Microsoft: '2010 will be the Biggest Year in Xbox History'

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TheSource said:

"Didn't they say that..."

I probably explained this the wrong way, but my point was if you say this every year and most people keep choosing other content year after year it probably isn't a valid statement. Capitalism tends to sort things pretty quickly. People aren't idiots. They don't like wasting their money, and they certainly wouldn't waste it year after year after year. That 2007 statement just looks ludicrous to me because there is no wide-spread objective measure of game quality in this industry, and there never has been frankly simply because reviews are dependent on the talent of the reviewers as gamers, as opposed to movie reviewers, music reviewers or book reviewers.

The vast majority of people don't give a damn what I or some other guy on the internet says, or even what meta-critic says about some lineup of games and so those services work as echo chambers for people with a certain skill-level - its not an affirmation of near universal quality that everyone can enjoy. Most people just ask their friends, rent titles first, or look at the game box.

If you accept that as how most purchasing decisions are made, then the Wii attach rate and X360 attach rates make more sense. Through September 2009, Wii SW / Wii System was 7.7/system, while X360 SW / X360 System was 8.7/system. You can say alot of the Wii sw is from Wii Sports. But X360 has had numerous sw bundled too. If you factor that in you get ~6.9 Wii games/system against ~8.4 X360 games/system. Factor in the years on the market - three for Wii, and four X360 and the game purchasing rate for Wii/year is actually higher than on X360/year. 8.4/4 = 2.1 games per year, 7/3 = 2.3 games per year - both excluding bundles and those ratios are with the Wii software market being larger.

 

He never said the 360 is going to outsell the Wii, he said the 360 is going to have it's best year to date, it terms of quality, content and sales. The Wii sells more than the 360, that's about it. While, it's easy to compare the Wii to the PS3, The 360 can handle itself even better. It has a better community, a bigger, better game library, online : not even fair, and soon better motion controller. The 360 sells first party and third party games with no problems. The 360 gets the games the Wii as the leader should be getting.

So, please enough, you were wrong in your first statement and now you are making it worst, espacially after the Yankees destroyed the Phillies