Now Do You Think Nintendo Will Reach 50% Market?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Mifely said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Mifely, You said a "colossal" number of Wii owners would have at least 1 other console. You're the one making the wacky claims. You're the one who needs to prove it. We don't believe you.

 

Actually, to quote myself, I said it was "possible that a colossal number of households" owned both. I don't need to "prove" anything about that statement of possiblity. In any case, let me put down some crazy other possiblities for the readers of this post to ponder:

* Many gamers who put the $ down to purchase a 360 or PS3 can probably afford a Wii as well.

* Many gamers who own a 360 or PS3 probably enjoy Nintendo titles, like SMG and Zelda, just to start.

* To suppose that most Wiis owners do not own a 360 (in America) is also to suppose that (in America) most 360 owners do not own a Wii, since the number of 360s still exceeds the number of Wiis (in America). 

* I think its a pretty big assumption to make, assuming that a gamer who enjoys his 360/PS3 doesn't like Mario, and cannot afford a Wii or hasn't been able to get one by now.

 

I think presuming that "most households only own one console" is a pretty big leap.  I'd like to see, at the least, some good reasoning for that -- I haven't yet!

Nintendo has recently stated that 97% of the voters on the Wii voting channel are male -- that's pretty interesting, considering that the Wii isn't appealing to 360/PS3 owners, by your assumptions.  Lots of males comprising the casual audience the Wii embraces, but shunning the HD consoles?  They want a Wii but not a 360/PS3, do you suppose?

I smell fanboy science in the assumption that a significant number of Wii owners (not necessarily a majority, but I think its likely) do not also own a 360/PS3.

  

The Wii costs more than the GameCube.

The PS3 costs more than the PS2.

The 360 costs more than the XBox.

 

I'd assume that due to all 3 companies raising their console price from the 6th generation to the 7th while the value of the dollar is decreasing, the % of households with multiple consoles would decrease from the 6th generation to the 7th.  Especially since 2 of the consoles have raised their standard game price from $50 to $60.

Unless of course you're talking about how this is the first generation with a 2 vs. 1 split, in that 2 are very similar and one is just ridiculously different.  Even so, that's an advantage for the Wii and nobody else.  Wii60 and PSWii combinations are much much more common than a PS360 combination in a single household.

 

I can't seem to find any statistics on a number of consoles per household, except some survey from May 2006 that says Seattle has more games per household than any other city.