The PS3 return ? Exclusivities won't help ...

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Malachi said:

bbsin said:

scottie said:
You guys honestly believe that the Wii is selling for any reason other than it having the game lineup that most gamers prefer

 

yeah.. it's called price. you'd have to be pretty ignorant to ignore it.

The Wii was by far the cheapest console upon release, which in turn helped it gain steam/momentum and popularity.

bottom line is that it takes 3 things to sell a system.

1. Pricing

2. Marketing

3. Software lineup.

anyone that thinks only one of these are enough to be a top selling console needs a reality check.

Unfortunatly for Sony, they are JUST starting to get number 3 (and perhaps number 2) down.

 

Pricing: I now await the day where the 360 will outsell the Wii, oh wait, let me guest it doesn't count because...errrr.. right, right, momentum forget the party line for a minute here.

Marketing: Yeah because Microsoft don't spend a shit load of money on marketing, no sir.

Give it up, trying to say that the Wii doesn't sell because of its game is crazy. Remove all the software and nobody would buy a Wii, no matter how much marketing or how low the price it it wouldn't sell, for the simple matter that it only play game and if there is no game, what good is it?

The 360 or the PS3 on the other hand, even without software they could sell, by changing the price and the marketing, IOW, by selling them much cheaper and advertising them as DVD/BR player.

Hrmm. you're not very smart are you?

I never said the Wii's softwareline was not a factor, I just said that software isn't the only factor in which it gains it's success. You need to learn to read and comprehend before getting defensive.

By the time the 360 had already gotten cheaper than the Wii, the Wii had already gotten a grip on the mainstream audience. How? by none other than, pricing and marketing. Marketing isn't only defined by how much money companies spend on promotions, it's how the companies give their product an idenity. The Wii was marketed as being the cheapest console that can cater to the entire family. Make the Wii a $400 console and market it towards the "core" audience and see how well Wii sports and MKwii sells. If you're really trying to argue that it only takes software to sell a console, then you really need to check yourself. If software was the only reason for the Wii's success, then plugNplay would have taken over the videogame industry years ago with the gamecube in second place.