MikeB said: 1) If the Wii is mostly selling to GC owners, why didn't the GC sell faster at the beginning? I think the GameCube looked too much like a kids-only console. I also think Mario64 or Mario Galacy >>> Luigi's Mansion. So you expect it to stop selling now...? Just because the games are better doesn't necessarily mean that people will run out and buy the console faster. I mean, I would bet that many "Nintendo fans" would have been jumping ship thinking that the only games they would get would be Zelda, Mario and Smash bros. Three great games, but hardly enough to warrant the massive sellouts that have been occurring across NA and in Others, and somewhat in Japan. Why spend another $200 on the PS3 when it gets to that point to play more games that you don't have time for? Buying a HDTV perhaps, seeing the difference between games quality, interesting extra's like Blu-Ray, DVR, Home, etc. Quality in the games will be there, when 3rd parties actually start trying. Since the original point of your thread was about getting casuals, I won't say that some won't. But will it be enough? Of the 45 million people that expanded their experience last generation, how many will more will do that this generation? And how many will the PS3 get compared to the 360? Just like the industry predictions and outlooks were correct when they said the Wii would be lucky to sell 15 million lifetime, and that the PS3 would be ahead by 2008? Have a link? I guess they didn't do research. To me it was quite obvious the Wii would do a lot better than the GameCube did. There was actually a thread about it a month or so ago. It had about 20 different places that were declaring the Wii's doom and the PS3 victory. And even today there are still some that the PS3 will beat the Wii in the long... long... long... run. Without a search function, there's no way to find the thread. Maybe someone could dig it up if they posted in it. |
