Wii: What Happens When the Novelty Wears Off?

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Avinash_Tyagi said:

ColonelFury said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

ColonelFury said:
The Wii's novelty will wear off when Sony releases their full motion sensing device for the PS3. Because now gamers will be able to have the best of both worlds. Full motion sensing with actual real next gen graphics.

 You think people will spend $599?  Keep Dreaming

 

Over 3 million people and counting have already spent 599.99 and some have spent more than 599.99 USD.

 Yeah, and the sales are slowing, those 3 million are what is called early adopters, the mass market won't pay that much

Check out the hardware sales comparison between the GameCube and PS3 in Japan to really understand Avinash's point.  PS3 sales are trailing off just as quickly and badly as the GCN's but it didn't have as big a launch.  The PS3 is now well behind the GameCubes low sales pace in Japan.  An even worse comparison, if you can bare to look, is PS2 vs. PS3 sales. Then you may begin to realize how much smaller the market willing to pay $600 for a box to play video games is.