| Metallicube said: Again, people going on about Wii decline YoY, look at the releases for 2010 so far, and tell me, are you honestly surprised? I don't know about you, but when looking at the line up for the greater part of this year, I already KNEW the console would be down YoY, the only question was by how much. Let's look at the big games released this year: Monster Hunter Tri, No More Heroes 2, Mario Galaxy 2, Sin and Punishment, Endless Ocean: Blue World, Red Steel 2. Now be honest, do any of these titles look like system sellers to you? They are almost all sequels, and many are sequels to obscure core franchises with a limited fanbase. Now these might be good games, but they have a very limited appeal. The simple fact is Wii has not had ANY console movers so far this year. Thus, it has had to rely on NSMB Wii for nearly an entire year to carry it. Even a game as popular as that will eventually wear off. Nintendo went back to appeasing entirely the core gamer, but the trade off of this is that their sales suffer because they shift focus from the expanded audience, which accounted for much of their sales. The games for this holiday, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby, Epic Mickey, Wii Party, Goldeneye, have much greater potential to move hardware, especially Donkey Kong. Why? For one, they are much more popular franchises/series. And second, many of these titles are expanded audience/bridge titles similar to Mario Kart, which will allow for far more sales. If thesee games don't move consoles, THEN I will start to wonder. |
And the PS3 had a legion of system sellers? Besides, FFXIII (a sequel, which won't have an impact according to your logic) there really isn't much in the way of system sellers at all this year (so far). FFXIII and Galaxy 2 are roughly on par as system sellers as I see it and both the Wii and PS3 got price cuts at almost the same time last year, yet the Wii keeps falling the PS3 is massively up. They are on equal grounds as it stands, with the main difference being that the PS3 still costs 50% more than the Wii, what does this tell you?
Its not a crisis, there's no reason to fret over numbers, I sinply wish that people would stop blaming the Wii's decline on lack of system sellers and realize that it is due to the nature of the product itself and a direct consequnce of Nintendo's strategy this gen. Like I said; the PS3 has not had a stellar year in terms of software at all, mainly sequels and then one big hit in FFXIII, which is easily countered, like I said, by Galaxy 2.
