| Strike24 said: That remains to be seen. Support from developers and price will be a huge issue here for Natal and the Arc, and it could be a complete success or failure based on these aspects. People will start expecting ports of games that the Wii had originally. Developers will see a new marketing audience out of the more expansive gaming crowd out of the 360 and PS3 rather than the casual crowd that rather buy "The Wheel of Fortune: 2010 Special edition" and "Disney's Sing it" before buying games that those who consider themselves gamers would actually buy. Chances are if these two devices are a success, then it will almost be expected that developers will willingly port their third party games to a larger fanbase. However, if they have an issue with price, quality, or both, then expect them both to be utter failures. However, don't doubt that they have a potential to hamper the sales of Nintendo Wii units. While problems on those platforms stem off of things rather than a lack of motion control, it has a chance to bring in a new aspect to gaming on those systems. People don't buy the console for the sake of buying a console. They buy it for both games and versatility. If the presence of a port from the Wii to another console is possible, that will require Nintendo to up the bar to keep the developers working for them. Or risk losing some third party work. And once the fad passes, Nintendo will have to live off of Mario and Link in order to survive. Which don't get me wrong, will continue to sell millions over millions. But it's deffinitely bottlenecking the industry. Oh and Pokemon. Still going to sell rediculous amounts of money. On that note, curious to see how Monster Hunter Tri will sell. |
The presumption that it is a fad is another problem. There's no real evidence towards that.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
