| super_etecoon said: Judging by the poll question that's been up for the last week, quite a bit of forumites are Wii owners. It's been making me wonder what happened between this and last generation. Has Nintendo really hit the blue ocean, or are these sales just the fanboys who would have bought a Gamecube 2, as long as it had Zelda, Mario or Metroid on it? So I'm doing a little survey here of Vgchartz members who own Wii consoles. What was your main gaming platform last generation? Did you own a Gamecube? What about an N64? Please, this is a poll for Wii owners only. No flaming, no trolling. |
I think there is a combination of both, new 'blue ocean' users and Nintendo faithfull. The people on this site that you will hear from are the Nintendo faithfull or general gamers who just like videogames and probably will buy atleast 2 consoles. Afterall, you kinda have to be a pretty regular gamer to want to be on a site like this.
To answer your questions....
The last two gens I was really busy in school (obtaining my Bachelor's) and thus didn't really have time to game as much as I would have liked.
I bought a N64 soon after release, when I was really early in school and didn't realize how much time it would take. I bought a handfull of games and then a year after when I realized that I just didn't have the time to play games I gave it to my little brother.
When I was nearly finished with my degree, in my last year (2004), I went ahead an bought a gamecube off a friend with the Zelda compilation disc and two wavebirds for $80. I barely played Majora's Mask, since I had gave away my GC before it came out, and then when I graduated bought Metroid Prime 1.
I have always enjoyed Nintendo games better than anyothers and it was a very easy decision of what I was going to buy for this gen. I gave a way the GC early 2005 and two of the then 4 wavebirds I owned knowing that I would be buying a Wii and then finish up MP1/2.
I have owned every Nintendo console, and probably will continue to do so. I will probably never buy a 360/PS3 as I just don't have the time to enjoy more than one console and with the plethora of game chioces I have on Wii from old school favorites to new stuff I don't see myself ever being without something to play.
