Adding "via homebrew" still makes you only interested in backups, not in homebrew applications in general.Sorry, yeah I saw that and now corrected
Adding "via homebrew" still makes you only interested in backups, not in homebrew applications in general.Sorry, yeah I saw that and now corrected
None of the White Knights here are gonna support that. Might as well stick with the 3DS scene, which is, like, amazing now.
Anyone that tells you they are looking forward to homebrew to play pong are pulling your pisser m8!
People.. games games games!!!! GAMES sell console!!!! if u pirate it or u buy it doesn't matter..
No, sales of Wii U consoles will not rise in a significant way (not even 1%) due to the possibility of homebrew.
Sales are driven by marketing.
Most console buyers don't have money problems (to recourse to piracy) and only care about having a console THEY KNOW OR HEARD ABOUT with games they HEARD THEY WANT (yes, marketing).
When we talk about the big number of consumers, they couldn't care less about the possibility of homebrew or piracy.
Actually, the possibility of straight homebrew is even less important than piracy for the big mass of video game console consumers (so it will raise sales even less than piracy).
You should accept that people that care about homebrew, like most of us here in GBAtemp, are a minority regarding the sales of any game console.
Also, the only places where piracy is practically a must is third world countries, and you know around 50% of consoles are sold in USA, some 12% are sold in Japan and most of the remaining 38% are sold in western Europe (based on Wii sale figures, but the proportions can apply to most consoles). Those places are not third world countries and have no money problems.
The main reasons for good sales numbers are IMHO in the following order:
1. Good marketing.
2. Good content (games)
3. Good market price and timing compared to the competition.
4. (Probably the least important) Good up to date hardware compared to the competition.
Nintendo failed completely in the first and most important point during launch, and regarding points 2 and 3 it is OK and is not so bad in point 4 as people make it look.
I think Nintendo is improving a lot lately regarding marketing, but it is difficult to get up after naming your console so wrong and having a first year with such a few games and publicity.
That comment is absolute rubbish!!! so your saying anyone who wants to run piracy on there home console is a penniless bum so are you saying I'm a penniless bum? remember you have to pay good money in the first place to buy the console so that comment sort of back fires on itself! and I would of thought that also goes for the millions of others out there, what a stupid comment to make!
I am saying you do not count at all, you are irrelevant, negligible.
You are not part of the big numbers, only one console sold or not, you do not count at all.
As I said already, consoles with piracy enabled are a MUST in third world countries.
Do you understand what the word must means?
I will give you an example, in Argentina in the times of the PS1, the consoles were sold chipped (piracy enabled) directly from your video game stores.
It was a commonplace that all around the place video game stores sold pirated CDs.
The same happened during PS2, and it happened before with cartridge systems (most games being counterfeits coming from China).
If you sold video game consoles, you had to sell them piracy enabled to to almost every fucking buyer in order to compete, if you didn't sell chipped then you didn't sell at all. That does not happen in the USA.
If you are now able to understand what the big number of consumers means, good for you.
If you cannot understand that I don't give a fuck.
Anyway, and as I said before, Argentina, China and the rest of the world where piracy is true commonplace does not matter to sales of video games consoles, almost 100% are sold in USA, western Europe and Japan.
Nevertheless, none so blind as those who will not see.
PS: And regarding the comment of "you have to pay a lot for consoles in the first place", I tell you, I lived in Argentina for more than 27 years, I know how it works. And there, consoles cost a fuck of a lot, but games also cost a bigger fuck of a lot. You can compare the price buying a videogame console with three or so months of an apartment rent.
People that save a lot to buy one, don't want to pay the equivalent to another couple months of rent for games.
I don't understand how your coming across at all with your comments? are you saying then your defending the people that buy consoles for pirating because there not rich enough to buy game after game cause a game costs alot of money in your country so its acceptable or are you saying that people only pirate because of money problems so that means there a bum for doing it so piracy only seems to attract that sort of person?
But... the N64 and the Gamecube both flopped.
The N64 sold 32 mil, yes, but 20+ million of those consoles were sold exclusively in the Americas. The system practically didn't exist in Europe and Japan and the size of the games library is a testament of that. The Gamecube on the other hand was a good system, but it was released at the wrong time and it failed to catch on with the rise of DVD, or multimedia in general, really. Both systems have some gems, but they're not exactly examples of Nintendo at its prime - they're both plagued by almost amateur design flaws. Not terrible systems by no means, but they pale in comparison to their prime competitors in many areas. Coming from Nintendo, previously an industry leader, they were a tad on the disappointing side of the spectrum.Foxi......for some reason your contrary attitude is really bumming me out
N64 did what like 35mil which was less than half of what PSX did....not a flop but honestly I always found N64 grafx to be murky and that controller was funky. It is totally amazing the Zelda OoT was done in 32MB.
Now just stop picking on cube......yes it was Nintendo's biggest failure this side of virtual boy, but it did do close to 25mil which is about what the newly minted xbox brand did Cube deserved better because it had an awesome library that still holds up great. I have (re) played a lot of cube in the last year on WiiU using mostly Devolution. I loved PS2 but great game for game Cube holds up better IMO. Those games should have been on VC at launch and still should be. Nintendo got a good amount of quality 3rd party on GC yet it turned out to be a 'failure'.
I am going to play Time Splitters 3........why can't we have a 4 on WiiU.
I don't understand how your coming across at all with your comments? are you saying then your defending the people that buy consoles for pirating because there not rich enough to buy game after game cause a game costs alot of money so its acceptable or are you saying that people only pirate because of money problems so that means there a bum for doing it so piracy only seems to attract that sort of person?
The system practically didn't exist in Europe
What is the demographic of the typical consol hacker?
Every kid in my neighboorhood at least had a Wii and DS and probably more. No one had a hacked unit except me and when I woukd explain it to the parents they were totally not interested. There was one dad that would buy these carts from China that came with 50 or so games on them. I tried explaining that it was essentially the same thing as the Acekard my kids had but we selected what games to load. Nope not interested, what he was doing was legit.