Will the Wii be able to outsell the Hd consoles any week this holiday?

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Psyberius said:

RolStoppable said:

And with this... the Wii survives another year. That despite all the things it had going against it:

 

• Less powerful than the competitors' consoles
• No HD graphics
• Online infrastructure from the stone age
• No good third party support
• Michael Pachter
• The video game industry
• Lack of coolness, image (grandmas play that thing)
• PlayStation Move
• Xbox Kinect
• Shia Laboeuf (would rather eat glass than playing the Wii)

Which just goes to show that the only one who can kill the Wii is Nintendo. I hope they are aware of that fact, because... with great power comes great responsibility.

 

No, what it goes to show you is how much society is governed by lemmingitis.  No matter how much logic it makes sense to buy a superior product, people will follow hype from previous years.  If consumers would actually look into their buying process and really check out features, WII would be gone.

There is sooo little reason to own a wii over a ps3 or 360.  If your average joe smoe user knew that they could stream all their stolen content thru their HD console, WII wouldn't be able to sell for free.  Graphics, more in depth games, online infrastructure aside, being able to bang content into their tv's without hard to setup video mods to their computers is a HUUUGE thing for people now.

If Microsoft and Sony spent time educating people in the bene's of accessing massive libraries of video, music, pictures etc, WII would experience a HUGE drop in sales.  That is of course if it's possible to actually educate the average user of WII...from what i've seen they're pretty simple. :(

Sony and Microsoft are lemmings then, yeah? Pfft.

Anyone know what 'more in depth games' means? For people that like games the crucial element is fun not 'depth'. So you have basically (without meaning to) explained why the Wii sells more. It is associated by the public with enjoyment via Mario and other arcade style games, does movement and fitness more cheaply than than PS3 and 360 and is perceived as the more sociable of consoles.

Your suggestion that Microsoft and Sony should educate about video, music and pictures would make no real inroads on Wii's image or ability to sell.