That's all I ever want out of a Games Console. Hardware specs don't insure anything. The console with the most hardware horsepower has brought up the rear, PS3, N64,Vita,PSP, Gamecube/Xbox.
Software is always the bottomline when it comes to selling GAMES CONSOLES.
I want a Super Metroid successor, I want a Mario game that rivals and/or surpasses Mario Bros. 3/World in scope and ambition and content. I want a Smash Bros game that has a better onlin...
Your analogy between an avid movie goer and a hardcore gamer is cute..but flawed.
A movie buff is an adjective to describe someone who goes to movies more frequently than a casual movie goer, it has nothing to do with what they see.
As opposed to your belief that a hardcore gamer plays the games you listed and if they play Wii sports or tetris they are somehow something of a different gamer.
Close but no cigar. You either play games o...
Probably wouldn't know this but the Genesis had a faster processor (CPU) Than the SNES, even though in every other category the SNES was superior.
Nintendo has always opted for efficiency. And while the CPU is clocked lower than the PS360, the GPU in the Wii U wipes the floor with them, as does the amount of RAM it has.
So your point is rather...irrelevant.
Currently it beat out the dreamcast for slowest timeframe to reach 1 million sold in Japan.
Cheers.
Is the folks who consider themselves 'hardcore gamers' arent the majority of the gaming pie. They can throw tantrums all they want but they don't speak for the masses. Gaming does have a problem though and it comes down to game design.
Many devs think that video games is their vehicle to Hollywood, and think they are making movies as opposed to making games. Games now are shorter than before, but more expensive than before. You have companies who lock DLC on di...
Doesn't look too healthy in its home country.
How dope would that be?
Icertainly hope it does have online co-op/competitive play. Would boost its value tenfold.
The first time I played OoT I've never experienced a game so immersive since. However, ALttP is also just so classic I'm going to call it a draw. With the Original Right behind it.
OoT/ALttP
Original
Didn't care for MM much or WW, or SS, TP was very good.
We'll see what Wii U Zelda brings to the table. I hope we get something that resembles the Demo from E3, but I'm not holding my breath. Probably get anoth...
Is all that matters. I do wonder if the other console makers don't have a touch screen on the controller, what will they do? Will Sony keep the DS3 controller a 4th gen in a row? Will M$ continue with Kinect?
This time next year will be interesting.
Better is that MH is coming to a Next gen console.
Totally your opinion, but the fact is yes the Wii won, had lower hardware specs than its competitors and sold way more software than its competitors too.
Which only proves my point further, software sells hardware, hardware doesn't sell hardware, just look a the Vita. Great tech, recently just passed 1m in Japan..at a slower rate than the Sega Dreamcast.
Appreciate your attempt to clarify, but again, the way I see it is you can't classify a game as being "casual or hardcore" but rather the gamer him/herself.
I can play Resident Evil casually or I can play Pacman or Mario maniacally.
Back in the day Metroid for NES was classified as a game for "elite gamers" meaning is was meant to be difficult and challenging.
This notion of 'casual games, casual markets etc&...
Will come down to Software, not horsepower. Every console Winner has been on the weaker side spec wise.
The last two gens prove this, if Sony and M$ want to significantly outperform Wii U, the consumer is really going to feel it. Not just on the hardware price but possibly software price as well. It'd be financial suicide.
But hey we'll see.
In the dark as to what a casual or harcore market is.
Those terms are the most ridiculous attempt of marginalizing Wii's success. What happened to just being a gamer?
There are those who play Tetris like maniacs, are they casual gamers?
Unreal
I beg to differ on the idea it wasn't suited for long play sessions. I fell in love with the set up for FPS' and Metroid Prime 3 solidified it for me.
Some devs implementation was lame no doubt, but when it was implemented well, it was revolutionary. Just playing Wii Sports Resort Table Tennis the other day and that game is just amazing still.
3DS was still selling boatloads more than Vita is now..And many were calling 3DS a flop...
Anyway, price drop helped but software is what caused sustaining sales..in Japan of course. Elsewhere 3DS hasn't caught on like its predecessor.
Vita is a flop. Lets call a spade a spade here. If you are excited about the Vita and its software offerings, good for you, but this is a handheld in more trouble than the gamegear or Atari lynx.
Dreamcast sold 1m faster than Vita did.
Me I like the Gamecube REmake of 1, RE 2 was great and so was 4..The others? wasn't feeling too much.
Things aren't factual in this article. The Wii was released last for one. But much of this is opinion based sugared with truth. No question Sony really took a licking this gen. And vita sales are dreamcast territory. But I feel sony's biggest asset in prior gens were third party exclusivity. Once they lost that its been a rocky road.
Never said I wanted all of those things at launch or even the first year. But as a person not yet convinced about hopping into the next gen, those are the kind of things that would entice me to do so.
Oh and I don't have tits. But I'm sure you do have a caps lock