Nintendo's Sale Dominance Gets Noticed 152
Via Kotaku, a Wall Street Journal report on Nintendo's continued dominance of the game charts. The piece rehashes the February NPD numbers and discusses the role the Wii and DS have had in revitalizing a company the WSJ refers to as an 'also-ran'. "To take better advantage of the Wii's growth, EA moved quickly to ramp up game production for the system, acquiring Headgate Studios, a developer in Utah focused entirely on making titles for Nintendo hardware, and shifting resources in other EA development groups to Nintendo projects. The company released four titles for the Wii in March, including a version of its Tiger Woods golf game in which players swing the Wii controller like a club. EA is also working on a line of consumer guides for the Nintendo DS that will be aimed at older players in Japan."
Final Fantasy XIII May Be Coming to the Wii (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Final Fantasy XIII May Be Coming to the Wii (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Final Fantasy XIII May Be Coming to the Wii (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Final Fantasy XIII May Be Coming to the Wii (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Games? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Final Fantasy XIII May Be Coming to the Wii (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Final Fantasy XIII May Be Coming to the Wii (Score:3, Informative)
There's no confirmation from other sources, but we know this much:
Sony: FFXIII PS3 exclusivity under discussion [gamespot.com]
Re:but the PS2 outsold the new consoles (Score:5, Informative)
February:
Nintendo DS: 485,000
Nintendo Wii: 335,000
Sony PlayStation 2: 295,000
Microsoft Xbox 360: 228,000
Sony PlayStation Portable: 176,000
Nintendo Game Boy Advance: 136,000
Sony PlayStation 3: 127,000
The Wii is beating the PS2. It's not dominating it, no, but it's selling 40k more a month.
Re:NPD stats show that Wii production is decreasin (Score:3, Informative)
Example: GameStop held onto thousands of units over a couple of months just so they could horde them into $600 packages and sell them on their website.
Which is how I got mine because, well, let's face it, super paper mario is pretty kick ass.
Re:Final Fantasy XIII May Be Coming to the Wii (Score:3, Informative)
"Up to PlayStation 2, all consoles had roughly the same concept of how to enjoy the gaming experience. With next-gen, each has different features and is targeted at a different audience.
So, we have to make different titles for different platforms, depending on what sort of game we want to make and what the users will be expecting; we can choose which platform we want to go for. This is completely different from the old games industry."
Also, the idea of porting a graphically demanding game like FF XIII to the Wii is total fucking nonsense.
Re:Doesn't matter (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Saw it coming... (Score:3, Informative)
2.) The lack of variety in the games. It's all first-person shooters.
3.) Its complete lack of presence in Japan. With Sony's failure, that leaves all of Japan, and all of Japan's developers, to Nintendo.
Since its November launch, the Wii has already sold over half the amount the 360 did in a year. At some point this year, the Wii is going to surpass the 360's total sales, and it will be another embarrassing mark for Microsoft's money-losing Xbox division. The ultra-expensive "XBox 360 Elite" isn't going to help matters any. It's like Microsoft is obsessed with catering to the smallest, most hardcore target market as possible while Nintendo gets to target everyone else.