| Bruceongames said: I write to provoke thought not to create a fanboy pavlovian reaction. The audience for Bruceongames are industry professionals. Wii is an amazing creation of Nintendo and has a fantastic but short future ahead of it. Imagine if someone brought out a console that only displayed in black and white because that is what televisions used to be. This is the situation Wii will be in by Q4 2009. Nintendo are not stupid, they know this, so new product announcements are inevitable.
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Just provoking thought doesn't gaurantee that an article is succesfull in defining reality. For instance, Newton's theories of gravitation were extremely thought provoking but uiltimately proven incorrect.
Also, I feel I should point out that you are contradicting yourself now, how can you say you 100% agree with my statement that the Wii has deep and genuine longterm appeal and then say that it has a short future. The two ideas are obviously mutually exclusive. More over you are now falling into the trap I previously spoke of, which is to say, you are attempting to quantify a paradigm shift in terms of the old paradigm....
On the topic itself, I would agree that Nintendo is not stupid, and that is precisely why they would never make obsolete a product that is selling faster than any reasonable expectations have predicted. Thats just not good business sense, and I am quite honestly baffled that people could honestly believe this.
Lets just break this down:
On the one hand we have the fact that the Wii is selling very well, software sales are excellent for a console at this point in its life and increasing, demand is so high that it isn't feasible to predict it, and people who have never gamed are gaming. All of this lends itself to the idea that the Wii will continue to be the lead Nintendo Console well into the future and certainly well past 2009.
And on the other hand you have speculation that people will want HD enough to demand it in the Wii, speculation that people will be ok with their investment in the Wii becoming obsolete, and speculation that Nintendo would even consider it.
Unless their is something beyond speculation I have to say I just don't see how that kind of view appeals to anyone who considers themself an Industry Professional and as such I don't see how it is targeted at anything other than the gratification of hurt fanboy egos. Perhaps I am being a bit blunt here, but that is how I see it.
If you expect anyone but a fanboy to take the view seriously it needs to be backed by something beyond speculation and correlation to other tech products...because it is being contradicted by hard data about this tech product which is a far more compelling argument I must say.
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