kitler53 said:
Conegamer said:
kitler53 said:
Conegamer said:
Raze said:
Its been pretty typical of every gen for Nintendo yet.
Wii - "OMG lol casualz!"
GC -"OMG Kiddie!"
N64 - "OMG Kiddie!"
SNES - "OMG Genesis!"
I will say when the Wii was announced, I was like WTF Nintendo?! But when I got to play it and eventually own one, it made sense.
What it did do is bring my gaming connection with my dad full circle. When I was like 4, we used to play Atari 2600 together a lot, and we played Super Mario Bros on the NES together. He played less and less as the games became more 1 player style. He came back to gaming with the Wii, completing the circle before he passed away last year. So, in the end, I'm glad the Wii came around, it brought my gaming mentor back into gaming for one last round. =)
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That's a very sweet story and a very valid point 
A lot of people forget about just what the Wii has done. 10 years ago a lot of people wouldn't be caught dead with a gaming console. Now we can all talk about Mario or at least Wii Sports, and the Nintendo faithful get all the support they ever wanted.
Without the Wii, gaming may well have been on its way out. You can hate on the Wii, but not the effect it had on the industry as a whole
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the part that annoys me is you probably actually believe that. anyways, despite all of the talk about how expansive the wii was -- the data suggests otherwise.
gc xbox ps2 = 21.75 24.65 142.87 = 189.27 ... and we know the ps2 is very under tracked.
wii 360 ps3 = 86.32 52.92 49.25 = 188.49
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A l,ot still to cmoe from this gen though, and I don't mean sales-wise, but now everything plays games. from phones to MP3 players to tablets, and everything inbetween.
Sub in GC numbers instead of Wii figures and it doesn't all look so rosy now does it? The PS3 has had a massive drop over last gen, whilst the 360 has had a massive rise. But without Wii the numbers pale in comparison to last gen, and this gen may well have been one of the last as we know it without the Wii.
It was never 'cool' to play video games up until this gen. Without the Wii it may never have been cool. The story above is an example of how the Wii has drawn the family together, and I know I've had hundreds of hours of fun playing with the family, people who've never even touched a gaming controller before were getting well into it, that's something I couldn't have imagined 5 years ago...
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yes the ps3 had a massive drop this gen.
... the assumption you are making that nintendo created evey single one of its sales out of brand new custmers and that all 100ish M ps2 users that obviously didn't buy a ps3 all throw up their hands and said, "i'm not gaming this gen".
the customer bases moved around that is for sure. but that is the primary fortune for nintendo this gen ... convincing old ps2 users to get a wii instead of a ps3. there will be growth this gen, there was growth last gen. but to say or even suggest that without the wii the entire gaming would be a dying industry is just conceited.
also, apple not nintendo is the one pushing gaming on the phone, mp3 player, tablets.
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