Since we're discussing software here, being offtopic and there are HD console defenders here, three words for you guys: Tales of Symphonia, to be exact Tales of Symphonia 2. Infact, all this month Namco bandai is profiting from the Wii, and yeah, its namco bandai that is developing Super Mario Sluggers so they have a part of sales of Super mario Sluggers. Which means with proper advertising and hype 3rd aprty games DO SELL, and the casual player only buying the Wii is debunked. And if you think 188,000 one week sales was bad in japan? Guess what, with only 6 million userbase so far and Japan becoming handheld country over 100,000 sales was a accomplishment.
Hey! Lets not forget about Star Wars FU for the Wii as the definitive and the must own version in all of versions, also a exclusive game only for the Wii Star Wars Clone Wars.
And SONY was desperate that they even made Buzz, Little Big planet and Singstar just to cater the casual audience, guess what it'll never succeed and yeah, Nintendo was 5 steps ahead of them. In this E3 with announcements from first and third parties so far, this'll be for core gamers this time.
end of core gaming days prediction:
E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced
E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.
E3 2010- Tape runs out
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