Is the Xbox 360 a Success?

[brendude13]

happydolphin said:

brendude13 said:

I would put the Wii ahead of the 360. The only area where I would say Nintendo failed was with 3rd parties, but even then they still have a great relationship with all of the main Japanese 3rd party devs, especially when it comes to handhelds.

Most of the shortcomings you listed like the lack of HD are all down to customer satisfaction, if this list was about how successful the companies have been in terms of customer satisfaction it would be upside down for me.

In terms of business, the Wii has been a phenomenal success. It has sold the most units, it has the highest profit margins, sales have made the biggest improvement over last gen and it has made the most money from both hardware and software.

Well, to be honest, I think Nintendo really fell short of its potential success with the Wii. As awesome as it did, it could have done so much better, as much as a market leader should. I really believe the main reason for that shortcoming is due to its inability to render at least a baseline level of advanced graphics, that simple extra feature making it the goto platform of the generation (above and beyond the casual strategy). Then people would have multiple Wiis in their homes, sales would have exploded imho. But, we weren't there to see it, so noone can know for sure

Again, from a business perspective.

I wouldn't really think it would make a difference. HD would have increased the price of the Wii as well as the production costs, they would sell less and make less money on each system sold, and I doubt the people who would have bought the Wii for HD would have made much difference. I also think that the PS3 and Xbox 360 multiplats would have made their way onto the Wii and ruined its reputation as a family friendly console. Still, I do wonder how Nintendo would have done if the Wii had similar power to the HD twins.