Looks like UK gamers play it particularly safe with their game purchases, even for a Western country. Break out of your box every once in a while, mates..
I'm not certain how I feel about them going third party. On one hand, they wouldn't have to worry about consoles and therefore could spend more energy on games.
On the other hand, the strange charm their consoles carry is sometimes integral to that of their games, so who knows?
I don't think that the article was meant to be negative. It probably just comes across that way to Nintendo enthusiasts.
I think everybody was wondering if the console would surpass the original as a way to measure its success. It's a different console and a different economy.
Whether the Wii U will ultimately succeed or whether it will fail to live up to its predecessor's lofty legacy is still up in the air at this point in time.
Who cares about U.K. sales figures? It's an insignificant market on its own. I'm really not sure why GameSpot is highlighting the U.K. exclusively when the console launched in the rest of Europe on the November 30th too..not just the U.K.
I swear, Europeans do themselves a huge disservice by releasing separate sales figures.
I'm an American, and in my terms that would be as if I single out "Great Wii U sales.. in the Alabama game market (Yeaa!)". My point is we need to see total European Union region sales in order to get a more clear picture of how the the launch went, not just one small country.
Why do developers insist on such stupid (and horribly fake) sounding names?
They might as well have named him John Johnson (or flip it to Johnson John, doesn't really matter). And to make matters worse, he shares his surname with the infamously generic Jet Brody. Are they brothers or something?
I forgot about that. Miyamoto got a Prince of Asturias award for communication and humanities(something like that) and I didn't see mentioned on any major gaming site.
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