Nintendo: Battle with Sony already won, Apple is the enemy of the future

[Arius Dion]

stof said:

Arius Dion said:
"That, say analysts, may be premature. Last Christmas, almost twice as many Wii consoles were sold in the US as the PlayStation3. But games developers increasingly see Sony’s machine as having a large enough base of users to justify not making titles for the Nintendo machine."

This paragraph made perhaps the least amount of sense to me. Which is why I'm going to highlight it: So basically a console that has more than double the installed base of the other, sells more than double the software of the other is somehow not justified to have resources allocated exclusively towards it. But the console who sells the least and has the smallest installed base is?

A lot of this 'article' seems to just be a bunch of bologna.

It doesn't have to make sense if it's true. The PS3 and 360 are getting the third party dev support and the Wii is getting shat upon. Of course it's only happening because over the years the market has become divided as traditional or hardcore gamers went the the HD systems to follow all the third party games that were coming out for them while the Wii was being shat upon.

 

What this article really fails to mention (as an unfortunate incident of timing) was that Wii Party is going to be another evergreen 10 or 15 million plus seller.  Nintendo's pretty smart sometimes.

I'll give you that. But still, Wii was never really given a proper shot any way. And the thirds shitting on the Wii and calling it steak hurts them, not Nintendo. The thing of it all is that Nintendo is solely responsible for all of the Wii's success. So it seems this guy writing this thing is under the impression that thirds actually leaving Wii is going to have some sort of major impact. The major impact of thirds would be felt if they were to leave the 360 or PS3 as their success is directly tied to them.

I'm not sure I'd concede traditional gamers went to the HD market as manyof the Wii's audience is made up of lasped gamers. I guess it depends on what we are using as the term traditional gamers (I dont use the word hardcore lol) Is it those from the PS1/PS2 era? or those from the NES/SNES era?

We'll see what Wii party does...but I'm not sold on it..maybe because I've seen nothing but two screens of it haha.