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BengaBenga on 19 February 2008
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MikeB said:
BengaBenga said:
Reasonable said:
Oh, let people have fun... besides I'm not sure that Wii and PS3/360 even compete fully. Most PS3/360 owners I know wanted HD gaming and never considered a Wii as competition, they either got one as well or ignored it.

Really PS3 and 360 are locked in battle right now for a different demographic than Wii so I guess I see some point to the thread if you're a PS3 fan.

 

They do compete fully. For a game system to be very succesfull it needs to capture the casual market like PS1 and 2 did. There are only so many "hardcore" gamers.

Besides that, developers have limited budget, so all systems compete for 3rd party games.


I wouldn't say that, if there was no Wii I don't think the PS3 would have sold that much faster. Probably this would mostly have benefitted PS2, GameCube and 360 core sales. There is near as good as no game overlap between PS3 and Wii, for the top 20 selling games for both platforms there is no overlap apart from Guitar Hero 3, but I think the Wii version competes more with the PS2 version. If you have a HDTV and a PS3, I think most would get the PS3 version for better audio and visuals.

IMO a future cheaper slimline PS3 will compete more for "casuals" when the PS2 is discontinued, probably in 2009.


You're right that the Wii competes for the casual gamer and in that way maybe affects PS2 sales more than PS3 sales. The problem for PS3 and 360 is that they also need this kind of gamer to grow beyond the small hardcore/graphic-minded gamers. Right now it looks like the big majority of those went to Wii. So you're probably right that the PS3 wouldn't have sold alot better without Wii, but it's future sales will be smaller because of Wii.

My second argument is also still valid: If Capcom spends money on a Wii exclusive game, they can't spend that money on a PS360 multiplatform/exclusive game.