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Zucas on 26 March 2008
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Stever89 said:
Zucas said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Zucas said:
This topic is an epic fail. I reccomend all reading this to turn away before your eyes bleed. All I needed to read was Wii is not in the same market as PS3 and 360 to understand the failure.

Isn't that what Nintendo said though? That they're not competing on the same level as the others?

I know that was probably an excuse they could use if they failed, but still, hypocracy.


If they said that, it was most likely a marketing niche they were trying to create. Trying to point out to the casual market that the 360 and PS3 aren't going for their buys. If Nintendo has said that it was for some marketing ploy like that, which really has seemed to work well.

But factually they are competing in the same market. If they weren't then we'd see trends of PS3 and 360 similar to that of the PS2, Xbox, and GC generation before us.


I also believe that both Microsoft and Sony said that a Wii look really nice besides their 360/PS3. It was almost like everyone was getting a long. Until the Wii started selling more than the other two combined. Then it was like "oh they aren't in the same league." Or something like that.


 Well basically what I was saying to Montana is that what is real and what the companie's PR things are most likely going to contradict.  I mean from all PR, we know there is going to be some bullshit.  Nintendo said a lot of things early on how they are really going for the casual and earlier that was great, until recently they've had backlashes from the hardcore.  Now everytime they talk about the Wii they say it's great for both the long time gamers and ones just getting into it.  So you can never believe what PR says directly cause they have an agenda like the rest of us.  There agenda is marketing, and they use the best strategies.

Same thing with MS and Sony early on.  They really didn't see the Wii as a competitor.  And they actually used the Wii early on as somethign to attach themselves too.  I mean they thought the early success was jsut a fad but they still wanted to feel somewhat connected to it.  Thus you saw MS PR saying how great the Wii is and how awesome it is to have one next to a 360.  And Sony did a similar thing.  Using it to to say get these 2 but not the other.  But then the Wii kept selling, and now they state well its really not something that'll keep ya going very long or it'll die out later on, so instead get my console that'll be here for awhile.  Once again PR changing with agenda and marketing strategy.  And sometimes I feel people get way to caught up in what they say.  I like to analyze what they say to see what provokes them to say this, then we can really see what they are thinking.  Otherwise its' well though out bullshit.  But its' not reality.