Nintendo’s true competitor (Malstrom)

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

SuperAdrianK said:
This thread is moving fast!!!? (honest question) Is malstorm popular...

Somewhat, he was one of the few that accurately guessed the market when Analysts like Pachter were expecting Wii to end up in third and for Nintendo to leave the console market

One of the few analysts, you mean, because most common people immediately recognised Wii would succeed as soon as they saw it.

Those in denial were: rival fanboys, a part of hardcore gamers feeling threathened and "analysts" that never played a videogame. BTW, the only time when hardcores' fears really came true was when PC games ported to XB1 had to be crippled (or, worst, lobotomized) due to that console's limits compared to the average PC of its times and SW houses decided that it was "clever" and economic to cripple PC versions too.

 

Actually, this was well before people realized it would succeed, this was back when most were saying PS3 would win, lol Actually if you read some of the stuff back when the then Revolution controller was launched, people were predicting it was the end of Nintendo, and not just analysts, but gamers, it wasn't really until E3 2006 that people started getting behind the Wii

 

OK, with people you mean a lot of then existing "old style" gamers, but I'm meaning common people that suddenly got an interest in gaming they never had before just thanks to Wii. THIS latter common people understood how good Wii was before most gamers and analysts. The same happened with DS, it offered both games and a lot of nice and sometimes even useful apps that appealed people that never played videogames before, or felt very little attraction for them.