Mazty said:
Thing is you just ignored my points, so I'll repeat myself; If wii owners cared about graphics, they wouldn't own a wii as it is by far the worst of the 3 consoles for graphics. If they cared about responsive controls, they wouldn't have bothered with the wiimote and would be gaming on a 360 or PS3. The ones that care about 1:1 control own motion plus. What you can derive from wii owners are that they don't care about graphics, AI etc and generally the things improved by next gen consoles. Unless Nintendo go down the route of making something radically different, the wii owning market has shown itself not to be core gamers, meaning that you cant expect to treat them as such e.g. pretty graphics sells games, more power sells consoles etc. |
well let me explain a few things, first just because consumers that never owned a console before were more attracted to the Wii than the HD consoles it doesn't mean that those same consumers won't be interested in a better version of the console they have, you are thinking about it from a old school gamer's point of view where because they didn't support the technically superior HD consoles that were just offering HD versions of the same games these people don't want a technically better version of their current console. just because consumers wren't interested in better specs before doesn't mean that in the future they won't be interested in a better version of the Wii, and much of it is with keeping up with the Joneses a lot of people are buying Wiis because people they know are buying them but if Nintendo offer a technologically superior and backwards compatible version, then those consumer will be more than happy to pay a little extra to not just keep up with the Joneses but sprint past them, additionally new consumers that own a new flash HD TV (a lot of people own them now) and they go to buy a Wii the shop assistant asks have you got a HD TV they reply yes and the shop assistant recommends Nintendos new console as it is HD, same could happen when someone buys a new HD TV. Admittedly this requires strategy relies on the Wii still being in high demand but it doesn't look like demand is going anywhere soon and it is just a couple of ways of getting new customers to new the "Wii2" console without even whatever new thing Nintendo brings with their new console.
As for bringing over people that already bought a Wii other than better specs there is also new games especially sequels to games like Wii fit (sold 22.56m copies), new super Mario bros (sold 13.03m copies on the Wii), Super smash bros (sold 9.39m on the Wii) not bad sales for a console where half the owners don't buy games as they are casuals who are happy with Wii sports or use it as a dust collector man there must be some dedicated fans to buy all those games. These sequels along side some new IP and some classic franchises and a lot of current Wii owners will make the jump to the next generation especially when you advertise it as being able to play all your old Wii games in HD as well as new Games that look much better.
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