People are angry at Nintendo for not "catering to the hardcore audience". I am one of them and well I am satisfyed by Metroid and Brawl, I have some advice for Nintendo. Instead of complaining on forum boards, we could just simply tell them and give them advice. Nintendo! if you are listening try to follow these tips. This is for Nintendo.
12. Stop making games with Wii in the title. I am excited for Wii Sports Resort, but what is next? Wii Cooking? Wii Sports Antartica? Wii Kill? Stop at Wii Sports Resort and make anything else WiiWare games. Come on man!! Wii Music sucks.
11. Make Wii Sports Resort online. Give Wii Sports Resort what 50 dollars pays for. Online mode, a service similar to Smash Service, and put in 20 minigames. I want my money's worth. Wii Sports Resort could be a awesome game, just stop after this.
10. What the heck is your first-party and third-party studios working on?? Retro Studios is a prime example. They could bring back their cancelled titles like NFL Retro Football, Raven Blade, and Car Combat. I would buy them. Especially Raven Blade and Car Combat. Imagine Car Combat, a racing game on the Wii where you drive cars with turrets, machine guns, rocket launchers, and spikes on tires with online play, car customization, DLC, and a T rating. That would be awesome. Put them to work Nintendo!!
9. Bring back Star Fox. There are dozens of games that could be brought back on the Wii. Here is my sub-list.
A. Star Fox
B. F-Zero
C. Rad Racer
D. Contra
E. Pikmin
F. Kid Icarus
G. Mario
H. Zelda
I. Donkey Kong
Come on Nintendo. We want games and we want them NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Limit the terrible developers. Go back to what you did before and limit developers to 5 games a year. That way all the shovelware that Ubisoft puts out will never see the light of day. We would throw flowers on your custodians if you did that.
7. Create a video game engine that pushes the Wii to the limit and give it to all your good developers. They could make beautiful games for you. These games could make the Wii the number 1 console ever.
6. Stop Data Design Interactive!! That studio wants me to watch the Uwe Boll film Far Cry 20 times over. They have zero talent in their jobs. Why did Free Radical Design go bankrupt but they didn't. You must stop them. Action Girlz Racing?? They make terrible games that trash the image of your system. Get rid of them. The only thing worse than there games is being stabbed in the stomach by Uwe Boll in a sleezy bar. Destroy them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Drop the casual audience for a year. They usually buy only 2 games a year anyway and they usually only play them for 14 minutes. 2009 is the year of hardcore Wii games anyway, so why not attack the hardcore gamer with dozens of hardcore games.
4. Friend Codes?? Blah!!! Why do you guys use friend codes. You can remove these and still have a safe online service. How about you use a service that says if you and another Wii owner share Wii numbers, then you are automatically friends in every single online game they share. You can use software on the Wii Speak to blur out cuss words and stuff that is offensive. Anything instead of typing in a 16-digit code to join your Mii Parade?? That sucks.
3. Memory Upgrade. Wii owners want to download everything that is around them. But they can't when they run out of memory. So you should add a massive GB memory upgrade. Then developers can create 2 to 3 disc hardcore Wii games.
2. Stop the Shovelware. The casual audience is done with the shopping for games until April 2009. So you should limit the shovelware of developers and encourage them to make something unique. Stop the terrible games from flooding the market (the Naruto games, the cheap minigames, and the games that completely suck, and the licensed games). Get someone to rerelease Black on the Wii. Get Geist, Eternal Darkness, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tommorow, and TimeSplitters 2 to be Wii-made.
1. Make a New Franchise. The Wii's inovative controller is the unique chance to make dozens of new Nintendo franchises. Try something T rated, something unique, and something "WOW"!!!!. That would be awesome. Please do this!!!!!!!! Give me a reason to use the Wii Speak.
Dear team,
Xbox has always been different.
We started with a simple idea. Games should bring people together through shared experiences. That led to the first Xbox in 2001, Xbox Live in 2002, and new ways to connect, from friends lists and achievements to parties and play across devices. Today, Xbox reaches over 500 million players around the world, with some of the most important franchises in entertainment.
re-evaluating exclusivity 💀
PS players will need to go back to pretending to dislike Xbox games
Or meaning since it’s doing so good they might just do everything day 1.
