A recent article on Yahoo News comments on how the Wii may be losing its grip on the console war in Japan. Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, said that the Wii is in a very "unhealthy condition," right now, and that the PS3 is actually outselling the Wii for the first time ever in 16 months. That's a big deal!
The article also goes on to say that the one thing Nintendo DOESN'T want to do is have a price cut, as a price cut in a economicly vulnerable time like today wouldn't really bare any fruits in the long run, so it's not even worth doing. They might be right on that one.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
"While it IS true that the Wii is pretty much lopsided when it comes to hardcore games to shovelware garbage, the games that ARE hardcore aren’t selling like apple fritters, either. Madworld, a game I reviewed on this site, isn’t posting up Wii Play like numbers, and neither was No More Heroes (In fact, with the latter, it’s amazing that they’re even making a sequel AT ALL for that one, as the first game didn’t do well)."
...The point isn't that the games are posting good numbers, it's that they're posting good numbers in relation to development costs. If No More Heroes sold enough to make a producer "weep with joy" then it has to be doing something right. Also, seeing as how no official numbers have been released on MadWorld, it's pretty tough to say whether or not the numbers are good, hey? Also, it's pretty hard to expect a violent game to sell over 10,000,000 copies (Wii Play numbers) when the violent game costs about $50-60, and Wii Play effectively costs $10 (subtracting the price of the Wiimote, of course, which is an incentive enough to buy the game).
"I mean, seriously, even a tried and true franchise like Resident Evil wasn’t posting big boy figures on the Wii."
...WAT. The Wii version of Resident Evil 4 sold 1.8 million copies. 2 years after it was published. Resident Evil 4 has sold 6 million copies total across 4 platforms (GC, PS2, PC, Wii). It sold 200,000 less than the PS2 version, like 2 years after its release, and the Wii has just only reached 1/3 or 1/4 of the PS2 lifetime sales.
This article has so many holes it could be used to strain spaghetti.
oh god mi spelins atrosious!!
nintendo isnt bothered by sony or microsoft... they're sitting on the top and have shipped 50 mil units now.. how long did ps2 take? 5 yrs?
Edit : Just checked ... it took 5 yrs and 9 months
Its going to take a long time before Nintendo has to worry. MS and Sony have a LONG way to go before even getting to close to Wiis numbers.