| Soundwave said:
From a casual players POV is not's like Nintendo had some secret magic formula, you can play (effectively) Wii Sports on any system. It's just called Kinect Sports on one, Sports Champions on the other. Casuals really don't have huge hang ups about this stuff, if its relatively fun and easy to get into, they'll get into it. One has Wii Fit, the other has Kinect Fitness or whatever, they all have EA Active. They all have Zumba Fitness, Just Dance, XBox has Dance Central, etc. etc. It's pretty easy to see from the POV of a casual shopper what happened here. Beyond that with Kinect, the 360 really was a much more balanced overall machine that everyone in the family could enjoy legitimately from the 16-year-old teenager who likes COD to having something to play when grandma/uncle Johnny/Aunt Mavis whatever came over on weekends. You didn't need to buy two seperate consoles when one console could suddenly provide a wider spectrum of content that makes everyone in the household happy. I think Nintendo actually was lucky that MS had to spend an extra year really fine tuning the Kinect technology, if it (and Move) had come out a year earlier, Wii sales would've started to decline from then on too. They were very lucky to get basically 4 year window of no competetion, the moment they had direct competetion is predictably where things go sour for them. It doesn't really matter at this point though because something was coming that would be bigger than the whole Wii/Kinect movement in getting non-gamers/fringe players playing and that was iOS/Google gaming ... which is far bigger than Wii or Kinect could ever have dreamed of being. Today far more casuals are playing games on a regular daily basis than the Wii could ever have dreamed of. 150 million people today for example play Candy Crush alone on a *daily basis*. Wii Sports? Small potatoes. |
im gonna have to disagree you are putting way too much stock into Kinect and Move. Kinect def drew some attention to themselves, but lets be real. How long did that last? Move didnt do a blip, hell Sony marketed that thing as the motion device for the core gamer, you could tell by the games they were pushing with it. Sports Champions not withstanding, RE5 gold, Heavy Rain, Killzone 3 etc. Ill go so far to say as the whole motion thing was winding down by the time Sony and MS even brought their devices out, Kinect gave it a shot in the arm but that lasted only a little while.
Wii would have declined regardless of Kinect or Move because the very nature of the system and who it attracted the non gamers, would have never stuck around anyway becasue there are only so much types of games you can make with the wiimote and the actual tech behind was not that great to begin with so it was even more limiting. Sure more traditional games could have been made but thats not why most people bought a Wii for and youre great grandma doesnt care for those games anyway. I said it would happen like this years ago long before Kinect and Move
