TheRealMafoo said:
I guarantee you if a parent os going to drop 300-500 on a console for there 17 year old son, then know exactly what he wants. Also, if they get the wrong one, it's going back for the right one (unless there are other reasons they bought it). That scenario is so small, that a gift is being purchased, and the purchaser has no clue what to get. There is a reason these boards are filled with PS3 vs 360 fanboy arguments all day long, and not 360 vs Wii, or PS3 vs Wii arguments. The reason is they are not the same audience. To use the car analogy someone posted above. If you got to a BMW forum, you will not see many BMW Vs. Honda threads. You might see a BMW vs. Jaguar, or BMW vs. Mercedes article however. That's not to say Honda makes a bad car (they don't), it's just because they are not competing for the same dollar. No one who bought a BMW over a Honda feels they need to justify there purchase, because it was just an obvious choice for them. Same with Wii or HD console buyers. |
The reason you see more PS3 vs 360 arguements on this forum is for two reasons. Firstly the two consoles are extremely similar in graphical proweess and way ahead of the Wii. The two can often trade off which version looks better, and fanboys will bicker about that until the cows come home. The Wii is never really mentioned because it is not anywhere near as good at pushing sparklies on the screen.
The other reason is fanboys whine incessantly whenever the Wii is brought into the arguements. People will go on and on about which console is winning, or which one is better. Then someone points out how the Wii is winning in some way and everyone whines their asses off that the Wii shouldn't be brought up because of course it wins. The conversation doesn't happen because only the most rabid fanboys think there is even an outside shot of Nintendo losing this race.
Your car analogy is also seriously flawed. There is not a gigantic market around building accesories specifically for those cars. There is a huge market for making video games however. The battle of the consoles is not entirely at the consumer level. The war is just as much about convincing third party developers they want to make games for your system. Nintendo has shown exactly what happens when you fail in that aspect.
