Do you think the remaining Wii userbase will finally goto the Wii U this holiday?

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Soundwave said:

I dunno, I'd suspect the people who still play their original Wii today are probably extreme budget shoppers ... in other words they ain't buying any $300 console (not from Nintendo, Sony, or MS).

And really it may just be an issue where they like to play Just Dance once a week when they have family/friends over ... and the Wii does that just fine.

Why pay $300 to play the same game in HD? That audience doesn't care what resolution their game is in.

Beyond that I suspect they'd far rather spend that $300 on the new iPhone. 

Good an intelligent answer.

I find it odd they'd exclusively own the cheapest, least expensive console on the market -- but buy games like Skylanders or Disney Infinity which *start* $70-$80 + for most starter sets and run $10-$15 per figurine. I suppose they believe they're killing two birds with one stone in that the figurines act both as gameplay content and an action figure. And perhaps they consider the figurines as substitutes to entirely new games too.

Where you and I might see a ripoff -- this customer sees value.