Wii, 200 million lifetime?

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Viper1 said:

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The N64 didn't sell as well as the PS NOT because the analog stick failed at sustaining the console. The PS had added analog sticks way before the N64 began to falter.

However, you suggest people are buying the Wii for motion control. This is technically incorrect. They are buying it for the games. The games utilize a new control input just as the N64 and DS did and both carried the control method on the strength of the games, not just the "novelty of the controller".

You're "novelty" angle would work if Wii only had one game. Then I could see how the novelty of that game would begin to lose appeal but because the Wii, like the N64 and DS, will continue to gain new games that utilize the input method, the novel affect can't wear off. How does a novelty wear off when it continually receives new product?

People are buying the Wii 'because' of motion controllers, not 'for' motion controllers. They don't just buy the Wii so they have a motion controller that's not what I'm saying, they buy it because that's it's central play style and it's new and it's a 'novelty'. If the Wii did not have motion controls then what else would it have going for it in comparison to the GC or N64 that would give it the sales it has now. The Wii is nothing but a more powered GC, so why is it selling? If you answer that we might be able to end this discussion.

And that last question? Bingo dude, that's what I'm saying, it continually recieves new product but again, that will wear down eventually.