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phantom_leo said:

Question for ALL of you: How is it practically everyone was gung-ho about Little King's Story late last year and early this year, calling it AAA and singing it's praises, and now that it's out in both EU and the US, nobody seems to be playing it or reporting finishing it? Did everyone just not get it, not get into it, not have time to play it, or did you start and move on to other things?

I'm really curious! I seem to be the only one playing through the entire game! I never finish games and it seems I am the only one who WILL finish this one! Odd!

Everyone? I think it was just me and Iga

I think that I, Bugs, Iga, Robio and you have it. Bugs and me are too busy, Iga got a whole load of games at the same time and is ploughing through them. Don't know what's up with Robio.

I got stuck at the pinball boss. I will get back to it. I love the game, I guess the scale of it scares me, 40 hrs? I have to run through and complete a couple of other games first, unfortunetly Animal Crossing takes up a good chunk of gaming time too, so I can only generally play one other wii game in addition to AC at one time.

The 360 is the bedroom system and once I'm done with RE5 I move onto PD0.

phantom_leo said:

Question for ALL of you: How is it practically everyone was gung-ho about Little King's Story late last year and early this year, calling it AAA and singing it's praises, and now that it's out in both EU and the US, nobody seems to be playing it or reporting finishing it? Did everyone just not get it, not get into it, not have time to play it, or did you start and move on to other things?

I'm really curious! I seem to be the only one playing through the entire game! I never finish games and it seems I am the only one who WILL finish this one! Odd!

I ran out of money, Leo.  Diapers and stuff.

I plan to get it by the end of August.

travo said:

Check out those Monster Hunter 3 scores.

Hope 1up does there review translation jobby they normally do. I got a 1up hat in Animal Crossing BTW. Looks really cool, black with blue letters.

Dvader said:

So gaf has a thread about industry earnings for first quarter FY10, its not good. The industry is a mess at the moment.

Go here to see their chart http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=370257

Nintendo is the only game company that is rolling in money, they are so far and away above everyone its almost laughable. Capcom and a few others are making money. Most are in the red, hemorraging money like mad. Sega lost 100 million, EA at 200 million and Sony at 400 million, the exact opposite of Nintendo.

How long can a company like Sega survive like this.

Chart for the lazy:

Company               Original Income          Average Ex. Rate     Income in US $

Nintendo          ¥ 42,316,000,000     97.48587          $ 434,073,164
Capcom               ¥ 2,230,000,000          97.48587          $ 22,875,110
Eizo Nanao          ¥ 2,050,000,000          97.48587          $ 21,028,689
Takara Tomy          ¥ 1,471,000,000          97.48587          $ 15,089,366
THQ               $ 6,409,000          1               $ 6,409,000
Hudson               ¥ 343,000,000          97.48587          $ 3,518,459
Bandai Namco          ¥ - 2,846,000,000     97.48587           $ - 29,193,975
Disney Interactive      $ - 75,000,000          1               $ - 75,000,000
Sega Sammy          ¥ - 10,200,000,000     97.48587          $ - 104,630,548
Microsoft EaDD          $ - 130,000,000          1               $ - 130,000,000
Electronic Arts          $ - 234,000,000          1               $ - 234,000,000
Sony               ¥ - 39,734,000,000     97.48587          $ - 407,587,274

SteelAttack said:

And for the industry as a whole, with negative overalls of:

$ -477, 418, 009.00

Iwata: (laughs)

Miyamoto: (laughs)

gamingeek said:

Yodariquo said:

Ravenprose said:

Hmm, someone doubled up two of the news stories. I already posted articles to the X-Wing and CoD: Modern Warfare Wii rumors.

This brings up an interesting question, though. Should rumors even be bolded? They're not really news until they're confirmed.

I'd have to go with no.  A rumour can be notable enough to post, but not to be big news.

I love juicy rumours, if they are big then it gives you something to talk about. Black em!

 Only fanboys label rumors as big news.

"Iwata said that last year's big Wii launches in the back half of the year--Wii Music and Animal Crossing: City Folk--failed to live up to expectations, selling 2.65 million and 3.38 million copies worldwide, respectively." -- Gamespot

Animal Crossing: City Folk didn't sell as well as they expected because it's a fairly close remake of the DS game. Even casuals could easily see that it's basically the same game, so many decided to just keep playing Wild World instead. 

Do some actual work on the next AC, Nintendo, and you'll most likely see an improvement in sales.

Ravenprose said:

"Iwata said that last year's big Wii launches in the back half of the year--Wii Music and Animal Crossing: City Folk--failed to live up to expectations, selling 2.65 million and 3.38 million copies worldwide, respectively." -- Gamespot

Animal Crossing: City Folk didn't sell as well as they expected because it's a fairly close remake of the DS game. Even casuals could easily see that it's basically the same game, so most decided to just keep playing Wild World instead.

Do some actual work on the next AC, Nintendo, and you'll most likely see an improvement in sales.

I always find it amusing that Wii Music fails to hit expectations when it sold over 3 million copies.  I can't figure out how they ever expected this to sell more than that or even as much as it did. I actually liked it, but the fact is there was a HUGE learning curve there.  Sure, anyone could make noise with it, but to make a good song took a lot of work.  It completely went against the "anyone can pick up and play the game" philosophy that Nintendo has with that line of games.