| HappySqurriel said: We probably shouldn't make direct comparisons between the Wii and DS because they're in different markets. With that said, the point everyone makes using that comparison is quite valid; the NES, SNES, Gameboy, Playstation, PS2 and Nintendo DS have all sold really well inspite of facing competition which was far more powerful and (in many cases) had far greater multimedia capabilities. The reason for the success of these platforms is varied but (in general) they were successful because they were affordable systems which sold well enough to be supported heavily by developers through out their life; at the same time none of these systems were constantly outsold by direct competition for any period of time. Now, the question is how long the Wii can survive for ... If sales trends continue by mid 2008 there will be no way that the XBox 360 or PS3 will be able to "kill" the Wii; as long as the Wii outsells the PS3 and XBox 360 combined resources will continue to shift towards the Wii at the expense of XBox 360/PS3 development. By mid 2008 developers will be spending similar ammounts of money on Wii exclusive games as they will be on producing multi-platform PS3/XBox 360 games, which will result in the Wii having 2 to 4 times as many exclusive games as the PS3 or XBox 360 have in total games. |
DS has the stylus, WII has the remote control
DS is less powerful then the PSP but sells worldwide twice as much
WII is less powerful then the PS3, but sells worldwide twice as much
And from both people has been saying it's just a gimmick which will completely fail, but both are selling like sky rocket. Of course it's too soon to compare sales, as the DS is way longer on the market, but for now the WII is experiencing a deja vu.
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