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Forums - Gaming - The Wii is following the PS2's gameplan! (my own opinion edition!)

twesterm on 04 January 2008
daactualfact said:
libellule said:
it is not following the PS2
because it is not the PS2

Even during the first year, the Wii sell mostly to casual.
Even SMG, the 2nd best game of a

 

that's your opinion. i have no problem with that. but you have to understand that it didn't sell to only casuals! gh3 is not a casual game. re4 is not casual, re:uc is not casual, galaxy is somewhat casual but mostly hardcore! this year will be the same! it is selling more than ps2 at this point in it's life! which is good, but it will also attract new gamers. you will be surprised my friend!

 The Guitar Hero games are very much casual games.  You could actually go as far to call them mini games.



 

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Munkeh111 on 04 January 2008
twesterm said:

Here are my thoughts:

daactualfact said:

The Wii is doing a gr8 job in making gamers and non-gamers attracted to the machine! it offers a new kind of interactivity that hasn;t been witnessed in video game history! (other than the ds stylus.) this is what i see on the wii! the wii is releasing crappy games to fill in the time when games there is a game drought. Then, the Wii unleashes beasts out of the gate during gr8 times! (think about if nintendo unleashed smg in july 07? it would sell bad compared to being released in november were it sold excellent!) ps2 released crappy games to fill in the empty void when there was a major game drought. (something that permenately stayed with gamecube and xbox most of their life.) then when the time was good, which was the holidays, ps2 unleased ratchet, jak, gta, and other monsters that it was known for. PS3 is also doing this, which is good! The 360 is unleashing it's titles to fast! bioshock and mass effect could have waited till this year so hype could build. microsoft wanted to have such a big lineup in 2007 they rushed imo!

 

your thoughts?


 That's where I stopped reading.  If you want my thoughts put some actual effort into your post.

 

Yep, is that hard to right great, instead of gr8?

 



Avinash_Tyagi on 04 January 2008

Actually I would say the Wii is more like the DS then the PS2



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

libellule on 04 January 2008

"""wiifit is revolutionary! it is new ideas that refresh the gaming community! """

==> "refresh" is the word
but I dont know if I like the way it will refresh the market



Time to Work !

The_vagabond7 on 04 January 2008

things that are not refreshed stagnate, then die. Even if people hate it, they need it or they would eventually lose everything.



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twesterm on 04 January 2008
The_vagabond7 said:
things that are not refreshed stagnate, then die. Even if people hate it, they need it or they would eventually lose everything.

Makes me think of a quote I really like:

"The graveyard of any industry is filled with the headstones of companies who decided to keep doing things the same old way. Playing only on the margin, making things just a little bit better. That strategy works....for a while, but ultimately it's fatal. Over the years our industry has come to accept progress simply by what’s on the screen."
-Reggie Fils-Aime



 

Sky Render on 04 January 2008

There's always a portion of any market that will resist change. These sorts tend to make up a very small fraction of the market, and are very much not representative of the whole (particularly taking things like sales figures into account). So while it's all well and good that you don't like the direction the industry's going, quite frankly, the industry has always changed gears according to what people are interested in, and not according to what the longest-time fans of the industry's games are asking for.

(Which is probably why there is still an industry, incidentally, because if nothing changed save the hardware specs and graphical capabilities of systems, then there would be little incentive for anybody to become a new gamer, and eventually only the most "hardcore" of gamers would remain.)



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Avinash_Tyagi on 04 January 2008

Interesting how quickly this thread starts sounding like a malstrom article



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

libellule on 04 January 2008

"""
The_vagabond7 said:
things that are not refreshed stagnate, then die. Even if people hate it, they need it or they would eventually lose everything.


Makes me think of a quote I really like:

"The graveyard of any industry is filled with the headstones of companies who decided to keep doing things the same old way. Playing only on the margin, making things just a little bit better. That strategy works....for a while, but ultimately it's fatal. Over the years our industry has come to accept progress simply by what’s on the screen."
-Reggie Fils-Aime
"""

==> I really understand where u want to go
thx for the quote



Time to Work !

Alacrist on 04 January 2008

I like that quote!