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I was surfing and found the following article... fascinating. 

Taken From:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-gamer_0818gl.ART.State.Edition1.42372f6.html

A recent report from market research firm NPD Group found, for example, that only half of next-gen console owners are aware that the PS3 is HD-capable, and just 30 percent knew the 360 can do HD, as well.

Furthermore, only 40 percent of PS3 owners know that their console has a built-in Blu-ray high-definition movie player, and only half of those people had recently watched a Blu-ray movie on their consoles.

What's more, while 71 percent of PS3 owners and likely buyers say backward compatibility (the ability to play PS2 games on the PS3) is the most important feature the console could have, only 37 percent are aware that the PS3 actually is backward-compatible.

In other words, a lot of people don't even know their system has the feature they most want.

Crazy. This is why the general public isn't swooning over 360 and PS3 for the price. They just don't care about HD, Blu-Ray, Online, etc. Core gamers are only a small percentage of the total market, Nintendo capitalized on that, Sony and MS didn't. They went for technology that the average consumer really doesn't care about (the vast majority of HDTVs are used to watch SD programming).

While many PS360 owners don't even know their console is HD capable (one of the 'primary' features), I'm sure every Wii owner knows the Wii is Motion Control Capable.

This round goes to Nintendo.



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most people dont care about HD, they just want an afforable and fun game experience, apparently Nintendo is the only company that knows that.



yes most games i just want to have fun, but there are a few games that i want to look gorgous (first person shooters, FF, etc)



                 With regard to Call of Duty 4 having an ultra short single player campaign, I guess it may well have been due to the size limitations of DVD on the XBox 360, one of various limitations multi-platform game designers will have to take into consideration-Mike B   

Proud supporter of all 3 console companys

Proud owner of 360wii and DS/psp              

Game trailers-Halo 3 only dissapointed the people who wanted to be dissapointed.

Bet with Harvey Birdman that Lost Odyssey will sell more then Blue dragon did.

yea, this has been posted before.



currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X

Well I never saw it before.



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Lost tears of Kain said:
yes most games i just want to have fun, but there are a few games that i want to look gorgous (first person shooters, FF, etc)

Metroid?



That's crazy stuff. Its the conventional wisdom that HD consoles have mostly been bought by the hardcore thus far who you'd think would know the system's features by now.

I wonder what a similar survey would reveal about the wii's less prominent features- that it has wi-fi, that you can download loads of old console games, etc.



Timmah! said:
Lost tears of Kain said:
yes most games i just want to have fun, but there are a few games that i want to look gorgous (first person shooters, FF, etc)

Metroid?

Sort of i would want graphics on metroid that would use the best of wii performance, but i wouldnt think  bad about it because of its graphics, its more about gameplay for metroid and thats one of the few exceptions there are.

So in all metroid is using the best of the wii graphics so i cant complain.

 



                 With regard to Call of Duty 4 having an ultra short single player campaign, I guess it may well have been due to the size limitations of DVD on the XBox 360, one of various limitations multi-platform game designers will have to take into consideration-Mike B   

Proud supporter of all 3 console companys

Proud owner of 360wii and DS/psp              

Game trailers-Halo 3 only dissapointed the people who wanted to be dissapointed.

Bet with Harvey Birdman that Lost Odyssey will sell more then Blue dragon did.
MrPennybags said:
That's crazy stuff. Its the conventional wisdom that HD consoles have mostly been bought by the hardcore thus far who you'd think would know the system's features by now.

I wonder what a similar survey would reveal about the wii's less prominent features- that it has wi-fi, that you can download loads of old console games, etc.

Good point. I know some people who still don't even know what WiFi is.



They are ignorant, but that does not change the fact they do want a better looking picture.