thing is - I genuinly think a lot of it is panic, Wii haters always felt that the wii would fade and die and the ps360 would own this market. We now have - after 18 months the Wii still outselling it's rivals and being the leading console and the Wii has survived the Halo 3 period, the blu ray victory, GT5P, 360 price cut and several new ps3 sku's.

I now think it's beginning to dawn that the Wii's not going anywhere anytime soon and with Nintendo's buzzword this year seeming to be online with Wiiware, DS demo channel rolling out globally, announcement of pay to play to support MMO, first 2 nintendo games (SSBB and MKWii) having huge online components and we know we're getting Animal Crossing annnouncement this year (wouldn't be at all suprised if Pikmin 3 has an online mode also) - it's this year the Wii will break out in terms of 3rd party support and cement it's place as the market leader.

 These saying "the Wii is just like any other Nintendo console with no 3rd party support" must surely know that was always gonna be the case as it was shunned before and during launch by nearly all third parties and it's first 6 months had a serious game droubt (there was only Activision and Ubisoft that actually released any games for the Wi at launch) - Nintendo had to carry the torch alone and make it a viable option and they did an amazing job of it too.

I know we've had a lot of these threads in the past day or so, but I started this thread because this one is my personal favorite. It's got every wrong generalization compressed into a few paragraphs. Had I tried to write a satirical piece, I don't think I could have done any better, beyond adding that when the other consoles get a price cut, the Wii am d00med.

Another article from an idiot that probably gets paid per word.

I blame this graph:

New York Times edition. 

Dumas was paid per line. So he filled his Musketeers books with short phrases pronounced by the characters, as after a phrase said in first person there is a new line, so he was paid more writing less. He pushed the thing further creating a servant who answered with monosyllabes and soon he became rich

Had the publisher more long-sightedly paid that so called journalist per line instead of per word, that article would have had a lower bullshit density.

Ok, I read the article and most of the comments, too. The overall tone of the article isn't all that bad, in my opinion. It's not all doom and gloom, which is kinda positive in a sense that it's not entirely negative :p

The real downfall of this and so many other articles is that the writers are just some of the most narrow minded "journalists" today. I won't call them fanboys of a system, they're fanboys of and within the self-proclaimed hardcore gaming posse, and they are incapable of seeing the world from any other perspective.

Needless to say, I think Engel's conclusions are flawed: he is cherry picking data to enforce his views and ignoring a host of other data leading to the opposite conclusions. On top of that, he doesn't even seem to care to check whether the data he uses actually backs up his claims or not. That's just incredibly lazy, and classifies the article as just an opinion instead of a journalistic piece of work.

here this graph sums up what this art does to people

i did a bit of research of the top selling games for the ps3 and 360

conclusion

writers who do no research on software sales are $@$%@$% idiots.

every single game that i checked (i checked a dozen) that has sold over 700 thousand copies week 1, has had over an 88% drop in sales by week 4


every single game that sold over 1 million copies in week 1 has had over a 90% drop

every single game that sold over 2 million copies in week 1 has had over a 95% drop

I read the article and most of what he said is true. Maybe difficult for some to accept nonetheless truthful remarks about the wii.