Wii: What Happens When the Novelty Wears Off?

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staticneuron said:

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?

 

And here we go again... How many HDTV:s support 480p@60 through analog? How many HDTV:s support 720p or 1080p/i through HDMI? How many HDTV:s are actually EDTV:s? Do you gain better picture quality with Wii connected to HDTV? Usually these fanboys like to comment in a way, that Wii wouldn't work with HDTV or you don't gain anything from HD. And rewritable BD drive... In Finland it costs almost (at least last summer it did) the same than PS3. Anyway that wasn't the point. I don't personally see any benefit from read-only drive in TV-program/movie use. You see problem with PS3 is, that as a gaming machine, it's focus is too much out from gaming and you can't call it a decent PC either. Then what is it? A freakin TiVo. My point was that compared to media center/multimedia PC, PS3 pretty much sucks. Theres nothing that PC can't do that the PS3 does and PC is updateable. Since there was a comparasion to PC. So it's about different type of gaming. Everyone would be carrying barebone Nokias if that would be trendy. I think you turned this thing upside down. You should be asking that (since this topic was about Wii, this way it fit much better) why people buy barebone Nokias, digital cameras, portable VG consoles, MP3 players, GPS positioners, when a better Nokian can do all this. I am currently writing this post with a phone that can be used to make calls, video calls, send and receive SMS/MMS/email, take pictures/videos, play games that i can download, use as a map, listening music and radio, watching digital TV, as a modem for laptop and as you can see, i can even browse the internet with this. Why do people have PC:s. I bought mine for browsing the web, store my digital photos and burn them to CD/DVD and buy paper versions through internet. And of course to play starcraft. Now, the PS3 misses one of the most important functions; (re)writable drive and i also own a PC, why would i buy PS3 for doing what my PC can do? I can update it with rewritable BD drive anytime i want to. I can get a laptop with bigger HDD and rewritable drive much cheaper than PS3. Or a desktop even cheaper than that. And currently, i propably can get HD movies faster by downloading them from internet than buying discs from store/online.