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Kantor on 24 December 2008

NOOOOOOOOOO! SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

Poor PS2. 2000-2008?



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Paperdiego on 24 December 2008

i expect the wii to do vary well next year but i dont think there will ever be a console to out due the ds. at least not for a long while. i mean look at it the handhald just keeps getting more popular as time passes. i love my ds



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madskillz on 24 December 2008
megaman79 said:
Does someone want to start a Wii Sports related hospital admissions thread? Theres gonna be alot of sore people tomorrow

I did, but posted it as news. No harm or ill-will for creating the thread.

 



megaman79 on 25 December 2008

wiiinjury.com for eg.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

coolestguyever on 26 December 2008

uhoh did anybody notice this:

PS2's 1.7 million record was set in 2002, 2 years after launch. It never matched that number again...

Wii's 1.8 million record (just set) is 2 years after launch...If it follows PS2 it won't match 1.8 million again!! /sarcasm



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TWRoO on 28 December 2008
coolestguyever said:
uhoh did anybody notice this:

PS2's 1.7 million record was set in 2002, 2 years after launch. It never matched that number again...

Wii's 1.8 million record (just set) is 2 years after launch...If it follows PS2 it won't match 1.8 million again!! /sarcasm

Fortunately for the Wii, it is following more in the footsteps of the DS than the PS2, which means it could be another 2 years before it peaks (unless the DS hasn't peaked yet, which would be staggering if true)

 



megaman79 on 02 January 2009

yep



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

ph4nt on 02 January 2009
TWRoO said:
coolestguyever said:
uhoh did anybody notice this:

PS2's 1.7 million record was set in 2002, 2 years after launch. It never matched that number again...

Wii's 1.8 million record (just set) is 2 years after launch...If it follows PS2 it won't match 1.8 million again!! /sarcasm

Fortunately for the Wii, it is following more in the footsteps of the DS than the PS2, which means it could be another 2 years before it peaks (unless the DS hasn't peaked yet, which would be staggering if true)

 

 

Well DS , with the exception of Japan, was up YoY in 2008, so I think 2008 could have been it's peak year. Depending on the success of DSi, DS could still have an even larger 2009 making it peak 5 years after it's launch, which is unheard of if true.



SOLIDSNAKE08 on 02 January 2009

good for wii but sorry nintendo, i hate my wii!