Reggie Interview; Wii sales, Competitors' attempts at Innovation

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Arius Dion said:

Fils-Aime: We have near-term, mid-term and long-term opportunities. The near-term opportunity is the consumer who owns an PS3 or an Xbox 360 and has been bad-mouthing Wii to their friends. We can reach that consumer with games like The Conduit or Tiger Woods with Wii Motion Plus. The mid-term opportunity is the more mainstream consumer who saw Wii at a friend's house but just needs a little extra incentive to get into our game. That's what Wii Motion Plus and Wii Fit Plus and new Super Mario Bros. Wii will hopefully achieve. And the long-term opportunity is that person who currently says, "I don't play video games and I have no interest in playing video games."

What about the Halo audience?
Fils-Aime: We think we win over the Halo audience with something like The Conduit, a multi-player, online, shooting experience, or Dead Space Extraction. And you know what? Once those people buy into Wii, they'll go buy Mario Kart or Wii Fit Plus. We're not going to be satisfied just picking up that existing gamer. We have to reach beyond and get that consumer who doesn't game. That's the only way we'll be able to continue growing as a company and as an industry.

This guy is more delusional than previous Sony execs if he belives Conduit is going to make Sony or X360 players drop 250$ on Wii and another 50$ on game just to play The Conduit.  Oh yeah and I bet that shooter on rails is going to make so huge impression on people who enjoy KZ2 or GeoW2

Well at least i can agree with him on Mario Kart thing but Wii Fit Plus is again laughtable.