| ssj12 said: The Nintendo Wii is an interesting console on the market. At first glance you wonder if it deserves to be a next gen console. Taking another look you will wonder if it belongs in a different category. What I believe is that it is a part of its own breed of console; kind of like Arcade Machines or Handhelds. From what I can see is the console deserves to be considered as its own beast, the second of its own generation, and creative. |
That's wonderful. That's a very nice view of how wrong people can perceive the Wii. I'm sure the competitors, which are at a loss, view it like that too: completely the wrong way. And that's a big advantage for Nintendo, as to manage a threat, you first have to understand it. When you don't, it's nearly impossible to overcome a threat, except by luck.
And you can see the Wii is confusing those that don't understand it. Take the "generation" thing described here.
You don't "deserve" to be in a generation, you just are or you aren't. Just like you don't deserve to be in the next generation compared to your parents, you just are, or you aren't. When someone starts wondering if the Wii deserves to be in this generation of consoles, you know he's confused and don't know what he's talking about.
What’s so special to make it sell so well? Other than the price tag, it’s the easy to play casual games with the motion controls that is bring people of all ages to the console. The Wii doesn’t bring anything new to the gaming industry because Nintendo has already brought interactive gaming to the industry with the DS but it takes interactive gaming to an insanely high level making it the current beast of this generation taking the lead in worldwide sales pulling way ahead of the Xbox 360.
Trying to tell others what makes the console sell so well while you're confused is unwise, like shown here.
What makes the Wii sell so well is Nintendo's business strategy. Just having motion control and easy to play games is not enough to attract people that don't even check stores' videogame section.
And unless I'm mistaken, gaming was always interactive. Seems to me that's the core of gaming, interactivity, which differentiates it from movies. So this "interactive gaming" Nintendo supposedly brought is just more confused thoughts. Nintendo brought several things to gaming with the DS, AND with the Wii. But it's so innovative and so cunning, that it goes far above the head of most people. It's not hard to see someone who doesn't understand a thing of what Nintendo is doing: just ask what they think of the friends code, are they good or bad? Everyone that tells you they are bad are completely at a loss of Nintendo's strategy, lost in the old gaming world. You can't ask those people to understand that Nintendo brought several things to gaming with the DS AND the Wii.
The Wii is the second of its generation. What I mean by second of this generation is that it truly belongs in its own type of gaming experience. It’s like comparing PC gaming, Arcade gaming, Console gaming, and Handheld gaming. Comparing these is almost completely impossible to compare other then fact that they all play games. The Wii, following the DS, has created a sub genre or completely new genre of gaming that is called interactive gaming. The DS started the genre with its touch screen. It allowed interaction in games that no one has ever played before. With the Wii things changed instead of controlling with a small screen and a pen you have a modified TV remote and the nun chunk attachment which allows free movement and full interactivity with the game.
And the confused thoughts feast goes on. The Wii is console gaming, if you want to give it a "type of gaming experience". The interactive gaming nonsense is back too. The Wii didn't create a subgenre of anything.
And then, contradiction abound, which is to be expected when you're confused. So handheld and console gaming are different. How come then, that Wii is second of its generation, if DS is the first? As they are two different experience, the Wii should be the first of its generation. Oh, I see, DS is not a handheld, amirite? It's an interactive, amirite? Just like the Wii, amirite? And you actually believe your own bullshit?
I know you're confused, but that's bordering the insane territory there.
Creativity seems to have been Nintendo’s main plan with the Wii. Knowing that they wouldn’t have been able to match the power of the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 they settled with taking their interactive gaming genre to the next level. Using the creative minds behind the legendary franchises such as Mario and Zelda they invented the control system with the WiiMote. Sadly the 3rd party developers seem to be lacking innovative ideas and milking the Wii’s success; the 1st party developers on the other hand have yet to come out short when it comes to innovative interactive games.
Oh god! Nintendo could perfectly well produce a console as powerful or even more than the others, and cheaper. But there was just no point in doing that, as it didn't work last gen.
The 3rd party devs are suffering because they can't create games, just rehash the same old with better graphics. Sure it's easier, but no wonder then, that gaming was dying in Japan.
1st party devs are perfectly in tune with their new audience though. But the confused can't see that. To the confused, the new Wii audience have finished their games and are bored in a week. Wrong! The new audience can last one full year on a game like Wii Sports. It seems unbelievable to the confused.
Of course, Nintendo won't sell a lot of games that way. Nevertheless, this year was showing that Nintendo can support its console alone, which is an amazing feat. It also shows that 3rd parties had the unacceptable behaviour of having nothing ready to sell on the Wii.
As you can see Nintendo has taken a truly interesting path when it comes to their overall goal. Maybe what Nintendo said is true “We aren’t competing with the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360.”
That's true, they don't, as these can't even compete. Of course, the Wii is not even one year old yet, and the generation is far from being finished. But if the Wii comes out a distant 1st, I feel sorry for the competitors, because by just upgrading the power of the console, the Wii successor could destroy its competition, whatever power they have, and both Sony and MS seem at a loss as to how to react to this new Nintendo's business strategy.
They didn't even see it coming! Even while they were being steamrolled.
