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robjoh said: My question is if graphics is so important why is DS beating the PSP for the moment, and honestly if any think that it will change for the comoning month you need to explain a lot.

That's easy. Look at the size of the displays. No matter what you do you simply won't get absorbed so easily into the game as in front of a big TV and no traffic sounds around you.

robjoh said: I stand with my point. Wii wont crash as long as the big N and 3rd parties does fun games. I think that PS2 will outsell xbox360 and PS3 this year too. Graphics is important but the fun factor is even more important.

Sure, fun is more important, but I think there lies a bit of the problem of the Wii. It's most important factor is the new control system, but the problem with it is: The fun that you get out of this control decreases over time. Our brain simply learns the movements and after some time simply takes the control form the higher functions. When you drive your car and you must stop suddenly. you don't think about that you have to raise your foot put it on the brake and press real hard, because your body has already done that, before you even get to the point, that you must raise your foot. Once you have the controls of the game on automatic the control no longer is fun in itself. Because fun is always connected to learning and to achieve a difficult task. Games are only fun, because, they are for our body a save way to train new capabilities or facts, that might be usefull in our life. While the concept of the new controls is easier to grasp than the simple button pushing, so offers easier access to casual players, after some point it looses appeal and it willbe difficult for new games to regenerate this appeal. Then you no longer care if you have to push a button or raise your arm. And than the different capabilities come into play. This doesn't even have to be pure graphics, but the additional power gives the developers more possibilities. Graphics are only the most obvious point. This does not necessarily raise the fun. Nobody cares about physical details in reality, so nobody really cares if the physical effects are based on reality, or if they are simulated. Who wants to know if in reality this would kill the driver? It is something new and exciting... that you have never done before. The additional horse power simply gives the designers more tools to distinguish their product from the competitors. There is always the problem that you must add something new. This can't be done in the beginning, because your designers must first get a good foothold on the new platforms. And most of these things alone don't even get the consumer tospend more bucks, but overall you get something new. At the moment everybody rushes to the bright new horizon, but there will be a backlash. Well nice, but there were already ten games of this style, so why should I buy it? When it come down to price, I am pretty sure that PS3 might be at 400 USD 2009. Wii could to day be at 200, so 150 USD wont be any problem. Their is still a large difference. NOTE: I think that xbox360 will continue to sell well in USA, but that Wii sells in Japan will be enough to let Wii surpass Xbox360 WW. [/quote]