Thread: Move over Wii!

I'd put a lot of money down that Sony still will not outsell Nintendo this generation. Most of the other companies think that the "secret" to Nintendo's success is in its motion control and are now seeking to copy that, but it really isn't that simple.

The only time I will play a Wii, is over at a party where there is really nothing else to do except sit on a couch...Wii sucks, in other words

Well where are they stealing the audience from? The little kids interested in Wii?

It just seems like this is aimed at a market that simply doesn't exist, because I have yet to see someone older than ten who bought a Wii for themselves.

Originally Posted by LuckyDucky

Originally Posted by WaterDumple

I'd put a lot of money down that Sony still will not outsell Nintendo this generation. Most of the other companies think that the "secret" to Nintendo's success is in its motion control and are now seeking to copy that, but it really isn't that simple.

Your right, its the motion control and re-releasing the same three games 23 more times, that's the trick.

But people buy it and that's all that matters.

Back in the day during the days of the SNES/n64, playstation 1, etc... I was a HUGE nintendo fan over playstation. However I guess nintendo felt it was better off marketing itself towards a younger audience, hence the Gamecube (in purple) and all the kiddie type games, while playstation tended to host games that catered more to older teenagers and adults. This is when I switched brand loyalty. Today I own both a ps3 and a wii and I love them both. The wii has made a name for itself as the premier party system. Wii systems are waaay more family friendly, IMO.

Unless Playstation comes up with some elaborate scheme the market hasn't seen before, I Don't expect them to even come close to wii in the motion control system portion of the market.

One of the main causes of Nintendo's continued success, I recently read in an article, is that it encourages more than one person to play a game. You know, in the same room. The same game. On the same system. Splitscreen.

Heard of it? You won't see many other companies releasing things like that any longer. Take, for instance, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, one of Nintendo's more popular Wii games. The entire point, practically, is playing it with 2-4 people. You can do alright by yourself and AIs, but the focus is more on having multiple people around. That's just an example, but it (like many others) got the company a whole lot of money. That kind of system appeals to more people than FPS fans will expect or appreciate.

Plenty of people bitch about the low hardware quality, go tell that to Nintendo and they'll show you their sales comparisons next to Sony and Microsoft. They appeal to a non-gamer market, more commonly known as the casual gamer market; they're making sales out of people who previously never played games at all, because they know the right appeal. And really, look at the popular games on other systems...almost all shooters. I don't like Nintendo nearly as much as I used to when their games were actually good, but one has to respect their methods. They aren't trying to appeal to everyone anymore, but they're appealing to enough other people that every day a dump truck comes to the NOA HQ and leaves a pile of money for the executives to roll around in.