Luppien said:
Dude he makes a pretty good point. I actually agree with him, why?
i have 4 friends with a nintendo wii. nothing wrong with that.
From those 4 only 1 still plays it and has more games then wii sports. Thats the problem with the wii and i think thats what kingofwale means, the thing sells because people see wii sports and want to play it. nothing wrong with that but its nothing to like if you're gamer you want to see games played;)
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There's two problems here, though.
One: you're using anecdotal data (mine says precisely the opposite of yours, which is one reason that stuff is ultimately meaningless.
Two and more importantly, the hard data says that your friends are more the exception than the norm.
http://kotaku.com/5010214/nintendo-wii-has-highest-software-sales-for-first-18-months
"More games were purchased in the first 18 months of the Wii's life than any other console's first year and a half, Nintendo said today.
About 50 million games were sold for the Wii in its first 18 months, compared to about 42 million games in the first 18 months of the Playstation 2's life. The Xbox 360 came in at 30 million or so, the Xbox at roughly 28 million and finally the Playstation 3 at about 20 million."
And before you ask no, that figure does not include Wii Sports. So we know that people are buying Wii games, and from the Nintendo Channel we also know that they're actually playing them. That makes it a bit hard to claim that it's a fad, in my mind. But I know many "analysts" will insist otherwise until the start of the next generation, when we get to do it all over again.
