curl-6 said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:
Why wouldn't a Wii HD appeal to lost Playstation customers? It's a cheaper HD console. Why do they automatically have to go to XBox360? The whole premise is that Nintendo hardware is no longer a generation behind. We are still assuming PS3 was a big fumble at launch right? PS3 would still be $500/$600 at launch right? Those lost customers would get XBox360 if they prefer FPS games like Halo and they'd go to Wii HD if they preferred adventure games like Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess.
Also, here is why Generation 6 is different from Generation 7. The PS2 had almost all of the games. After a quick internet search I found these results for the physical game libraries.
| Generation 6 |
Titles |
| PS2 |
3800 |
| Xbox |
1047 |
| Gamecube |
657 |
| Generation 7 |
Titles |
| PS3 |
1441 |
| XBox360 |
1194 |
PS2 had far more games than XBox or Gamecube. This is why PS2 can sell far better than either one, even if Gamecube is a cheaper price. Price still matters but game library matters more. Now look at Generation 7. PS3 and XBox360 have close to the same number of titles. PS3 actually does have about 250-ish more titles, but XBox360 was usually cheaper to purchase. When the libraries are that close then price matters a lot.
Since XBox360 was getting a similar number of titles to PS3, then why wouldn't a Wii HD as well? Making multiplatform games became the norm in generation 7. If there is a Nintendo console with similar HD specs, then why wouldn't it get a lot of these ports too? A Wii HD would be very similar to the XBox360 in that it would be a lot cheaper than the PS3 and have a comparable number of games, because of multiplats. Now add in the Virtual Console and Wii HD becomes a decently viable platform. It would be competitive to both the PS3 and XBox360.
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360 would appeal more to PS gamers by maintaining more of the "hardcore"/"grownup"/"cool" image they sought. Coming off the Gamecube, Nintendo's image in this department was poor. And again, you could get a 360 for the same price as a Gamecube 2.
Hardware sales lead to more games; they feed into each other but the former must come first, and I doubt Gamecube 2 would sell enough to get even close to as many games as PS3 or 360.
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A cool image does not sell hardware. Cool games do, but a cool image does not. The Genesis had the coolest image of any console and it still lost to the SNES, which had a kiddie image.
At this point we are talking in circles about game library though. I think the Wii HD would have gotten most of the multiplats that the PS3 and XBox360 had. You don't. It's kind of pointless arguing beyond that, because this is a hypothetical scenario and we'll never find out who is right.
