Do you think the Wii is losing Stamina?

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Ail said:

TheSource said:

Not really.

Punch Out, EA Active, Guitar Hero, Wii Sports Resort and Motion Plus are enough to kick Wii up again from May on in the west.

PS3 outselling Wii 4:1 in Japan looks like a one week thing. When PS3 jumped to 77k on MGS4 in June 2008 it fell to 23k the next week, so its not unreasonable to expect PS3 back to 20k-25k in Japan next week, while Wii can jump to 30k-35k if Monster Hunter G tops 100,000. For the year, Wii:PS3 will be under 2:1 I imagine, but that is unlikely to happen in the western markets because the Xbox 360 takes half the PS3 market. In Japan, it takes maybe 1/4 of it which is why PS3 has had spikes above Wii in Japan fairly frequently but rarely in the west.

 

I would doubt the capacity of games like Punch Out to boost hardware sales.

Saying this would imply that more traditionnal/core games is what made Wii success and that is not the case.

Wii success was based on marketing and selling new kind of party games.

The only game in that list that has capacity to boost sales is WSR and the question is whether people that did not purchase a Wii yet despite Wii sports, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit are going to be compelled to buy one because of WSR.

For WM+ I think it will be a success among current Wii owners but I don't feel it will expand the Wii market, technology is not why people have been purchasing the Wii.......

 

Basically everyone criticizes analysts for using old console paradigm to judge the Wii and you are doing exactly the same thing there...

 

Punch out IS going to do that. It's going to be a bridge game that will reach a wide audience. Just watch.