Why are people so threatened by the Wii?

[bloodwalker]

They are threatened because of many reasons: 1- Nobody thought the Wii will be as successful as it is now. PS3 and Xbox360 fanboys laughed at Nintendo's console and now they see that it might be No.1, leaving the other consoles in second and third place (if the stats continue like this, it may become real). 2- Noobs: Let's take Mortal Kombat Armageddon. In that game, with the wimote and nunchuck, a noob has a higher chance to kick a hard core gamer's ass. I see Pride threatened here. 3- Casual Market: Hard core gamer's don't admit it, but it's the new trend of the industry. Sony and Microsoft are going to that market because they saw Nintendo getting a lot of profit there. More casual games will come, that's for sure. But it's STUPID to think that we won't see more "hard core" games (the one that thinks this is retarded). We will see both kinds of games. Everyone will be happy 4- Fear to the changes: We were all used to see with each new generation better graphics and more raw Processing power, which is not bad. Nintendo pointed in another direction. The industry was leaving an important factor in a game because they were focusing in graphics and AI: How the player plays the game. Just tell me which is more realistic: pressing a button to swing a sword or a swing gesture to swing the same sword? (IMO, the Wii remote feels better than the Sixaxis on this).... 5- Developers. The Wii is becoming so successful that third party developers want to jump in and develop for it. It's cheap and easy to develop for it because it uses the same API as the Gamecube and the architecture is similar. So the learning curve to program for it is very short...... And if this keeps going there will be more exclusive games on Wii than on the other consoles... again a fanboy's pride is at stake (specially PS3 when they are losing exclusives: GTA IV, DMC4.....) 6- DS: We all know that DS pwns PSP worldwide. And gamers think that the Wii will do in consoles what the DS did in handhelds (Stupid thinking I might add) I love my Nintendo Wii and the games that will come for it... I don't hate PS3 nor 360, they will have really awesome games that I would like to play. They are all very good consoles If you like the trend, buy PS3 and Xbox360. If you like difference buy a Wii. If you like all and have a big, fat wallet, get them all and enjoy :)