Groucho on 19 January 2009
| Darth Tigris said: Yeah, those of us on VGC that look at the sales estimates here AND have been paying attention should've been aware of this for a while now. The Wii is a toy, folks. A TOY! A great selling, sometimes fun to play TOY! And there's nothing wrong with that. Except . . . . . . well, reports like this. People are buying it as if it were a toy instead of the GAME system that it is. So what are 3rd party devs supposed to do??? For the first time in the history of consoles, the top selling console does not sell 3rd party games the way that a top selling console should. What will that mean for the future health of the industry? A perfect storm is brewing . . . |
This data is very strong support for the "Wii and PS360 are not competing" thread that shows up all the time, honestly. If the 3rd parties are going to fail by producing gamer games, then they need to produce different kinds of games for the Wii than the HDs, since both appear to have an independant market segment of signifigant magnitude.
The only place the Wii truly "competes" with the HDs, therefore, would likely be in households where both a Wii and a HD console were present, as those people who choose a Wii "over" a PS360 are not even the demographic interested in the PS360 to begin with, apparently. In other words... the "blue ocean" customers. And yeah, there are a lot of them.
