Mr. GOH!
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Burden should be on the claimant to show or prove that infringement occurs before a takedown is issued.
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I think the majority of the Nintendo hardcore fan market has been tapped already. There may be anecdotal evidence of a handful of folks waiting for Smash Bros, but it won't shift too many consoles. Maybe we'll see a temporary sales increase, but I doubt it will be a game changer.
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Why is Smash Bros an indisputable system seller? Only a fraction of Wii owners ever bought it. I'd wager that if Mario can't sell Wii Us, Smash Bros won't be able to, either. Sony and MS will be making money off of their online subscriptions and other offerings for years. Once they've exhausted initial demand (as there will always be folks entering the market for the first time and folks buying replacements), MS and Sony plan to make money elsewhere, whether from licensing or direct sales or subscription fees. Nintendo had only direct sales and licensing, and it's doubtful they'll be making much on licensing this time around.
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If Nintendo stopped making hardware, they'd make software for Sony's and Microsoft's consoles. But Nintendo is not going to stop making hardware any time soon, since the 3DS is making good money. Making a series of consoles for a small group of fans is a bad business strategy in the long term. It makes Nintendo vulnerable to otherwise surmountable crises, whether such a crisis would be an economic downturn, a hot new development in entertainment technology that competes with consoles, or a sudden drop in the 3DS's profitability. Nintendo should invest in stronger opportunities for growth than try to maintain a small, breaking-even Wii U division. At this rate, the Wii U will end up like the Gamecube; just a way for Nintendo to keep its hand in the game in the hopes the next deal (console generation) will be a better one. Even that is a barely-defensible business strategy, but Nintendo is the very picture of an unagile and inertia-driven corporation, that may be the best it can achieve. It is pure fantasy to believe that Nintendo would operate like some sort of employee-owned creative syndicate that just wants to make quality Mario, Zelda and Pokemon games regardless of profitability because they share their hardcore fans' fondness of those IPs.
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The Wii U needs to cost $200 with a real game packed in and have a good-sized library that appeal to casuals. Neither of those conditions seem anywhere near filled. And even if the Wii U were $200, Nintendo might be taking too much of a loss. The investors who clamor for more money are also the owners of the company. Why should they tolerate Nintendo making consoles that barely break even when it's clear Nintendo can cut the dead weight and make money on handhelds?
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Microsoft claims that Xbone sales have topped 2 million so far. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/11/us-microsoft-xbox-idUSBRE9BA0LB20131211 I bet PS4 has similar numbers. Adios, Wii U. You always sucked, but at least it's been a real joy to see Wii U boosters getting increasingly desperate and divorced from reality. Reminds me of the propaganda coming out of Baghdad that claimed everything was fine, even though the US forces were closing in and the Iraqi army was dissolving.
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Not surprising, FMW, given Nintendo's cynicism and utter creative bankruptcy these days.
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I think the next one should focus on naval warfare between the Great Powers between 1790 and 1830. Primarily around the various wars fought between the Great Powers in the early 1800's. Like in Master and Commander.
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It's like they decided to lop off the end and make it DLC or a sequel. So jarring. Recruiting or hiring your own crew would be great! Since the game takes place over years, it could be something like the main character taking a young sailor udner his wing and training him to be a captain of his own some day.
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Assassin's Creed 4. Fun game, though full of that trademarked Assassin's Creed jankiness and awful follow missions. I thought the villa customization was extremely weak after the wonderful homestead missions in AC3.
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Mr. GOH!'s Christmas Wishlist Country: USA Favorite Genres: RPGs, strategy games, in-depth sims of cities/states/large-scale organizations (i.e., not farms or trains sims), adventure games, games with really strong story elements (Whether scripted or emergent), action games Favorite Games: Baldur's Gate 2, Dwarf Fortress, The Walking Dead (Telltale), GTA San Andreas and GTA V, Fallout, Fallout New Vegas, Final Fantasy VI, Planescape: Torment, Assassin's Creed (2, Brotherhood, 3 and 4 all equally), Deus Ex, Crusader Kings 2, Victoria 2, Final Fantasy Tactics, Ogre Battle, SimCity 4, Civilization V, Dragon Age: Origins (PC version only), and the Total War Series. I will take non-steam games, especially GOG games. I will update my wishlist there and post it in this thread. I was an execrable Mac user in the 90's and missed some of the early PC gaming greats. I will accept games not on my wish list for sure. Am in the process of updating it with more affordable games.
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Never been a fan of Kuchera.
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Yes, Dean. As long as Nintendo has some proprietary and profitable way to sell their back catalog, they won't make it available on third party hardware. I'm fairly certain Nintendo believes its most valuable asset is its back catalog, so they'll sue it to push the 3DSas long as they're making moneu
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The Wii U commercial won't be effective for people not in the know because it does a terrible job of making the Wii U a good value proposition for anybody. On the plus side, just think of how much fun you Wii U owners will have re-buying Super Mario World 3D and Wind Waker for Nintendo's 11th generation handheld!
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I think he's saying Nintendo needs to get hip to account systems in general before being able to sell mobile games. Or do you think Nintendo would just make apps for the iTunes store and Google Play? But this is moot; the 3DS is doing well, so Nintendo will not release mobile games on other platforms.It's their home console business that is seriously terrible.
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Nintendo will resist releasing games on other mobile platforms because its own mobile platform is doing well. Whether Nintendo's investors tolerate Nintendo wasting the money made by the 3DS on supporting the Wii U is an open question.
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I'm sure the thinking is that consumers are used to upgrading a lot of their tech, especially smartphones, so using the that term should clarify what the Wii U is. I doubt this strategy will be very effective, though. Counting SMBU and SLBU as two full games is pretty lame.
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Or an even weirder Nintendo Direct.
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Another article detailing the Wii U's ongoing struggles: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/nintendo-seen-missing-target-as-sony-microsoft-sales-dwarf-wii-u.html
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Ouch. But you're probably correct, more or less.
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I have no idea if they're any good, just that they're apparently endless. Not casting aspersions on people who enjoy Nintendo's ceaseless sequels, just that as long as the 3DS is around, Nintendo will keep making them. Now, I will cast aspersions without hesitation on Nintendo for its belief that its "Sequels and Remakes Without End" strategy is enough to support the flagging Wii U. Edit: I do wonder, though, where, exactly, the Wii's massive casual audience has gone. I'm guessing they're playing on smartphones and tablets. I also am increasingly convinces that any core Nintendo game's success on the Wii U may have largely been a knock-on effect from the Wii's popularity and resulting huge install base rather than a driver of that popularity. That is, as at Nintendo's beginning, Mario is a game you get with the Nintendo console but not a game for which you buy a Nintendo console.
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It's okay, Ethan; the Wii U isn't really any good anyway. Besides, Nintendo has the 3DS. You can play your endless Mario, Zelda, and Mario Kart rehashes on it, as well as a number of other seemingly okay games! Edit: I will be amused when the Wii U costs less than the 3DS. I don't think that would save the Wii U, but rather be its death knell.
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Just some downer articles about the Wii U, the loser of the console war. Apparently the PS4 has already outsold the Wii U in the UK. And Super Mario 3D world's sales are disappointing in Japan. http://bgr.com/2013/11/29/super-mario-3d-world-sales/ http://www.computerandvideogames.com/440925/uk-ps4-sales-surpass-wii-us-lifetime-total/
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Got a new phone for cheap-ish. Better than my old one by far.
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Watch Dogs recommended specs include 8 gigs of RAM. Probably because the Xbone and a PC with 8 gigs of RAM have a similar amount of RAM to play with after OS overhead and all that.
