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Dinomax on 13 January 2009
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BMaker11 said:
Dinomax said:

However you fully know that the "elephant" isn't as big as you make it out to be. Both 360 and ps3 (soon) will have outsold the gamecube and xbox 1 in much less time. The market for HD gaming represents much bigger gaming pie than GC and Xbox 1 did anyways and are definetly worth discussing on their own terms...

Yeah that elephant isn't big at all, it just captured 50% of the market really quick, having much larger software sales and will be a bigger influence on the future of gamers and mainstream now.  Its no way as important as fighting the HD war because we all know, fighting on the smaller market and not making a profit is how its done. 

 

Now excuse me I'm going to put my head in the sand.

 

In any case...if you want to discuss wii sales with the HD consoles, make a new thread. Have enough respect not to troll and spread the "Wii rules because it sells a ton...but I play my 360" awareness with every post you make.

 

How about, ""I play all my systems equally so I laugh at people who think otherwise?""  sounds good?

 

I think what Disolitude is trying to say is, stop trumpeting the Wii's horn because despite it selling a ton, it doesn't get those "industry leading" 3rd party games. Sure, YOU may get to play them, but that's because in order to you were forced to buy an HD console. But if you only had a Wii, you wouldn't be able to, despite it being this apparent "elephant" with 50% market share.

And in response to the first bolded....sure larger software sales....on games from Nintendo's first party. Abysmal sales from the COD series, NMH, Trauma Center, Zack and Wiki. etc aren't going to be a "bigger influence on the future of gamers" when similar games on the HD consoles sells millions

 

Industry leading? 

 

Time to check up on the sales stats, Nintendo are the industry leaders in software sales.  Not third partys.  The two most dominating platforms today are dominated by Nintendo. 

So what does that mean?  The majority of people and gamers are buying *drum roll*  Nintendo software.  They themselves are the biggest influence on the future of gaming because lets face it they got THE MAJORITY OF CUSTOMERS.  We can toot our horn all we want on the HD consoles getting more third party support but in the end it doesn't really matter. 

Nintendo won.  Its exactly, maybe even more sad to argue over secound place now than it was during the PS2 era because now in this case ONE company now literally has most of pie (pretty much the bakery) in gaming. 

 

Once again, I like HD gaming.  But we gotta let it go and accept whats to be.