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Sufferedphoenix posted...

Nintendo technically is almost always a success. Might be behind the others at times but since the company focuses mostly on games and they have multiple first party games that are almost always hits they do just fine.

Read once they draw in the most profit. It's a skewed number if I recall but it boils down to they make their stuff cheaper than other companies but they also ain't bleeding money in other departments like Sony.

IIRC, the Wii U was one of the only times Nintendo was selling at a lost, at least initially. Otherwise they always price things to be relatively affordable for the masses while also not producing at a lost.

They are also famously reserved in their budgets, so nearly every game profits. Breath of the Wild was one of their most expensive games and they mentioned they had to sell 2 million to break even. That's it. Compare that to how many studios think 5 million is disappointing and that paints a stark picture about budget management.

"The Wii U had amazing games"

yeah, like... ten of them, if even, and two commonly cited ones were remasters of Gamecube games. People seem to also forget the Wii U had massive gaps in releases.

"Switch is propped up by Wii U ports"
Switch has more exclusive games than the Wii U, so no, it's not just the ports.

The N64 wasn't actually that bad on a sales front, though still a pretty big drop from the SNES, but it was the point where third parties largely abandoned Nintendo and also runs into a similar issue as the Wii U where there weren't actually that many games. Though, as far as sheer impact goes, the N64 had a bigger impact. It's like half-failure.

The Gamecube was a further 10 million drop from N64, it was definitely a bigger failure. However, it had more great games both in first party and third party terms, but sometimes had release gaps and still was often skipped by third parties. It was a weird situation, but it was undeniably did not have much success, which contributed to Nintendo's shift that resulted in the Wii.

I mention those release gaps because the Switch gets a new first party release almost on a monthly basis, and insane third party support. Nintendo learned from their mistakes, and chances are, they are making sure they keep that up for the successor. So, it'll probably have a decent shot at success if all the cards are played right. Just a consistent stream of games alone makes a good deal of difference.

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Time to see if I can win another one of these, haha

Gameplay order/release order. Genuinely.

With Steam's offerings, you go in this order:
I+II Chronicles+ > VI: Ark of Napishtim > Oath in Felghana > Origin > Seven > Memories of Celceta > VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA > IX: Monstrum Nox > X: Nordics (coming later this year)

Good luck actually beating I, though, the final boss is genuinely bullshit and it might be better to Youtube the ending if you can't get beat it.
VI is very rough, as a warning, being the first one of that gameplay style with some certain very obnoxious aspects.

Don't worry about the games referencing to each other. In this order you get pretty much all the context except for VIII and IX's references to V, which is only on SNES and desperately needs a remake, and notoriously considered the worst Ys game anyway so no harm in skipping it.

rexcrk posted...

They really shouldnt announce games that arent within like a year of being finished tbh.

To be fair, between Metroid Prime 4 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom being announced too early, Nintendo has completely stopped announcing games unless they are damn well sure they have a definitive release date. Prime 4 is basically the only straggler left of the too early problem when it comes to Nintendo published games. Everything else since Zelda hardly even reach a year between announcement and release date now.

Would you believe I haven't noticed the new message and mentions until like ten minutes ago? lol

Thanks, wasn't expecting to win, particularly since I only posted three times, but, you never know with RNG!

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23 minutes since my last message

End of an era?

Well, I do pay for DLC and sometimes get disappointed if a game I like doesn't get DLC. I've bought games on multiple systems too, but that's because of rereleases or convenience or something.

Paying just because the game is good? Never crossed my mind, and will continue to not cross my mind.

Completed and enjoyed Mega Man X and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Played Donkey Kong Country, dropped it partway through. Don't like it. But I guess it counts so yay, I qualify for this topic!

I plan to play through the Tomb Raider series one day.

The rest I have zero interest in.

Can't even use Twitter half the time, that shit just does not want to load at completely random times.

Here's a "Sure why not" for this topic.