bmmb1 said:
But I don't. Our friends range from the early twenties to the fourties, and some of those in their fourties have teen kids, some of them with HD consoles . All I meant to say in this reall ife example is that all consoles "gather dust" (in the noty being used sense), and you can't say one does more than the others based on your immediate surroundings.. |
Lol yeah fair enough. My PS3 is gathering dust right now waiting for GT5.
| trestres said: A portion of a VG247 interview with Ready at Dawn's Ru Weerasuriya... VG: Ready at Dawn has worked on the Wii before with the Okami port. What was that like? Ru Weerasuriya: In all honesty we’d never thought of doing a port – I don’t think we built the company for that, but we just decided to do that as a passion project.I loved Okami, I think that artistically it’s one of the most amazing things to come out of the industry. Working on it was more of a technical challenge – we started with no assets and literally reverse-engineered the whole thing back onto Wii. It was not your typical port, but it was fun.But it’s not something we would do again, I think. VG: Would you make your own game for the Wii? Ru Weerasuriya: To tell you the truth, I don’t think it’s something we would do.I understand the power that the Wii has out there, but at the same time, I’ve tried to be a Wii gamer, like all my friends, but most of us have picked it up and dropped it after a few months. I think it wears off.I think the whole novelty wears off with the Wii, and that’s one of the big reasons why we wouldn’t tackle a Wii game. VG: Is the novelty wearing off across the board? Do you think it will affect sales? Ru Weerasuriya: I think so. I think you’re already seeing that now. The novelty is wearing off, and the only people who are really successful on the platform is Nintendo. It’s not like anybody else out there is really happy with the games and the sales that they make on that platform.So it’s going to work well for [Nintendo], as all of their platforms usually do, but even in America we’re seeing now that it’s slowly dwindling down.Purely from personal experience, I can tell you that most of the people I know who have bought a Wii have it sitting on a shelf somewhere with dust on it, and they haven’t used it in a long, long time. So does the industry really feel that the Wii is no longer a viable platform? Or are the guys at Ready at Dawn simply pissed? |
Yes that's disastrous, I mean look at Wii sales this season, absoluetly bad... ;)
| Sweep said: Yes that's disastrous, I mean look at Wii sales this season, absoluetly bad... ;) |
He never said that the Wii would stop selling, only that the novelty wears off for anyone who owns one. The Wii hardware keeps selling though because there's a new one born every minute.
BMaker11 said:
It's funny because so many different people have said the *exact* same thing. It can't be a total myth... |
I guess it's sold so many that some people do not play their machines. My PS2 gaming machine gathered dust after a while and became a PS2 DVD machine. Then I got a Wii and remembered how much I loved games... weird, huh?
Yes.
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leatherhat said:
Well kinect and move will likely spur some interest in it before they too collapse from lack of interest. As for nintendo. mario, donkey kong, kirby all use it to a small extent. Only zelda is really utilizing it in any big way. |
And FlingSmash - so basically all of their recent releases use motion.
Yes.
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Chairman-Mao said:
Our family has one and we played it a lot for about a month, then gradually stopped playing; and now we never use it. |
I have a Wii and a PS3. I use my Wii roughly 12x as much as my PS3, which ironically sits unused for weeks on end. I guess you have never been acquainted with anyone like me
MrT-Tar said:
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That's not irony, that's a simple consquence of preference. Anecdotally, most Wii owners I know also play their Wii's very little compared to their PC's or even phones and others but, yes, this collecting dust myth is getting old.
I remember fondly the good old days when the consoles could be easily summarized like so;
The 360 breaks and shit, PS3 has no games and costs a years salary and the Wii is fad that no one plays. 
I just looked at the sales on the front page and it looks like the Wii has outsold the other two systems combined in this past week.
How novel.
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noname2200 said:
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Actually, that's using a weasel word. Every new game system is a novelty at first to someone who buys it. The important thing is sustaining interest, and software sales show it can sustain them.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
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| amp316 said: I just looked at the sales on the front page and it looks like the Wii has outsold the other two systems combined in this past week. How novel. |
And toppign the 80M mark and topping gameboy advance LT sales and is likely to hit 90M Q2 2011, and they say wii novelty is wearing off? they've been saying that for 4 years lol
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