Snesboy said:
Impulsivity said:
Str8knox said:
Did you just say that the Wii sells to people who aren't making the jump to hd? nintendo gamers only? (one who didn't start owning a console or any Ninty games until the Wii)
Okay, there is no need to respond to this then. And I won't. Sorry but a LOT of your points are flawed on Nintendo's part, but whatever. believe what you want. |
Nintendo is not trading on graphics this generation, they're just not. It's not a dis on Nintendo, they freely say that they are not going for the "Number One Super HD HUB prize" that Sony and Microsoft are chasing. They sell to people who are not as concerned about how a game looks as they are other things. Noone is picking up Mario Kart Wii for its cutting edge photo realistic graphics.
Some people like the best graphics possible, some people like Nintendo type games with that distinctive look and gameplay. It's like picking between Star Wars and Star Trek, people usually just like one or the other for more or less inexplicable reasons.
Either way the point is that chasing the high priced console top of the line graphics prize has no point for Nintendo, they do better with a low starting cost and older graphics (ala Wii) then they do with current gen graphics and a higher price (ala gamecube).
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GameCube was 100 dollars cheaper than Xbox and PS2 at the time of its release ($200USD) and Wii was 150 dollars cheaper than Xbox 360 (the good one at least).
GameCube was still cheaper than Wii though, not too mention GameCube was more powerful than PS2 and was less expensive.
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Traditionally, Nintendo did pretty well with raw power for decent price--and traditionally, they went for raw horsepower in the CPU. They did for the SNES, N64, and GameCube--all designed powerful machines and they all cost either the same or cheaper than the often weaker competition. Granted, by the time the late-bloomer N64 finally came out, Sony and Sega were already embroiled in price war which made the N64 actually look like the expensive machine (launch prices: Saturn: $400, PS1 $300, N64 $250, quickly dropped to $200 to compete with Sony and Sega).
