Chances are that this has already been said by someone, but I felt like saying it anyway.
| Max King of the Wild said: The Nintendo fans sound like Ps3 fans at the begining. |
Why are you comparing sales impact of Nintendo first-party games with a third-party multiplatform title for the PS3? Especially when you have the DS to compare with?
The DS was selling relatively poorly... until certain games released. It's quite well understood that it's what turned the DS from the second-place handheld to the massively popular platform that blew the competition away.
Beyond that, it's worth noting that it's not that sales will pick up because of one game alone. It's about the lineup as a whole, and the system having enough value in its lineup to justify the system purchase price. The Wii had the benefit of having a game at launch that was capable of selling the system on its own in large numbers. That's the exception, not the rule.
In the end, what will decide the fates of the systems in this generation, as with every generation, is the lineup that develops for them. Price cuts help by reducing the cost, thereby reducing the necessary lineup size, but the lineup is the key. It took the PS3 a long time to get to the necessary point, but once it got there, it started to sell a lot better. Same with 360, for that matter. That's why the Wii was able to blast away the competition early, but the others managed to strengthen later on.
