| TheSource said: I was pretty sure Wii would do well once I had it in my dorm room, and girls and people from other rooms were coming by to play Wii Sports for weeks. I can't remember a bigger launch game in my lifetime, Call of Duty 2, Smash Brothers, Halo, Resistance, Super Mario 64, Super Mario World, Super Mario 64DS, I can remember the hype but they just weren't as universally loved games despite the hype you see and can measure on the internet. Wii Sports was a great ice-breaker for everyone on my campus, and I suspect that we weren't the only one. The arguments back then were focused on whether enough of the upcoming content would be able to make PS3 more viable longer term. When PS3 sold 260,000 between April and June 2007 though that ship kind of sailed in the USA/Americas. Europe had a big launch, but it dried up fairly quickly...
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six months after the Wii was released I still wasn't sure how it was going to perform in the long run. I saw allot of posts around the internet like 'it's a Fad'... 'It's not nex-gen'... generally negative comments most likey attributable to frustrated fanboys from other camps. I think the only ones who really understood how massive it was going to become were the guys at Nintendo. Graphically, it's nothing new... but gameplay wise, it doens't get more 'nex-gen' than that. When you completely change the way people play games and along with that, get everyone from 5 year olds to 55 year olds and beyond wanting to experience it, you got a monster. Actually, it's pretty sweet to watch... this coming from a guy who's all 360.
