The difference between the DS launch and the Wii U launch is the DS was a success from the get go, selling millions of units upon release and never quite losing that momentum.
The Wii U has none of those market characteristics. It's more in line with the consumer enthusiasm of the Virtual Boy.
@Tiburon1186 @WingChopMasta Full Windows...as in Windows 8....as in the operating system that has been met with great disdain from the public and avid, long time Windows users (myself included)
Microsoft is such lumbering, bloated behemoth that has become so horribly mismanaged. They haven't "innovated" in years. All they do is see a market, throw money at it and hope that they will somehow take it over.
They first need to work on their PR, because it hasn't occurred to them that people are still keen on the notion that Microsoft's products are unreliable.
One of the worst companies ever founded. They are the equivalent of the Chinese rip off artists that steal every product in America and worldwide, regardless of copyright laws.
I came to terms with the fact that what we're witnessing now is very much (in MANY ways) paralleling the state of the gaming market as it was in the 1980s.
It's frightening how everyone is seemingly making the same mistakes that they should have learned from history. There is an over-abundance of stuff that nobody wants, a market that has become so overflooded with choices that nobody wants to make a choice anymore.
I have absolutely no desire to buy into this gen. In fact given the trends of gaming, I think I'm calling it quits. I will play games from my collection of generations past rather than invest in the new. After gaming for most of my life (since I was 3), and now as a 22 year old, I see nothing to truly look forward to. There is nothing compelling or necessary this coming gen because NOT ONE of these 3 companies is truly innovating. Nintendo just made one of the biggest miscalculations I think I've ever seen a company involved in technology ever make with the Wii U.
As someone who watches industry trends for a living, I have absolutely no clue how Nintendo expects to pull through this, other than them bleeding out the majority (if not all) of their capital just to stay afloat from this disaster. That doesn't give Sony or Microsoft a free pass either. We'll reserve judgement until we see what MS has in store but right now the future seems pretty bleak and uninspired in terms of what we have to look forward to.
We've reached a stage where these 3 behemoths have become to big for their boots and too comfortable resting on their laurels of past achievements that they're all too afraid to really take risks, and instead, have opted to play it safe. If history has taught us anything, just about life in general, it's that playing it safe is the coward's way out, because it is not a long term strategy. It only deals with right here and now, not the future.
I posted this yesterday and the day this article was originally published, only to be met with overwhelming support, and two very angry, falsehood ridden responses from the author of this article, Carolyn Petit, regarding the subject matter and her attitude toward those who disagree with her, including completely making up statistics and outright lying to support her tirade. So I thought I'd post this again.
I've been visiting GameSpot for at least 12 years, and I don't know what's happened to this website in the past 4 months but it seems to be an endless affirmative action tirade about video games and women, and I felt compelled to write about my disgust of this thinly veiled political agenda operating behind the scenes now.
Is this website working in cooperation with a feminist lobby now or something? It's like every week there's an article about women and every little snippet of negative information someone can conjure up about someone related to games that doesn't treat women with preferential treatment.
Who made it their life's goal to suddenly insert their politics into an industry that has shown such diversity and strong capable female leads? Here's the problem with people like the author of the article. No matter what is done to portray a female in a main role, no matter how much care and attention is given, it's never enough. Her attitude, like many other insecure people, is the following.
If she's a strong, capable independent lead character, then she's a sexist male fantasy. If she's weak and helpless and fights like a wimp, it's a sexist, chauvinistic stereotypical portrayal of women and how they're not as strong or capable as men. It's a doubled edged sword in which the people complaining are simply making noise because they don't have an actual answer. The people complaining have no idea what they REALLY want, because their issue is more psychological than anything. As in some kind of past emotional trauma that has made them so hellbent on being upset over things like this and the issue of "gender roles" as they see it, yet never being satisfied.
How many times do you hear men complaining about a character in a video game who's a nerdy wimp, and how that's an unfair representation of men? You don't because it's not a big deal. There are strong men just like their are weak men. Same with women. Why is it suddenly such a "special" issue because it's women? Because someone with a one sided, political agenda said so.
If you're so preoccupied with the "industry's responsibility" to put forth a character that doesn't meet the oh so high, unachievable standards in your head, and will never satisfy your needs because you have absolutely no idea what you really want out of a character, then why don't you make a video game and stop with these asinine whiny articles already?
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