| MikeB said: Seeing a lot of childishness in this thread, so I will say something which may put some salt into open wounds.  The Wii is much MUCH closer specced to the PS2 than to the PS3. Yes, IMO this will hurt the platform eventually for lovers of Epic games. Yes the Wii is more like a cheap toy you give your kids for christmas.The Wii is easier to develop for to some extend (especially if you are familiar with the GameCube dev tools), but to push the system as far as Mario Galaxy does will cost developers more, lots of tweaking, finding ways around trade-offs and optimising, IMO devs can yield better and quicker results with fewer trade-offs on the 360 or PS3, especially if you use existing middleware like the Unreal engine. |
The same thing was said about the NES when it was first launched, how it was a toy, how gaming PCs could do stuff better and bigger
Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!! Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)
