CNBC: Move is "Something I Didn't Know I Wanted Until I Picked It Up"

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Rainbird said:

zgamer5 said:

Rainbird said:

zgamer5 said:

Rainbird said:

zgamer5 said:

no im not, but how can we know if people are hyped if its not from forums, gaming sites, and articles by people like gamespot or ign. people never predicted the sucess of the wii, the only hype we can know off is the one in forums, gaming sites, and from surveys.

also when talking about the media, also when bbc comes and hails kinect does that indicate hype?

It's one of the best indicators we have. It's called mass media for a reason after all.

so when gaming websites say positive things about move its hype? and when gaming websites say negative things about kinect does that indicate their isnt hype?

ign and gamespot are still the media, well the gaming media.

also do casuals have hype?

Casuals have hype, otherwise the Wii wouldn't have been so hard to find in shops in its first years on the market. 

IGN and GameSpot are not the media, they are just media, and they are so for a niche audience. Mass media like nation wide TV channels and what have you are a in a different league, because it's something almost everyone sees. Any media can change people's opinions and what they might be hyped for, but the mass media has a much, much larger audience than sites like IGN and GameSpot.

true.

i still dont think that we cant know weather casuals have hype or not! i will live in denial!

and the wii didnt have hype, did the casuals want to buy it before it released? no it didnt, when they launched they had interest, hype is interest before a certain item releases.

By that definition, I don't know if there was hype with the casuals over the Wii. It did sell pretty damn well when it released though, but whether that was the core audience or the expanded audience, I don't know.

I'd say, if I may, that hype for the Wii in general wasn't huge, but that it did sell well initially to the Nintendo fans who'd stuck with them during Gamecube, etc.

It did, however, garner very quick word of mouth and it did very quickly become a media sensation of sorts, entering the popular Zeitgeist as something you simply had to try.  So it wasn't hype in advance so much as a very quick reaction to what it offered that generated post launch interest and had everyone's granny buying one.

I believe it was this latter that drove the Wii to explode quickly in popularity (older people in nursing homes playing it with big grins helped too) and see the terrific sales it did, showing more rapid growth than PS2.

I do get the feeling the interest has wanned a bit more recently, with a lack of anything much to feed that more general interest and leaving the console to fall back more on core Nintendo titles, and that's where, if the reaction is strong enough, the PS3 with Move (and of course 360 with Kinect) may be able to garner more serious general interest as the next cool thing and the successor (if you will) to the experience initially pioneered by the Wii.

I think how the Wii performs this holidays vs Move and Kinect will give a good picture of where relative interest lies outside core gamers and whether Sony and MS can seriously swing potential Wii purchasers away from the console.