A lot of people seem to be thinking most gamers will magically get bored with the "crappy graphics" of the Wii and want to "upgrade" to "better" consoles. You know, like what happened with the PS2. A technically less advanced gaming machine being popular for longer than more expensive and powerful ones? An utter impossibility!

I hate using "these things" too much, but I feel compelled to over-emphasize how ridiculous all that is. -_-

If anything the Wii has a good chance of having a longer lifespan than normal, with graphics playing a lesser role than before, and the modular controller offering a myriad of potentially fresh approaching to gaming. Then there's also the minor factor of being the fastest selling piece of gaming hardware in history, which a lot of people seem to ignore.

 A quite shitty article I'd rather say.  How can supossed tech-savy sites write so much fanboyish crap? 

BD reading speed is constant, whereas DVD is not, it goes half as fast near the center of the disk.

360 DVD speed: 65.6–132 Mbit/s  

PS3 BD speed: 72 Mbit/s 

Besides, I don't know about your experience, but mine is that DVDs never really perform anywhere near their theoretical maximum speeds.  Do yours do?  Have you checked? BD has to at the very least play at 54 Mbit/s as it is their spec for playing movies.  

Whatever Bethesda did with their PS3 version they seem to get it to load much faster than their 360 version as all analysis testify.  For what I've read it seems to load twice as fast.

Sorry, but I don't like lies hidden under a pseudo tech review. If somebody claims the PS3 is 3 times more powerful  than the 360 I'll also point out it is not true. So, right, the PS3 costs more money, but DVD is not better than BD.  It is in fact a worse technology. Period. If it is enough for you, fine.  I also was very happy with the Dreamcast.  But I never read anybody claiming CD was better than DVD beyond the price advantage. And of course a couple of years after I bought it it felt outdated. Let's see how it is time around.

North America is the richest continent in the world, so I guess more people can afford the consoles.

Not really, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29

Wow, the ignorance on this forum is simplly outstanding.

(Going by NPD numbers) 

360 - 5.58m (19 months)

Wii - 2.80m (7 months)

Nintendo is on it's way to catching M$ in america by end of this year.  No if,ands or buts about it.

Once again Ninty will rule the gaming industry.

 not meaning to Nitpick but Goldeneye was made by Rareware which would make it a second party title.

Are you serious?!?

Everyone who has read your post is now dumber. Sometimes you have to step back, in order to step forward. Since when is the gaming industry not all about money? All three consoles are in it for money.

Also,Some developers are cautious to switch to the Wii because it is different.

In this case, I think GDP matters less than median discretionary spending. China is making tons of money, but most of it is not ending up in the hands of the average people.

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