mENUDOs vicios me estoy metiendo al Binding of Isaac en mi Switch joder, mi GOTY del 2017. Y el día 12 a picar piedra como un cabronazo en el Minecraft. Que los diamantes no salen solos, jODER.

Encauzando el tema otra vez, y al respecto de lo comentado por @mike y @Rivera, os dejo este artículo de opinión que me ha parecido interesante:



The Success of 'Mario Kart 8 Deluxe' Underscores How Badly Wii U Flopped

It's easy to forget this in light of Switch's early success, but it's worth remembering: no one bought a Wii U. I don't mean nobody, but in the grand scheme of things, nobody bought a Wii U. It helps explain how a souped up (but still excellent) port of Mario Kart 8 broke a franchise record last week, selling 459,000 copies in a single day. That's more than Mario Kart Wii's debut, 433,900 copies. Take a breath before predicting Switch will be a phenomenon in the same way Wii was, but it does underscore how much of a sales dud the Wii U proved to be.


I loved my Wii U, though, and poured hundreds of hours into its best games. Between Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Maker, Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker alone, a Wii U was well worth owning, a machine with a slate of console exclusives rivaling any other.

In a sense, both of Switch's first major games are Wii U ports. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was meant to be a Wii U release, but it eventually straddled both machines, just like Twilight Princess. But whereas Wii's gimmicky motion controls to swing a sword did little to enhance Twilight Princess (arguably the opposite), Switch's portability made Breath of the Wild a better game. My wife became so used to having me in bed as she went to sleep—I'm usually sneaking in an hour with games after she's out—she was bummed when I finished Breath of the Wild.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a great example of Switch's dynamic portability, too, but it's also an enhanced version of a Mario Kart game that a bunch of people never had a chance to play.

Nintendo isn't the first company to embrace re-releases. When PlayStation 4 launched, Naughty Dog and Sony quickly decided to port both The Last of Us, a game that came out at the end of PlayStation 3's lifespan, and the first three Uncharted games. Sony noticed that "a huge proportion" of people playing The Last of Us on PlayStation 4 were entirely new to the game.

This was true for Uncharted, too.

"We did a lot of research and discovered that about 80 per cent of the people that own a PS4 have never played Uncharted, period," said Naughty Dog community strategist Eric Monacelli in an interview with MCV from 2015. "That was one of the reasons why we thought remastering it would be a good idea."

There was another big number driving Sony's decisions: per an interview with Kotaku, nearly 50% of people who were buying a PlayStation 4 early on hadn't owned a PlayStation 3, either because they owned another console in the last generation or skipped out on a console. A huge audience had no exposure to games like The Last of Us or Uncharted. They might as well have not existed.

My gut tells me the gap's even wider than 50% for Wii U and Switch. The hardest of the hardcore showed up for Wii U and no one else.

A big difference between PlayStation 3 and Wii U, however, is that while PlayStation 3 stumbled out of the gate because of a series of misguided and arrogant decisions by Sony, they turned the ship around. PlayStation 3 became a success, competing toe-to-tie with Microsoft by the end of the generation. Microsoft might have captured the mindshare of players early on, but after being humbled, years of hard work had Sony on solid footing before PlayStation 4.

This never happened for Wii U. Nintendo decided to axe it and move on.

The cynical way to look at Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is that it allows Nintendo to fill their release calendar with "new" games without actually releasing a "new" game. (To Nintendo's credit, they added new characters and tweaked the game's much criticized battle mode. It's a better game.) The cynics can be right and Nintendo can still be smart for releasing a game like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, all while the company works on brand-new games (ARMS) and needed sequels (Splatoon 2).

It won't be a surprise if Nintendo rolls out a similar strategy for other games, either, notably for Super Mario Maker and Super Smash Bros. I don't think it means they aren't working on proper sequels to any of those games, either. It buys time.

If anything, my own appreciation for the many Wii U games that went unnoticed by friends, colleagues, and the wider gaming public has me hoping Nintendo will re-releasing more of the machine's best games on Switch. I'd kill for a portable version of Super Mario 3D World, one of the most underrated of the modern Mario games. It'd be a great way to tee up the upcoming Super Mario Odyssey.

You, like me, might have played Mario Kart 8 already. But you're also reading a website like Waypoint, and mostly likely follow video games enough to know Mario Kart 8 was already released. There's a good chance most people picking up a Switch don't know—or don't care.

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(02-05-2017 18:51)Electric Bradypus escribió:na

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Tampoco hace falta tener dos posturas tan extremistas, yo creo que es simplemente una combinación de las que estáis tratando, no sólo una de ellas.
Es evidente que la falta de catálogo hace que la gente no tenga mucho dónde elegir y MK8 aún se hace más atractivo de lo que sería per se. Pero también es verdad que es un JUEGAZO (así, en mayúsculas) con muchísimo contenido, que mucha gente no ha podido/querido disfrutar debido a las paupérrimas ventas de WiiU.

Con un catálogo más surtido sus ventas serían menores? sin ningún tipo de duda. Ahora bien, no creo que se hubieran resentido mucho, MK es un vende consolas y sus ventas siempre son impresionantes, este no iba a ser una excepción.

(02-05-2017 19:04)Janito escribió:Editas rápido  

sip, pero tampoco era nada del otro mundo 

(02-05-2017 19:21)Electric Bradypus escribió:sip, pero tampoco era nada del otro mundo 

yo he llegado a verlo

Yo también lo he visto.

sereis 

por un módico precio....

Me parecería cojonudo si fuese un refrito a 30€, pero a 60€urazos de PVP que se gasta, aciago futuro nos allana a los usuarios que un refrito a precio de novedad venda tanto. Así para qué vamos a tener una política de precios amigable con el usuario.

Persona 5 (inc Japan/Asia sales) and Mario Kart 8 join the million sellers list for April 2017. https://t.co/gyyKfRTBSB

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) May 2, 2017

MK8 en un fin de semana