Weird.
They are still forecasting a profit though, aren't they? The truth is probably hidden in their revised forecast.
Currency imbalance. They are losing a Crapton of money due to the yen.
Perhaps that is factored into the unit costs?
Well, RE4 was always meant to be GC exclusive, with the producer(or whoever) even going so far as to say he would kill himself if it was ported to ps2.
But enough people(wether it was Sony fans, who were sending death threats, or executives at capcom) complained enough to make them break that promise.
For me, all I really care about from capcom is monhun and Phoenix Wright(that I can remember at the moment)
Despite a momentary lapse, both are being treated quite well by capcom, so I can't really complain... even if the MML3 incident still burns a little...
Edit*
GHOST TRICK WOOO!!!
Loved that game... I need to play it again...^.^;
@Master cor.
Why should the distinction matter so much to omit mentioning it at all? The article itself sure doesn't.
You guys know he is a character, right?
...-_-
Is not "news" but is a system seller?
Could it be A previously announced game yet to be released that will be on wiiU/Exclusive to wiiU...
GTA5? Or maybe a specific feature will be better explained... An incredible online shop/overall online service?
Of course, he also says "starting Thursday", meaning we may not hear anything ON Thursday but sometime after. And potentially multiple things.
Once again, however that's not the point. What devs are doing us skimping on quality in order to add it later. This isn't about fixing minor issues or things discovered late but KNOWN and often MAJOR/NUMEROUS problems. These issues should not be allowed in a shipped "finished" product knowingly regardless of patches.
The point of the article us these patches should not be needed. The game should SHIP up to the day one patch quality. That's why he got disagrees.
Nintendo systems are weird... that's all I can say about this.
The 3Ds for instance despite being seen as a "weak" system can handle shadows better than one would expect, due to having built in shaders. Furthermore, unlike many other consoles these effects are in house and tax the system VERY little, meaning a complex game can have great shadow/lighting effects and still run at great framerates.
Nintendo usually uses on-paper "dated"...
The Wii BC supposedly works like this; you put the game in, and it boots up the Wii system software(or it is an executable software inside the wiiu home screen... I forget which.). The Wii was/is not compatible with the gamepad or the gamepad pro, so it won't recognize them.
I hope they come up with a better solution in the future... >.>
Perhaps certain facets of miiverse will be incomplete on day 1?
Because the 3ds is region locked and vita has one; hatsune miku.
If we were to compare equivalent timeframes, Lifetime sales from the period of launch and price drop of 3ds, when both consoles were 250$, puts the 3ds comfortably ahead.
It can be said that the vita being launched in the shadow of 3ds may be having a strong effect though. The 3ds had the ds(barely) and psp as competitors, but the vita has psp and 3ds. Had they actually launched side by side maybe things would be different.... though probably not by much.
I want to contend some of those points;
1) The 3ds launch was poor. But the content post launch up to Christmas was fairly consistent and not as stretched out as the vita calender has been.
2) The 3ds library has been decent Here, but INCREDIBLE in Japan. In both regions, the vita has been fairly comparable.
3) The 3ds at 250 was *still selling more* than the vita has been. Despite this, it received the same criticism as the vita, which only ...
No one should be surprised... aren't most big product launches like this?
At least every once in a while...
Expect the next Xbox and ps4 to also be "current gen perfections". A company would have to be crazy or wanting to drive themselves into the ground to go much higher than that.
I hope for at *least* that much... seeing as that would bring it back to reasonable levels of quality...
^__^
Eh, I can read well *enough*(all the kana, so I can "hear" what's being said; even if I encounter words I don't know, and quite a few kanji)...
I actually want to use AC to help my learning of the language. ^_^;
Because we have been following him for years and his track record on trend predictions is 90% wrong((and that's being generous)
Here are some Pachter gems:
*Wii is a fad
*Social gaming is NOT a bubble
*wii hd in 2008/2009/2010/
*3ds will sell INCREDIBLY at 250$, which Nintendo is STUPID to sell so LOW
*nintendo 3ds will fail and bomb horrendously, and the price drop won't help