“I think that the Wii was so revolutionary that it took the market by surprise…. That thing just exploded because it was a brand new way of playing videogames, completely new. The Wii U feels more evolutionary, the idea of this SmartGlass thing that Microsoft talked about was attractive and I think it will do good numbers. But if you’re saying, will it sell in the first 36 months what the Wii did, I think that might be a challenge because the Wii just exploded. Sometimes you like that, sometimes you actually don’t.
“You want to build a steady community that is sticky and stays with you, and doesn’t treat the Wii as we’re now seeing — there’s a lot of Wiis in the world, most of which sit on a shelf somewhere. You know. And so it was like a meteor that roared across the sky and disappeared. And you look at the industry numbers on it now, year on year the Wii has just dropped, and clearly we don’t make any games for it anymore. It just has not given the level of engagement that you need to have with a console. And that becomes the key. Selling games that are ostensibly offline was fun for a while, but then the connected engagement that we look for and the industry looks for, we couldn’t deliver.
“They made the right moves as far as online connectivity, hard drive space, having the ability to bring external hard drives in there. 32, 64 gigabytes sounds like a lot from when I first joined the industry, but you’ll figure out that takes a lot of hard drive management if you get a lot of games. We will see. But I think they recognize that they need to be part of this connected ecosystem.” – EA COO Peter Moore
I’d say he pretty much hit the nail on the head as far as his “sticky” remarks! A lot of us feel a bit offended when we hear that because we– being a Nintendo fansite– know a lot of people who really enjoy their Wiis. That being said, I think on the whole it really doesn’t have the consistency of the other home consoles. It is being treated as, for lack of a better term, much more of a novelty.
– Tells the story of Simon and Trevor Belmont
– Both are descendants from Gabriel Belmont
– Gabriel has returned to Dracula, threatens to destroy the brotherhood
– Play as Gabriel in a prologue
– Takes place 25 years after Lords of Shadow
– Play as Alucard, Simon, Trevor, and Gabriel (briefly)
– Simon voiced b Alec Newman, Trevor by Richard Madden, and Gabriel by Robert Carlyle
– Music by Oscar Aruajo
01./00. [PSP] The Idolmaster: Shiny Festa – Honey Sound / Funky Note / Groovy Tune
02./00. [PS3] Dark Souls with Artorias of the Abyss Edition
03./00. [PS3] Zone of the Enders HD Edition #
04./00. [3DS] AKB48+Me
05./00. [PS3] Borderlands 2
06./03. [3DS] Bravely Default: Flying Fairy
07./02. [PS3] Resident Evil 6
08./06. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2
09./05. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013
10./00. [360] Borderlands 2
11./01. [PSP] Little Battlers eXperience W
12./00. [360] Forza Horizon #
13./09. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters
14./10. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire!
15./07. [PSV] The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Evolution #
16./12. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2
17./04. [PS3] FIFA 13
18./21. [PS3] Rocksmith
19./11. [3DS] Project X Zone
20./00. [PSV] Street Fighter X Tekken
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DSLL – 38,089
3DS – 23,453
PS3 – 20,364
PSP – 14,541
Vita – 5,806
Wii – 3,744
Xbox 360 – 1,931
PS2 – 1,006
DSi – 227
DSi LL – 214
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DSLL – 37,785
3DS – 22,447
PS3 – 21,354
PSP – 15,575
Vita – 6,791
Wii – 4,035
Xbox 360 – 2,150
PS2 – 1,081
DSi – 290
DSi LL – 239
Dragon Quest VII 3DS, as you would expect, hasn’t been confirmed for North America. Square Enix says that it is “evaluating” the remake for overseas territories at the moment.
A representative told Joystiq:
“We’re currently evaluating the title for the Western markets, but nothing has been determined. Please stay tuned for more information.”
I wonder if Square Enix would be willing to team up with Nintendo for publishing. Dragon Quest IX was published by Nintendo, so why not DQ VII as well?
