Dragon Quest VII 3DS? Selling like hotcakes, and breaking records. Dragon Quest X Online? You get EXACTLY what you deserve, Square-Enix. Dragon Quest is NOT an MMORPG. It's not about staying on portables or consoles; it's about fundamentally changing the way the game is played in a cheap excuse to make a quick buck from subscriptions.
Look - I get that everyone on this site is likely a Nintendo fan, and there's nothing wrong with that; but, some (not all, mind you) of what Pachter says is true. It doesn't mean that the Wii U is going to be an abysmal failure, but there are SIGNIFICANT drawbacks to this system that have yet to be resolved. Every new console has these problems at its launch.
Remember when the PS3 only had a handful of games at its launch, and just didn't have enough features to make it worthwhile? Well, now it has the PSN Shop, PSOne and PS2 Classics, PSN games, and a whole host of features that make it a fantastic system.
Remember when XBOX had only a handful of games (mainly named "Halo"), and the vast majority of the games really only appealed to male gamers (Sports, FPS, War Simulation)? Well...that didn't really change, but they did introduce the Kinect, which is a revolutionary peripheral that truly changes the way people interact with their games.
The Wii, itself, just didn't really have a lot of games that appealed to grown ups over the age of thirty, save for a handful of games that were released late in the consoles life cycle, and Virtual Console re-releases. It still revolutionized the gaming industry, and filled a void in the casual gaming market that had been largely untapped.
Now, we have the Wii U, and though the graphics are gorgeous and the promise of better things is there, there just isn't enough for it, right now, that makes it worth purchasing, at this time. Go into a game store or onto the web and there are fewer than fifty titles available for the console, and what's offered in the eShop isn't that much more impressive. But...the potential is undoubtedly there to do something great.
Remember - this is the man who predicted that the 3DS would be an abysmal failure, and the 3DS consistently outsells every other console in the Japanese market, and is arguably the most successful Nintendo product on the market. If they would just start localizing better games in the Western market, it might catch on better, here.
The long and short of it is that people on this site need to take a breath, and take everything this guy says with a grain of salt, and stop being so dramatic.
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Re: Dragon Quest X Posts Poor Sales Figures In Japan
Dragon Quest VII 3DS? Selling like hotcakes, and breaking records. Dragon Quest X Online? You get EXACTLY what you deserve, Square-Enix. Dragon Quest is NOT an MMORPG. It's not about staying on portables or consoles; it's about fundamentally changing the way the game is played in a cheap excuse to make a quick buck from subscriptions.
Re: Pachter: Wii U Will Sell Between 30 to 50 Million Units During Its Lifetime
Look - I get that everyone on this site is likely a Nintendo fan, and there's nothing wrong with that; but, some (not all, mind you) of what Pachter says is true. It doesn't mean that the Wii U is going to be an abysmal failure, but there are SIGNIFICANT drawbacks to this system that have yet to be resolved. Every new console has these problems at its launch.
Remember when the PS3 only had a handful of games at its launch, and just didn't have enough features to make it worthwhile? Well, now it has the PSN Shop, PSOne and PS2 Classics, PSN games, and a whole host of features that make it a fantastic system.
Remember when XBOX had only a handful of games (mainly named "Halo"), and the vast majority of the games really only appealed to male gamers (Sports, FPS, War Simulation)? Well...that didn't really change, but they did introduce the Kinect, which is a revolutionary peripheral that truly changes the way people interact with their games.
The Wii, itself, just didn't really have a lot of games that appealed to grown ups over the age of thirty, save for a handful of games that were released late in the consoles life cycle, and Virtual Console re-releases. It still revolutionized the gaming industry, and filled a void in the casual gaming market that had been largely untapped.
Now, we have the Wii U, and though the graphics are gorgeous and the promise of better things is there, there just isn't enough for it, right now, that makes it worth purchasing, at this time. Go into a game store or onto the web and there are fewer than fifty titles available for the console, and what's offered in the eShop isn't that much more impressive. But...the potential is undoubtedly there to do something great.
Remember - this is the man who predicted that the 3DS would be an abysmal failure, and the 3DS consistently outsells every other console in the Japanese market, and is arguably the most successful Nintendo product on the market. If they would just start localizing better games in the Western market, it might catch on better, here.
The long and short of it is that people on this site need to take a breath, and take everything this guy says with a grain of salt, and stop being so dramatic.