When will PS3 lose its momentum?!

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Shane said: That's what I meant by relevant audience. I'd imagine the casual gaming audience is extremely minimal, particularly at this point, but who is buying the system is primarily hardcore gamers but more importantly hardcore Nintendo gamers. They want their favorite characters but don't go for all the bloodshed. There is a mature market on Nintendo systems, but it's not the predominant group as it is on Xbox and PlayStation. Even without the mature themes, third parties will have difficulty selling their games as well as they will on other platforms, and most are aware of this. So this makes it a difficult balancing act as to how you best utilize the Wii's userbase without overextending yourself.

I think you are underestimating the number of casual gamers buying a Wii. Espcecially in Japan were Wii play and Wii Sport is the system seller. More I think that you are underestimating Nintendo fans. There is at least some N-fans that I know that thinks Godfather sounds really fun because of the motion thing. Of course if that means any sales I don't know, especially when it isn't advertised... So far Wii is in a try out period, 3rd party sales in Japan is really poor, USA seems to be in better shape so far (really waiting for the March numbers here) with a 1.588 attach ratio and some of those games are mature titles. Now of course we all have to wait and see, I hope we will see good sell numbers on, No more heroes, manhunt 2 and Godfather. If that happens we might find that Wii will get a spinoff on GTA or anyother big series. For Japan the big 3rd party test will be DQS.