Lifespan of the Wii?

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Legend11 said:

I'm just surprised that a machine with 88megs of memory, a 729Mhz processor, and a gpu clocked at 243mhz is going toe to toe and winning against far more power machines.  It'll be interesting to see how the machine ages compared to the other two consoles. 

I have a feeling that starting next year both Microsoft and Sony will play up the stats of their machines compared to the Wii (sort of similar to what Nintendo and Sega once did except this time the numbers will be so lopsided that people will do a double take).  I know if I was marketing either machine that's what I would do to try to stop the Wii juggernaut.  I doubt the vast majority of Wii consumers know just how weak their system is compared to the other two and think because it's next generation it must be near similar in power when they aren't even in the same league.

You could think that console does not age, as long it's popular and gets games at decent rate. It's not the power, it's the gameplay. Besides, i think everyone knows, that high-end PC:s are more powerful than high-end consoles. You see, if you want powerful machine to play with, you buy a PC, if you want better gameplay, you buy a console. Now someone might mention the price between high-end PC and console, and thats true. Consoles compete against PC:s with price and useability. Now looking at how gameplay differs between 360/PS3 and Wii, we have a similar argumentation, between differen consoles, that what we had between PC gaming and console gaming. Oh, PC also has free online and superior community than all the consoles combined. I think it would be bad marketing to focus on competitors weaknesses instead of own strengths, the point is to make people realise themselves, in which one console is better than others. And with Wii, its strenghts are more easy to see.