PS3 had best lineup for holidays,Wii had worst = Wii sells 4 times more.

[Shanobi]

BTFeather55 said:

Shanobi said:

BTFeather55 said:
Even if Nintendo had nothing to do with the fact that there were shortages of the Wii during Christmas '06 and Christmas '07 (I suspect they had more to do with it in '07 than '06), a shortage of Wiis on the market during those times would have heightened demand for the Wii because it is a basic psychological trait of humans that they tend to want what they can't have. And anybody that saw how sales bloomed for the 360 during Christmas '05 when 360s were going for $3,000.00 on ebay would have been tempted to try to market their console in much the same way.

Now, Sony didn't do that because they were thinking it's the Plystation 3, it well sell megatons. Nintendo might not have had anything to do with it, it could have been clerks at Game Stores getting Wii's buying them with their company discounts then turning around and selling them for two to three times what they paid for them on ebay, the perceived shortage combined with press reports still resulted in heightened demand for the console. Christmas '08 sales can be explained by what people wanted finally being available in stores in larger amounts, but this could also lead to a cooling off period for Wii sales unless more must have games are soon released.

If the Wii's Christmas '09 lineup of games is perceived to be as weak as its Christmas '08 lineup, then the Wii won't sell as many consoles next holiday season as it did this past one.

 

 

The whole "there was a shortage that caused demand" arguement never works.

Here is my answer to that:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwiE0S0x314

 

 

        Without the heightened demand, the Wii would have just been a fad.  As I said earlier, it is a basic human psychological trait that humans want what they can't easily have.  You show one Youtube video of folks wanting to check out the Wii at E3 2006 but hadn't Nintendo been heightening demand for it before then by releasing very little information about it in comparison to the PS3 and 360 at E3 2005 for example, then calling it The Revolution making people think it was a super system of some sort then changing the name to the more curious Wii?

  I can name at least one billion dollar industry that soley exists on the principle of showing people what they want yet can't have.  Most of its products are made in the Simi (sp?) Valley.

 

 

Keep telling yourself that.

 

It tells me that you think very highly of yourself, and not so much of others. Everybody I know that bought a Wii, did so after playing mine.

 

Seriously, prove they made a shortage. You can't. The numbers don't add up. 

And did the demand come first, or after? Because it seems those systems were flying off of the shelf from day one. Even when the system was in shortage, they were turning out more almost a million systems a month. When has this industry seen that kind of demand? Are you going to tell me that they knew, before the system launched, that it would be selling greater than anything we've ever seen in gaming, and that in their clairvoyance, they decided that the record production per month they were manufacturing was not going to be enough?

 

But hey, if you still want to cling to "fad" arguements, then by all means do so. It makes you look silly, though. Also, why isn't it a fad to own a 360, then? Is it not "cool" to own a 360, if you're hardcore?