Metallicube said:
Seece said:
Metallicube said:
You put far too much importance on price cuts. I've said a thousand times and I'll say it again: It's games games games. People buy consoles for GAMES, they don't buy consoles because they look nice in the living room. If your console has no games, no price cut will help you. The HD consoles both have had slim models (which I contend have done far more than the price drops). And they've also had stronger releases this year than the Wii thus far. A price cut will give a very temporary boost but that's it.
HD consoles could outlast the Wii, but if they do, it'll be because Nintendo wil fail to release games that people want. Wii did bad this year (speaking in relative terms) because people had no new reasons to buy a Wii. It's biggest two games were a Mario Galaxy sequel (which even the first game barely moved consoles) and a Metroid spinoff with very limited appeal.
I don't quite get how you see it as likely that the HD consoles will outlast Wii, when Nintendo has pumped out several mega hits in just 4 years that have insane legs, and chances are good they could release another one.
As for the HD consoles are "gamers" consoles, and have more loyal core gamers or whatever, I'm not gonna bother arguing with that one because it's nothing more than hardcore elitist nonsense.
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rofl, the console manufacturers disagree with you on that  There is no point in us continuing this discussion if you're one of those who believes NSMB pushed all those Wii's last xmas.
I really hope Wii doesn't get a price cut this xmas, and I hope kirby and Dk both get rated 95 plus and get amazing word of mouth, and then we'll see what really pushes Wii's.
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And there's no point in continuing it with you if you're one of those that don't.
Yeah, the successor to the most popular game series of all time, coming out 18 years after the last one. What a fool I must be to believe such a game can move hardware. LMAO.
If not for NSMB, Wii would probably be dead right now. It had next to no hardware movers for 9 months this year, and STILL held up respectively. That was NSMB.
Whatever, no point in me wasting more bandwidth. Sales will speak for themselves. That's why I like vgchartz. There is no spinning, just numbers, and the numbers don't lie.
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Ah, because the people that loved it the first time are so loyal? Where were they during the gamecubes days? I bet if NSMB released during that era it wouldn't have a third of it's current sales.
I've said all along, NSMB helped move HW, with the help of the price cut, it was a combo effort. more significantly the price cut rather than NSMB.
If it wasn't for the price cut last xmas, the Wii would have done significantly worse.
Last part, very true, I wish you would go take a look because it seems you're ignoring that very fact.
