| Adinnieken said: I agree with Kowenicki, but will add that it won't fail. If the Wii U is a failure with the numbers it's pulling than what does that make the Xbox 360? Granted, the gaming market expanded, so the sales should be stronger, but in a tough economy I don't think or wouldn't expect Nintendo to be selling a million units per week. I don't think the Wii U will be #1 as the Wii was. If Sony doesn't collapse, I think the Gen8 market will be pretty close in units sold.between all three companies. Unless one of them does something so spectacularly right that they control the market. |
I'm not going to make any predictions about how the market will look until Sony and Microsoft show their systems and announce their prices ...
With how Sony and Microsoft responded to the Wii in the last generation I wouldn't be surprised if they were also going to try to make a system that appeals to both "Core" and "Casual" gamers which could be successful or alienate both groups. If you simply add a casual strategy onto their previous generation strategy, you end up with systems that will be $500 or $600 at launch; and if they take a more accessable strategy to appeal to both they may have difficulties differentiating their system from Nintendo's.
Essentially, while I'm beating on a dead-horse to some extent, Sony and Microsoft face a similar challenge that Sony faced with the PS-Vita. They have to figure out a way to position their systems in a way that it is still accessible to the broder market (read: inexpensive and easy to use) while still producing something that excites the hard-core market (read: powerful and usually expensive hardware) and still meet their business needs (for Sony this means not going broke).
