Carl2291 said:
That conversation was about marketshare, wasn't it? DS/PSP don't come into the console marketshare so... Yaknow. Wii was the cheapest on the market, Wii had (and still has) a dominant lead over it's 2 competitors, Wii's supposed main competition for the generation (PS3) fucked up it's launch, and is only just getting into it's stride 4 years later. Wii, as soon as it was released, was the media darling. The Wii also had a LOT going for it... While you can try saying that the Wii has it tough because of DS/PSP in Japan... Who's takes half the blame for that? What would Wii support have been like now if the console had specs similar to the 360? Nintendo created the majority of Nintendo's supposed "problems". If you want to use them for your damage control then sure... Whatever floats your boat. The point is, the Wii isn't controlling this generation as much as the PS2 was last generation. Which was the point originally argued against. |
I'm not getting into any marketshare argument, it's just saying that putting forward that PS2 had 'more competition' doesn't really reflect the reality of things. GBA never cannibalized the console market the way DS/PSP have.
And I'm not saying Wii had nothing going for it, it certainly had it's advantages. Sony bungling PS3 helped immensely (something that feels eerily karmic after Nintendo similarly bungled N64 and handed them the market a decade earlier), the low pricepoint helped some (despite being the most expensive Nintendo console ever, and the thing going for double MSRP regularly 2nd hand), Nintendo's visionary game design philosophies are probably their biggest asset (Wii Sports is literally the most important game this decade). But those really pale in comparison to the advantages PS2 had going in... Wii wasn't the successor to the market leading console and best selling in history to that point (quite the opposite, it was successor to an ever declining and derided hardware line), it didn't launch over a year before it's two chief competitors, it didn't have the one competitor who launched well before it drop out of hardware due to finances and make games for them instead, it didn't have basically every 3rd party dev putting their AAA teams on games before it even hit shelves, it didn't have the media singing it's praises and driving it's PR hype machine (if anything, the modern games press is anti-Wii, and largely always has been)... sure, I'd agree Wii isn't dominating the industry like PS2 did, but it also didn't have that same industry essentially handed to it on a silver platter. PS2 did.
