| gekkokamen said: ^so just the games huh? do you think the Wii would have dominated without the wiimote/balance board? Do you think it would have been just as succesful if it had launched at $500? Don't you think the Nintendo brand helped in any way and their strategies, marketing? c'mon, don't be so simple-minded. |
Would the PS3 have sold 37 million had it cost $5,000 and come with a refrigerator? You can play the "what if" game forever, but it's really pointless to speculate on such things, because the possibilites are infinite.
The fact is that the Wii is curently CHEAPER than the Xbox 360, which is far more advanced in horsepower, and only $100 cheaper than the PS3, which is even MORE advanced in horsepower and comes with its own Blu Ray player. Obviously people are finding extra value in the Wii.. Now, where could this value be coming from? It comes form the games, which are more accessible to more people.
Marketting, brand name, price, all that stuff; sure it can help a product. But a tree is measured by the quality of its fruit, and if Wii's games truely didn't deliver, it would not have been the success that it is. The "Nintendo" brand certainly didn't help the N64 and the Gamecube.. A console sells because of its games, period. Take away the quality games, and a console becomes useless, as it has no purpose.
Again, the Wiimote/balance boards are TOOLS. Nothing more. If Nintendo had released Wii Sports/ Wii Fit with the peripherals, but the games were utter trash and were not fun to play, they would have failed.
