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TWRoO on 18 October 2008
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FryMyArse said:
TWRoO said:

Here I was thinking it was the PS3 people bought for "potential" (after you get a second job of course)

The Wii has massive future potential yes, but in most people eyes it has achieved considerably more than either of the other consoles in terms of great games (which it now has in droves, albeit a good 50% thanks to Nintendo themselves) This is why it sells well.

If the console is as you say, still not living up to the others, then why is it still selling more than the combined totals of the other two.... Had it not built up a decent library of games by now it would have been the fad that the doubters thought it was nearly 2 years ago.... A console cannot sell so well for 2 years straight with nothing going for it.

 

Console sales have very little to do with anything except the gullibility of the buying public, and good marketing.

The Wii library is laughable for a console with such a large user base.  We see shovelware title after shovelware title, and hear about "AAA" titles like Animal Crossing (meh) and Wii Music (double meh) that are "coming".

Past the 4 or 5 good exclusives for the Wii (the other top ones are ports), it's a vast wasteland of mediocrity.

 

Funny, I can't name more than 5 games I would want for X360 yet that is supposedly the console with the greatest line up.

PS3 I could certainly find a few more interesting titles I will admit, but not many, and most of the extras would be PSN oddities.

I could also quite happily name hundreds of shovelware titles on the PS2, ever heard of the Top Trumps games... yeah there are at least 6 of those that I know of for a start... all of the crap made by the Ninjabreadman dev originated on the PS2 as well. then the sea of mediocre titles making up the bulk just like all other consoles (more so for any of the popular consoles)

Word spreads, that is how the Wii has become so popular, people play it, then tell others about how great it was (Wii Sports has managed most of this free viral marketing itself) The public would have just continued buying Playstation produce if it was due to gullabillity, the Playstation brand had built itself up so large that non-savvy people refer to a console as a playstation even if it isn't.

What sells a console, and keeps it selling, is the game line-up, and the people have clearly chosen Wii for this.

Game line-up is what is keeping the X360 even with the PS3 (it had a headstart thus more games at the beginning, and more games meant more games sales, meant more games etc) This was why the PS2 was such a massive success, it had the PS brand behind it, as well as the headstart to build it's own line-up before the other consoles released.

Good marketing can only go so far, the momentum would have been lost as word spread that no-one liked the Wii.