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Alterego-X on 16 March 2010
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Joelcool7 said:
RolStoppable said:
HD is not a driving force.

All Nintendo said is that their next console will support it, because by then HDTVs will be in a majority of households, making the inclusion actually meaningful. That and HD is just a logical evolution.

But you are still looking at this from a technology focused point of view. It's about entertainment and that also means surprise. You say nothing can't be done on the Wii, but that's because you only think about ideas we already know about.

Once again, HD does not sell consoles. If you believe that, you spend too much time on forums. Software sells hardware. So the next Nintendo console better has games that can't be done on the Wii, because otherwise, why would people buy a new console?

Lets be clear I don't believe HD sells consoles and never have, it would be insaine to do so given Nintendo's profit track records. Then again GameCube had by far the best software last generation and it lost to PS2 which had a dismal first party line-up. The Wii sold because of the Wiimote and Nintendo's great Ad campain. A Nintendo fan myself I can't say software sold the Wii. The Revolution sold the Wii. Disagree?

Disagree. 


You define best software as things that are getting praised by a small circle of reviewers, and Nintendo fans, including you.

But if we are talking about popularity and sales, this is meaningless, as the public opinion might be, and is, different from yours. 

The Gamecube didn't have a single 10 million seller game. You call them "best", but the public didn't even care about buying them. Because they were not sufficiently appealing. 

The Wii has Wii Sports/Play/Fit/Resort/Plus, MK Wii, and NSMB Wii. These are all games which the public considered BETTER than any Gamecube game, given that they voted for them with their wallets.  And after any of these were released, a huge sales spike appeared in the hardware sales. Look it up in the charts, you just can't deny that these all sold huge amounts of hardware.