IGN N-Podcast 60 and Summary - How Wii doesn't even compare to Current Gen.

[Mr Khan]

The_vagabond7 said:

Mr Khan said:

 

Shouldn't that make it more successful, then? If it's overpriced, underpowered, and lacking in every conventional category, and yet beating the pants off of its competitors, how is it a failure?

 

And no, we're not complaining because we "would rather have them cup Nintendo's balls while they are working the shaft." We're calling them out because their opinion is founded upon misguided ideas. Hiding behind the claim that theirs is a legitimate opinion is a flimsy one, and once again, it's as much about how you say it as what you say. These guys are trolling. They're not trying to incite debate or offer a reasoned opinion, they're trolling for clicks.

Only if you define success as sales, and only if you value sales over the quality of the product. At no point have they claimed the wii was selling poorly, they give credit where credit is due.

 

So the wii does have comprable online functionality, friend to friend networking, multimedia functionality, is in fact better off lacking a gamerscore of anykind, is competitively priced for the technology and functionality being offered? Or is it not competing?

Or are they just being mean?

I will agree. Wii is sharply inferior on those points, often because it utterly lacks those features and makes no attempt to compensate for them. But this is a non-quantifiable competition. Value is subjective, just as values are subjective. The open market is the only way to level that subjectivity