dpmnymkrprez said:
HappySqurriel said:
If you look at the past 12 to 18 months it becomes obvious why ...
Roughly 18 months ago (at TGS 2005) we were first introduced to the Wiimote. There was a massive polarized reaction as half the people who saw the video proclaimed it the greatest thing ever, and everyone else believed it was Nintendo's doom. The general consensus at this point in time was that Sony was not going to repeat the mistakes of Microsoft produce two SKUs and price their system at the "outrageous" $400. The expectation at this point was that the Revolution would be a Niche product and the PS3 would dominate.
Roughly 12 to 14 months ago Nintendo released the DS Lite, Nintendogs and Brain Age and changed the Japaneese market forever. The DS started selling faster than (practically) every system and moved more games than anyone could imagine; Nintendo expaneded the market beyond what anyone had ever expected.
12 months ago, at E3 2006, the PS3 was announced to cost $500/$600 and everyone was shocked. At the same time the Wii had 6 hour line-ups every day for the opportunity to try the Wii.
6 Months ago both systems were released and, while the Wii sells remarkably quickly the PS3 has sold far below expectations.
It is not surprising after how much has changed to see developers targeting the Wii as compared to the PS3.
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Nice time frame thanks for posting
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I've been reading this forum for a long time, but never actually bothered to reply. I decided to start looking at some old threads and there is a lot of things that didn't turn out the way people thought back then.
This entire thread is a pretty good example of what the mentality was on this site back in 2007. I think that most actual developers would have been able to explain why "shifting focus to wii" wasn't really viable from a technical perspective (if that had happened, we would instead have seen new developers come in and take over the market).
Now we know what happened, and perhaps we can use this information to better judge what the future of video games consoles will be.
