jacks81x said:
RolStoppable said:
jacks81x said:
RolStoppable said:
High sales are a sign of consumer satisfaction. Good word of mouth and all that. A lack of quality would have a negative effect on word of mouth.
And yes, I know what consumers think of Vita: Wait for a price drop and better games coming out. If it were different, then sales would have stabilized at a higher point in Japan. There's no reason to believe that it will be any different in America and Europe. It's only a matter of weeks until you will be able to see it.
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Not necessarily true. A lot of factors contribute to high sales, including smart marketing and hype. That's mainly the reason why me, and many of my friends and family bought a Wii early on. I can tell you for a fact that most of us are not satisfied customers, given the lack of quality games and the short-lived fad of motion control gaming. My Wii has been collecting dust in my basement for more than a year.
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Marketing and hype doesn't last for several years. If the majority of people thought the same way about the Wii as you, sales would have collapsed a lot sooner.
"My Wii is collecting dust" is a common comment on the internet, but the online communities only represent a small minority of the market. That's why forum talk and actual sales can have such huge discrepancies.
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Exactly, it has died down after the first year. The PS3 and 360 have been outselling the Wii globally for a while now.
Yes, the online community is a minority, but as I pointed out, actual sales does not = customer satisfaction. In my family alone we have 6 Wii's. I'm the only one who is part of the online community. The other 5 Wii's belong to my parents, my in-laws, my wife's grandparents, my sister, and my nephew. Outside of maybe my nephew who now plays mostly his 360, I don't think any of them have turned on the Wii more than 10 times total if I had to guess.
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Yea, that's pretty much what I think as well. I'm part of a video game club in my school. I would say that most of the 50+ members have a Wii, but I don't know anyone who still consistently plays it. It was kinda cool in the beginning because of the whole motion control thing, but after a while it just got boring. It really didn't live up to the hype imo.
