Nintendo: "We aren't competing with Sony or Microsoft"

[dharh]

HappySqurriel said:

dharh said:
It's true anyway. Last gen traditional gamers (aka PS2 and XBOX owners) are primarily PS3 and X360 owners. Wii owners are either brand new gamers, nintendo fans, or non-traditional gamers. The fact is the console market has segmented right down the middle 50% wii and 50% PS3/X360. There is just not much crossover.

When this gen ends im going to own probably close to 50 PS3/X360 games and maybe 5 wii games.

 

Being that most Wii owners owned a previous generation console, and many of the best selling games on the Wii would sell amazingly well on the XBox 360 or PS3, I personally doubt that the Wii is full of "new" or "unconventional" gamers ...

Now, I've played videogames since the coleco, have owned multiple consoles in every generation since the SNES was released, and I used to be an avid PC gamer ... I own an XBox 360 and a Wii, and my XBox 360's primary use is as a media center extender and I play games on it about 1/4 as much as I play games on the Wii; the reason for this is simple, like many people my age I became burnt out on FPS and online competition almost a decade ago after playing endless hours of online multiplayer on the PC.

Just because you were a traditional gamer then, doesn't mean you are now.  You're definitely not a traditional gamer now.  Even as you say, you have an X360 but don't play it nearly as much.  I own a Wii but in reality its a dust collector, I wouldn't call myself a wii gamer.

It shouldn't bother people being labeled traditional for much longer.  Traditional will eventually include the Wii point of view, and if things get really good for Wii or Wii-style gaming, it will completely take it over and "Old Style" will become the niche instead of half the market.