Millennium on 23 December 2008
The post-holiday cooldown in Wii sales will take longer than it will for other consoles, as it always has in the past. Given that it is already so close to crossing 50%, I think it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that it will achieve that milestone sometime in early 2009.
But will it stay over 50% through the end of the year, or will the other consoles begin to catch up? That's a very different question. Personally, I believe the Wii will stay over 50% until the end of this generation; I just don't see anything in the other consoles' futures that has the potential to change their fortunes that much. But things become a lot easier to argue on this score.
Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.
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What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.