GAMING NEWS Thread 1

So here's the UK Chart

Top 10 All Format

Number 1 FIFA 14
CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS
BATTLEFIELD 4
ASSASSIN'S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG
GRAND THEFT AUTO V ROCKSTAR NORTH
LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES
NEED FOR SPEED: RIVALS
KILLZONE: SHADOW FALL
MINECRAFT: XBOX 360 EDITION
Number 10 ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES

The Highest Nintendo Exclusive is Pokemon X at 31, There is No Wii U or VITA exclusive game in the Top 40. Highest Xbox One exclusive is Forza 5 at 12.

If we look at that at a individual level the top 10 is:

Number 1 FIFA 14 PS4
CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS XB360
GRAND THEFT AUTO V XB360
KILLZONE: SHADOW FALL PS4
CALL OF DUTY: GHOSTS PS4
FIFA 14 XB360
MINECRAFT: XBOX 360 EDITION XB360
BATTLEFIELD 4 PS4
ASSASSIN'S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG XB360
Number 10 FIFA 14 XBONE

Highest 3DS game is Pokemon X at 38, PS3 GTAV at 11, PC Football Manger 2014 at 19, Wii Just Dance 2014 at 21. None of the other formats has anything in the top 40

Number 1 for the formats is easy to work out it's:
PS4 FIFA14
XB360 Call of Duty Ghosts
XBONE FIFA14
3DS Pokemon X, just for TCK Bravely Default is Number 9
PS3 GTAV
PC Football Manger 2014
Wii Just Dance 2014
PSP LittleBigPlanet
VITA LittleBigPlanet
Wii U Super Mario 3D World
DS Pokemon Black Ver.2

Keep going. What's #1 on the Mega Drive? I bet it's Lotus Turbo Challenge or McDonald's Global Gladiators.

masofdas wrote:

PC Football Manger 2014

Where's Jesus Christ when you need him?   

Ouch, no Super Mario 3D World in the top 40? Perhaps this one doesn't have a long tail, after all.

The 2013 UK system sales

Number 1 3DS (including 2DS, XL)
Xbox 360
PS4
PS3
Xbox One
Vita
Wii U
Wii

I don't know about the DS & PSP but guessing there below the Wii.

The XBox 360 is the second best seller?! 

Yeah it sold about 500k, and so did the PS4 it's a few 1000 in it. Wii U sold 90k all year, its tracking behind the GameCube and even the dreamcast did at the same point of there life.

Also China has lifted console ban, but they don't wont violent games. Which might mean good things for Nintendo as they have had the iQue over there and as the other systems seem to be more focused on shootybangbnag it might be a great market for Nintendo to go for.

Wouldn't your national team be isreal or palestine though.

Oooh, better get the right one there...

To follow on from the Shaq Fu 2 reports, Super 3D Noah's Ark is getting a reprint. Only $65 dollars each!

The Christ wrote:

JayMoyles wrote:

masofdas wrote:

PC Football Manger 2014

Where's Jesus Christ when you need him?   

ENG-ER-LAND!ENG-ER-LAND!ENG-ER-LAND!
I love Football Manager. I don't play it on PC though, me and dad play with your world and your very lives. We used to play Civ, but after that session we finished in '45 we decided to give it a rest.

As the great A Knight's Tale declares: The Pope may be French, but Jesus is English.

DOOM. DOOM. DOOM.

So am I right in thinking Nintendo wants to sell 2.8milion WiiU's a year and 13.5 million 3DS's. I know they dropped both but seems like there putting all there eggs in to one basket in the 3DS. And 2.8 that it if the cycle is 5 years that's 16.5 million in it's lifetime. That's if it last 5 years and does those numbers but seems dreadful compared to even the Saturn (3.2m a year)

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.  

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naturally I can't imagine it getting that bad, but the prospect of Nintendo on mobile devices doesn't excite me really. Still, if it keeps them alive...

As long as great Nintendo games keep coming out, I couldn't really care less.

My worry is that attention will be taken away from the consoles and put into mobile games. And don't get me wrong, the Phoenix Wright games were okay on a mobile, but the visual novel genre aside, I like having buttons and 3D and multiple screens and styli and the grunt of a home console.

A Kirby on iOS is not going to be as good as a Kirby on Nintendo's platforms, however they spin it.

^This.

A lot is made of the new types of games that are possible with mobiles, but nobody ever seems to mention that for every possibility it opens, it closes another one- and what makes Nintendo's games great are the possibilities which are closed in mobile.

Still say no to smartphones and focus on the 3DS where it's bad but not as bad as the Wii U. People actually own a 3DS

As I said on twitter earlier today I wouldn't mind if Nintendo supported mobile devices, everyone's obvious worry is seeing mobile versions of existing IP but I don't really think that's a route Nintendo would take. (Unless its companion apps)

It could however be the perfect place to introduce new IP which in turn could attract some folk towards Nintendo consoles.

Maybe Nintendo could release games in a similar vein to the Wrights and Ghost Trick on iOS? And have a downloadable version on the eShop (crucially, for the same price - haha, yeah right  ) so that their 3DS customers don't miss out? That's the only way I can see this benefiting us Nintendo loyalists.

Balladeer wrote:

Maybe Nintendo could release games in a similar vein to the Wrights and Ghost Trick on iOS?  And have a downloadable version on the eShop (crucially, for the same price - haha, yeah right  )

The thing is, both those games are special in that they'd been subsidised by full-price DS releases (and in Phoenix' cases (ahaha) being third-generation remakes) and probably wouldn't be viable at iOS prices. There's a reason that phone games are dominated by < £1 toys and free-to-play grindathons, and that's because that's all people will pay on those platforms.

Nintendo will find a way. Frankly I'm astonished that last year can possibly be deemed a bad year for 3DS, I just think Nintendo's forecasts were too high. I can't make any excuses for Wii U, though. The state of that particular situation is beginning to natter me.

Agree think Nintendo predict to many for the 3DS as it was the number 1 system in 2013 sales wise pretty much every where.

Still think if Nintendo go smartphone release gameboy games etc so doesn't affect sales of wiiu or 3ds as why would buy either of them if you can play the same game on your smartphone.

I think the worry of Nintendo games on mobile is overstated. Nintendo's mobile offerings will be all about driving people back to Nintendo devices, as Reggie said back in December.