Andrespetmonkey said:
Just like it's a remarkale achievement for the 150 million people who bought a PS2 to not by the PS3? Consumers don't just cling like that. The bulk of the 95 million or so who've bought the Wii are casual gamers, and most moved on from the Wii years ago apart from the odd Just Dance game, which they don't need a Wii U for and the Kinect is a lot more appealing to that crowd anyway. Look at the buzz around the Wii at launch, that thing was massive with the casuals. The Wii U? Most don't even really know what it is (I would bet a lot don't even know it exists)... so that's why I don't think it'll be a big casual hit. So let's talk about core gamers then. The only core gamers that seem to be really excited about the Wii U are Nintendo fans with a few exceptions. I'm not a Nintendo fan, I am a core gamer, and I kind of want it... but "kind of want it" is about as far as I'll go, and it's farther then where most core gamers will go. They just aren't interested for the most part. They are either more than satisfied with their current HD console/PC or waiting on the other 2 next gen consoles. Hell, sometimes it feels like there's more buzz around Orbis and Durango than the Wii U and they haven't even been announced yet. The last 2 reasons why it doesn't appeal to most core gamers is hardware-wise, it's a fairly small leap over what we have already, and do you think most core gamers care about the GamePad? Sure, I am judging pretty early on... but so what? This site is largely about speculation and predictions, and if you don't want to discuss that than don't reply to speculations and predictions. |
On the Kinect being more appealing for dance games:
Just Dance 4 Wii, 6 weeks on the market, 799,246 sales
Dance Central 3 XBox 360, 4 weeks on the market, 120,000 sales
Beyond that, the statistics are a couple years old (and I can't find the graphic anymore) around half of XBox 360 and PS3 owners also owned a Wii; which worked out to be roughly half of the Wii's userbase at the time. How does this match with your assumption that "The bulk of the 95 million or so who've bought the Wii are casual gamers"
Not making a claim about you in particular, but I love how certain Sony/Microsoft fans can go from claiming that their Wii collects dust and that they are dissappointed with Skyward Sword/Mario Galaxy 2 to then claiming that no-one except casual gamers ever bought the Wii. I also remember when the Playstation userbase was "casual" gamers, and when the XBox "Frat-boy" gamer was dismissed in a similar way to casual gamers today are, and surprisingly the Ultra-Casual FPS Halo is still one of the more popular FPS on the market
