theredsoldier said:
If Red Dead Redemption and Final Fantasy XIII were the only ones moving hardware then why PS3 sales have been very close from Wii sales in the last 2 quarters of this year despite the generous bundles Wii got? What moves hardware (besides price cuts, bundles and new models) is not just 1 title or 2 but many. You should know that.
About the eventual Wii price cut to 150 euros this year, I forgot to say that it won't be a great deal if it'll be only Wii Wii Sports once at this moment: Wii Wii Sports = Mario Galaxy bundle - everything else except Wii and Wii Sports = 230 euros - 50 euros (Super Mario Galaxy 2) - 45 euros (Wii Sports Resort Motion Plus) = 135 euros |
Sustained effect from price cut, Slim model, a solid back catalogue and a lot of promising titles on the horizon. Did you honestly think the PS3 hardware would peak at 600 or 400$? Price really, really matters and as the 360 has shown; a Slim remake can have a tremendous effect. There's also the issue of technology, the PS3 is starting to fill in into its clothes with Bly-ray on the rise and a lot more evenly distributed 3rd party support, expansions and downloadable content, trophies etc. All of these factors make a big impact on hardware sales over time, software is just one piece of the puzzle and Nintendo haven't really been doing anything so far this year to expect or deserve huge sales imo. That's their fault, and their fault only.
I know that one title doesn't carry momentum forever but calling the games I mentioned system sellers is silly, not every game that sells in the million figures can be counted as a system seller, especially when compared to games like Final Fantasy, NSMBWii, Modern Warfare 1 & 2 and GTA and other smash hits. By this logic, the Wii should not have lost any momentum since it has by far the highest number of million and 10 million sellers (as shown by the charts many users like to post every now and then to show Nintendomination). The argument has essentially turned from "The Wii has such incredible software that is destroys anything and everything in its wake and the HD consoles are bing trounced like no other" to "The Wii doesn't have enough good software and system sellers but the HD consoles have lots!" (Edit; to clarify; I'm not speaking against my own point here since I believe that the HD consoles have not had a lot of system sellers this year despite a lot of others thinking so). No matter how one looks at it, something has changed in the past year or so and some people seem unable to deal with it just like some were unable to deal with the fact that the killer/savior PS3 title never arrived or that the 360 had a ridiculous hardware failure rate to begin with. What's really going on is a whole lot of members who cannot seem to fathom that Nintendo may very well have forged a double edged sword in the Wii; incredible sales and comet speed towards a tall peak and a rather dramatic fall that follows. It has effectively devastated the competition though, so it really doesn't matter at this point. The real beast this gen is the DS, a fact that many seem to forget for some reason, that things has rockets up its ass and wings like a jumbojet.
All the while all this is going on, I'm sitting here enjoying Starcraft II on the best gaming platform of all time and this gen; the PC.
Last edit; before someone, inevitably, jumps on me for not clarifying; the Wii will win the holiday season easily despite being down yoy. It will probably outsell the closest competitor by 1-2 million in December alone but, like I've mentioned; its the rest of the year that follows and the weeks before the holiday season that will be tell-tale and defining.
