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@JaxonH ill take your word for it, but you do understand where im coming from right? You cannot fault me for having doubts based on the trailer and showcase.

@JaxonH i guess for me and people like me who has no history or nostalgia for the series, i am asking nintendo for a reason to give my money to them when (based on my initial impression) there are other more impressive open world games out there.

@JaxonH your basically asking me to risk it hahaha. Ofcourse im gonna compare it to other open world games, thats all i have to compare it to since i havent played any zelda game before. I mean in just finished Witcher 3: Blood and compared to that, the trailer and treehouse showcase seems lackluster.

What i mean about visuals is the little details they put in the environment, what i saw in the trailer and the treehouse is the forests, plains, ruins seems two toned and barren of environmental detail. The trees looks like placeholder assets. I mean my favorite thing to do in elder scroll games or the witcher is to go to unbeaten paths and be wowed by the environment.

Again visuals are all i have to base my opinion on the game since i dont have a history withbthe franchise

@JaxonH honestly i wasn't impressed, this will be my first zelda game (PC gamer since 90s) and i find it lackluster. Environmetal detail is lacking, textures seems to lack detail, barren terrain. I mean the art direction is good but meh techbically. The mecahnics doesnt seem to be anything new to me.

In open world games i like to wander atound and create my own mini stories and adventures (thats what makes open world games fun for me) if the environment and visuals are lacking it may affect my immersion and enjoyment of the game.

@SaKo well some of us do live in a budget. So for me its both

@Anti-Matter noted

I remember when people was hoping that the new my nintendo rewards would rival the discounts being given on other platforms... Those were the days

@Kokusho so basically liking other games besides nintendo games = bad taste?

Most likely it will be some direct to dvd animated films aimed at toddlers

@Action51 "generic multiplayer FPS"... hmmmm seems you haven't played it then

@manu0 because they can afford to.

@A01 oh snark!.... the world doesnt end at your doorstep

@A01 depend on gaming taste. Ergo... Subjective

@Vandy thats an unfair comparison! When the WiiU launched it retailed at 350$ while the PS3 and XBox360 was at around 250 to 200$! Fast forward today, the PS4 and XBoxOne now retail at 350$ while the WiiU still retails officially at 300$

Seeing That Dark Souls 3 sold about 47k last week and assuming that it followed the usual 70 to 80% drop this week, that puts SF:0's first week sales at around 12k or below.

@Pod actualy the update yesterday enables remote play for PC and Mac. So if you have a laptop, you can play anywhere.

@Project_Dolphin so what if they are "secondary" they still exist dont they?

@Socar because you don't predicate staffing with a presumption of future business losses.

@mjc0961 the thing is its not a generic shooter. Just play it or atleast do sone research before labeling it guy.

"Upped the ante" is a bit of an overstatement. Meh

@RCMADIAX 151M isnt really a lot, for a big corporation it like bately breaking even. If you have worked in a big corporation you will realize that the bonuses to executives, employees would most likely decimate these earnings. Even stockholders are frustrated due to the low dividend income of their stocks.

Huh? WiiU shortages? Im in Japan right now on vacation. We went to akihabara yesterday and there doesnt really seem to be any shortages. every game store i visited have some on stock.

Simplicity is fine but after having been spoiled by witcher 3's branching quest lines, choices and the general quest quality (almost every quest have a lengthy substantial story and voice acting) i can no longer go back to just being simple.

@Splatburst i agree! XCX was beautiful however i think its beauty came from its artistic direction rather than technical.

@Splatburst witcher 3 deserved it. That game was expansive and beautiful.

@AlexSora89 but could a sequel really sell NX? Outside Nintendo fans there wasnt really that big a hype for the game, it didnt sell any significant number of Wii U nor did it generate any long lasting buzz in the competitive communities or in the general gaming media in general.

The problem i think in comparing splatoon with halo and cod is that the only thing they have in common is their online multiplyer component. While splatoon may be a very fun game, you cant really sell or advertise fun. What splatoon doesnt have is the wow factor in which big set pieces, "cool" protagonists, pretty graphics tend to bring. In short, splatoon will be very hard to market to mainstream multiplayer shooter fans, it will be a tall order for splatoon to carry NX like halo carried the xbox.

@IceClimbers Oh i agree, im just saying that the drought probably helped and that splatoon really has no competition in Nintendo Consoles genre wise.

@Xenocity Literally everything else is bombing on PS4 and Xbox One?

Rare replay sold well, just dance sold well, lego games still sell well, minefraft still sell, disney infinity sold millions, skylander sold millions, tell tale games sold well, so on and so forth

There are lots of games that are not action, sports, rpg that sells well in PS4 and XBox One.

@acegibbo with regard to splatoon achieving 4 million sales, i think the lack of competition has something to do with that since before splatoon was released there was a gaming drought and that there really is no other shooter in WiiU to compete with splatoon.

Whats more telling is that it did not sparked any substantial interest outside the nintendo fan base. A month after release, videogame articles, highlight videos and other video game related media dried up. Outside my 2 other wiiu owning friends, no one is talking about it today.

@aaronmclaren you have to understand that for investors, the profits made by nintendo doesnt amount to much because its so little. The minuscule amount of the profit prevents nintendo from declaring the distrubution of dividends. In otherwords, unless Nintendo increase their profits they may as well sell their shares since at the moment they are not reaping any benefits from the little nintendo profits.

@TheLastLugia i just posted some earnings , its you people who are reacting to my posts. Im just in it for the ride.

@TheLastLugia wait your saying the 5.8 Billion dollars are mere illusion imagined by microsoft to fool us all so they can rule the world???? Lol. whether or not what you said is true, again, so what? Earnings are earnings.

@andrea987 did i saythey should follow EA!? Hahah you became salty just because i posted earnings! Thanks man you made my day.

@bitleman is it unfair? Ok lets compare videogames companies then, EA made 1.8 billion in net profit.

@bitleman so what?

@MadAdam81 what billion dollar losses?? the bulk of Sonys income came from the PS4 and every quarterly earnings report shows that xbox division is very profitable, last quarter it earned around 500 million (thats bigger than Nintendos 3 quarters combined)

Meanwhile.... Microsoft made a cool 5.8 Billion dollars while sony made 1 Billion net profit.

In my experience, the Wii U definitely have lots of fun games, the problem is that none of those games have that "wow" and "gasp" moments. They are all just steady fun. You cant easily market and sell those kind of games.

@SilverdudeOmni awww thats cute! You actually think third party developers owe nintendo anything.

@Socar well hyrule warrior is also a remake of the wiiu version so whats the difference, and Sega ignoring the western market? Arent they releasing total warhammer this year?

@Samuel-Flutter okay, a "big hit" with an asterisk then.

@Whopper744 you dont really have tonplay with strangers you know, you can still play with your friends online, its just gives you more options.

I keep reading that splatoon is a big hit last year. But is it really? Outside my 2 other nintendo loving friends, no one talks about it, its almost nonexistent in lets play videos, articles, and any other media such as webcomics, highlight videos, videogame articles etc etc. I love splatoon but it never really took off, i say that rocket league is a bigger hit than splatoon. Splatoon neve really went beyond nintendo fans. You cant call that a "Big hit".