| eab said: In college it was a horrible time to be a Ninty fan pre-Wii. Halo and GTA were played 24/7, maybe once a month you would hear of a Melee of Mario Kart tourney, as those were the only Nintendo games that had any respect what-so-ever in my college. Wii came out, a few people bought PS3s but then kept complaining of the lack of games, several actaully sold thier PS3 and decided to buy a 360 instead. A handful did buy the Wii though and things really changed thanks to drunk people at parties with Wii Sports/WarioWare, and the market for "oldskool games" on the V.C. Now it's about a 50-40-10 split, with the ratio between 360's, Wiis, and PS3s. The lack of people with a HD TV in college probably has something to do with the numbers as well. |
I'm currently in college (A medical Technology student at IUPUI in Indianapolis), and things sure have changed. You can walk through a dorm an a good 75% of game consoles are Wiis. Every party as a Wii with drunken idiots playing Wii sports (I have to admit, this is fun as hell). It's cheap, it's small, it's great for playing with friends, and hell, none of us have HD-TVS anyway... A lot of people have PS2s as well. Lots of games and a lot of people want to play the sports games (though I have noticed a lot of sports gamers migrating to Wii recently too). If you go in the technology building there are kids (of both genders) with DSes sitting around playing. Sometimes you'll see a bunch playing against each other. I have to say I was shocked by the amount of penetration Nintendo has in my campus. I know in High School no one cared about Nintendo systems at all. Half the kids didn't even know what a Gamecube was. The first year of college was like that too... I can't believe how fast things changed.
