| HappySqurriel said: Zucas is correct ... I've seen the same type of behavior many times in my life, and (probably) the most memorable was watching the Junior Football team (when I was a senior) have a girl on their team. My sister began playing football nearly a decade before that and I thought that it would have been a non-issue by then. All the starters (and most of the players who got a decent ammount of play time) loved having her on the team, but the players who were "benched" said some of the nastiest things when she wasn't around ...
Personally, I'm a lot more worried about what would happen to the industry if the Wii wasn't successful. Microsoft and Sony have been following a fairly standard strategy of releasing (basically) the exact same product with "bonus" features, better technical specifications, and at a higher price ... The next step in this process is a $1000 console that you buy to play the exact same first person shooters, racing games, and sports simulations at a higher resolution with improved graphics. Whether or not Sony and Microsoft would admit it to the outside world, the success of the Wii and Nintendo DS will have a dramatic impact on their strategy for the next generation; they may or may not adopt motion controls like the Wii did but they certainly will be thinking of more interesting user input devices; they will probably think of what is the processing power that is needed rather than attempting to push the limits without reason; and they will think of what the typical consumer is willing to pay rather than what the high end consumer can afford when pricing their console. |
Yep after learning the nature of people, it's easy to understand why people don't like the Wii. When people see things as a threat to something they like more, they automatically throw out the defensive. However if that item wasn't a threat but in competition with something that was a threat they'd praise it. This is why so many people loved the Wii, BEFORE it released.
And if people really need an example to what I'm talking about, hell Riot of Blood's post is the perfect example haha.
