| PDF said: *************************************************************** I got hit hard by alot of you but that was expected. I would now like to respond to as many of you as I can. @end - I only had a ps1 and I was happy. I had no need for a N64. I only had a ps2, I had no need for a xbox. If you make the smart choice you can easily be satisfied with only one console. (I also have a comp for games) @misterd - I dint cherry pick those quotes somone else earlier on this forum did. I just reused them =). I think most Wii owners are like you and will buy another system but alot of 360 and ps3 owners will not. To answer your question. I think Sony has the most to learn and if they learn it the ps4 will be a very very good system. I think microsoft will try a more inovative approach to but marketing wise they are doing fine. I think the only thing Nintendo will do next time is make it more powerfull. (this time they will have the money to do so) @z64dan - I think that would actualy be very Smart of Nintendo not to wait and make a more hitech wii. (wii²-my sugestion as a name) or it could be a bad idea realeasing to early and people not ready to switch to a another new console already. @Bursche - My point is one I made earlier in this post. While more wii owners will switch than ps3 or 360 owners. I have no proof obviously just prediciton. There are stupid ps3 fanboys just like there are stupid 360 and wii fanboys. Not all Fanboys are stupid like some people claim. You can be loyal to somting without being stupid. @Avinash_Tyagi - For the Wii so sell more than the whole PS family it would have to sell. 102m(ps1)+120M(ps2)+the amount of ps2 still being sold + psp + ps3. = would probably equal over 300M. Even if it sales twice as much as the ps2 it still would need more. The ps2 was also $50 more and was also strained in production its 1st year. *************************************************************** |
Nintendo has ALWAYS had the money to make a more powerful system. They actually made a ton of money off the GameCube, and the GB/DS line has kept their coffers well stocked for over a decade. They didn't make the Wii more powerful because, for some reason, they think that customers don't want to spend $500 on a console, and that it makes little sense for them to lose $100-200 every time they sell a system. Crazy, I know, but whatcha gonna do?
As to the second point, I think "switch" is a poor choice of words. "Add" maybe. But switch implies giving up on one system and going to another. I think everyone recognized after E3 2006 that the PS3 and 360 would be largely redundant systems in terms of capabilities, gaming experience and 3rd party software, which would make the Wii if not gamers first choice, then their second (hence the birth of the Wii60s and PSWiis). And in the current market, being everyone's second choice can be enough to make you the industry leader.
