Wii U sales worrying UK retailers
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ok here's the real reason: today's gen have mainly been bought up on shooters and are all one track minded if the console doesn't have a lot of games with BIG guns and MAD HUGE explosions or BIG cg tits in your face they don't classify it as HARDCORE
Except they don't but whatever, that strawman is getting some hard blows.
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Do you have that three panel picture with the "look guys im retarded" - "shut up retard" - "jokes on them i was kidding" thing?
Seems very appropriate here.
Every console is bound to have it's ups and downs. I'm not too worried about getting a WiiU yet. I'm gonna get one soon as they bring out Zelda, Mario Kart and Smash Bros Wii U
Ha! Ha ha! Wait... You're serious...? Okay.
It was the Gamecube equivalent of Other M, except it had less to do with the franchise it represented, being a different game entirely during development and all that. All it succeeded in was spawning Krystal hentai.
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Ha! Ha ha! Wait... You're serious...? Okay.
It was the Gamecube equivalent of Other M, except it had less to do with the franchise it represented, being a different game entirely during development and all that. All it succeeded in was spawning Krystal hentai.
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ok here's the real reason: today's gen have mainly been bought up on shooters and are all one track minded if the console doesn't have a lot of games with BIG guns and MAD HUGE explosions or BIG cg tits in your face they don't classify it as HARDCORE
Oh that's right I forgot you are incapable of humor
Not sure where you've pulled that statistic from, but the last (over 12 months ago) officially released number of HBC installations was over 3.1 million unique wiis (not including offline installs and pre-1.0.8 HBC installs that didn't upgrade) - at the time, that was 3.4% of all wiis sold. The current total number of HBC installs is actually over 4.5M, nearly double the amount of wiiUs sold to date (according to VGChartz).
The Wii brand is a victim of its own popularity and as such, the Wii U name is a curse. The Wii gimmick started out so strong that everybody was like "Wii this", and "Wii that", and it has just become this monotonous fad that no one wants to be associated with ever again. The GamePad is the answer to a question that, quite frankly, no one thought or even cared to ask. As a novelty, the GamePad starts off about as weak as the Wiimote has become, but on the plus side, at least no one is so fed up with it yet that they want to throw it through their television screen, except maybe Nintendo.
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Thing is, will Xbox 720/PS4 get the same reception? Super high price when people already have Xbox 360 and PS3 which are good enough already. Maybe, maybe not.
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"Super high price".
Please tell me your secret insider sources.
I expect the Xbox 720/PS4 to be around $400-$500, which is fine. It's not trying to capture what the Wii did, it's trying to be like current gen consoles, which did very well. Aiming for a gaming hobbyist whose willing to pay more for advanced tech and getting all the games that cater to them is exactly what they're doing, not trying to get every Wii owner to buy a new console. Considering the Wii did have quite a diminishing return (hell I know a lot of people with Wiis and the thing is basically useless to them now), I don't see this being the "Wii 2.0". As was said earlier, I see it doing better than the Gamecube but not by a ton.
A console selling at a premium price with hardware inside thats about 5 or 6 years out of date doesn't sell shock horror......
Finally, consumers voting with their wallets for a change.
Finally, consumers voting with their wallets for a change.
Yup, you're right. I must've been thinking of a different, older blog post.
In any case, 4,5 million still isn't as much as it sounds. Even if we're generous and say it's 6 million, it's still not a massive number of installations and again, hardly skyrocketing.
It's worth to mention that the huge Wii sales can be partially accounted for its low price point - an advantage the WiiU doesn't have.
...is the score a lot of old school StarFox fans would give this game.
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