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Killiana1a on 25 August 2010
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HexenLord said:
Killiana1a said:

I pose this question Mr. Lavigne,

From what you are saying, I can gauge that you believe hardware is as important, if not more important than software in driving console sales. If this is the case, then why has the "refurbished Gamecube" to use your terminology, outsold both it's competitors, one of which has arguably more raw graphics processing power than the Wii and 360 combined?

How is your opinion, Mr. Lavigne, worth more than the 73.3 million customers who chose Wii over the 37 million customers who chose the PS3 or the 42.3 million who chose the 360?

If you value graphics and visuals so much Mr. Lavigne, should you not be in the film industry?

Read my #2 above. Nintendo fans buy things because they are Nintendo products. Nintendo fans buy Mario games just because its Mario. They are retro fans.

 

Other than that, 'younger' gamers are more likely to get the cheaper kiddy console for Christmas than the slightly older ones who have to get a job and buy it themselves. The Wii doesn't outsell because its better, it sells better because its targeted to a younger audience (other than the retro gamers).

If it comes down to "fans," then what is Sony and Microsoft doing wrong to not be able to touch Nintendo in sales? I am sure there are not enough diehard "Nintendo fans" to buy 73 million Wiis. I think Nintendo tapped into an ignored market with the Wii launch that Microsoft with Kinect and Sony with Move are now trying to cater to. It goes a lot deeper than "Nintendo fans."

If it comes down to a younger audience, then would not Sony and Microsoft sell more hardware by catering to the younger audience? To that "younger audience" I would add senior citizens, moms, dads, little sisters, little brothers, and adults like me whose first experience playing video games was in the 1980s when we picked up the controller after our big brother to play the original Super Mario Bros. Nintendo has tapped into much more than a "younger audience."

In many respects, Nintendo takes many people, including myself, back to a more innocent time where games were played for fun and no one judged you on what game you played because everyone was playing the same game.

Except for those Sega kids, those damn hedgehog lovers :)