RolStoppable said:
sharky said:
LG[Infinite] said:
The hysterical reaction from some sections of the gaming community is amusing. Interpreting the data should be fairly straightforward. Almost across the board, hardware sales dropped in Japan. The only exception to this was the PS3, but they had the release of a major game, which easily accounts for their modestly increased sales.
One could just as easily claim that the DS is doomed, given its reduced sales, but that hardly makes any sense does it? People screaming the Wii is doomed reek of confirmation bias. They have a hypothesis: the Wii is destined to fail. They see evidence that appears to support this hypothesis (see the previous paragraph, and note that I said 'appears'): they then swiftly conclude that their hypothesis must be true. This is poor, poor reasoning.
If we are to conclude that the Wii is failing we need better evidence. What we need is to observe the Wii's behaviour under circumstances where it should be successful (e.g. after the release of a major title). If sales continue to be sluggish then, or if they continue to be sluggish in the long-term, then we can come back to this topic.
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Umm, problem, the Wii has never needed software before to sell... |
So why did people get Wiis in the first place if not for the games? |
For wii sports and Wii play? It is almost every week in the Top 50 (Probably always in the Top 50).
