Nintendo is the only company that attempted to EXPAND the market. As soon as I realized this, I knew they had an opportunity to change things on a massive scale.

MS and Sony did nothing whatsoever to make the gaming experience attractive to non-gamers, that is their failing.

psrock said: MS will never win. They are hated in too many places outside of NA. I want sega back, they still made the best console ever, the dreamcast.

You're the coolest guy on here!

 

Maybe 3rd party developers will start taking the Wii more seriously if it can maintain high sales for the rest of the year?

I bought a wii on launch day (actually one day earlier) because it was something different. I loved the gamecube and my ps2...my xbox was gathering dust.
Also the idea to play games on the vc was something i was very keen on.
I still play games on the ps2 (cheap top games from 2 years ago) but i love my wii.
I didnt think it would be this great though. especially when they changed the name from revolution (good name) into wii (i now find it a better name actually)

Hoffmole said: psrock said: MS will never win. They are hated in too many places outside of NA. I want sega back, they still made the best console ever, the dreamcast. You're the coolest guy on here!   Maybe 3rd party developers will start taking the Wii more seriously if it can maintain high sales for the rest of the year?

and you know no one invited me to section 8. lol

"Maybe 3rd party developers will start taking the Wii more seriously if it can maintain high sales for the rest of the year?"

The normal thing would be this...otherwise,it´ll be the 1st time in this industry´s history the market leader won´t get many high profile exclusive 3rd party titles....the NES had them,the SNES had them,the PS1 had them,the PS2 had them...where do we stand now?...This indefinition sucks.

I wasn't a gamer in 2006 (yes, the wii is my first console since ps1), but if i had known how much the PS2 and PS1 sold i wouldn't have predicted nintendomination.

However, since i saw the wii i knew it would be huge (but as i said, i didn't know anything about gaming)

Rock_on_2008 said: Sullla said: Rock_on_2008 said: Nintendomination is bad for gaming in general. An even playing field would of been better. Imagine a HD Nintendo console with all your classics? You will have to wait until next generation for a HD Nintendo console plus motion control plus Hard Drive. No Hard Drive for the Nintendo Wii is probably the biggest issue the Wii faces. If you really feel this way, you must have hated the last generation. The PS2 was far more dominant than any of the current consoles will ever be - there certainly was no even playing field. Of course, that's assuming this isn't just a cheap shot against the Wii... right? On topic, no, I did not anticipate the success of the Wii. I did think it would be more successful than the Gamecube, but not capture enough of the mainstream to break out and be a sales phenomenon. Once the generation actually started, however, it became pretty obvious that the Wii would win. Ever since March of 2007 (when it became clear that the PS3 Euro launch was not going to propel it past the Wii) I've been completely confident that Nintendo would end the generation with the most overall sales. PS2 and PS1 one before dominating the competition was great. BTW: I am pro-Sony. Most of the Sony fans are annoyed that Nintendo has came from no where with the success of the Nintendo Wii which has so far outsold the PS3 by 2 to 1.

LAWL.  I appreciate your honesty but you do realize that by saying PS domination is OK but Wii domination is not, with no supporting arguments, you just basically admit that your only reason for your belief is personal preference for the one that's winning (or not) ... don't you?

And I really like how Nintendo "came out of nowhere" to Sony fans when it took this gen by storm, unlike when Sony entered the video game market.  Unlike it, that is, in that Nintendo has always been around, always innovating and always with some of the best games of the era. 

As for the topic, I initially expected it do do better than the Gamecube up to twice as much; after E3 and the ingenuity and appeal became clear I expected it to do as well as the PS3; and as time went on after that my expectations for the Wii went up while my expectations for the PS3 did not.  After the Wii launched, it became clear that no one really know how high the potential went as the top was lost in the clouds.  Really, it still is. 

Well, i didn't see it coming. Except that i took DS domination for granted, but Wii is a different matter. Right after 360 launch, when Bill Gates announced that 360 will be upgraded to have HD-DVD drive, i knew that 360 isn't going to sell much before it has the drive. So i thought that M$ would be the biggest loser, when counting the percentage in number of units sold lost in comparision to previous console. I also thought that Sony would remain dominant, losing the most in number of units sold in comparision to previous console. But Wii, i thought would double the sales of GC, ending up somewhere between N64 and Snes, maybe even pass Snes if lucky. Now, in the worst case scenario, Wii will pass Snes (it's already in halfway). @Rock on: I don't see 200M impossible, you need to remember few things: Nintendo can push the price extremely low even at quite early stage, it only depends of supply when it's worth it, Wii is aimed for even larger demographic than PS2 and even PS2 just started its nineth year in the market. And about pushing to reach 120M, considering Iwata believing Wii will pass PS2 as the most sold console, i think Nintendo makes its strategy to keep that in mind, so it won't be Nintendo limiting the possibility. Wii also tracks above PS2 at this stage and take what i said above into consideration.

once i saw the wiimote i knew wii would be big

i didn't know then that it would be sold out 18 months after launch, but i knew it'd be big

i bought and sold presales for upwards of $750 before it launched and then sold a bunch more right after launch for $500+

southpark had the 2-part episode on cartman not being able to wait for a wii...that was a big sign right there

krik said: As far as I can see, there is no Nintendomination. Nintendo used to have 100% of the handheld market, now they lost 1/3 of that business to Sony's PSP. Nintendo Wii is doing pretty good on the living room consoles market with close to 45% but it's nowhere close to what the PS2 did/is still doing. Also, Wii's lifetime is most likely going to be shorter than 360 and PS3 due to it's non-HD characteristics so Nintendo will have to migrate a lot of "casual" users into a new console. It will not be an easy task for Nintendo.

it's only at 45% now due to supply constraints...it'll be easily over 60% in 2 years...and it will outsell the ps2 as it's expanding the market, so it will do better than ps2

the winning console always has the longest lifetime...360/ps3 will have to release new ones after 5 years in order to compete by adding motion/ir controls...wii will keep selling even for a long long time after wii2 comes out as many casuals/non-gamers still won't care about hd graphics

those who think ps3 will actually be on the market for close to 10 years before ps4 comes out have drunk the kool-aid by the gallon