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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Needs to Stop Caring About What Other People Think

« on: February 10, 2013, 05:47:44 PM »

The delay of Rayman Legends made me decide to get a $99 Xbox 360 for my birthday instead of a $300 Wii U with which I would have no games for.


My birthday's actually the day of Sony's big announcement coming up.

Out of curiosity, any reason you opted for the subsidized Xbox 360 with the Xbox Live plan instead of buying it outright at $300 if you were willing to drop that amount of money on the Wii U anyway?

Well holy fu*k. This is why I hate living in Florida near Jacksonville. I was under the impression that Xbox Live had nothing to do with the $99 360s. The damn commercial said NOTHING about Live. Do not move to Florida if you're looking for a good job, a place to stay, and your common sanity. It just sucks down here for everyone. Sorry if that was kinda blunt =(


Also the Wii U was a long senseless story that I cannot begin to explain.

Yeah I hope you didn't sign the contract.

When it it all said and done, that $99 Xbox 360 will have cost you about $450.

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TalkBack / Re: Dragon Quest VII: Eden no Senshi-tachi Impressions

« on: February 10, 2013, 05:41:50 PM »

I need more DQ!

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Needs to Stop Caring About What Other People Think

« on: February 10, 2013, 05:37:37 PM »

3rd parties have stated these reasons are why they don't support Nintendo consoles:

• Nintendo consoles are made for "casuals", kids, and families instead of "hardcore" gamers
• Nintendo floods their systems with 1st party games, which end up killing 3rd party sales
• Nintendo doesn't finance and market their games
• Nintendo forces "gimmicks" on them
• Nintendo's reputation
• Nintendo insults them by offering and sending developers over to assist in development
• Nintendo mandates if they fund a game to any extent, that game has to be exclusive to Nintendo

What did Microsoft do for 3rd parties on 360?

• Microsoft mandated that 360 had to be the lead platform if 3rd parties wanted to develop for it (some exceptions do exist)
• Microsoft mandated that 360 version had to be at parity with the other versions (no inferior versions allowed on 360)
• Microsoft charged  3rd parties a pretty penny for every extra disc their games used
• Microsoft charges $40k per patch and limits time between patches
• Microsoft takes 40% cut of all digital sales
• Microsoft will pay big for 3rd party support (they spent $50M on GTAIV, they spend over $20M each year on getting the best CoD version, and almost as much to get FFXIII on 360)
• Microsoft mandates you use all the online features of Xbox 360.

What did Nintendo do with Wii U for 3rd parties?

• Nintendo made all patches free with no limits on patching
• Nintendo took the Steam approach to the Wii U eShop
• Nintendo made getting their games approved very easy
• Nintendo takes between 15%-30% cut on all digital sales
• Nintendo licensed numerous engines for 3rd parties to use for free
• Nintendo offered to help get their games running on Wii U
• Nintendo offered to publish certain titles
• Nintendo offered to fund certain titles
• Nintendo offered to help market their titles including in Nintendo Directs and trade shows
• Nintendo agreed to stagger 1st party support to make it easier for 3rd parties to sell their games (This goes for 3DS as well).
• Nintendo gave 3rd parties the launch in exchange for 3rd party support (Same as 3DS)

Nintendo has done a lot for 3DS and Wii U to gain 3rd party support, but sadly 3rd parties are not happy with the demographics for both systems.