Are nintendo the clever clogs?

Metalface Mark

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I was having a look through the games releases for January, we have a good few barren weeks, and while i know money is usually tight, its amazing that there are no great releases out for the PS3/360 until Burnout comes out.

On the wii though, there is Zak and Wiki, Nights and Geometry Wars coming out in a week or so.

If I was a games publisher, i know i would wait and stick a game out when almost no one has anything new out, rather than release it when 20 other top games are released in September.
 
I think you may be onto something there ;)
It always makes me wonder about the marketting guys when they seem to pitch dozens of games onto the market in the same few weeks - sure Christmas sees a lot of games sold, but by releasing your games at the point in time you're also up against a lot more competition for your new games (and many stores do tend to give a higher profile to newly released games).
 
If any big games were released now I wouldn't be able (or want) to buy any of them! I've still got PGR4, Mass Effect, Tomb Raider, Orange Box, and COD4 to play through!

I've held off buying Guitar Hero for now until I get through some of them, then there's Burnout Paradise which will no doubt give weeks/months of play.

EDIT: And athough Nintendo may be releasing a few bigger name games now, I still believe they would have sold a lot more pre-christmas even with the huge competition they'd be up against.
 
I would have thought if the game has the right hype/is good enough it would sell well regardless of when it comes out.

e.g. I believe CoD4 would have still been the huge success it is even if it was released the same time as Halo3.
 
BenjiSayers said:
I would have thought if the game has the right hype/is good enough it would sell well regardless of when it comes out.

e.g. I believe CoD4 would have still been the huge success it is even if it was released the same time as Halo3.
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No, it wouldn't. I'm sure I'm not the only person who can only afford one full priced game every month or two. If I have to choose between two games, then one of them won't get picked till the next time round, or might not get picked at all.
 
Metalface Mark said:
I was having a look through the games releases for January, we have a good few barren weeks, and while i know money is usually tight, its amazing that there are no great releases out for the PS3/360 until Burnout comes out.

On the wii though, there is Zak and Wiki, Nights and Geometry Wars coming out in a week or so.

If I was a games publisher, i know i would wait and stick a game out when almost no one has anything new out, rather than release it when 20 other top games are released in September.
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Just look at the VGchartz software sales. Nintendo dominate completely.
For the last week, Nintendo Has the top 11 selling games across the world, 15 out of the top 20 games.
DS Software sales: 3.2 million
Wii Software Sales: 2.4 million
Xbox360: 1.5 million
PS3:< 0.9million

The same is repeated time and time again.
The fanboys claim that people buy the Wii and never any games, but the ratio of software to hardware is firmlz in nintendos favour, as is the pure hardware sales (The Wii outsold the 360 and PS3 combined). Indeed, the console with the biggest software shortfall is the PSP, so many weeks go by where hardware sales outstrip software sales (what is it exactly that PSP owners do with it, the mind boggles). This week the DS software sales were 5 times larger than PSP, on hardware sales of over 4:1 (and this happened to be a good week for the PSP software).
ANother example. SMG on the Wii Sold 270K this last week, the top selling non Nintendo title is COD4 on the 360 at 110K, Selling 2 times the number.

This talk of Nintendo slaes going to drop when "the fad is over" is utter BS. Sales are actuallz increasing, and the margin differnece between Nintendo and SONY/MS sales in both hardware and software is increasing, not decreasing. Nintendo is pulling ahead of the race, if that is even imaginable. 360 sales are declineing, perhaps expected. But even the PS3 is no where close to Wii sales.


And all this, before Nintendo have to lower RRP. They still make profit on every Wii sold, against the substantial losses MS and Sony endure.


In short, yes. nintendo are clever clogs. If you despise the Wii then fine, but you have to admit that Nintendo played this generation to an absolute T. While MS continue to stack up the losses, nintendo profits soar.
 
D.P. said:
the console with the biggest software shortfall is the PSP, so many weeks go by where hardware sales outstrip software sales (what is it exactly that PSP owners do with it, the mind boggles).
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I have a psp I have lots of software for it I have never bought a game I'm sure you can work the rest out. Not surpising the software sales are so low
 
mattx2 said:
I have a psp I have lots of software for it I have never bought a game I'm sure you can work the rest out. Not surpising the software sales are so low
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exactly, the pirated games on the psp are less hassle and use less battery than the official games

sony should release games in a steam type fashion for it, where you download them to your pc, then transfer via memory stick to play them
 
Which is worse I guess - being No 1 (or in a high profile) on your own in the shops when few customers are around (in Jan) or competing in Dec or Feb with dozens of other games when loads of customers are about

I think its just as likely the games released in Jan are going to be missed by the majority becuase they simply arent shopping, even if the publisher is getting a much higher % of customers that are shopping
 
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