They didnt say re-evaluating their multiplatform approach.
🤣🤣🤣 Xbox is so dead. I know you scared🤣🫵ӿ 97;
Even when the topic is strictly Xbox he can't stop talking about PlayStation. Xbox has basically become the hate of PlayStation... and not much else.
Hurt over video games 🤣🤣
Lmao we all grew and got jobs but apparently you stayed home broke 🤣🤣.
Man I love loyal dogs like you. MS kicked Spit and slapped you around but you still come back on all 4s.
Good little boy 🤣🤣
My only question is what games are PlayStation gamers gonna play now? They don’t really come out with new games anymore. I’m looking forward to wolverine, but after that then what?
Lmao
There’s no way after everything it’s going back, the damage is done
What you are seeing now is the new management telling what the core fanbase (aka…you) want to hear so they are pumped full of hope and are more likely to invest in the next Xbox console
When Phil took over after the awful Xbox One reveal he did the same thing, he told people what they wanted to hear for damage control.
It’s crazy people are getting suckered into this again.
And you'll now go back to again thinking exclusives suddenly matter, that multiplatform is no longer the future, or that revenue from multiplatforms doesn't matter, like all you flop flopping xbox grifters lol.
The whole post just sounds like the previous phil corpo slop talk to me, whole thing reads like a nothing burger lol.
“re-evaluating exclusivity”
She also said this.
“The model that got us here won’t be the one that takes us forward.”
I don't know if they have a model anymore it's flipped so many times since the xbox one reveal
There's a bunch just like him but that's what happens when some rely on dreams, hope and wishful thinking. lol
"pretending"? Bro gears hasnt broke 1mil on ps5, and starfield hasn't passed 200k, Hellblade 2 was even stated to be a financial disappointment in sales on its own console, let alone ps5. Im not saying people don't like them, but they certainly aren't setting the community on fire, Forza may be different tho
Xbawx is ''re-evaluating exclusivity''... Translation: After throwing all sort of crap to the wall to see if something sticks but clearly nothing worked, we, including our lord ''in charge'' Phil came to the conclusion that exclusives indeed do matter so please forget if we ever said otherwise.
Yup, I feel it in my gut, next gen belongs to xbox, PS6 is cooked...
Someone can’t sleep after those 5 million forza games PURCHASED by PlayStation owners🤣 🧌 💥
If they go back to exclusive games it at least shows that they are finally getting it. They would be turning down immediate money for something that will potentially workout in the long term.
Only issue is they've already opened Pandora's box. A lot of their base has moved to PC or jumped to PS. So will be a long road to get back on track.
We have been saying this from day one exclusives are a must if you are going to be selling hardware look at Nintendo and Sony before Jim Ryan. That's the proven formula. You had some that were deluded and blinded by loyalty accepting that multiplat was the future and that MS was merely getting ahead of where the industry was headed, but at least they can finally see the light and agree with what everyone has been saying for a decade+
True, blame it on the rabid fanboys. MS can do no wrong and spinner this multiplatform move. While the actual fans moved on.
I feel like with the new Xbox coming they are hoping to bring back those old fans and then if it goes well. Bring back exclusives.
If the new console is performing like series x and one. Naw they staying multiplatform.
Funny world where Sony is pro consumer and Xbox is not? At least according to what you loyalists have been saying all this time 🤭
@itveds For how many years have you been doing this sad stuff? For how many years have you been creating fake accounts to troll? For how many years have you always been cl vnn
Pathetic incels with nothing better to do than argue over a box... Because they don't have any good games to play on theirs, obviously. If your precious box is so special, why don't you shut the fuck up and go play it?
I think it's too late, xbox sales were diving even before ABK, they got even worse since then even long before the full multiplatform push. I'd be surprised if they even went back to timed exclusivity at this point, Helix is basically a PC and is going to be expensive, they already struggle to sell cheaper xbox consoles, it will be low volume and they'll have a very small 'console' base to sell to, which has already been conditioned to just play via gamepass anyway.
