Wii 360 PS3 The MGS4 and FF14 are this generations Sony fans Legend of Zelda OOT and Goldeneye 007. They will release and sell a crapload of copies but will not have the power to shift what the market has already decided. OOT sold over 7.5 million copies. FF14 just wont reach that. Goldeneye sold over 8 million copies MGS4 just wont reach that. OOT and GE wasn't enough to propel the N64 back into the front, and the N64 wasn't doing nearly as bad worldwide as the PS3 is. FF14 and MGS4 wont do it for the PS3 either. They will release, sell a crapton just like OOT and GE but just wont get it done. MS on the other hand is just flat out handicapped. They need to establish more of a presence in Japan. Its hard for them to beat Nintendo this gen because they have to sell so many in the US and EU over the Wii to make up for Japan, and thats just not happening. However they had a year head start on the PS3, and now that the PS3 is out, they are actually STILL managing to widen their lead on the PS3. The gap between the US sales of 360 and PS3 is enough to cancel out PS3's Japanese sales. So Sony is losing ground instead of gaining it. The Wii has the momentum, and the momentum is everything. Always. It may indeed just be a fad, but we wont ever know it. By the time the 'fad' starts to fade it will be too late as all of the developers tripping over themselves to get more Wii projects out of the door will be starting to release their software. There will be an exchange, Wii wont be new or the 'in' thing anymore, nor will it be on magazine covers like fortune and stuff, so people will no longer be buying it just because its the cool new console, but that wont matter, because at that point people will be buying it for the SOFTWARE thats being released. The exchange will be seamless and noone will be able to tell when the Wii goes from Fad to selling on its own library, the sales charts will just stay consistent. We can all sit back and profess that every new Wii announcement that has been made over the last 7 months are all crap non games and mini games, but you all know thats bull, in between the announcements of My word coach and Horsez, have been announcements of Nights2, and Rygar, and GH3. Not to mention developers actually apologizing left and right for the shovel ware and going out of their way to announce incoming increased support for the Wii. THOSE are the signs everyone should be familiar with. They happen every generation... to the console market leader. The support trickles in more and more.
