"Waiting for inbox full of angry Nintendo fanboys who list off 3 Wii games that took them 50 hours to beat like it’s a mega list of games and also who for some reason turn my comments into Sony or Microsoft fanboy love and say “Microsoft is just going to make Halo and Gears forever” not realizing just how many Mario and Zelda games Nintendo has put out."
Wii U To Launch Globally by End of 2012
Thanks to the stress of investors and Nintendo’s first annual loss in over 25 years, Satoru Iwata has announced the upcoming Wii U will be expected to be on store shelves by the end of 2012. This includes all the major territories: Japan, North America, Europe, and Australia.
Iwata also stated that he plans on restoring Nintendo’s profitability next fiscal year.
(via: IGN)
Note from Ron: I will be amazed if Iwata can restore Nintendo’s numbers in the next fiscal year. While Nintendo is a high profit margin company, I think the Wii inflated the numbers they expect to such a level that it will be impossible to make investors happy. The Wii created a bubble for the company and I feel like Nintendo, while doing a great job with keeping up with the insane demand for the Wii for so many years, might have had too short of an R&D cycle with the WiiU. I think on day one this console might look technologically advanced, but the casual market that bought the Wii won’t adopt at the same rate as before. By the time they do, we will be back in the middle of a console war and this one will have a more savvy average buyer. At that point, the WiiU could look slightly dated. Those same casual gamers that hadn’t purchased a console for 10 years prior to the Wii, will take longer to purchase a WiiU after looking at the dust sitting on their Wii’s. As far as parents buying a WiiU for their kids, imagine this; Kids: Hey mom we want a WiiU. Mom: I’m not getting you a WiiU because you don’t even play with the Wii any more. I also think it looks far too similar to the Wii and parents will think kids want it for the new controller. I mean, if you didn’t know and someone told you the WiiU was simply a new model of the Wii, you would find it completely plausible. I think parents shopping for holiday gifts might easily see it this way as well.
The attach rate for the Wii and time spent on console were always low. This was because buyers could buy a ton of games for the competing consoles that offered 50 to 100 or more hours of gameplay while on the Wii, that was a very rare experience.
All of that said, it is really up to how Nintendo takes advantage of the new controller and if 3rd party developers (of more adult games) take the WiiU serious unlike with the Wii.
"I can now block blogs that tag spam or inappropriately tag things for the gaming directory on Tumblr. Today is a glorious day. I know it means nothing to most of you, but between people taking pics of their dog and tagging it gaming, spammers and people that do nothing but steal content from artists and post it as their own, it has been frustrating. For example, once Soulja Boy did nothing but tag pics of his stomach for a month as ‘gaming’ (along with a ton of other directory tags) for no reason. Seriously. Things like this completely devalue the directory. I now have a way of filtering out the nonsense. As a bonus, no more checking every single blog for auto-play music!!!"
Glenn beck pays homage to Anon with “Anonymous for Good,” which encourages random acts of kindness and vague positivity and positions itself against an ambiguous social evil.
(via:epicwinbook)
Note from Ron: Holy shit. When people don’t understand the basic idea of Anon, and then attempt to use it’s name/ideas openly especially for profit, I am pretty sure they are what the ancient Greeks called “fucked” I would hate to be Glenn Beck any day but especially any day soon.
(via stryker)
While I can’t really source this past a girl in high school, it is an interesting take on the shut down. While mega-upload was a copyright infringement haven, it always had been. Why shut them down only weeks after announcing a new service which was claimed to offer much higher payouts to music artists?
