"Resource shift to the Wii"

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Shane said: Gamecube's launch was massive by any standards. But it fell off from there quickly. This is one thing people seem to fail to realize is that a system can sell well for a couple months, but it needs to continue to do so in order to be a success. That's why this "Wii's been selling well for 3 months and is now going to dominate the world" BS doesn't cut it. Sony was the status quo by the time N64 launched. As a result, nobody pushed the panic button when Nintendo passed it because they knew it was going to be short lived. Nintendo's always dumbed down their systems. With the SNES, they chose a slow processor, which wrote Sega's marketing for it. With N64, they went with carts. For 20 years, we've listened to them drone on about how only gameplay matters, while the competition provided good gameplay just with updated graphics. Shortcuts have never paid off for Nintendo before.

Well the GC was superior to the PS2 and still it sold like crap (and if you notice my signature you might se what I bought) so no power is not everything. If it was Xbox should have beaten PS2 and GC with tons of sales. We can't be 100% sure that Wii will win anything, but for the moment it has good press and it seems to get some more support. I wont say if we know if the Wii will drop of in one month from now. But we do now that 1, PS3 is selling crap in both USA and Japan now. 2, Xbox360 is selling decent in USA (beaten by the PS2 I can't say that it is selling great) 3, Wii is selling great in Japan and USA. Of course two month from now this might change, but from a devs point if you are going to start a new project point 3 is very intressting. Nothing indicates that Wii will drop of soon. Xbox360 is always a given choice because the good software sales. PS3 can always get a port, but honestly can you see 3rd party devs continue to support PS3 with exclusivs if it starting to sell more?