landguy1 said:
Ahhh.... Most posters on this site don't like the idea that the Wii especially is a success due to the "Popular" scenario. We seem to be on the same wavelength on this in that the Wii became the "it" thing, and it has retained that image in general. I have to concede, at this point in all of the consoles life cycle, they each have a decent enough game library. With that said, why do people still buy Wii's? By now, all of the people who are "Gamers" or "Hardcore" probably have all 3 systems or have what they can afford. It's the rest of the people who are out there who still buy the Wii... The people who don't really care which they buy, but can't help but to get what everyone else has(like i have said in other posts - Ipods/sliced bread/cabbage patch dolls/ELMO). |
If im buying a multiplayer shooter game in a few months am I going to be more likely to get Killzone or Call of Duty? It doesn't matter how much better anyone tells me Killzone is if Call of Duty is the game I know, strike one and all my friends play it and not the other game, strike two. The fact that I can probably get the previous game for free from a friend because hes moved onto a new version helps makes that strike 3 for why Killzone just got struck out of this contest. The same really applies as well to consoles as it does to individual games, especially when we have multiplayer etc.
The general public will only grow an affinity to what is familiar to them. The more a console sells the more likely it is to become familiar to people who may want to own one. Rapid sales growth begets rapid sales growth, which is the path that the Wii took to success in 2006. There are other reasons like excitement, fear of not being able to buy one, keeping up with the Jones family etc which also come into play too.
Tease.
