| DarthVolod said: These Xbox 360 vs. PS3 arguments over exclusives leave me wondering about the future when Nintendo will, presumably, enter the HD market on equal footing with Microsoft and Sony with the WiiU. This gen has seen Nintendo largely written off from the exclusive debates because motion controls and non-HD graphics put their games into a different category in the eyes of core gamers. |
Equal footing? So you're saying that Nintendo's online offering when the WiiU launches will rival Xbox Live? That the WiiU will have an online community day one (or even year one) of tens of millions of core gamers that rivals what Microsoft and Sony have managed to develop over the past 5-10 years at a cost of billions of dollar? So are we to expect the next Call of Duty game to sell 10 million+ on WiiU?
Seriously I keep seeing people saying how much of a threat WiiU will be but I don't think they understand just how hard it is to take an audience when another company has them. I mean look at Microsoft and their efforts to gain the casual audience. Even after a half a billion dollars in advertising and a continuous stream of big games with the biggest entertainment IPs around they still struggle to get even 10-20% sales in a casual title like Just Dance 2.
Unless Microsoft and Sony seriously stumble (which I don't think they will) they will have an incredible uphill struggle to win over an audience that they have pretty much ignored for an entire console generation (arguably two console generations).
