I dont know how to say it.
I think that in the online community, a lot of people just dont like the Wii.
That is why so many people thought Wii will never sell. Online community is mainly composed of hardcore gamer that perfer PS3 or Xbox360.
Even if the Wii user base is growing amazingly each month, there still lof ot people online that would prefer to see better sales numbers for the Xbox360 or the PS3 : the whole internet video game website is biased toward Sony or Microsoft. It is why reviewers are not giving good rate to Wii games. Just read comments on average videogame website or just consider the "most anticipated game thread". Wii games are not in good position even if the wii sales are just amazing compared to PS3/Xbox360 sales. Remember some article "who win E3", a lot of website saied some thing like : sony wan E3 because of lake of competition.
Now go to others, more casual site, as yahoo, and u will see some article claiming that nintendo wan E3 because of WiiFit.
People that are buying Wii are mainly people that dont surf on internet videogame website. Go on forum at IGN/Gamespot/or what u want, check the thread numbers/ view numbers, I m pretty sure that Wii forum will have less thread and is less frequented. Look gamespot "most popular game" : no Wii game. What about Mario Galaxy ? Metroid Prime ?
Strange if we consider the 9M user base of the Wii to the 3M userbase of the PS3 ?
Of course, I suppose a lot of people supporting PS3 are PS2 owners that still dont have PS3 (too expensive) but that prefer PS3 to Wii.
Fan base =/= User base.
Sony fan base >> Wii fan base.
(even if, of course, it can change in the future since more and more people are buying Wii, the console is getting credibility !!!)
But here, in VGC, we have nintendo fan that are mainly people who know very well nintendo game, that owned N64 or/and Gamecube, and are happy to see the very good Wii sales numbers. At the opposite, they dont like the bad review or comments they can see on others sites. 10 years that they want that nintendo comes back in the front of the videogame market and : it is hapenning. I understand them.
There are a lot of sony fan here too, but they cannot open their mouth to big "PS3 is the best" since the sales juts indicate the opposite. Recently, E3 announcement, like MGS4 on Sony conference or UT3 timed exclusivity or price drop with PS3 number 1 at amzon.com allow them to express a little "Sony won the E3 !!!". They were happy lol.
In fact, if the sales of the PS3 start to improve significantly or if Wii sales declean expect a lot of Sony fan post like "Wii sales : beginning of the end ?"
The same applicate for Microsoft Xbox360 even if the fan base is smaller I presume.
Time to Work !
