Lifespan of the Wii?

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Legend11 said:

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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.

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.

 

Or should there read after the "*" that "since Nintendo refuses to give out any technical information about GPU and CPU, we just pulled these numbers out of our ass". Or the correct way using the official information: 360: RAM 512 MB Wii: RAM yes * 360: CPU triple core 3200 MHz PPC Wii: CPU single core IBM PPC "Broadway" * 360: GPU 550 MHz 10MB eDram Wii: GPU ATI "Hollywood" with eDram * 360: HD Wii: No HD *Nintendo refuses to give out any technical information consisting the power of the Wii. And this type of listing would make Wii look equal to 360. Only way to market 360 so, that it wouldn't look stupid, would be "cheap HD" (Core version), and this would be targeted more to Sony, when Sony would attack with "everything what PS3 can do". Only argument from M$ against Wii is "no HD".