest set my mind at ease. "I then got jumped by an assault squad of ducks" LOL, if reading that quote doesn't make you want to play a game, you're on the wrong forum.
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Not embarrassing at all
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Anyone used one of those bluetooth adapters you stick on an iPhone speaker dock connector?
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the dock i want doesn't have bluetooth and i'm hoping that's a work around
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it's near enough that price just for Pandora's tower over here - good bargain hunting skills!
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Shame it's missing on the extra content. Zelda games seem to have moved towards minigames and away from sidequests (e.g. the item trading sequence in Link's Awakening). I was hoping since this was harking to the past it would have more of the sidequests I prefer. Never mind. "could have been better had they mixed it up a bit to require more than just a single primary tool per dungeon" Could that be a limitation due to the fact that you're renting the items so you'll only have one at a time? Would it be too expensive to rent two so people who keep dying wouldn't be able to afford it? Can you actually rent two at a time?
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You say that but many of Nintendo's games sell steadily at full price for the life of the console. Other games drop in price to maintain sales when the initial marketing blitz is over and people are less excited for it. It's not unusual for a game to be half it's launch price a month or two later. You think if people were still willing to buy it at £40/$60 they wouldn't be selling it at that price? Maybe it's a lack of quality alternative game choices on Nintendo consoles, maybe it's that people are less likely to trade in a nintendo game so they don't flood the second hand market forcing prices down, maybe Nintendo has a lot of mum's buying games that don't know any better. Whatever it is it is definitely something and Nintendo would be mad not to capitalise on it
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maybe i just think we should have free ps plus every time anyone can't access PSN.
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They should have made everyone plus by default for one month when the system registered itself so they wouldn't have everyone trying to activate codes at once.
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What are you listening to now?
TheFlyingGerbil replied to Chronixal's topic in Entertainment Exchange
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I really want those games so bad - I wish they'd release them on the UK Play store.
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The greatest Controller of all time!
TheFlyingGerbil replied to Battra92's topic in General Gaming Chat
I may have to do some research to see if I have a game that uses them. I'd like to have a go but I can't imagine being dexterous enough to use it though. -
Zelda games are all good in their own right, it's only if you look at the series as a whole that you see the need for change to freshen things up. This issue has been brought up in every review of a zelda game I've ever read so I don't know how you think it keeps getting free passes? The good scores are still justified. You could argue that with only one Zelda coming out per generation they are each aimed at a new set of gamers so the need to innovate is less, and they are bringing a unique experience to each console. There's been nearly as many AC games in one generation as we've had Zelda games in over 25 years. With them coming out every year, if it's not bringing something new to the table it is harder to justify it's existence and also to shake the feeling they're just milking a popular franchise.
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The greatest Controller of all time!
TheFlyingGerbil replied to Battra92's topic in General Gaming Chat
By analogue, do you mean the face buttons used to have pressure sensitivity? I didn't realise that - I just thought they were pressed or not.
