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megaman79 on 21 September 2011
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Seece said:
Joelcool7 said:
Carl2291 said:
Didn't Kinect do it much quicker?


Kinect isn't really considered a new console. It is a peripheral and no matter what anyone says it is nothing more. Also Kinect is the perfect example of a flop, it sold really well for the first few months but then died. Today Kinect is still selling but its lost its momentum.

Yes it is. Look at my above post, it's a peripheral to current owners, it's a new system to casuals Kinect IS a console to them. And no Kinect isn't a flop, you really don't know anything do you, the thing will explode again this christmas, that's easy enough to predict.


As for Rol's comment about Wii being a slow a steady race. Fact is Wii dominated not only at the beginning but reigned over the whole industry for years. Until last year Wii was still steadily outselling 360 and PS3 on a regular basis.Sure it didn't remain the dominant seller the whole generation, but I'd say it was fairly successful from start to finish.

Of course you would, but you would be wrong. The last few years of its life it will have been beaten by its two nearest rival and pushed into third place, and have hardly any SW come out for it. That isn't successful.

I don't think Nintendo expected any better!




Ok, we'll see how Kinect sells this Christmas, but I think you're wrong, and thats chiefly because NONE of the Kinect games this year have beaten Just Dance 2, and Zumba on 360 has been obliterated by Zumba Wii.I suppose we'll able to see how the black Wii Fit model sells too.

And to call Wii unsuccesful now is a pretty grand delusional statement when 9 of the top 20 of 2011 are Wii titles. Even if you subtract the bundles, you still have 1/4 of sales in 2011 going to a dead console.

Lastly, Nintendo have already announced their next console, alongside launching the 3DS, so its a given that most customers are either, A - more interested in the next console, B - interested in the new handheld, or C - buying Kinect with Dance Central. If the latter is the case, why isn't Zumba 360 selling?



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.