Wii: What Happens When the Novelty Wears Off?

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Blue3 said:

LingLing said:

This article could have been written by Kwaad. The only difference was, that the author didn't call the wii a fad.

 

or maybe not every one buys into what the wii is selling.

Everything is a fad on a long enouth time line.

It seems that certain groups of people have terrible difficulty seeingsituations from outside their point of views. One group would be those that don't realize that probably a few Wii owners are not completely enamored by the games and the other group would be where this author belongs, the group that feels that the Wii needs deeper games. It may be tru to win over some converts but most seem happy with the titles that are out there. When I mentioned games to a Wii fan and he throws back red steel, excite truck, Wii sports and elebits. as "good" games, then I imediatly realize that we are on a different page.

And bdbdbd 480p is ED not HD and a blu ray rewritable for your PC should run you above $299, your implaying that you can get a decent computer for 300 bucks and even if you do manage to find one I don't see how it could comare to the PS3 in terms of playing games or console exclusive titles.

"That's the thing I think most PS3 fans miss ... Most products people buy are purchased for the primary use they were designed for. People buy iPods because they're an MP3 player, people buy cell-phones to talk on the phone, and people buy videogame consoles to play videogames. After they own it people may use their iPod to watch videos, their cellphone to take pictures, or their videogame console to watch movies but these are not bought for these uses."

 

Happy, what one reason did you initial purchase your computer for? Are you saying that if your computer did nothing else you would be satisfied? If people purchased Ipods just to play MP3 players.... why does it trump the other Mp3 players that do the same thing? If people purchase cell phones just to talk on cellphones why don't you see everyone carrying around barebone nokias?

Two things.... fad's and the fact that people actually do consider the additional functionalites/features of phone/car/cell/video game system.

 

EDIT: cklmb, name any system that cost as much as the ps3 that also had two very successful predacessors, a wide and varied amount of developer support, and has the largest first party game developer behind it?