Wii sales are not driven by games

[NJ5]

Shameless said:

NJ5 said:

Retrasado said:

That is pefectly reasonable. (and more than likely accurate) However, you probably should have worded your OP differently. It sounded like you were saying that people were buying the Wii for the peripherals themselves, not the games that use the peripherals.

Or is that what you meant anyway? I'm confused. But if you did mean that, you're wrong.

 

He's more wrong than that, unless he can answer my last question appropriately... other than the Wii Remote, I see no peripheral which was essential for Wii's success.

 

The Balance board was successful in further expanding the market to people who aren't interested in games at all. The wheel included with Mario Kart was successful in allowing non-gamers to identify with a controller they are familiar with - the steering wheel.

The only peripheral that admittedly has not been a success is the zapper.

 

All those thing are true, but they don't mean that Wii sales are driven by those things more than games... At most, we can say those things "help" Wii sales, but we can't so easily say that they're more important than games in driving sales.

From what I read in the thread, that's the problem most people have with your reasoning.