Why this generation has already been decided

[DarkNight_DS]

johnlucas said:

 

Surely it is. But a lot can happen in one month. It wasn't that long ago when Wii was only half of XBox 360's near 10 million total worldwide sales and now they are near 1 million in difference.

No, I never have any data on their shipment rates. I just use my psychic powers to forecast. Hahaha.

No seriously, um, Pokémon Battle Revolution will sell units no doubt. It's tied in with the Diamond and Pearl Pokémons (why I do feel like singing that Prince song when I say those games' names?). Connectivity and the testing its Wi-Fi online is why it will sell not so much on the quality of the game. If quality of games always made a difference those Spider-Man 3's wouldn't be so high on the charts. Remember it doesn't take much to impress kids. I remember plenty of games I played as a kid back in the NES days that were simply gawdawful! Bad Street Brawler?!?! It just made no sense! Hahahaha!

I too want more quality than quantity on Nintendo systems. The 11 year drought in the N64/GC days gave Nintendo fans a more quality selection because of 3rd party exodus. The most popular system also picks up the most trash so I hope Nintendo curbs the natural flow of trash on the system somewha. It's inevitable some will show up but keep it under control.

The one thing I keep in mind when predicting Wii is that it is a trend breaker. It broke the rules of a post-holiday season slump and summer slump. The words "usual" and "Wii" just don't fit in the same sentence.

Believe the unbelievable when you think of the future of the Wii.

John Lucas

 Ok, since your just making numbers up and not basing on any precedent then you can basically assume that the Wii will sadly not overtake the 360 this month....  Any increase in shipments should have taken place last week when Pokemon came out...  it seems like the increased shipment for that game was only a slight bump. 

I don't remember liking any game that I would consider to be crap today. I played all the big games on the NES and stayed away from the bad ones...  I guess Nintendo Power helped sway my decisions at the time.

It'd be nice if Nintendo tried to push it's Gold Seal quality assurance program...  I know it was kind of a joke back in the day since the NES got so many crappy games anyway.  I also realize that third parties would freak out if they saw that their games would be QA controlled.  It just seems with the Playstation rise, came the rise of a lot of horribly bad developers.  I was hoping for a slight game crash to wipe out the bad developers... this doesn't look like it will happen.  :(