*Where Would Gaming Be If Wii Failed?*

[Kasz216]

evolution_1ne said:

Kasz216 said:

Seece said:

LOL, it'd be ticking over fine.

MS and Sony would just more or less be sharing first place, Ninty's console would have done 20 mill, so same as last gen, and MS and Sony would be on same course for their 80 mill. So 160 mill (PS2 140, Xbox 25)

So market would be about the same roughly, userbase wise anyway.

That's ignoring the fact that Wii games were what was keeping most videogame companies afloat early on.

Without the Wii we'd of lost a LOT of third party companies.

if that helps you sleep at night......

You don't look familiar... so maybe you've just started paying attention in the last couple months or so?  Basically the entire story of the first few years has been third party companies talking about how the Wii basically saved them.

Even big companies like Ubisoft basically admitted they paid for the big third party HD games via smaller Wii games.

http://www.psu.com/forums/threads/89573-Ubisoft-We-take-profits-from-WII-and-DS-to-fund-X360-and-PS3-game-development

Without the Wii, we'd of hit a crash due to ridiculious development costs.

It's just a fact.  The wii's low dev costs just made things so much easier at the start of the generation... without it... the HD consoles would have a lot less games, and a lot of the smaller companies would of just been gone.