| Astrodust said: I still see Nintendo winning the holidays this year. By winning Christmas they will have the momentum to carry them into 2008. Free publicity and such combined with Wiifit, SSBB, and Mario Kart means Nintendo will make news at least until the middle of next year. I think Sony will get a boost once GTA4, and MGS4 comes out but I still have 2008 going to Nintendo. I do see Sony winning 2009 with the release of FF13. |
Not necessarily true at all. Nintendo will likely have the ammo to counter FF13, whether from their in-house developers or from third parties.
Remember that Nintendo doesn't advertise/hype games until a few months in advance, or even announce them until there's some sort of demo available. Nintendo doesn't have the same approach as Sony does in that respect. Remember that Sony hypes their games for years in advance, while we don't even know what will be on the Wii past Q1 '08.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
