| Michael-5 said:
For home consoles PS3 will always be ontop in Japan. Wii is old software, and PS3 gets a lot more Japanese exclusives. 360 and Wii sales also jump more then PS3 in Others as well, just during the holidays Americas explode! For regional sales, Wii held slightly more sales compared to PS3 in EMEAA and 360 in Americas. It's likely this year that PS3 takes the home console lead for EMEAA, and 360 takes the lead for Americas. Overall Wii should still be above PS3 and 360 because it's numbers won't be that far behind each leading console in the two larger regions. However only time will tell, Zelda is a pretty large franchise, I could see this pushing significant sales, especially if the Wii came with a Zelda Wii bundle like it did with NSMB Wii. Starfox Command for the DS is pretty good too, not as good as the original, but a lot of the game mechanics remain unaltered. I'm not getting a 3DS. $250 is too much for a handheld system for me, and I'm very backlogged on a lot of great DS titles I still want to beat. I almost never play handheld games outside the house, so I'd rather save moey for a next gen console. I'm more interested in the Sony Xveria Play as my phone replacement and installing a GBA and SNES emulator, and getting some Playstation software. Also the reason why the 3DS line-up bugs me, is because I don't feel Nintendo will add too much more too it, and so far it's all old franchises with new installments. I want new IP's, Mario Kart is just a hardware upgrade to me now, and N64 remakes don't appeal to me too much. Kid Icarus is the only game that look interesting to me, and that's 1 game. From my experience with Nintendo, whatever games they announce when the console is released, and claim "launch window" is what we see for 2-3 years after the console is launched, and tends to be the bulk of the console's library. For Wii this is 100% true, Mario Kart, Super Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros, Zelda, and Metroid Prime 3 were the first wave of 1st party software, and for the large part, they are still the only really great Wi games. Since that initial wave, all I gt was MadWorld, Fire Emblem, and Donkey Kong. Gamecube did something similar with Eternal Darkness, Pikmin, Smash Bros, Metroid Prime, Animal Crossing, etc. Sony does this too, I mean we only recently saw Gran Turismo 5, which was announced the time the PS3 was launched, but they at least added a bunc of other games since launch. It's just, I want something new from Nintendo. With the Wii all I got were new installments to old classic titles, and for handheld games I am really annoyed that only about half of the Fire Emblem games are localized. With the 3DS, I don't see anything new, so why am I in a rush to get one? BTW you are wrong... There is no such thing as a 3DS, what are you talking about? Japan blew up with that Nucear meltdown. Sony is only still around because headquarters are in USA. OH NO the Microsoft drones are harvesting people in my neighbourhood again, gotta go...LOL |
I agree, Wii still has a good chance at being #1 again for 2011...I still think it will depend a lot on E3 this year. I never played StarFox Command. I was always considering buying it but never did for some reason.(Like Mario Kart DS) Maybe I will backtrack on some DS games since you are saying they are good. I thought that $250 was a high price for a Handheld as well but now that I have a 3DS...it seems to be worth it. I am not the type of person who says that a System is great until I have had it for a good amount of time. Who knows? The 3DS could get no support after the 1st batch of games or I may just get tired of it but for now it seems like it will be worth it.
As I have said before, I hope the Wii lasts for a good while longer because once the next Nintendo System comes out I won't be buying it right away...especially now with me having the Wii & 3DS.
(At the last part in your post) ...What? LOL.
