My view on why Sony is currently in 3rd Place.

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The Fury said:

alpha_dk said:

The Fury said:

alpha_dk said:

The Fury said:

The key point about why they are third though, it was (and maybe still is) too expensive for general populace, 360 was released a year early and Wii is a fad. (my opinion based on general populace)

Just a question; what would Wii have to do to not be a fad in your eyes, if (almost) completely selling out in its second summer after release isn't enough?

Sales are not what defines a fad, something could sell loads and not be a fad. The speed of which it has sold those units, maybe.

To not be a fad it would have to do more then sell consoles, it would have to make those people who bought it seriously play games, not just party games but all kinds and on more occasions then just when your friends are round (or in the case of my housemate 'the winter'). Once those people seriously consider buying a Zelda or Metroid game, then things might have changed.

 

So, 2 years (or 1/5th of the generation according to sony) isn't a long enough time to be completely sold out? If it had sold this many units over 3 years, would that make it less of a fad? More software sales by this point in its life than any console in history doesn't show that the people buying a Wii are seriously playing games?

10 year plan is for the life of the PS3, not how long sony expect the generation to go on for. It's not about being sold out, the almighty PS2 had sold 14million units by this time in Wii's life, 29 million is a fair wack more. Remove WiiSports and WiiPlay then tell me about the software again.

Again, software sales mean squat about people using the dang things. Like I said, i have a housemate, he has a Wii, he has Mario Galaxy, SSX and the common Wii Sports. He hasn't touched his Wii in about 3 months, except about once a month ago when a mate of his came round.

I'm not saying, however, that it's not success. It more then a success that i think Nintendo could dream and good to them.

 

 

 

Fad: a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., esp. one followed enthusiastically by a group.

Trend: the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.

A fad is all about time and not about "buying a lot of games". Since, the Wii has been sold out for all its 1 year and 3 quarter existence, I would call it a trend, not a fad.