Legend11 said:
HappySqurriel said:
Legend11 said:
bdbdbd said:
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. |
A lot of companies have charts comparing their product to the competition and it both plays up their strengths and showcases their competition's weaknesses. Here's an example of what the chart would look like for Microsoft: "Now who's playing with power?" Xbox 360 Wii Ram 512MB 88MB CPU 3200Mhz PPC Triple-Core 729Mhz PPC GPU 500Mhz 10MB eDRAM 243Mhz 3MB eDRAM* High Def Capable Yes No *Nintendo refuses to give out more information on it's GPU or to give any comparison benchmarks against the Xbox 360. It's believed that their GPU is a generation or possibly two behind the Xbox 360's so the comparison stats for the GPU do not give an accurate representation of how much more powerful the Xbox 360's is compared to the Wii's. |
And this will look to most consumers like: "Now who's playing with power?" Xbox 360 Wii ??? 512?? 88?? ??? 3200??? ??? ??????-???? 729??? ??? ??? 500??? ??? ????? 243??? ??? ????? ??? ??? ??????? Yes No |
Really? It works in other types of sales and has worked in the past for consoles (Nintendo actually used a chart during the snes/genesis days). People who buy consoles aren't more stupid or any different than people who buy other types of things. Look at computers, AMD had to adopt their processor rating system (2500+,3200+,etc) because the people who don't know what's under the hood used numbers in order to figure out roughly how powerful systems were to each other. |
That could work between 360 and ps3 but not with the wii. wii is from a different league because of the new way to play games. Look at Tiger Woods sales: do you think power matters that much for those who bought it. Imagine what could be with Harry Potter: you do magic spells with the wiimote just like you would use a wand... how can "oh, but 360 and ps3 harry potter are HD" top that?
