Wii: Sony doubts longevity

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PS3owner said:
I think it would be interesting to see the demographics of the people buying and playing the different systems. I'm 22 years old and i have a PS3 and my brother has a 360 and is 20, we grew up being big nintendo fans, ever since the NES days. But it seems that the nintendo is just staying with the little kids as fans, is their a way around this for them, I've played the wii and its fun, so I thought i would buy one and went to the store to see if i could get one, there were couple in stock, but their are no games that i want to play on the system. I really wanted to get into the wii, but their just seems to be no games for my demograhic, the mario cart games are fun, but not worth the price of a system, and the other two smash games were fun but not something that would sell a system, for me anyways, plus the wii controller is the worst thing i have ever used in my life, i just could not get used to playing with it.

Well I am not a Wii owner yet but I will be it before this year is over and I am 24. I have two friends of mine at the same age owning a Wii already. I think this "nintendo" is only for kids is pure bullshit and is more about what design you want on the games you play. I like cartoon look and have no problem playing Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart or whatever. Then I can always fill out Nintendos games with some 3rd party games such as No more heroes, DQ:Swords and Project O (the last one is on belif of the devs only). This is of course only my opinion, but I think there is a large "mature" audiance on both Wii and GameCube fans that didn't leave Nintendo because of different reason.

I think the controller is the most fun part of the whole thing, but that is me. I think I would miss rumble if I didn't have that either so I might be a little bit geared towards the Wiimote before sixaxis (which honestly must be one of the worst remotes ever when it comes to fit in my hands).

PS3owner said:
My main question is: Since Nintendo games seem to be geared towards kids have they already lost the war this gen? i'm sure the wii will sell alot but only due to the price, is the wii just attracting kids or is there some sort of players that want this system.

Sorry but no Nintendo isn't geared only to kids, they are this gen more geared to all that doesn't play before this gen. If they can get the kids and the old Nintendo fans that is good, but honestly Nintendo is more intressted in doing a NDS then a PS2 victory.

Another question is: What do you mean with "is there some sort of players that want this system"? Are you indicating that if I am calling myself a gamer I can't like Wii more than PS3/xbox360? Because honestly I can't find one single reason why I would find value in paying 6000 SEK for a PS3, but I don't say that those who do is some "strange sort of player".

PS3owner said:
I'm not pro sony or xbox because of the graphics, i would buy a DS over the PSP only due to the RPG's. But The graphics make most of the game ,so is Nintendo pushing themselves out of the future of the systems with the wii?

Nice graphics is always fun, BUT I can't find one game that I have liked because of the graphics. My favorit game of all time is Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri, that game had so bad graphics that you sometimes had to start thinking about what units you actualy moved. Civ 3 vs Civ 2 is also on part where I find that Civ 3 had better graphics BUT Civ 2 had better game play. I am for the moment playing civ 4 but I can still go back civ 2, I do never play civ 3 again.

I also think that there is many people today that have tried Wii Sports and realised that when it comes to sport games the Wiimote might kick some ass. I have given up on fighting games before Wii Boxing, and now I am just hoping that somebody makes a boxing game for Wii.