PS4 has Spider-Man, God of War et al, exclusive marketing deals for the likes of CoD and RDR2. There's a reason they felt they didn't need to to deals in December.
Given normal trajectories, we should be considering that anyway. The unified development should make a Wii 2011 slump less likely. The only threat might be PS5/XB2 killing any interest for Switch dead in its tracks.
By essentially announcing the ps4 life was coming to an end? Ppl aren't going to buy a console that isn't getting future support. Just wait for the ps5?
I don't think $400 stationary consoles that can't play Nintendo games will have any effect on Switch sales
I think you're forgetting the threat of Nintendo completely losing the script and the headline software trending more toward stuff no one really wants, which was also a big problem for Wii in 2010-11.
Only difference is that the Wii did it head to head with the PS3 and 360. The PS4 and Xbox One are 3.5 years older and most people interested in them already have one. The Switch will likely wreak havoc during 2019 as well, until 2020, then the PS5 and Xbox Two will try to take over. -That said, I expect the Switch to have a much longer lifespan and legs than the Wii, which burned out like a star after a few years...
I don't think so either, especially because the hybrid nature of the Switch has the added benefit that the perception of the device can easily move over from a console to that of a handheld. I was just saying that's the only way in which I can foresee Switch not continuing to outpace the 3DS.
I'd say 2010 had some pretty good games, like Super Mario Galaxy 2. It was 2011 and 2012 that were barren landscapes due to them shifting to the 3DS and the Wii U, so I don't think anything quite like that will happen with the Switch
The PS4 is still selling very well, close to its peak year, so I don't think that's it. More than likely because there weren't as many notable deals in December and plenty of folk who would've brought it in December bought one in November
PCs are limited by the entry level of GPUs and CPUs. While the latter are running laps around the consoles the GPUs aren't actually that impressive on the PC side of things for the majority of users. Many gaming PCs have GTX970 or GTX1060 tier cards in their systems, which both are roughly as powerful as what the Xbox One X is rocking. Developers know of this as well and will always program engines around those cards and the consoles in mind.
Ehh...I suppose so but, aside from Metroid Other M, I can't say I agree with the rest. Nintendo's low budget games tend to be hit or miss in general and that didn't really change during the Wii's lifetime and I personally really liked Skyward Sword. There are naturally high and lows with their output
I'm not talking about software you personally liked.
In a few weeks we'll have a good answer (January 31th).
Wii Play: Motion was too irrelevant to damage the brand. I honestly forgot it was even a thing till you brought it up
Irrelevance is the worst thing that can happen to a brand.
You don't think that being shackled to a bunch of shitty first-party games hurt Wii in its later years?
To be fair to Skyward Sword, it was only the latest in a long line of Zelda games that weren't anywhere near their potential.
It was perfectly adequate at being what it was: a reason to get your family members to pick up a Wii Remote who might not have otherwise.
Only a portion of those Wii series games were notable to begin with, mainly Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and Wii Sports Resort. I don't think Wii Play: Motion had much of an effect in general as the only reason the first one sold anything at all was because it came with a Wiimote
Are you allowed to make a prediction in the prediction thread ? :P
But it received far less than expected out of a series like Zelda. It won a few but not much
Raw power has never been the deciding factor in console wars. Just look at the ColecoVision, Neo*Geo, 3DO, or Gamecube.
Outside of Skyward Sword, all of those franchises had small and/or fickle audiences (yes, I'm going there). And I maintain that Skyward Sword was a decent game overall, albeit linear as hell.
Just long enough to get Microsoft and Sony to jump on the bandwagon, all according to keikaku.
Just long enough to get Microsoft and Sony to jump on the bandwagon, all according to keikaku.
