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hardcore gamers and silly people are the reason.

plenty of hardcore gamers have the wii but plenty more have chosen to go with the systems that get more of the high quality 3rd party support which hasn't been the wii so far. in the next couple years though as the 3rd parties put more and more high quality games on the wii we should see the percentage of traditional gamers who have the wii rise.

then there's the silly people. these are the people who hate the wii without ever having played it because they're silly. all of these people refer to themselves as hardcore gamers and tell funny lies like the wii has only kiddie/family games, its not possible to make hardcore games on the wii, and motion controls suck (thats more of an opinion but anyone who has spent anytime playing the wii knows thats not true). these are also the people who think the wii is bad simply because it doesn't have super realistic hd graphics and consider it not even a real system because of that.

i met a silly person recently, his unnatural hatred for the wii was hilarious to listen to as he ranted on about things that clearly he didn't understand cuz he's obviously never played the wii before.

the silly people are sad people and take gaming way too seriously and don't appreciate games nearly enough to actually be hardcore, while the hardcore people are normal and happened to choose graphics and more 3rd party support over innovation and fresh experiences.

so the wii won't get as high a market share as ps2 because of the larger graphical difference between the ps360 and wii as compared to the xbox/gamecube and ps2. also cuz some people just refuse to try new things and won't even try motion controls because they are afraid maybe to change. and finally because while the ps2 had all the 3rd party momentum going into last gen wii had no 3rd party momentum going into this gen so it's taking 2-3 years before other companies besides nintendo are ready to put out a lot of high quality games when the ps2 had them all firing their engines for sony from the very start.



end of '08 predictions: wii - 43 million,  360 - 25 million, ps3 - 20 million

 

Games I've beat recently: Super Mario Galaxy, Knights of the Old Republic, Shadow of the Collossus

 

Proud owner of wii, gamecube, xbox, ps2, dreamcast, n64, snes, genesis, 3DO, nes, atari, intellivision, unisonic tournament 2000, and gameboy