Atari 2600 as a lesson to game designers ... and a foreshadowing of the Wii

[Ail]

RolStoppable said:

Ail said:
Except the huge majority of gamers purchased a NES and the majority of Wii owners are not people that used to be gamers ( at least that's what Nintendo is selling with Blue Ocean right ?)..
So I don't really see what the analogy is there....

The majority of Wii owners owned a console before. At the very most 20 % of Wii owners didn't own a console before. This logically means that a lot of PS2 owners now have a Wii and that number is increasing. Most of Nintendo's growth this generation (so far) comes at the expense of Sony which isn't surprising since the PS2 had the biggest marketshare by far, so by default most people who owned a console before the Wii, were PS2 owners.

The NES beat the competition (home computers of that era) due to accessible games and ease of use. The Wii is doing much the same this generation.

 

Where did you get those stats from ?

That does not seem to match Blue Ocean or the people that you usually see purchasing Wiis...( I might give you the households purchasing Wii used to have another console in the last 20 years , but 80% of Wii owners having a console last gen I somehow don't believe it...).

Wii Fit has sold to over 20% of the Wii user base for example, do you really believe most of the people purchasing Wii Fit had a console last gen ?

 

PS : I'm not the one claiming Nintendo is expanding the market like crazy, they are, and you seem to say no they are not and the majority of Wii owners had a console last gen ( 80%to quote you)