| Shane said: 5-95 still falls into the family-oriented spectrum. They're not gonna get the college FPS player with what they're offering. PS3 will come down to mass market pricing eventually. No, MySims isn't an AAA title. I'll give it one A. Maybe. EA is putting more money into Wii projects... more money than it put into Gamecube projects. |
You can basically break the market into 2 (uneven) groups ...
80% - People who are likely only going to buy 1 console
20% - Multiple console owners
The Wii is designed to apeal to the 80% of the market who are only going to buy one console; for the most part these people are not early adopters and are unlikely to spend more than $200 on a console. The XBox 360 and PS3 are designed to apeal to the 20% of the market who are going to buy multiple consoles. The way this may work out is that (over the next couple of years) the Wii will sell well in single console homes which will block the sale of another console, and sell well to multi-console owners because they tend to own (nearly) every console.
The college gamer is very likely going to buy a Wii because it is very inexpensive and trendy at the moment; they may have/buy an XBox 360 or PS3 as well but that really doesn't matter to Nintendo that much.
