If it weren't for Wii, I wouldn't own a console this gen.

[Grampy]

FryMyArse said:

TWRoO said:

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.

 

 

The PS2 is in year 8 (almost year 9) of its lifecycle.  More than 1500 games have been released for it, and continue to be released.  If all you can come up with are a handful of bad titles, that's just a drop in the bucket.  The Wii, on the other hand, have 270+ titles in its library, 80% of which range between below average to just plain awful.  The games just aren't there beyond a few 1st party titles.

The Wii is selling because of its price and because of its marketing, both viral and mainstream.  Good on them for inventing the next cabbage patch kid that everyone HAS to have...but the fact remains that once the novelty wears off it becomes like all the other board games that sit in the closet until Uncle Fred and Aunt Mabel visit from Grand Rapids and just HAVE to see that new-fangled Wii thing.

It's like a virus that keeps spreading, but eventually wears off.  You wake up one day and have Wii Sports and Mario Kart, and no desire to play it anymore.

It must be wonderful to live in your own little universe where you are so certain of your taste and judgment that anyone that disagrees with you is a gullible fool. And where mere facts and logic play no role since the Wii is not the lowest priced nor the most heavily marketed console.

It is an impressive virus that has continued unabated for two years. Even influenza only manages six months.

And bad luck, the novelty hasn't worn off obviously as game sales continue quit briskly unless you actually believe all those blue boxes in the best selling game charts each week are being bought to put in the closet on top of the game. But the good news is that you won't have to drag it out for Uncle Fred and Aunt Mabel because they bought their own after you showed it to them last year.

If there are a lot of crap game it is because there is an industry, fueled by reviewers and overrepresentation in gaming discussion groups that have been all too slow to recognize that the entire gaming industry does not have to be driven just by the need of males 15-25 to burn off excess testosterone through game of vicarious violence that won't send them to jail.