Nonquihote said: Half of your points are already reality. HDTV is already the standard, all new tvs are HD. All Tv are being made 1080p right now, while there is plenty 720p/1080i stock all new models are 1080p. Nin has already abandoned the hardcore gamers, just about ever gaming website sees it like that. Most 3rd aprty is crap or party/casual thing. Wii is still getting not big 3rd aprty franchises. "Bluray is showing itself to not be a total bomb" Hard to take you seriously with statements like that. BR has been nothing but a success beating hddvd in every market, in some places totally dominating with +90% market share. |
Newly manufactured TVs may be mostly HDTVs but that doesn't make HDTV a standard yet; people who are upgrading to HDTVs today are mostly choosing Flat Panel displays because they're flat panels not necessarily because they want HDTVs. Even then, at the rate of HDTV adoption it will be years before the majority of TVs in home are HDTVs, and even then with the quanitity of gaming systems that are used in dens and basements it will be quite a while before most videogame consoles are hooked up to HDTVs. Even with all of that said, no one has ever demonstrated that owning a HDTV and hooking up your console to a HDTV reduces your likelyhood of buying a Wii.
Nintendo has certainly NOT abandoned the core gamer being that they will have released all of their major franchises within 18 months of their console launching; can the same be said about Sony?
Blu-Ray may be beating HD-DVD but it is still a niche product as compared to DVD and will likely remain only a small portion of the market throughout the generation.
