"System Seller"

[goddog]

puffy said:

goddog said:

think the first halo halo:ce on the xbox until it started getting other games around when xboxlive started .... that game kept the xbox alive .... that is a system seller.... think FFVII a game which put a genera and a console on the map.

most of the time the have to be exclusives to qualify, and have such a pent up demand/hype for the game that its launch effects sales for months afterwards. honestly I dont think we have really had one this gen yet.... wii sports does not sell the wii, motion controls sell the wii.

honestly the wii has turned the concept on its head it has no system sellers. the wii is a software seller for nintendo

 

I STRONGLY disagree with that.

Wii Sports is the reason so many Wii consoles have sold. Do you think the mass market would have bought the Wii because it has motion controls or because they had a fun experience playing Wii Sports Tennis or Bowling or Golf?

I know quite a few people who also bought a Wii solely for Wii Fit.

If you honestly believe that hardware sells software and that software doesn't sell hardware then you're delusional

 

you break your own argument by including wii fit which is more hardware then software. and yes I do think it would be doing as well with a different pack in. wii sports is the beneficiary of being the choice, it could have easily be wii play or some other game. look at the sales of main line nintendo  games your going to tell me those are normally attachment numbers? then why didnt the cube or the 64 pull off that type of stunt 

 

on top of this, with out motion controls there would not be wii sports or wii play

 

  edit *because with out motion, and using traditional mechanics wii sports and wii play would be nothing but early last gen pedestrian games... the motion physics is what makes them unique