Few companies can have such amazing comebacks as Nintendo, much less build an entire business out of them. After a slow start, bad press, and angry shareholders, the 3DS' health bar is most certainly in the green. No red herbs for you, Nintendo (ha ha, videogame humor).
In 2011, Nintendo sold a combined 12 million hardware units in the United States -- 4.5 million Wiis, 3.5 million DS variants, and 4 million 3DS systems. Executive sales and marketing VP Scott Moffitt credits "one of the strongest software lineups of [Nintendo's] history" as the driving force of this victory.
Super Mario Land 3D and Mario Kart 7 enjoyed success, as both games have become the fastest selling titles in the history of their respective franchises. They have both become the first million sellers for the 3DS, too. Skyward Sword has cleared a million, Mario Kart Wii has cleared eleven million, and New Super Mario Bros. (DS) has cleared ten million.
Obviously, we're all still convinced that Nintendo is 100% doomed, don't worry about that!
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10:00 AM on 01.03.2012
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They could sell a brick with buttons and a d-pad drawn on and they’d still make millions as long as a smaller Mario brick could be cemented on to it
tbh I want them to fail so they put their games on all the other systems. I have Sonic on PC, now I want my HD Mario!
naw dog naw. Doom has nothing to do with the Avengers. I mean, he could, but he's mostly known for messing with RIIIICCCHHHAAARRRDDDSS!
In other news, The marvel movies have been an amalgamation of the 616 and Ultimate continuities, with liberties of course, and loki was pretty much the big bad for a lot of ultimate line. I'm not sure how they are going to put Loki and the Skrull invasion into one movie but i'm excited. Hopefully if there is an avengers II (hurr durr pretty obvious) I would hope they would do more Ultron Hydra and A.I.M. What really sucks is that xmen, fantastic four and spidey are all out to other companies, so our chances of seeing a Secret Wars storyline is pretty much gone....
Although, I'm pretty sure (given the current MARVEL marvel movieverse) They could probably do a pretty bad ass Civil War movie.
am i right?!
...I'll let myself out.
I don't live with my mother. would they then rape my bother?
And fuck Julian Mcmahon for being a crappy Doom.
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People were so busy letting people know how DOOMED the 3DS is they missed out on all of the great 2012 game reveals.
Maka Wuhu glitch where you can skip a third of the level. If only there was some sort of way to patch the game and remove that exploit...
Doom has the same vendetta with Stark as he does with Richards. Loki also takes orders from Doom, because he knows Doom can do very, very nasty things to him via magic.
So if the Wii U has a huge successful launch, like the Wii did, will you be waiting another 4 years to start bashing Nintendo's next system to come out? People doubt Nintendo every time, and yes they've had some screw ups over the years. But never doubt Nintendo, because they always find a way, to come out smelling like roses in the end!
Sega only left the hardware business after several console generations worth of mismanagement due to corporate in-fighting between the east and the west. Atari just never recovered from the videogame crash in the 80's. Less than stellar sales over a limited amount of time is hardly the death knell of a hardware developer. Even if one of the developers had a single bad generation they could recover in the next. These companies aren't living paycheque to paycheque.