| 1337 Gamer said: i woudnt say minimum as we dont know how they will market it. however i have more faith in NATAL than SONYs wand for one reason. MARKETING! M$ can market a product to no end and we've seen the success that has accompanied their marketing. however both will be hard pressed to reinvent the image of their console against the wii. the other important thing is what kind of support they will get. And that is really the make or break aspect right there. Good games will ensure sales and a lack of quality titles will hurt adoption rates |
Valid point, but no amount of marketing saved Vista and Zune.
A minimum success has got to be atleast 5 - 8 million (they are lowballing it simply because they just haven't targeted the wider market like Nintendo have this gen. BK3 and RC suggest this number is their starting figure).
What they want, Wii Fit numbers but its not likely to happen.
If they don't achieve more than 10 M bundling the Natal and PSmote with their next systems is realistically going to be less likely. They will stick with what they know.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