I don't see them removing PC from the equation. Considering MS has a heavy enough investment in the PC market, it would be foolish to abandon them. I could see them taking away games from PlayStation or ensuring they are timed exclusives at the very least. Say what you will but if Call of Duty ends up becoming a timed exclusive to Xbox machines, that would hurt PlayStation, don't pretend like those games don't sell millions.
Their lifeline of solely the Xbox consoles is dry. Good-Great games on a 1st party scale can't be made at a loss so willingly - sent to the Xbox to only sell limited copies.
They invested billions scooping up studios and need to start making returns.
Sucks that nearly every company is publicly traded and have to be so shareholder biased but that's how it is.
Their words are strong but it'll take time to see what their actions accomplish. Lowering the cost of Game Pass and taking CoD off of it was a good clear start.
Despite all of that, it's clear that Microsoft's Xbox division is broken beyond repair.
PlayStation is currently draining money on flop after flop. It's Sony that needs to re-evaluate their strategy
Wonder how much money was lost on perfect dark, hellbalde 2, 300 million lost revenue
by putting cod on gamepass. The recent Jason schrier news that Xbox has cancelled dozens of projects, spent 70 billion just to see Xbox sales further collapse and gamepass see little growth.
The fact is this has been PlayStation's most profitable generation and they are making loads of money and selling plenty of consoles and games. While MS won't give you any sales figures or profit numbers for Xbox, says it all really.
It isnt. But I dont think they mean in 'games', rather, footprint.
They own the OS but as far as gaming is concerned, Steam dominate. I imagine the VAST majority of people who use the Xbox app/launcher are PC gamepass subs. No ones buying their 3rd party PC games through Xbox PC.
Insider Gaming writes: "Marathon was one of the best-selling video games in March 2026 in the United States. On Wednesday, Circna released the best-selling games of the month, and it featured six new releases along with two games returning to the top 20 after previously falling out."
Is it April fools day again?
The game is dead.
EDIT: the numbers are fudged. “digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox weren’t included in the data”
well it's not on Switch / Switch 2.. so their number would be zero.
The game had a decent launch however the userbase numbers are dwindling on Steam.
“ Is it April fools day again?
The game is dead.
EDIT: the numbers are fudged. “digital sales on Nintendo and Xbox weren’t included in the data”
Does it hurt you to hear a SONY game was BEST selling ?
You gotta let go of those OBCURED feelings 🤷🏿
I mean the only reason MLB was the best selling title was because it was multi-platform. Likewise with Marathon. Will ring true for MS games. Only Nintendo titles are truly flexing their muscles when they chart as they are only to be found there.
It's kinda funny how this Obscure guy lives rent-free in your head. lol
Does Phil also live there?
Yeah sure, yet the player count is no where near what they want for a AAA game with so much money behind it
Why people are trying to spin this game like it’s done overly amazing is baffling to me.
It won’t even be a blip on peoples radars by the end of the year .
You must me typically wrong cuz those Steam chart numbers (AKA where the game sold the MOST) is less than what Hunt has, and Hunt didn't cost $500 million to make lol
The release on Steam of the anime-style gacha-less open-world RPG DragonSword: Awakening is facing a legal challenge from its gacha publisher.
All great ideas except I'm not in love with the idea of "remaking" four to five year old games, just throwing motion controls and Wii in the title. I mean, yeah RE4 was a fantastic game on the GC but Nintendo should stop milking previous cataloges for all their worth.
What I think Nintendo should do is do what Sony can't: creat an XBL rival. Look at the PSN. I just bought a PS3 and am dumbstruck by the slow download speeds and the lack of a solid online game. If Nintendo could create a solid online experience, backed by quality friends lists and several fantastic online games then they could probably leapfrog the PS3 (in terms of fun, anyways).
Think about it, if they charged you forty bucks a year, you could weed out the casual Nintendo gamers and have a jolly good time playing the next Smash Bros. or the Conduit online. Yes, I know Nintendo has online already but it's really, REALLY sad.
And good on you for standing by Nintendo.
This is a great list mang! They should definitlety get Rare back. Rare was great gam,e devs but then when they went with MS they started sucking. I mean, wtf?