gamingeek said:

Looking back, last year Nintendo said that they were doing spin off games to fill the schedule with more games. Games like Captain Toad work but the other spin offs are less successful. But, importantly this a very direct result of 3rd parties skirting around Wii U like a steaming dog turd - and 3DS to a lesser extent. Otherwise Nintendo would not have to spin off franchises to put out questionable games - to fill out the schedule.

IMO and I think you would agree with me here - they should have broken into the piggy bank to make more high quality exclusives but that would hurt the bottom line and lead to invester unrest and unfavourable headlines about how Nintendo is still taking losses.

They should have broken the piggy bank and made more exclusives and stronger hardware, then they could have 3rd-party support too.

Really, they should have known 3rd-parties were going to jump off once competing systems came around, with what they were doing with Wii U. If they were banking on 3rd-party support on a console that doesn't really fit in with the others, it just shows how out of touch they are.

But even if they had say matched PS4, I think I, and many others, would still use PS4 or Xbone as my primary console because their services are so much more robust than Nintendo's, and also it doesn't seem like a major deal, but Nintendo's lack of a trophy system really hurts too. The trophy systems for Xbox and PS just make them feel that much more "connected" and whatnot. So going forward with the NX, that's what Nintendo needs to realize. Its not just comparable tech they need...its everything else too.

And these crappy spinoff games...good god all it does is lower your quality standards and run the risk of people writing off your franchises....especially something like Metroid. Here is a series that was on the verge of becoming more mainstream and not so niche, and Nintendo has done nothing but hurt it since the Prime trilogy wrapped up.

I would entitle this photo: Douches escort douches through E3...

...I almost feel bad for Keighley. It almost looks as if chaperoning gave him a stroke!

Keighley just needs his MTN Dew and Doritos fix.

Come see EAs cancelled Just Dance rivalWas a Wii game

My God... WHY?!

PS: You know you are addicted to Puzzle and Dragons when you find yourself thinking thoughts like: "Hmmm... rather than developing a team exclusively of one color that will do no damage if other gems are matched, yet will defeat the opposing element's monsters fairly easily... Why not just build teams that have 4 of the five colors and just NOT include the color that would be weak to that paticular pairing anyway? I need to edit my teams AGAIN, dammit"

Yeeeaaaahhhhh. Addicted.

edgecrusher said:

Really, they should have known 3rd-parties were going to jump off once competing systems came around, with what they were doing with Wii U. If they were banking on 3rd-party support on a console that doesn't really fit in with the others, it just shows how out of touch they are.

I don't think they were neccesarily banking on 3rd party support, but I don't think they anticipated a complete blacklisting either. If they had they never would have gone through with it IMO. I agree with you, the quality of the spin offs are important, Captain Toad is awesome but some F2P board game Animal Crossing isn't going to cut it.

edgecrusher said:

Xbox was 4 years, but it was on the upswing in releases and popularity when Microsoft killed it early to get a head start with 360.

Absolutely. They canned it because of the cost of production and having to stem $4 billion in losses though. I'm unsure if "success" by any and all means counts for much though, when you burn up that kind of capital. In the end it only sold like 4 million more than GC. The only thing I am comparing here is lifecycle duration, the same number of years.

Whether one was more succesful or not - regardless Xbox had a 4 year lifecycle, so if U manages to eek out the same with a few decent 2016 exclusives I'm not going to urinate on one and let off the other.

And to be clear I'm not saying that you or anybody else here is (U-rinating on U)

This guy......

“We focus on the here and now,” says Fils-Aimé. “We’re not like other players in the space that might show a little bit of something that is going to be years in the making. It’s simply because we believe that in getting the fan base excited, we really want to satiate that excitement as soon as possible."

What?! I thought for sure you of all people would pick up on the Maple Bacon Donut!

MAPLE!

BACON!

DONUT!

This was just a donut. A scrumptious, delectable, bacony, donut... Uhhhhhhmmmm donut!

So Heroes of the Storm is pretty pimp. GG cries about having only a handful of people in here to play Splatoon with without realizing the barren desert I'm looking at makes his Splatoon experience look like CoD on day one.