Another anti-wii thread? Yes, Wii is d0med... *roll eyes*

Let see, Wii 75m without any redesign just different colours and only few bundles vs 40m PS3/PS3 slim & 44m Xbox360/Xbox360Slim with bundles and third party support.

I really can't see why is d0med. Have you seen the charts this week? Wii is above Xbox360/Xbox360Slim.

Edit: Wrong thread. Sorry.

OT: Just another price cut and Wii vitality sensor and Wii is up again. IMO

Just for the record, the Wii will lose its dominance when some of the HD consoles outsell it.

Even if it stops selling right now, PS3 or 360 will strugle to pull of 75M units sold. If they ever achieve that mark.

The Wii will end the generation about near the 110M. That's way above whats in reach for any HD console.

No, the Wii dominance is not at a close.

being the winner by less than 50% is kind of a weak definition of "domination".  I assume most mean 50% market share by the idea of "domination" and I agree that Wii will most likely not get to that point.  Otherwise domination is just an overstatement for winning.

Okay Wii is DOMED, and apparently PS3 is going to rule the world. 

We get it already.

In previous generations, "domination" has meant well over 50% of the market.

Clearly this is not something we'll be seeing this generation, particularly with sales of the top seller tapering off sooner than those of the runner ups, which have remained more significant in terms of development support and "runner up sales" than any previous generation. 

And no, the Wii Vitality Sensor won't change a thing to all Nintendo hopefuls. That's if it even shows up on the Wii. If it does, in all likelihood it will be little more than another Nintendo title w/ peripheral that results in limited support by third party games at best.

That being said, a $150 price point will open up Wii market further and even without a price drop, the Wii will almost certainly sell over 33% when the 2010 holiday season totals are tallied up. Domination, no. Top seller? Still likely.

Yep thats dominance at a close alright. Well, already closed as at whenever you feel like calling it. It sold heaps, quickly but then didn't have the puff the keep it going and in a sort of funny tortoise/hare thing it started getting outpaced.

 I wonder sometimes if a bit more performance and a modern GPU architecture alongside a couple more buttons might have seen it off at #1 well into 2011 if not indefinately.

Do you feel like the first party franchises Ninty usually rests on are good enough?  Or do you think they should have made new ip's?  This bothers me alot, this question. 

you underestimate the fact that the new Zelda game will be out in 2011. The series is like GOLD for whatever system it comes out on, Im sure Zelda alone will be able to push the sales to stay afloat of the competition in 2011.

I dunno, I never thought of Zelda as on the level of Mario in terms of pushing sales.  Or even close actually.  Can anybody help with this?

I said it ages ago but I'll say it again, this gen is unpredictable.

Seriously who could have ever predicated how things are.

-At first everyone thought Sony would dominate the gen, then the price was revealed.

-People laughed at Nintendo's new machine, Wii name lol, everyone thought it was doomed cuz of the specs, but hell that sucker just kept on selling regardless of software

-for the first time, the leading console lacked almost all of the major 3rd party games, and yet it kept selling.

-Despite the wii install base, most all 3rd party games focused solely on making PS3/360/PC games

-Now the Wii sales are in decline while it's competition is either maintaining sales YoY or simply selling more YoY


To be honest, I would not be surprised if all of a sudden we have a situation where the Wii drops to 3rd place...I know the faithful may not even want to consider this, but it could actually happen, especially if Wii continues its decline and it's competition continue there increase, just remember that unlike the PS3/360, the wii lacks good 3rd party support to fill in the gaps in it's release, add to this the fact that Move and Kinect may indeed start to steal Wii's sales and you have a recipe for this happening.

in any case, time will tell how things really go.