| DirtyP2002 said: Of course the Wii is a fad! There is no doubt about it. Best proof: my cousin. She never ever bought a console and she never ever thought about buying one either. But it was her brithday (15) and she wanted to get a Wii, because everybody talked about it and her friends told her how much fun this thing is. Now she got one and it was really fun to play wii at her birthday. We played the two games she received with it, wii sports and a very low-budget German specific game. Okay her birthday ended and the wii has not been used again, except for some times with her friends. She did not buy a game for it either. her birthday is like 6-7 months ago. But if you ask her about the wii she will tell you it is fun to play, still remembering these 4-5 times playing the wii with five or six friends in 7 months. So her friends will pick one up, too. So this fad will last very long. Well the Backstreet Boys were selling unbeliveable amounts of records for 6 years, too. How can I say this without causing any trouble...? I like Nintendo, I really do. But the Wii is not a gaming console to me. It is a kids toy. All I can say is congratulation Nintendo for making so much money with such a product. |
HMM I don't know if I can speak for others but pretty sure i buy video game consoles as a toy. A form of fun entertainment.
I'm not sure what your thinking of a "gaming console" is. But mine is one that i buy a game, stick it in and start having fun. And I hope that gaming goes back to that or at least nintendo stick to that. Can I go on the internet, yes. But do I, no. I go to my computer, wether my computer is from 99' or 2009. It still can do anything better than any of the consoles besides playing games. (yes I know computers can play games better ect. but just saying this in peoples claims that their computer has 2 mb of ram and what not. Cause obviously all these ps3 and 360 owners have the shittiest computers known to man)
And don't bring up Blu-ray. out of the maybe 5% of people I know that have HDTV, counting my parents none of them have a hd player of any sort. And any of the people I know that have a PS3 didn't even care enough to send in the rebate thign for 5 free blu rays. They haven't bought a single one. And they don't plan to at its prices. My dad did even own the lazer disc. He learned back then to not jump into the format war and wait to see who wins. But no adays the better thign is he doesn't eve have to worry about it. he can just rent movies and that is all he is ever gonna do. Only hd movies we own are movies we got for free from rebate things.
And I have seen HD movies playing on our HDTV and I could care less what came in the mail from netflix. Wether it was a Bluray version of it or a standard dvd version. They aren't enough of a differnece to make me lke the movie more. So I don't htink that this HD movie thing will catch on as quick or ever like DVD did.
The reason I say never is because who knows it seems digital downloads could be starting. Of course normal poeple wouldn't know anything about it and see it too confusing, but also those are the same people who wont' be buying blu ray either.
