Yahoo: The 'Wii Crash' of 2009

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hsrob said:

Laffer said:
The Wii sales were always a miracle for me, but at a time it has to come to an end. The hardware is outdated and ridicolous keeping in mind the price tag. It is the power of the Playstation 2 for more than twice the price.

Nintendo took the family games invented by Sony and marketed them right. All this Wii Sports Stuff etc was existing before in some form on the PS2 using the PS2's Webcam Playstation Eye.

I could never understand why Sony always (up until now) underestimates what they somehow created (Family Games). Friends of mine were playing FITNESS Games already several years ago with their PS2 and the Playstation Eyecam.

The biggest part of Wii buyers are casual gamers without any technical knowledge about the platform. They do not know about Full-HD etc. Of course there are also a lot of Fanboys from former Nintendo Consoles, but already the Gamecube was no match for the PS2 or XBOX.

The real gamers which have 20+ games and regulary are buying games are not the Wii Clients, but people owning "real" consoles like PS3 and XBOX360.

To create complex long motivation games, the Wii is not a serious platform because of the Hardware Limitations.

So having other Games than Wii Sports and Wii Fit up to the Top Sales slots would surprise me. Nintendo is lucky because they can already make money out of the Hardware. If not, things would not look that rosy....

But now Wii Sales may start to decline but I doubt that I Wii 2 would save it...

1. No.

2. Sony invented family gaming?  If you are in fact 40 as your profile suggests i can only assume you were in a coma for the first 35 years.

3. Show me the proof, this is unsubstantiated fluff.

4. The Gamecube was no match for these systems how?  In sales compared to the PS2, i'll pay that but the Xbox only marginally outsold the Gamecube.  If you are talking in technical terms, it was mid-way between the two, so wrong again.

5. Real, is this the new hardcore?  I think you'll find plenty of real gamers on this website who play alot of games and are Wii clients.

6.  I don't even know what this means but hardware limitations will nearly always take a backseat to creative limitations.

7.  If Nintendo is 'lucky' as you put it, then they have been lucky for over a hundred years, making it the luckiest company in the history of the world.  While some call it luck, most call it good business sense.

8. Wii sales WILL start to decline but it's also quite possible that they MAY start to rise first.

 

I also want to have a stab at Laffer.

1. Wii is more powerful than the GC, which was more powerful than the PS2.

2. Even if Nintendo "stole" Sony's "family games", then they still wouldn't be even for the clear copying Sony has done, i.e. the analog stick, Motion sensing (Powerglove, Woot.), the basic controller design for the Playstation was taken from the SNES design.

3. Really? Friends of mine were using the Powerpad way before Sony decided to get into gaming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Pad So no, Sony did not create fitness games. Stop BSing.

4. I have full knowledge of the techinal capabilities of gaming consoles, as do all of the Wii owners I know.

5. Already been mentioned.

6. Zelda. Metroid Prime 3. Two right there.

7. I don't know what you meant. At all. Um.. Yeah, all I can say is that Nintendo is good at buisness.

8. I doubt that.