Thre needs to be an asterik by Wii Sports Numbers.

[The Ghost of RubangB]

txrattlesnake said:

"Shortages do not create demand. High demand means a product has a great value-to-cost ratio in the minds of the consumers. Part of this perceived value comes from the fact that it comes with a free game that you've actually heard of and seen all over TV (Oprah, Ellen, Conan, the Colbert Report, Jon Stewart at the Oscars, Jimmy Fallon, etc.)."

Well, then why were people buying 360's in holiday '05 for $3,000.00 when Microsoft told them that if they waited a few months, they would be able to get them for $399.99?

Those people are idiots, and not the majority of buyers.  It didn't make the 360 sell "more."  They would have to manufacture more units for that to happen.  That kind of panic where people pay more than retail happens AFTER something has "sold out."  It doesn't inflate demand.  It inflates eBay resale prices.

txrattlesnake said:

"This is true. When a company makes so many great games at once and releases them all so soon, they will sell a lot of software and a lot of hardware. Now why are you trying to make that look like a bad thing? Everybody else wishes they had that lineup that fast all to themselves."

Getting them all out when they did has kind of backfired on Nintendo as of late. Look at Japan, even the PS3 is outselling it.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.  Are you implying that the Wii would be selling better if it did not have as many amazing first-party sequels to beloved classics?

Or are you just trying to say "Look at Japan, even the PS3 is outselling it."?  Because the Wii is selling more than the PS3 and 360 combined worldwide.  It can afford to slow down a bit for now in Japan, where it currently has 65.63% of the total userbase.

txrattlesnake said:

"Hahaha, no.
We'd be having a ton of 2-D platformers and point-and-click adventure games. But all we get is cinematic FPS and cinematic RPG."

Yeah, like all the 2d platformers on the virtual console, Super Mario Galaxy, Zack and Wiki, New Super Mario Bros. on the DS, Super Smash Bros. Brawl which has some 2d platforming elements, games like Sam and Max, Strong Bad, Broken Sword also on Virtual console, more family friendly games on Wii like back in the NES days, and Little Big Planet on PS3 just totally don't exist do they?

You conveniently ignored my longer explanation.  The Wii has the best games of every generation on it, and the best games for the new gaming community it helped create.  So it is winning.

I didn't say that 2-D games or point-and-click adventure games don't exist, and I'm glad they're still around.  But 2-D platformers is not the dominant genre anymore.  There was a time where more then 2/3rds of games were 2-D platformers.  Now that's almost the case with FPS games.

I could probably list about 8 billion new shooters if you'd like to get the point I was making.