We go again back to portability. You make a game for Wii, you're making a game for Wii. You make a game for PS3, you can pop it on 360 quickly. You don't necessarily have to, but at least you have that option.
You make a game for Wii you can port it to PSP/PS2 you don't have to but you can.
PS3 is selling pretty damn well for a $600 system with no games. Whether it should have been a $600 system in the first place is debateable, but they're at a point of no return for that.
I think stof had the best comment on this agrument: To say that a system sells good for a 600 USD system is to say that ti doesn't sell well. Or at least something like that. PS3 isn't selling well, is it because of the price, yes, does it matter no!
Nintendo may take a brief lead on the basis of its early fanbase/pricing advantage, but as the other systems get lower prices and more games, that won't be maintainable. Sony can see significant improvement by just lopping $100 off the system's price every year. Nintendo really can't boost demand in that same fashion.
And wii will get more games and a lower price tag. Now if PS3 gets a 100 USD lower price each year they will reach 300 USD in 2009. If you don't think Wii can be as low as 150 USD then and still sell a lot I wounder in wich fantasy world you live in. There is also one big different for the moment, if nintendo succed with their goal in bringing new people into gaming they don't need to fight a price war against Sony or xbox360. More important as it seems now, Nintendo doesn't need to boost their demand. PS3 needs it.
Has Nintendo expanded the portable market in Japan? No (perhaps there are new buying segments, but they've got a long ways to go to catch the original GB). Will they? Probably.
Nintendo DS has sold to new gamers, point end of story. Again Nintendodogs in Europe is bought by mostly femals. Brain Training by elder people WW.
Why would Konami spend $20 million creating a game, then just drop it? No way in hell this project is getting cancelled. Worst case scenario: it gets ported to 360.
Don't now what you are talking about here but I think that I never have stated that a company would cancel a 20 million dollar game. If I have missed a game that is arriving before end of august please let me know.
I was expecting more out of Sega from both Sonic and VF5. This is a company that's slowly slipping off the map and needs to find a way back. I don't think Nights is that way. The JSRF/GT pack-in was exceptional with 2 million people picking up games they otherwise weren't bothering with, but they failed to capitalize on it.
Nice to hear but I still think that 90% of the old Sega fans (that still belives) will buy a Wii to buy VC games and Nights.
Evolution's pretty unestablished in the US, so Motorstorm is pretty much entirely dependent upon marketing. The first thing Sony's really got that may drive sales is Lair, but anyone expecting monthly sales above 200k before fall is kidding themselves.
Yes and that is the problem, nothing will get the PS3 above 200k meanwhile both Wii and Xbox360 is selling more. How big lead do you think xbox360 can have when PS3 finally start selling above 200k. Remeber it is not only PS3 that has to sell well, it has to sell a lot more than xbox360 so that it can pass the 5 million lead it has in USA.
What the ease of porting does is give developers a way to offset development costs. It does mean there is potential for both 360 and PS3 to have similar libraries, but it also means there is potential for both to get most games.
Yes but what would you as a pure gamer buy? A consol for 400 USD or one for 600 USD? Remember we are not discusing if PS3 will have games or not we are discussion the lifespann of Wii and that only PS3 can reach 100 millions.
GBA only had about a 3 year lifespan in Japan. I rolled my eyes at the "three-pronged" strategy because I knew the market would not adopt two portables from the same company, and apparently the entire nation of Japan did the same.
So? The statment was to make it possible to gain time against PSP.
For Wii, the big question is how long demand will continue to go like this. PS3 will definitely see a boost, though it won't be any time soon.
Well Wii Sport has been in the top ten since launch, which is the main driving point. Brain Training 2 which started the fast sells in Japan is still strugling along and have sold insane numbers. If Wii Sport can make a BT2 I would say that we could find that the demand will last a couple of years. Wii will also get new games will be released.
PS3 will probarbly get a boost with both FF and MGS, if that will affact Wii sales at all I don't know. Looking at the DS vs PSP when MHP2 arrived the PSP got a boost but that didn't stop DS sales. If Nintendo is really succefull the first year we might find that whatever PS3 does in Japan they will stay in the lead because of Wii Sport or similar games.
Again the important thing here from my point of view is not that PS3 might not sell or will lose, that is not what I am argumenting for. I am saying that it isn't safe to say that the market will chose Sony because their two first consols sold really well. I am also saying that Nintendo can reach insane levels of succes, if they succed with their goal: Bringing new people into the gaiming arena. I am also stating that Wii most probarbly will win Japan this time.
Buy it and pray to the gods of Sigs: Naznatips!
