| City17 said:
The worry is that the new gamers Nintendo has lured into the market with its easy-to-use consoles—the DS uses a touch-screen and a stylus, and the Wii uses motion-sensitive controllers—are less committed to gaming when times get tough, and buy fewer new games. The success of the Wii and the DS may also have saturated the market. If so, new must-have software titles or hardware features will be needed to entice buyers back. |
Is there even a shred of evidence to support this paragraph? The fact that the Wii still sells so well in so many territories (including Japan) when it hasn't released key software for months indicates that new gamers are perfectly willing to buy games, even in a down market, but you have to release new stuff for them to buy.
I'd also like to point out that while the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan last month, that was a month where the PS3 released Resident Evil 5 AND Yakuza 3, two big-name games. The Wii's biggest release, by contrast, was...New Play Control Pikmin? I guess?
In spite of that, the PS3 only sold (I believe) 26,000 units more.
Long story short, the new gamers are here to stay, and they seem to be just as voracious about buying software as traditional gamers.
