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Roma said:
Nsanity i think you touched a soft spot on Carl :P


No outside of the bedroom, Roma.



                            

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RolStoppable said:
Carl2291 said:
Roma said:
Nsanity i think you touched a soft spot on Carl :P

No outside of the bedroom, Roma.

I have to agree with Roma, you are sorta like oniyide. Someone saying something positive about the Wii seems to drive you crazy.


Ahh that information is good to know, now I can bug carl. Best part is, I won't be lying to myself saying the wii is a great console. 



 

Carl2291 said:
Nsanity said:
Wii kicking some serious ass!

It's in 3rd place, it's been outsold all Year by the competition and it only just managed to beat the PS3 by ~1500 units.

You're a funny guy, Nsanity.

I thought that was pretty funny too. The Wii has been getting outsold pretty much all year by the PS3 of all consoles (even though it's supposed to be the market leader), and now people are getting excited about it outselling the PS3 by 1,500 copies.



 

 

Acevil said:

Ahh that information is good to know, now I can bug carl. Best part is, I won't be lying to myself saying the wii is a great console. 


Just so you guys know. If you say good things about the Wii while I'm around, I'm reporting you for baiting me.



                            

Carl2291 said:
Acevil said:

Ahh that information is good to know, now I can bug carl. Best part is, I won't be lying to myself saying the wii is a great console. 


Just so you guys know. If you say good things about the Wii while I'm around, I'm reporting you for baiting me.

XD



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RolStoppable said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Carl2291 said:

It's in 3rd place, it's been outsold all Year by the competition and it only just managed to beat the PS3 by ~1500 units.

You're a funny guy, Nsanity.

I thought that was pretty funny too. The Wii has been getting outsold pretty much all year by the PS3 of all consoles (even though it's supposed to be the market leader), and now people are getting excited about it outselling the PS3 by 1,500 copies.

I know you've been absent for a long while, so you may be out of the loop. Fact is, the Wii is only market leader in theory (going by total hardware sales), but in reality the PS3 is (going by the real standard). That is number of new game releases. In this category the PS3 outnumbered the Wii in 2011 by a factor of 8 to 1 or something like that. A console with barely any support that outsells a console with full support is quite a big deal. 

I wouldn't call Just Dance Wii, Kirby and Zelda ''barely any support''. Especially since it's the first Just Dance game in Japan. There's a whole unexploited market for the game.



RolStoppable said:

I know you've been absent for a long while, so you may be out of the loop. Fact is, the Wii is only market leader in theory (going by total hardware sales), but in reality the PS3 is (going by the real standard). That is number of new game releases. In this category the PS3 outnumbered the Wii in 2011 by a factor of 8 to 1 or something like that. A console with barely any support that outsells a console with full support is quite a big deal. 

Has the 360 had better support in Japan than the Wii has this Year? In terms of number of releases?

It has to be fairly close...

Wii really got left for dead. Makes you wonder how the Japanese market will react to Wii U. Will it be a port box of PS3 games or will it have dedicated exclusive support? That PS3 market will be hard for JP Devs to ignore.



                            

But why would better support mean quantity over quality?

I mean the Wii got shafted both in quantity and quality most of the year but I find the holiday lineup to be pretty strong sales-wise.



RolStoppable said:

The Wii U isn't going to get dedicated exclusive support. For that to happen, third parties would need to like Nintendo, but it's apparent that they do not. Even though, being a port box would already translate to significantly better support than what the Wii got.

If 3rd parties don't support the Wii because they don't like Nintendo, then why are they giving the 3DS excellent support?



                            

RolStoppable said:
Boutros said:
RolStoppable said:

I know you've been absent for a long while, so you may be out of the loop. Fact is, the Wii is only market leader in theory (going by total hardware sales), but in reality the PS3 is (going by the real standard). That is number of new game releases. In this category the PS3 outnumbered the Wii in 2011 by a factor of 8 to 1 or something like that. A console with barely any support that outsells a console with full support is quite a big deal. 

I wouldn't call Just Dance Wii, Kirby and Zelda ''barely any support''. Especially since it's the first Just Dance game in Japan. There's a whole unexploited market for the game.

Make up your mind. You can't agree on the saying that there are only two or three games worth buying released per year for a Nintendo home console and then say that three games are good support.

Good support covers a broad range of tastes and the Wii releases in 2011 certainly didn't do it in an adequate manner. Not in Japan, not in the rest of the world. The Wii had a few fairly big games here or there, but nothing much to speak of to fill the gaps.

Aren't we explaining why the Wii beat the PS3 this week?

That's because there are right now 3-4 games worth buying for the Wii.

It doesn't matter that it had a weak year when you enter the holiday period as long as your lineup is currently strong.