Wii are only for kids, they buy few games and Ninty games says Microsoft

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Words Of Wisdom said:

nordlead said:
What everyone seems to be missing, is that Microsoft used to claim they won by selling 10m first, then they claimed they won by having higher revenue. Now they claim that total units don't matter, and that Microsoft's business area isn't dieing off.

Microsoft is reeling backwards and trying to keep buyer confidence up, along with developer confidence. They can see they are going to be loosing developers soon, and they are trying to shy them away from going to Nintendo by trying to convince them that only kiddie Nintendo games sell on Nintendo systems.

Microsoft's "business area" has showed profit is possible on a Microsoft console and developers aren't leaving Microsoft in droves only to go to the Wii. Microsoft was smart by releasing their console first; the result of which was that every developer got familiar with the 360's dev kit before the PSWii. Using that as a crutch, we see a lot of multiplatform PS360 games which also look better on the 360. If developers were going to jump off the 360 boat, it'd be onto the PS3 boat since they've been building that skillset with their multiplatform efforts. That isn't likely to happen at the moment since the 360 also has the highest attach rate (IIRC).

All in all, this is just a PR move to slam the competition. There's nothing really new here.

 They may not be leaving now for a Nintendo console, but Microsoft is afraid of them leaving. There is a difference. Devs may go to the PS3 (epic for example would never develop for the Wii) but it sounds to me like Microsoft is afraid of developers leaving for Nintendo, and is bashing other consoles trying to convince others that theirs is still the best and that you can make money on it. Also, developers are already used to the wii - motion controls as the dev kit for the GC and Wii are very similar. As for attach rates, once the Wii gets enough consoles, attach rates will mean squat.

Of course I believe that profits are possible on any console, but it is looking more tempting every month to jump to the Wii.