| Million said: I stil ldought the difference betwen the Wii and PS2 is similar to Wii and PS3 but I may have confused myself into saying that was on a technical basis , it's not , sorry. Nintnedo targeting everybody doesn't put them in the same market as PS3, 360 . Ford Target everyone , Apple target everyone it's how mass market orientated business work but I still wouldn't compare Ford and Ferrari in the same market simply because Ford sell to everyone. BTW This debate has actualy been very interesting , and i'm glad that It's been on the most part very mature and intelligent discussion. |
Your base comparisons are irrelevant. Why would someone compare Ferrari sales directly to Ford sales? If the Ferrari sells 10 cars and makes as much as Ford when Ford sells 1,000 then no one is hurt. This is not the way the video game market works though. Who stands to make any money trying to sell specifically to those people who bought Ferraris? Maybe 2 companies that make windshield wipers. Similar situations arise with Ford. This is clearly not the case in the video game market however. Simply having sold more units becomes a big thing because there is a huge market around selling specifically to those people.
A better comparison is Macs versus PCs. You can claim they target a different audience, and for the most part you would be right. The Mac has never really catered to hardcore gamers but the PC definatly has. One of them has 90%+ market share and consequently gets well over 90% of the software developed. Even in areas the Mac specifically caters to you will find equivalent if not superior software on the PC because it is so much easier to have success. The result is the Mac loses out on a lot simply because the products offer extremely similar basic experiences. Consoles offer extremely similar basic experiences with the difference being in software produced mainly. As we can see from the example above the Wii's success could easily hurt the other two despite people claiming they are not "competitors."
