When will PS3 lose its momentum?!

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Shane said: As a rule, casual gamers aren't also early adopters. They're not gonna hunt for the system or pay top dollar. You can occasionally get Nintendo gamers to deviate from the status quo of buying Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, etc., but the only example I can think of during the current millenium is Sonic, which isn't that far a stretch from those. The last platinum third party game on a Nintendo console was Derby Stallion 96 on the Super Nintendo. FFCC, which I'd put in the same boat as DQS, moved 350k units, a modest success, but not spectacular. If DQS does sell well, though, it may pave the way for not a general increase in support but perhaps more spinoffs and/or major franchises.

Well I don't know if you wanted to counter my "don't underestimate the casual" rant before, but I do think that you failed to answer why the most sold games in Japan is Wii Sport and Wii Play not Zelda if only N-fans is buying it. Now of course I don't say that this will lead to magnificant sells of 3rd party games, but DS is showing that 3rd party offerings can sell well on Nintendo plattforms. If Nintendo is tapping the same crowd for the Wii as the DS (in Japan), I can't see why that the same sale numbers couldn't be seen. In USA I actuly think that the sales so far is pretty stable for 3rd parties not increadible but actuly not to bad either. To end this I must say that if it was only old GC fans buying Wii I don't we would have seen this rapid sell out over the whole world, especially not in Europe.