Is the end of Wii finally beginning in Japan?

[twesterm]

sharky974 said:

twesterm said:

lol you can't combine the 360 and PS3, unless you want to combine the Wii and DS since those are both the casual markets.

And being able to walk into a store and buy the Wii isn't the end of the Wii unless you can say the Xbox 360 died in 2006 and the PS3 died early 2007.

 

False.

 

PS3 and 360 are essentially the same experience, just a slight variation on it. Most people will only buy one or the other.

 

One of the reasons Wii's "dominance" has been I believe vastly oversold while hardcore gamers are shortchanged is the simple fact that for sales numbers the hardcore/hi def market is divided in two (PS3 and 360) while the causual/waggle market only has one contender.

 

Imagine if the situation were reversed. Let us say PS3 was never released, so at least 80-90% of PS3 buyers each month would likely buy a 360 instead. Let us say also Apple had introduced a waggle console. Lets say we see this typical monthly NPD today:

Wii 600k

360 300k

PS3 200k

In the no Ps3/Apple waggle scenario, it would look like this:

 

360 500k

Wii 350k

Apple Wagglebox 250K

 

Nothing actually changed but I'd be willing to bet the mainstream pundits would have a massively different view on things. Suddenly the 360 would be portrayed as dominating and the Wii and Apple console as failures. When really nothing at all changed regarding the casual versus hardcore market share. The casual was simply split in two as the hardcore is today.

 

Also besides all that, if you add the DS to Wii then you must also add the PSP (it is more of a non casual "system") to PS3 and you lose even worse lol. That's just stupid. Leave handhelds out of this.

 

 

 

You do know that just because something has competition you can't give them a free pass right because that is what you're trying to do.

Also, you might want to add up the PS3, PSP, and 360 and compare them to the Wii and Ds numbers before making a statement like you did at the end.