So did the Wii....Next Excuse!!!

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One question : how many of you think that the Wii will last as long as the PS3 or X360 ? That the Wii will have a life cycle of 6 years or more ?

Within the first 18 months, Nintendo will have release all its core gamers top titles (Zelda, Mario, Mario Party, Mario, Metroid, SMB, Mario Kart, Mario Paper, Animal Crossing).
So what's next ?
Can the Wii rely solely on casual gamers ? The ones that own Wiisport, Wiiplay, and may buy Wiifit as their first real "game", then wait for the next big Nintendo casual concept ?
Considering the Wii is already at the massmarket price, how much a futur price cut can boost the sales ?

I doubt the Wii life cycle will exceed 3 or 4 years and other said it better than me : this console War is not a sprint, it's a marathon.
So yes, IMO, the Wii can finish last.

 So what you are saying is the PS3 should be judged solely on games like Heavenly Sword, and Lair right now? The reason they count is because they still motivate you to buy a console. Suppose I have no console whatsoever and need to justify the expense. Guitar Hero 3, Rockband, Assassin's Creed, Madden 0*, and the other various multiplatform releases start factoring into it. And how exactly do we deal with games on 2 platforms, but not 3? Or that really suck on one platform due to bad porting? Does Madden 08 not count as a reason to get a 360 despite it having a way better version? Does  the sea of inferior ports on the PS3 not make the 360 counterparts look better? If you start with the assumption of "I am going to buy a game system and need to decide which one," I can see where you are coming from. That is not how it starts though, and is not even the arguement I was making. I am saying there are a ton of good games that will play if you put the disc in the Wii. The Wii's game library is defined as the collection of discs that you can put in the system and have play. You cannot take out multiplatform titles and then claim to be judging the strength of the systems games library.

 And I said, and will continue to say, the Wii has a good library of games including third party. They also have far more than just "Mario and Zelda lolz" but a lot of that does come from Nintendo. It just happens that their strongest supporter has a large range of games they can make well. Wii sports, Wii Play, Wario Ware, Mario Strikers, Mario Party, Wii Fit (soon), and Big Brain Academy are all very different games made by Nintendo that are lost when you sum it up as just the big 3.

Wii will do the same thing the PS1/PS2/DS/GBA did. New IPs (WiiSPorts/Play/Fit) and an onslaught of 3rd party games. 

Customers who buy and finish games will buy more games. And 3rd parties will make whatever game sells the most. If it's casual, then yes, they'll make casual games.

I don't see any problem with it lasting 6+ years. The problem is you're thinking of it in terms of other consoles. Don't. It doesn't apply to the Wii.

There's nothing on either of the other 2 systems that offers an experience anything like the Wii. If graphical technology is the main argument, then I'm sorry to report that the 360 and PS3 already got embarrassed by Crysis. They can't even do DX10. The 2008 PC lineup is probably the strongest of any platform AND reasonably future-proof PC components are very affordable now. (you can build a system that runs Crysis smooth as a baby's butt for ~$600)

I know it's getting cliche to say it, but with the Wii you have to look past the graphics and consider the experience. If cutting edge graphics are what you want then there's not a console on the market that will satisfy you. If scope and depth of experience is what you want, again, PC is your platform. 

Also, PCs being expensive is a myth generated by retards. You should study where technology is going you can build a 4 year system for around $600, with *maybe* 2 upgrades in that time before the next tech jump and full system upgrade. And with the money you save on games ($10 cheaper than consoles, sometimes even less expensive), even buying 1 game a month you save $120 a year, plus $50 for online (xbl). It's very affordable and very easy to keep up a badass gaming PC.

If your answer to this PC graphics/power dilemma "so what? 360/PS3 is more fun/it doesn't have to be cutting edge" then you just answered the Wii longevity question.  Yeah it's graphically weaker, but so what? All 3 consoles are pretty laughable compared to what PCs are doing right now on the tech level. They couldn't even make COD 4 hi def for the consoles.

You have to look at it in terms of what consoles do outside of horsepower. What else do they bring to the table? What does X console give me that a PC can't? With my PC I play online for free, my games have much better graphics, insanly customizable, can be modded, godlike backwards compatibility, the whole 360 shooter library (at least the notable games).

As far as upcoming games: 

The launch title Zelda game was essentially a Gamecube game, my guess is a new one is already in the works or will be, completely designed around the Wii from the ground up. In the NES days they had no problems releasing multiple Zelda and Mario games. Plus we don't know what new franchises are on the way. This one is really hard to predict, maybe something will come out of nowhere and end up insanely badass. It happens often enough in the game world.

What makes the Wii so hard to predict is that it essentially snubs all the rules of console gaming convention. It's obvious from people like the cnet dude that most people don't have the first clue how to consider it, let alone predict anything about it. There's nothing standard about it, no basis from which you can draw any accurate predictions. The closest thing to the Wii is the DS. 

I imagine it'll do really well. I imagine it'll last 6 or so years. That's my guess.  I could be wrong, mostly because I don't have the first clue of how to look at the system. Furthermore, if anyone tries to analyze the Wii in terms of consoles of the past or this generation of consoles, it's a pretty safe bet they're pretty clueless, too. 

I guess I am confused since I never called you a fanboy or even said "fanboy" in my post. Anyways, you can not like the Wii all you want, I really don't care if you do or not. I was arguing about the generalizations made about Wii owners.