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Despite the painstakingly researched reports of industry analysts such as Michael Pachter who have more experience in the industry than you do, you may still believe that the Vii is the future best selling console. You're wrong, it's a fad and it's great sales now are damaging the future viability of the industry. Once people get bored with the Vii sports, the complete lack of third party games will cause them to lose interest.

The cheap price of the Vii might attract the idiot casual crowd, but once the Wii comes down in price its better quality of games will allow it to overtake. For example, Disaster: Day of Crisis will be released in 2008, and that will cause an explosion in Wii sales, while the Vii only has party games. Some Wü core gamers believe the Vii will continue its legacy of first-party excellence, but instead Vii abandons that audience for the casuals, who will stop buying Vii Fitness as soon as the other cool new gadgets appear. What is Vii Fitness meant to be anyway?

Despite the Vii's initial success, we know that like the Wü, sales can drop off quickly. The Vii is just two Wü consoles stacked on top of one another and will quickly fall behind the superior technology of the Wii because Wii will last ten years or more. Once Western standards like Enhanced Definition become widespread in China, the Wii will become more attractive than the Vii in graphics quality as it has 576i EDTV while Vii only does 480p. 

The Vii's games are mainly minigame collections that get boring after you play them all, and because the best games are built into the Vii, any more they sell in the future will essentially be overpriced stolen idea dumps. This trend towards non-games that the Vii is promoting is insane and without online capabilities the Vii will fail to real games on the Wii like Super Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime 3.

Anyone can see that the Vii is much cheaper to make than its price tag because of the last-generation technology. The Vii's manufacturers are raking in profit by giving consumers inferior hardware. Only Vii first-party games sell on Vii systems - any other developers who want to invest in it are put off by the lack of sales of games ported to the Vii platform, and sell more on Wii. 

In short, the Vii is a gimmick that is only perpetuated by the short-lived novelty of its controller. In 2009 we will see the Wii overtake forever!



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RolStoppable said:
4/10

 Yeah, I know. Had to be done though.



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lol i agree with you about it being a gimmick with last gen-hardware



and why do you call it Vii? it's Wii.



rickytan said:
and why do you call it Vii? it's Wii.

 umm.. the Vii is a Chinese console. 



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oh is it? lol



Rickytan, rabid sony fanboy totally not getting the OP 4TW:P

OP is a good poaster, keep it up.




ssj12 said:
rickytan said:
and why do you call it Vii? it's Wii.

 umm.. the Vii is a Chinese console. 


Wii, Vii, many europeans think they all look alike. I still predict the sitcom will ruin televison before it brings back the variety show.



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RolStoppable said:
4/10

meanie. I give 9/10 for creativeness & effort! :)

the Vii 2 was announced btw. lol



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